SR, Probably you are right. We should keep in mind that " physiology, anatomy, pathology or otherwise is the " symptoms " in homeopathic sense/science" .

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Homeopathic & Biochemic system existed because Drs.Hahnemann & Schuessler thought differently.
Successful people don't do different things, they do things differently..S.Kh.

Dear Members

i advice the following method to study remedies:

Take the proving and read through it having a notebook lying beside.
Note every thing which is reported in combination with other symptomparticles. This could be a modality, a sensation, a locality,or a concommitant. Behind your note write all the symptom numbers where this symptom was found.
example: sul-ac: After eating<: 179-182, 192, 488
Soon you will have fairly comprehensive list of what runs through the remedy and therefor is CHARACTERISTIC.
I amde up charts for most of the polychrests, which enable me to quickly compare the one against the other.
You can look up then in the repertory, how the symptom in question mirrors.and if it's not there, then add it into it.
Boenninghausen uses the third grade for characteristics found in the MMP.

Good luck

Hans Weitbrecht

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Hans Weitbrecht
Consultant Homeopath

"If you are to be a good prescriber, by the way, YOUR DRUGS HAVE GOT TO BE PEOPLE FOR YOU, with whims, fancies and tempers and idiosyncrasies and
characteristics: you have got to see them stalking about the world,
speaking and moving and halting, with the bodies-mind-souls of men. You
have got to travel with them in tram or train and they will betray
themselves, buttoned up and shrinking together, or loose and jolly and
open; fidgety,restless, fearful; dull and inert; quarreling for an open
window, groaning at the draught with windows closed.

You have got to dine with them, and they will reveal themselves in their
relations to food and drink,and in the mental revelations such convivial
moments of relations call forth. You may spot them, standing for
preference, or sinking always into the nearest seat; stoop shouldered and
drooping, or erect and full of "go", depressed and querulous; restless and
anxious, as their deeply lined faces testify; smooth and smug; dirtily
complexioned and careless of appearance; chalk faced and flabbily of
superlative tissue; compact and hard as nail; fault-finding-affectionate
and mild-responsive to every wave of sentiment and emotion-dull and
indifferent.

Look for them everywhere, and learn them, and they will betray themselves
at every turn; and you will often save yourselves hours of solid work, by
spotting them as they enter your consulting room."

- Repertorising byTyler and Weir found in the front of the
Indian edition of Kent's Repertory

Hi Chris:

I was not sure if I would ever post again but you have inspired me.

You must become your patient. When you do you will find the simillimum.