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There's a huge difference between herbal remedies, many of which contain actual active ingredients that actually have physical effects, and homeopathic remedies, which are nicely packed and marketed sugar pills or vials of water. Homeopathy is entirely different from herbal medicine.
How homeopathy works is, you take a symptom you want to treat. Vomiting, say. You find something that causes vomiting. Ipecac, say. So then you make a mixture of water and ipecac. And then you dilute that to the point of absurdity. The usual dosage is a "30C" dilution, which is one part per 10^60. There's basically no chance that the resulting "medicine" has any of the original ipecac in it, not even a single molecule. And that's what's given for treatment of vomiting. It's pure snake oil. There's never been any research to show that it's any better than a placebo.
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