One would have to ask, a definition written by whom?
And I do have some experience with this homeopathic 'little bit' to cause the body to react - My daughter was a heart baby... Long story... 3 months old, life flight to Great falls, life flight to Salt Lake City... Dead three times in the air. Horror friggin highway
But one of the many miracles that happened there was our wierdo midwife, who follows the wind... She literally took it upon herself to show up, and I am not kidding at all when I say she had a grand entrance in the very nick of time.
The setting is an ICU ward at Primary Children's care - A ward where even the nurses are qualified doctors, and where care is so necessary and immediate that if the bells go off, you are simply ushered out of the way, and her team of doctors show up to attempt to fix her right there on her bed.
One such emergency was underway when that midwife showed up... And the doctors were losing bigtime. But weirdo midwife lady strode among them with the authority of God Himself and surreptitiously ground one of those sugar pills into/under the skin of her skull... And within 30 seconds she stabilized completely, with western doctors scratching their heads...
And the first words of the midwife to me after driving all night in a blizzard to arrive in time to save my daughter, was that she was super tired and needed to sleep, but that I had to wake her up in exactly four hours and 45 minutes, because she would crash again in 5 hours... And so it went, over and over and over again, at least five more times, with her walking up, administering her potion, and immediate recovery...
Perhaps I have been to glib, or too succinct in putting my point across... That heart baby would have been dead that very day without the magnificent western doctors assigned her care, and the necessary surgery which was the first cause - Even the ones who caught her malady early, and provided diagnosis early, and the system itself, that whisked her away in her very fragile state, and sustained her...
I myself have been in intensive care on two occasions, plus a kidney problem, plus several more occasions where I was nearly hospitalized, where I would have been dead without their care - I too owe them credit where it is due.
What I am saying is that it is not always due, and there are other ways that you should become aware of, because allopathic medicine is not the only game in town. Nor is it the only one with science in it's backing, not that science is the pinnacle of proof either. And as for homeopathy, I have seen it demonstrated right before my eyes. As did those doctors at that prestigious hospital, who knew she was doing something - and let her.
Many medicines come from natural products. Aspirin, willow tree. Many old world poultices work. We have just forgotten about them. Old world remedy for arthritis. Put a freshly sheared lambs wool on knees. Do not wash the wool first. There is scientific proof, about OILS being good for arthritis. Grated raw potato for burns. We all know about baking soda.
When I was an infant, born during ww 2 (new born) I was dying from bloody dissenterry. sp? Diarrhea. Nothing would stop it. My grandmother kept announcing I was going to DIE ANY MINUTE. "Now, she is dead! " Doctors didn't know what to do. Finally one doctor thought of charcoal. It was called animal charcoal. I was given that with mothers milk....and here I am to annoy all TBR'S! I use charcoal, when I had painful gas issues. Worked, every time. Charcoal absorbs the 'gas'. Better than Beano. I always keep it on hand. My daughters cat, had eating issues. I told her to try charcoal in her food. It helped and her 21 year old cat, lived a few more months!
Then we have silver, a natural antibiotic. People put real silver coins into milk, to keep it lasting longer. GARLIC/ONIONS a natural form of antibiotics too. That is why chicken soup is good for health problems. An onion juice, put into ear when infected, helps. Using a raw onion in mouth, when one has gingivitis. I use coconut oil, for "gum pulling'. One swishes some coconut oil in the mouth for a few minutes. Repeat. Keep the oil in as long as you can. Then spit out. I learned it too, has bacteria fighting properties. Then we all know CLOVE OIL..for a toothache. I think, I posted enough.