It was my great teacher Martin Stübler who suddenly aroused my childhood memories in one of our last conversations with a cheerful remark: the secret, the "P", and my expressed career aspirations at the age of six to become a dressmaker...
He called a drug "a dress" ... "which dress would fit our patient" ...and one of my most rewarding memories of him is the day on which he asked me what kind of dress would fit him the most ..., and when I told him that the "Lycopodical dress" would be very suitable, he leaned back with an approvingly smile and allowed himself a nap while I was driving him from Baden near Vienna to his home in Augsburg...
Yes, I "tailor" from individual pieces (symptoms) the "skimpy dress" (drug picture) - by the way, there is an "artisanal" comparison among homeopaths: Constantine Hering, one of the most remarkable Hahnemann students, allegedly used to say : "... on three legs is a chair ..." conc. the number of necessary symptoms for drug discovery ( Maybe he wanted to become a carpenter as a child)
When I look at my way to homeopathy in retrospect, it could not be different at all. We simply have a free will whenever we recognize and go our predestined way voluntarily - even if it initially appears as a detour and zigzag.