Oh, it's even better than that. "Homeopathic", being unregulated, has gotten itself slapped on all sorts of things... some of which work fine! They're labelled

Oh, it's even better than that. "Homeopathic", being unregulated, has gotten itself slapped on all sorts of things... some of which work fine! They're labelled homeopathic, but have meaningful quantities of active ingredients. Which makes them bad "homeopathic" remedies, but good remedies overall. And probably contributes further to the confusion that homeopathy makes any sense. Example, I was once given some "homeopathic menthol cough drops". They worked fine, because they contained the same amount of menthol as any other cough drops. Just as labeling something homeopathic doesn't make it work, it doesn't make it not work either. I imagine there must be message boards out there where "real" homeopaths rant at length about the difficulty of getting homeopathic remedies nowadays because there are so many things falsely labelled as homeopathic.