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In § 153, Hahnemann wrote “the more striking, exceptional, unusual, and odd (characteristic) signs and symptoms of the disease case are to be especially and almost solely kept in view. These, above all, must correspond to very similar ones in the symptom set of the medicine sought.”

In order to correctly understand this paragraph, we need to read it in conjunction with § 133 which, due to its importance, I will quote here in full:

“Upon becoming sensible [i.e., upon feeling and becoming conscious] of this or that medicinal ailment, it is serviceable, indeed requisite for the exact determination of the symptom, to place oneself in different situations and to observe whether the befallment increases, lessens or passes away and whether, perhaps, the befallment returns when one is once again in the initial situation.

1. Does the befallment increase, lessen or pass away:

By movement of the part in question? By walking in a room or in the fresh air? By standing, sitting, or lying?

2. Does the symptom alter itself:

By eating? By drinking? Under some other condition? By speaking, coughing, sneezing, or during another bodily function?

3. What time of the day or night is the symptom especially wont to come?

In this way, what is peculiar and characteristic about each symptom becomes evident.”

NOTE

WHEN CHOOSING A REMEDY, IT IS ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT TO CHECK THAT THE PATIENT’s MODALITIES MATCH THOSE OF THE REMEDY.

NOTE

BY MENTAL SYMPTOMS WE MEAN THE ALTERATIONS IN THE PATIENT’S STATE OF MIND AS A RESULT OF ILLNESS, NOT THE CHARACTER OR STATE OF MIND OF THE PREVIOUSLY HEALTHY PERSON.

Hahnemann is here describing the modalities, which are obviously also valid for patient symptoms, and says that through them “ … what is peculiar and characteristic about each symptom becomes evident”. This means that, above all, the modalities of the patient must match those of the chosen remedy. § 153 is frequently interpreted differently, however, to mean that above all unusual, striking, rare, and even peculiar symptoms should determine the choice of remedy – the socalled keynotes or “as if” symptoms. This type of symptom generally has very few remedies assigned in the repertory. If only such symptoms are taken into account, the result can be that the peculiar symptom matches the remedy but the patient’s modalities do not. In such a constellation, healing is only rarely possible because the characteristic aspects of the remaining symptomatology are ignored.

NOTE

AFTER A DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF THE LIKELY REMEDIES HAS BEEN PRODUCED, BASED ON THE MODALITIES AND OTHER IMPORTANT SYMPTOMS, THE CURRENT MENTAL SYMPTOMS CAN TIP THE SCALES FOR THE FINAL CHOICE OF REMEDY.

In § 211, Hahnemann writes: “The patient’s emotional state often tips the scales in the selection of the homeopathic remedy.” Here too we are concerned with alterations due to illness, not with the character or state of mind of the previously healthy person. That the patient’s emotional state often “tips the scales” means that first – with the help of the modalities and other important symptoms – a differential diagnosis of the likely remedies is produced. When choosing one of these likely remedies, the patient’s emotional state can then be the decisive factor.