Warning, tablets are usually prepared from milk sugar or lactose. Those wishing to avoid milk products should ask for sucrose pillules instead from the pharmacy they use.

I was a vegetarian for over ten years, even vegan for part of that time until it affected my health. IMO it is about balance. If the indicated remedy was originally prepared from an animal source and is refused on moral grounds I would consider that extreme and pathological.

For example, a honey bee dies in the preparation of Apis tincture which can yield thousands and thousands of doses. I wonder if there is a comparable kill rate on vegetables? It's all a question of degree short of leaving the planet!

As has been pointed out for us to live something else must die. This is a law of nature affecting even a fruitarian waiting for the fruit to drop from a tree.