Firstly, you take her full medical history as far as it is available. If she doesn't know everything from childhood, and her mother (it's usually the mothers that keep track of it!) is still alive, you get her to contact her mother for any gaps. You also enquire about her parents' and siblings' health. Full medical history includes details of births, any injuries, any moles or skin cancers removed as well as the more obvious childhood diseases, vaccinations and reactions to them, 'flus, broken bones etc.
Then you assess three types of symptoms: emotional, mental and physical. Fears, anxieties, depression, any abuse as a child (depressing how many report that ....), type of jobs, memory, concentration, sleep, bowel movements, headaches - this can take an hour or two. You also enquire about concomitants - are any symptoms affected by, such as, weather, time of year, temperature, time of day, movement - another fairly long list.
Try to find a causative factor, as in the breast lump started within a month or two of the death of a relative, or a lucky escape from a car crash.
Then, when you have the list of symptoms, you match those symptoms to a remedy. Most of the symptoms for a remedy have been determined by healthy people taking the dilutions at regular intervals and reporting the symptoms that the remedy gives them. Hence the dictum that like cures like. What can cause a set of symptoms in a healthy person, can cure the same set of symptoms in a sick person. From a list of about a thousand remedies (repertories, either printed or computerised, help with this) this may narrow it down to two or three, in which case you might need to ask a few more questions based upon what you expect from the remedies - clarification of concomitants, for example, or a specific question relating to hearing - patients always forget a few things, sometimes because they've had a symptom for so long that it's become unnoticeable. These final questions should narrow it down to one remedy, which you then give as one pilule only at a potency determined by the importance of the emotional and mental symptoms first, then the physical symptoms.
Then they report back in two weeks, and you discuss any changes. At the appropriate time, you repeat the remedy or, if it never had any effect or has ceased to have effect, change to one more appropriate to the changed symptom picture. You often get a lot of new symptoms the second time round as they think about what was discussed at the first meeting.
So the symptoms as a total indicate the remedy that is most likely to eliminate the disease.
As for qualified doctors being homeopaths, in the nineteenth century 25% of American doctors were homeopaths. India has over a quarter of a million registered homeopathic doctors; well over double 20 years ago, all operating under regulation and approval, pseudo will be pleased to know. So, there you go sfs, as you say, the argument is ended. Homeopathy, according to your requirements, is proven. Thankyou.
