This renowned French homeopath traces the common thread connecting our physical suffering and unconscious motivations. He matches more than 300 remedies to their emotional substructure underlying physical ailments. , eg: "Hydrophobinum: rabid desire for control. These are people with intrusive personalities...great lovers of gossip, using it first to figure people out, then to dissect them completely. Their fear of water comes from the fact that water is difficult to control". A brilliant, slightly quirky and extremely readable take on a huge number of remedies. Thought-provoking and  entertaining.