Char wrote:

The herbs mentioned are not part of a homeopathic remedy at all. Indeed,
a homeopath may not agree that they are needed and may say they will
hide symptoms instead of helping. A homeopathic remedy would cause the
body to cure itself by giving a remedy similar to the problem and
causing the body to turn on a defense against the problem. That is a bit
different than taking herbs to help an immune system.

I was just wondering why you mentioned homeopathy when it wasn't
mentioned is all. Does this explain the difference a little better?

I don't think I explained this well enough so I will try again. The
herbs are given on a regular basis to sooth and to boost the immune system.

Homeopathic remedies would be totally different. There are two basic
kinds of homeopathic remedies. Both work to make the body recognize a
medical condition and push it to heal itself. Some give them dry,
combine them and give them a few times. It can work but is crude
compared to what a classical homeopath does.

A classical homeopath would give water based remedies, use one single
remedy at a time and give them once till the effects are seen. This is
the method I've used. It is simpler and you can know what exactly is
working. If good results are seen then you may be dosed a second time to
see if progress continues. Once progress stops another remedy may be
used to continue healing.

Most the ones in the health food stores are different in that
homeopathic remedies are designed for a particular person based on their
medical problems as well as their personalities. Outside of a few
emergency remedies all classical remedies are one of a kind, made for a
particular person who has a particular set of symptoms and is a
particular type of person. The health food store remedies are usually
several ingredients and assume that they will cure anyone with those
particular symptoms which is absurd and cause people to claim that
homeopathic remedies don't work when nothing could be further from the
truth.

I studied homeopathy a very long time before deciding it does work. Bad
experiences with the first homeopath I studied almost caused me to write
it all off. However, I ditched her and moved on and did find remedies
that worked for me and my pets. I would not have blind faith in
something such as this and did try using some of the emergency remedies
with quite a lot of success.

I've heard that Australian Bush Flower Essences can work just as well
and are a bit easier to find the right remedy and that is what I'm
looking into now.

The whole point here is obviously you don't know much about homeopathy
since you thought the herbal remedies listed in this article was
homeopathy and that you should not write off something (anything!) until
you have taken a serious look at it. There are a lot of alternative
solutions of many kinds out there. Some can do better than modern
medicine and should be used instead of them. Some just assist a cure and
should be used alongside more mainstream "cures". This depends on the
situation and I don't recall the original author ever telling everyone
not to use alopathic cures.

Alternative medicine can take a lot longer to help than alopathic
medicine so if help is needed fast it is almost always preferred to use
what the traditional vets prescribe. However, traditional medicine as a
rule involves side effects that are more severe than the natural
remedies and so they should be balanced with each other as each case
permits.