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It's honestly troubling. I've seen homeopathic 'treatments' sold right next to real medicine in mainstream stores, with similar packaging, similar pricing, and only tiny fine print on the bottle saying that it's homeopathic. And you have to know what 'homeopathic' means in order for that to have any impact; many don't. It would be very easy to accidentally buy the homeopathic 'treatment' instead of one that actually works. I've almost made that mistake before myself, before I read the package more closely.
(For anybody who doesn't already know 'homeopathic' does NOT mean 'herbal' or 'natural' or anything like that. It's not alternative medicine -- it's not medicine at all. Homeopathy is old, very debunked, and very bullshit psuedo-science that a traveling conman made up after supposedly having it supernaturally revealed to him in a drunken dream. The idea is that for any ailment, you take what causes that ailment, massively dilute it in water (or another substance) so much that there likely isn't a single molecule of it left, and then the water will 'remember'. Homeopathic medication is literally nothing. It's plain water (or, in stores, often plain sugar pills). It contains no active ingredients of any kind, and it's -- at best -- a placebo. It's always a waste of money and may be dangerous if you fall for it and take it instead of actual, effective medicine.)