What are the difference between totality of symptoms and total number of symptoms?
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In homeopathy two very different concepts lurk behind similar words: 1. “Total number of symptoms” (Quantitative Totality) - A simple count of every sign and symptom the patient can list—headache, backache, thirst, dreams, skin eruptions, etc. - Treats each symptom as equal in weight: “I have 25 symRead more
In homeopathy two very different concepts lurk behind similar words:
1. “Total number of symptoms” (Quantitative Totality)
– A simple count of every sign and symptom the patient can list—headache, backache, thirst, dreams, skin eruptions, etc.
– Treats each symptom as equal in weight: “I have 25 symptoms in all.”
– Useful for completeness, but blind to which symptoms truly define the patient’s individual state.
2. “Totality of symptoms” (Qualitative Totality)
– The living, synthetic picture formed when you select and weigh the patient’s most characteristic, peculiar and individualizing symptoms across all spheres—mental, emotional, general and local.
– It isn’t “all 25 symptoms” but the sum‐total of those few keynote symptoms that capture the unique pattern of the patient’s disease and point to a single, simillimum remedy.
Key differences:
• Enumeration vs essence
– Total number = how many
– Totality = which and why they matter
• Quantity vs quality
– Total number sees each symptom equally
– Totality highlights high-grade, strange, peculiar symptoms and modalities that make the case unique
• Data gathering vs remedy prescription
See less– Counting symptoms ensures you haven’t missed anything
– Synthesizing the totality steers you to the one most similar remedy for lasting cure.