A common symptom ranks high when it occurs perverted from either on a physiological basis, absence of thirst in high fever, and with profuse continuous sweating; or on a pathological basis, an inflammed part feels better on pressure.
Unqualified common symptoms assume importance when a number of drugs compete in a case. In such a case the remedy that has also the common symptoms best represented must come in.
The reaction of environment to the end products of a pathological process, ranks very low, e.g., the bleeding in a polypus, fibroid and piles.
Last but not the least is the greatest of all the generals and particulars a constitutional state called after the drug, e.g., “Sepia” constitution; the leucophlegmatic constitution of Calc. It is difficult to recognise some of these subtle states and therefore require a very minute study.
Gentlemen, this is only an imperfect presentation of the very important subject of Typing and Ranking of homoeopathic symptomatology.
