Yes, as the others have said, the
"remedy" suggested to you is from
herbology, and is NOT at all homeopathy.

It is quite common these days for certain types of practitioners to set up a business wherein they use many different "alternative" medicines. This might be what you have found...

Whenever someone is suggesting using whole
herbs brewed in a sort of tea or infusion or simple extract or wash or gargle or such, that is herbology or
naturopathy (and other similarly-named approaches). It is quite OPPOSITE to
homeopathy, whose remedies are
manufactured through processes of
EXTREME dilution AND succussed at
each level.

In the homeopathy books you can
find examples of and even
recommendations for using the
"mother tincture"... that is,
the first step in making the
homeopathic remedy, such as, with
herbs, when the useful parts of
the plant are steeped in alcohol.

But this is not really homeopathy.

My view on this subject is that if people
use herbs or mother tinctures and such extracts repeatedly, then they will
eventually develop the very problems
they are trying to solve!!
Chamomile tea is a good simple example of
this point. Many people try drinking
chamomile tea in order to calm
down and get to sleep. Depending on each
person's unique sensitivity, this "solution"
might work the first time. But,
soon the person will notice that
each cup of chamomile tea makes
him feel more and more restless
and more intolerant of pain and more sleepless...the very problems he was trying to solve by drinking chamomile tea!! It
is, essentially, the beginnings of a poisoning by chamomile.

Now, taking the homeopathic
preparation of chamomile (if the
person is truly the chamomile
constitution) will provide the
calming and good sleep... because it is through
the process of making the homeopathic remedy chamomile, through great dilutions and repeated
succussions, that the healing
properties of chamomile are released. Homeopathy is
scientific, but you'd have
to read through the textbooks to
begin to understand why it is
believed the homeopathic remedies
work well!! I just want to give
you here more of a sort of simple-to-understand idea of the
difference between herbology and
homeopathy...it is quite a clear
distinction, as the two oppose
each other.

I happen to believe that "once upon a time" there
existed a beautiful and acurrate understanding of
how to use herbs, but the cultures
who possessed this special knowledge are now for
the most part extinct. We do not
know, for example, whether these
cultures prepared their herbal
remedies in a fashion similar to
that being used in homepathy
today!!

If you provide intricate details
about your child, suggestions will
be made here on this message board as far as the possible best match
of a homeopathic remedy to him.
The more info you
provide, the better his situation
can be evaluated. Read some of
the recent posts from other
children's situation here. I am currently
working on the situation of Gail's
son. You might use that example
to get an idea of the types of
questions homeopaths ask, and the
type of info required.

Please do post again.