How does the homeopath view symptoms?

Symptoms are the guiding light to the correct homeopathic remedy. Symptoms are also the life force or body’s way of throwing off imbalance. If every symptom is a little picture from the central disturbance, a composite picture will most nearly depict the whole. This is what we mean when we speak of the symptom complex or the totality of the symptoms. Symptoms are like a boiling tea pot blowing off steam. If you shut off the steam without turning down the heat, the teapot will explode. Likewise, if you shut off the symptom without treating the entire case, you can drive the disease state into the body deeper causing more difficulties.