Surely you understand the difference between middle class people taking some sugar and people believing unwaveringly that herbs will protect them from that shotgun.
I don't understand it; please spell it out for me because all I see is magical thinking. If you think homeopathy isn't a matter of life and death, you might have not considered the people whose lives could have been saved had they turned to real medicine.
It may exist, I suspect, but only peddled by shady online gurus.
http://my.clevelandclinic.org/services/wellness/integrative-...
Sorry, I admit, it's not homeopathy. It's Reiki, which is one step less valid. At least homeopathy is actually interacting w/ your body in a physical manner, even if it just water; Reiki doesn't even do that.
People will hawk anything when the profit motive gets high enough.
So let's take South Africa. This country is often so successful in so many dimensions compared to other African countries that they are commonly excluded from statistics related to its continent...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manto_Tshabalala-Msimang
This is the Health minister recommending AIDS patient to stop retroviral drugs and take her magical garlic instead (!)
300000 victims.
It is not only in the government... I lived there few years, loved it but I really can't say that common sense is their forte.
Believing herbs will protect you from a shotgun is rather more like the crunchy granola nutjobs that take sugar-water instead of their chemo, because "that stuff's just poison." These are a relative rarity, and the worst patients you've ever dealt with, because you get to watch them choose to suffer and/or die.
It's a difference in degree that amounts to a difference in kind.