I don't think they will help you much with gastritis. Slippery Elm works great, but you need volume - even pills don't have enough stuff in them to really coat the stomach. The only and best way is to go with the powder and make a slippery elm "tea". It will make a cup of gloopy substance that has enough bulk to coat your entire stomach.

It helps me. If I am eating something and the stomach is borderline about to decide it doesn't like it, if I quickly have 4-6 400mg capsules of Slippery Elm, it can fix it.

I've used both the slippery elm powder (made into a gloopy tea) & also the powder-filled capsules from time to time. Slippery elm is good for gastritis as it absorbs acid & bile & also soothes/coats your lining.

By lozenges do you mean sort of big tablets with a whole bunch of other additives & very little slippery elm content?

Personally I'd choose a capsule over a tablet or lozenge, but give them a try if you've bought them.

I guess I will buy the powder next time. these tabs will only last a week anyways at the rate im taking them so might as well! Is it dangerous to take too much? im taking tabs 8 a day.

each lozenge contains:
slippery elm 600mg
fenugreek powder 10 mg
kelp powder 10mg

The slippery elm content is high (good) & kelp is ok as coats/soothes too.
Fenugreek is quite aromatic though (ingredient in curry powder). Maybe be an irritant like turmeric can be?

Hey John,

the lozenges I got also contained alot of other things in them.

I was using the capsules... I really noticed an improvement when I emptied out the capsules in warm/hot water. Thats when I started buying the powder.

The lozenges will have some slippery elm, but I think it works better when you drink that whole glass of goopyness.