Art and science are inseparably bound together. Every art has its foundation in science, and every science finds its expression in art (9).
Man is characterized mainly by how he thinks and what he loves, in other words his will and understanding guide him through life. These are the two main parts, which form his core (10).

Thus, it is logical that everything that takes place in an organism, starts from the centre and moves to the circumference. The direction of cure is similar, from the interior to the exterior. Injuries are results of external violence, but diseases result from internal violence, which creates disorder flowing from the innermost to the outermost (8).

In recapping disease, it is any state of disharmony/imbalance in a person manifested by signs and symptoms, some coarse and gross others fine and subtle; some physical, some emotional and some mental. It is a state or condition of the whole person and should never be conceived of as being confined solely to certain localized physical symptoms or to a specific cluster of symptoms that have been given a specific name (the so-called disease label, i.e. cancer) or which are conceived of as an invading entity (named disease i.e. avian flu) that can, for example, affect whole populations in much the same way (2).

Disease is a disturbance of order created by unbalanced Vital Force (VF). This VF is clearly described by J.T. Kent as “Having formative intelligence, being subject to changes, pervading the material substance without replacing it, creating order in the body, belonging to the realm of quality rather than quantity, being adaptable and being constructive” (11). Unbalanced VF creates a totality of symptoms and signs (cough, fever, chills, pain, etc.), which is the only way that diseases express themselves through. These symptoms and signs are the <b>only representative expression</b> of the disease state and because nothing in nature can be represented by a single property, no disease can be represented by a single symptom. If only exterior symptoms are addressed (common allopathic medicine) the patient will not be cured since the nature of the sickness itself prevails in the interior (8). Therefore, the patient’s disease symptoms should be given least priority. Homeopathy heals from inside out, and physical symptoms tend to be the last to appear “on the surface”. The physical body produces expressions of the internal mental, emotional and energetic aspects of the human being. By eliminating external physical symptoms alone (allopathic medicine), the real internal cause of disease gets suppressed at the risk of symptoms resurfacing differently and invariably more severely.

A homeopath, to be able to perceive this totality of symptoms, has to be patient, gentle, tolerant and forbearing and this is where art comes upon. He must observe and perceive more particularly, the symptoms that the patient unknowingly tries to conceal; because he cannot relate or has no knowledge of how homeopathy works. Altered states like actions, sensations, emotions, behaviors and feelings that the patient would not normally have in healthy state, are the true evidence of disease.

However, common symptoms like the fever, redness of the throat, swollen glands, type of cough, color of the skin, etc. are also taken into account, but these are of least importance. They are only the result of disease! Under these common rubrics we have listed more than 60 different remedies bringing up the same symptoms. Only by considering the totality of all the symptoms, will the homeopath be able to prescribe the correct remedy. In other words, based upon the Nature of the disease and not on the Name of the disease.