Hey Barb,

We don't 'throw out' common symptoms. The common symptoms of say, pneumonia or meningitis or tuberculosis, will tell you what sort of medical condition you are facing or that the person's life may be in danger. But as far as repertorization goes and finding the simillimum, the common symptoms are simply common to a great number of similar remedies and disease states. It is the unusual, strange, exceptional and odd characteristic symptoms that define the individual symptom complex upon which we base a prescription. These characteristics define and individualize the state of disease specific to the person who is suffering with those symptoms. Concomitants are the key.

Chris