When a patient visits a homoeopathic doctor for the first time he is very anxious and nervous as he has heard that homoeopath take about an hour for their first consultation. He is also confused about the questions asked by his consultant ,which are usually different from what he must have experienced with other doctors.

Here we have an answer for those who have never visited a Homoeopath :

The homoeopathic visit consists of asking questions and importantly listening most attentively to the answers here is why

Each one of us differs from others around us not only in our appearance or manner of talking, but also in the way we think and feel, in the way we react, in the way we view the world around us, in our nature and temperament, in the food we like to eat also in the kind of diseases we suffer if there is an epidemic say of influenza ,only some people, not all, would come down with the infection. How do we explain this? The focus of your Homoeopath is to understand everyone as a whole and determine what it is that sets him apart from others, what it is that makes him individual with the ailment. What are those deeper sensations, feeling and delusions that are different from others.

Let us take simple example. Say someone pinches five people. All five say I felt a pinch. When asked to describe it in terms of sensations we may get this."It hurt me so badly it left a bruise, it was like punch in stomach ",another could say"It was like a knife driven into my body",another could say "I hardly felt it, it was completely painless"and another "Why did you do that?"and finally "it reminded me of when my brother used to do it to me, I still remember that pinch. It is the same sensation I get with all my emotional disturbances". The same stimulus and get different reactions and different way of perceptions, but each one is valid, revealing their own sensations and of the remedy needed.

Basics of homoeopathic treatment lie in a basic understanding of human being in general. As we all Know, Man can be considered to be a combination of two essential parts: The spiritual and the material. The two can not be separated, but for the sake of convenience let us understand each of them separately. The material part consist of his body, his various organ systems, his glands, his tissues and fluids, his brain and his mind. The spirit is the non-material part that gives life to the body that governs and control its functions. It permeates each and every cell of the body. Without the spirit, the body is dead. We call this spirit"the vital force".

The homoeopath regards disease as a disturbance of the vital force .This disturbed vital force causes disturbance at energy level, which in turn causes the disturbance at the mind and body level. And when a human being can not cope-up with these disturbance at mind and the body level then the disease starts.

Here it differs from conventional(Modern) medicine. Modern medicine looks at the physical disease (diagnosis)and homoeopathy looks at the whole disturbed phenomena at the mind, body and the energy level

And so taking your case the homoeopath will explore all the at the body and that of mind which includes feeling, thoughts, fears, perception, sensations plus their reactions to all these and the way he/she copes-up with all these. The feelings, delusion and the sensations are always there but not felt because they are covered with the conscious mind(conscious mind develop due environment).

In order to explore these, Homoeopaths need to explore areas where these things are expressed completely. These things are best explore in patient's fears, dreams, incidents which had impact on him ,his interest and hobbies, childhood nature, fantasies and desires, imaginations and complaints which bothers him the most. This the reason why the Homoeopath asks about all these areas.

In Homoeopathy, each person is regarded as a sum of his hidden most feeling, perceptions. thoughts, sensations plus the reactions {thoughts, feeling, perceptions, fears and sensations} plus the way he copes-up with all these in his health and his disease.

The main aim in Homoeopathic treatment is not to treat the disease only, but to bring about harmony between mind and body to heal the disturbed vital force, Which in turn helps the patient to own healing power, so that his body can take care of his problems. Along with and improvement in his/her original problems, his sleep, appetite, thirst improves, at mind level Patient becomes aware of his thoughts, fears, feelings, his perceptions(Delusion)and thus the reaction associated with all these. He also gets aware about his inner most sensation and energy pattern. Such kind of awareness brings freedom to enjoy each and every moment of his life, which is called the cure in real sense.

In order to achieve these higher goal Homoeopaths need to understand every aspect(mind, body and sensations)of the human being. The total time of this journey varies from patients to patients depending upon how much he is aware of his deeper self.

Once the homoeopath has derived a complete picture of you as an individual he attempts to match you with a very similar picture from homoeopathic text books. It is like finding the key to a lock. Any block can only be open by one particular key only. In the same way any patient requires a remedy whose description he matches.

This is only a peek into our Homoeopathic art and science.