2. Customized medicine
While most people come to a homeopath for a specific health issue, homeopaths know that everything in the body is connected and the homeopathic medicine must restore the balance of the body as a whole—body, mind and spirit—meaning that it must be customized to suit the unique needs of the individual.
For instance, sometimes an injury or a cold affects the mind and emotional state, causing irritability, anxiety or clinginess for instance—other times it only causes symptoms physically or locally. This depends on the nature of the injury or virus, but also on the nature of the person. As a result, there is not one flu medicine, one cough medicine or arthritis medicine in homeopathy.
Dr. Hahnemann recognized this need to customize medicines according to the symptoms a person experienced through careful observation. It is in the very nature of homeopathy that each person is cared for individually.