Lynne,
I'm going to be very kind and say that your homeopath was unclear about what she said to you. Homeopaths absolutely deal in herbs, many of the same ones used by so-called herbalists.
This potion is indeed full of herbs. And other things.
- Tea from the Pau D'Arco or Lapacho Tree (Tebebuia)
- Echinacea is the common coneflower plant
- Sepia is the cuttlefish (not an herb), from which cartilage and ink are used by homeopaths and herbalists
Just out of common knowledge, Echinacea, which bolsters the general immune system by irritating it, is never supposed to be given to someone with a compromised immune system. Lapacho is another immune system irritant, with one of its touted effects being that it is a blood thinner (hmm..taking this with Coumadin?). Cuttlefish is just calamari.
...And you have to wonder what else is in the mix.
To baldly state that concoctions such as these are noninteractive would be irresponsible to say the least. Frankly, I'd dump the homeopathic person before she becomes an unintentionally homicidal person.
That is not a statement that homeopaths are all quacks, but there is a significant amount of flummery in the business end of it, as well as people whose credentials are, well, shaky.
Fortunately, many of these preparations are not well-enough distilled or particularly effective, so they often don't actually wind up doing harm to more than the pocketbook. As a common example, garlic also has blood-thinning properties, but in a small enough amount that all my cardiologists snort at the idea that it affects my blood in any useful way (I don't take warfarin, so check with Al's site to see if garlic is a problem with that).
A negative example is ephedra, which came up recently in relation to another post.
My opinion,
