Your MD may well say it is “ineffective” and a waste of money. Try it before you believe that. If he is a homeopath he will know all about it and suggest beginning and maintenance dosages. Due to being a bearer of some of the crotchets of old age I have experience in using several alternative remedies that have proven for me much more satisfactory and without the pages of side effects that come with the prescription drugs that are supposed to deal with the same problems. I took prescribed statins until I read the literature and now accomplish the intended result in a much less perilous way. Ditto some other things.
My MD didn’t say g &c were ineffective, just that he was unconvinced; that they seemed to help some people but not others, but that can be said about anything, right?
Anyway I will look into g & c; can’t hurt!!