Interesting about the
gelsemium homeopathic remedy that you said within a week of starting it triggered a fever and severe tonsillitis, after which you found your ME/CFS was much improved. The main active ingredient of the gelsemium appears to be the toxic compound
gelsemine.
Because homeopathy uses such minute doses, in general it's hard to see how homeopathy can work at all. However, in the specific case of homeopathic remedies consisting of minute doses of potently toxic compounds, it makes more sense that such remedies will have physiological effects in the body.
This is because some toxins are so potent, that even very tiny doses, they are likely to have a physiological action. After all, that's the principle of botox: using incredibly tiny amounts of botulinum toxin for beneficial purposes, whereas larger amounts would be fatal.
The ignatia homeopathic remedy you used also contains minute quantities of a toxin (strychnine).
Do you know what potency of the gelsemium and ignatia homeopathic remedies you used? Homeopathic potencies (dilutions) are usually expressed by the terms 4C, 5C, 7C, etc, ... right up to 30C.
Once you get to dilutions of 12C and higher (12C = dilution by 10 to the power of 24), you find you no longer have any molecules of the original substance left in your homeopathic solution; in other words, your homeopathic solution is just plain water (this is based on Avogadro's number). But for low homeopathic dilutions like 4C or 5C, there is still a bit of the original substance in the solution, which may have a physiological effect.
