What is totality of symptoms?
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Totality of symptoms in homeopathy is the qualitative, coherent picture of all the patient’s manifestations—mental, emotional, general and local—that together reveal the unique expression of their vital force and point to the single most similar remedy. • It isn’t a mere count of complaints, but theRead more
Totality of symptoms in homeopathy is the qualitative, coherent picture of all the patient’s manifestations—mental, emotional, general and local—that together reveal the unique expression of their vital force and point to the single most similar remedy.
• It isn’t a mere count of complaints, but the “combination of certain groups of symptoms in definite settings with … individualizing characteristics set appropriately on the symptom-complex” so as to form “a harmonious and consistent whole” capable of guiding remedy choice.
See less• Hahnemann taught that this “outwardly reflected picture of the internal essence of the disease … must be the principal, indeed the sole thing the physician has to take note of … in order that [the disease] shall be cured”.
• In practice, the totality privileges the most characteristic, peculiar, rare and concomitant symptoms over non-specific signs—making remedy selection precise and holistic rather than symptomatic and suppressive.