If it’s more serious than say, a cold, where I can just go to the store and buy some off the shelf medication, I’m going to the doctor. Home remedies more often than not, either don’t actually do anything, or just make things worse.
Also being afraid of a doctor sounds like someone who’s either scared themselves from watching too much TLC, or read too many horror stories online. The internet is pretty notorious for making rare occurrences sound like every day occurrences, since multiple people with similar experiences will gather together, giving the illusion of something being more common than it actually is.