Been thinking about this a lot lately and am wondering if you guys can offer your opinions. We always hear that the "usual" symptoms of a disease are of no help to the homeopath in selecting the remedy as we want to find what is unique to the disease in a particular person to determine a remedy. But why is this so? I mean in the provings many remedies are found to bring about the "usual" symptoms of a disease so why do we need to search out an SRP? Hahnemanns first proving of quinine gave the common symptoms of malaria correct? It was the obvious expression of the "common" symptoms that led Hahnemann to his discovery of like cures like, yes? Am I making sense here at all or just rambling? So why do we throw out the common symptoms, is there any other reason other than an SRP kinda clinches a remedy selection for us?

Thanks guys
barb

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