the answer is both yes and no….

Alcohol is added and used to stabilize and preserve liquid homeopathic remedies.

Next, plain sugar pills are then medicated with this liquid but the alcohol evaporates off them during the drying process so they become alcohol free, although if homeopathic remedies are supplied for use in liquid form, alcohol may have been added at the final stage of preparation to preserve this liquid.

If you don’t want alcohol in your remedy, ask your homeopath to prepare it on water only. Then, to stop the growth of microbes, keep it tightly sealed in a dark place or chilled in the refrigerator.

If the liquid remedies you have already contain alcohol, what you can do is leave it uncapped for 1 – 2 days which will allow the alcohol to evaporate off the liquid so that only water and sucrose (or lactose, depending on the manufacturer) remains. The remedy should then be capped and refrigerated to avoid microbial growth. But let’s be reasonable about this; when you consider that probably no more than 2 -3 drops of alcohol are used in say, 2 ounces of liquid, the parts per million are minute and could hardly be detectable, but if even that is too much, follow the guidelines above.