alkemyst
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It sounds like people are confusing homeopathic remedies with herbal remedies. Homeopathy involves making INCREDIBLY dilute mixtures of things, to the point where the solution is almost completely the solvent (typically water) and only a minute amount of the active ingredient. Additionally, in traditional homeopathy they active ingredient that they used created the same symptoms that you're trying to solve. For example, if you have joint pain a traditional homeopathic solution would be a very very dilute mixture of something that causes joint pain. Now people are using the term "homeopathic" for very dilute mixtures in general and they may include ingredients that supposedly solve your symptoms, rather than cause your symptoms.
homeopathic is much broader than just lower concentrated solutions.