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No. Don't confuse homeopathy with herbal remedies. Homeopathic preparations are diluted, must be diluted to be homeopathic, to a degree where you don't have an atom left of "active" ingredient in the mix, insert some gross unscientific explanation about the "memory of water". That then is either taken directly, or sprinkled on sugar.
The effects of homeopathic preparations, any of them, is not distinguishable from placebo. If you look at them under a spectrograph they are exactly placebo: Water or sugar.
Herbal remedies, though? It's a hit and miss, some have been tested to not have an effect or not really the assumed one, a metric fuckton do have effects exactly as traditional use tells us (random examples: Valerian for nervous excitation, elderberry for colds), others very much do have effects but are not used because they're too dangerous (e.g. fern against tapeworms: Fern contains a neurotoxin and getting the dose wrong is easy, and easily fatal, nowadays we have synthetic stuff that's toxic to tapeworms but harmless for humans).
There's one single thing that's proven to be clinically effective about homeopathic treatment (compared to standard practice): The way doctors talk to patients, not just hearing reports about a particular symptom and then digging down into that, but taking stock of pretty much their whole life situation, it's a very broad interview. Because, yes, many people are indeed better helped by someone being visibly interested in their well-being than swallowing clinically active pharmaceuticals against their stomach bug which is actually a symptom of stress or such.
There'd be nothing whatsoever wrong with introducing that in standard care, it'll probably even save tons of money in the long run, as well as prescribing placebo -- the patient knowing that it's placebo doesn't mean that placebo effects don't get triggered, there's still a very good chance of an effect happening, the bodymind is funny like that. If in doubt, flank with hypnotherapy you'll have a regime that's not just more effective at triggering placebo effects than homeopathy, but is also ethical.