Get the original form of the malady. To do this, at times we have to trace through a mass of difficulties and conditions to get back to the original form of the trouble…. Very often we can take up the thread and get back to the remedy that was clearly indicated, even twenty years before. … The patient's disease has not been cured, it has only been changed and modified; but it is the same patient, and the same sickness and requires the same medicine.[2]
In analyzing the case, very valuable symptoms are those pertaining to the aggravations and ameliorations, because the aggravations and ameliorations are the natural modifiers of diseased states and are the definite reaction of the man himself. [1]
1. Roberts, Herbert A., M.D., The Principles and Art of Cure by Homeopathy.
2. Kent, James Tyler, M.D., Lectures on Homeopathic Philosophy