Value of Symptoms

The value of Symptoms
Everyone was loving grandmother, elders asked her advice on financial and other matters, the younger set wondered at her practical wisdom, the tiny tots would not sleep without getting a bedtime story from her.. Everyone referred to her. She was the sole watchman in the home when every member was out of the home during the day.
What exactly was her value ?
Suddenly, she feeling she was a burden. No one bothered about her. So, she quitely went to old age home to spend the rest of her life there. Now there's no one from home to look after the home during the day. They cannot have six keys for six members of the family. It wasn't the a realized thanks the mere presence of the old lady was the most valuable thing, nothing elsewhere mattered so much.
In our vast Materia Medica, we usually give some value to a Symptom. Lot of time and argument are used up tring to find out if it should awarded two Mark's or five ! It is not merely academic? The fact that the patient's peculiar Symptom is present in the medicine is all that is important.
We should not forget that in out literature, when we say The Text ( as Mentioned uses the word often in his Lectures on Materia Medica) we mean only Guiding Symptoms of Hering and that book started being printed in 1879 , after collecting hundreds of nuts of information and confirmation of Symptoms from all the practitioners till then, and Hering gave his valuation to each Symptom, basing only on its Verification. The Symptoms found in his vast Materia Medica in Ordinary Type are also of profound value and reliable Guiding Symptoms.
And as Kent's Reportory was mainly based on this Materia Medica, even remedies found in Ordinary Type should not be sent to Old age home.
The valuation of a Symptom ( a mere personal observation) can only go higher with each experiment or verification.