Let's see--you can get it at just about any health food store, and some drug stores. In rare cases you may need to special order, but no, I have never gone to a homeopathic doctor. For a dose, you knock out 4 tablets into the lid, without touching them, because skin oils can mess them up. Then you put them under your tongue to dissolve, and you do this every hour or two the first day. The next day, and for the next week, you take the same dose about every 3 or 4 hours. I would say if your hairloss hasn't stopped in a couple of weeks this probably isn't going to work. With me, it was a dramatic change--falling out in handfuls one day--no loss at all by the end of the week. It's like a bad dream now. As for side effects--none whatsoever. The pills even taste good. You can probably search out homeopathics on google, but I warn you, it sounds like hocus-pocus, and I really didn't believe in it, which sort of ruins the placebo effect argument.