What type of symptoms are more important to select medicine ?

In homeopathy not all symptoms carry equal weight when choosing the simillimum. The classic hierarchy is:

1. Mental & Emotional Symptoms
• Changes in thought, mood, behavior, fears or delusions.
• Highest‐grade data—“the mind is the highest form of cellular activity” so shifts here most reliably individualize a case.

2. Strange, Rare & Peculiar (Characteristic) Symptoms
• Uncommon modalities or sensations (e.g. “must lie on right side,” “desires eggs crushed”) that set the patient apart from every textbook picture.
• “The more striking, singular, uncommon and peculiar … are chiefly and most solely to be kept in view” when selecting a remedy.

3. Modalities
• What makes symptoms better or worse—temperature, position, time of day, motion vs. rest.
• These general reactions to environment narrow the field to remedies with matching sensitivity patterns.

4. Concomitants & Associated Features
• Other symptoms that always accompany the chief complaint—e.g. sweating with headache, nausea with rash.
• Their presence in the remedy picture reinforces your choice.

5. Location & Sensation (Ubi & Quid)
• Exact anatomical seat (“behind right eye”), plus the quality of discomfort (“stabbing,” “burning,” “constricting”).

6. General Symptoms
• Constitutional features such as cravings/aversions, thirst, sleep patterns, sweat, appetite.
• Valuable once the more individualizing layers have been matched.

7. Common or Clinical (‘Pathological’) Symptoms
• Fever, cough, inflammation, lab findings.
• Lowest weight—too general and shared by many remedies to be decisive.

By prioritizing in this order you ensure the remedy you pick resonates with the patient’s unique “totality” rather than a generic disease label.