Choosing a Homeopathic Remedy
By Glenn Dupree, DVM

There are 2 things that you must do before selecting the correct remedy.
One is to consider the whole case and develop a complete picture of the patient.

To do this consider the mental, emotional, and functional levels as well as the physical. Consider a historic picture as well as a current picture. Factor in current and past treatments. Include the modalities. Consider what is know about the parents. Get to know the patient on a most intimate level. Then pick out the parts of this picture that are unique, individualizing, peculiar, and characteristic. Remember that a symptom can be unique or peculiar by its absence, not only by its presence (vomiting without nausea, poison ivy lesions without itching). Use these to find rubrics in the repertory to point you to a remedy list.
Next, study the remedies in the Materia Medica.

Get to know them as intimately as you now know your patient. Look for the peculiar and individualizing aspects of the remedy. Match the unique aspects of the remedy with the unique aspects of the patient. When you find a good match on this level, use the other things you found in the case to round out the match with the remedy. If the overall case doesn't match the remedy, look for another remedy. Find the one remedy that best matches the image you have of your patient.

In all probability the patient will not match every aspect of the remedy. This is why you need to have a clear picture of the remedy and the patient so you can see the trend and not get lost in the minutia of the larger remedies. This is much easier if you don't focus on the common, the physical, or the non-individualizing characteristics of the remedy or the patient.
I hope this helps.

Glen Dupree, DVM