http://www.elixirs.com/history.htm
Allopathic and homeopathic medcine have both been around for a long time.
When Rockefeller wanted to dump money somewhere he put it into allopathic medicine. It was then that allopathic medicine grew in popularity and shortly after the homeopathic hospitals and all started to close and were almost nonexistent. They began to make a comeback in the 70's.
There were many cures that tribes of Indians and naturalist knew worked and sometimes it was not seen under the "scope" because God put together the beauty of plants and man tries to figure it all out.
For example, willow bark cured headaches. So, the allopathic said it was a specific ingredient in the bark that worked and isolated that ingredient. They sold it as aspirin but it made stomachs bleed. Where when it was in the natural form, God had it all worked out to be "perfect".
Somethings are great and helpful that come from the allopathic side of medicine but they are too quick to discount the homeopathic side and because they cannot understand how it works they simply say it it does not work.
Very short sighted in my opinion.
Look into Essiac tea. The woman got the recipee from the Ojibwa and was told it cured cancer. She did not think much of it until her Aunt got cancer and tried the mixture and was cured. She then healed many cancer victims and the aggressive allopathics went after her. Tons of people were cured and they wanted to shut her down.
(Like the man helaed on the wrong day, I guess.)
A Doctor joined her in trying to get the mixture made into medicine and the allopathics discredited him.
Later, they thougth they would stop the battle and just make it a tea. A tea that helped many to heal.
http://essiac-info.org/history.html