Hello FF,

Shirley said it all with the aphorism, but here's another point you made in your post--

'The only added info that a homeopath might need would be regarding the mental symptoms and then he can prescribe'.

As Shakespeare would say, "There's the rub"--

In other words, this isn't always as obvious as the disease diagnosis and the associated common symptoms.

And how many times do we see people with conflicting diagnoses, based on how many specialists they've seen?

Aph 220: By adding the patient's mental and emotional state (accurately observed by the patient's relations and the physician) to the patient's somatic symptoms, a complete image of the disease is put together. In order to homeopathically cure the malady (if the mental disease had already lasted for some time) a medicine must be sought from among the (antipsoric, etc.) medications which is capable of arousing aptly similar symptoms and, especially, the similar mental derangement.