When matching a homeopathic remedy to a person all their signs and symptoms are considered - mentally, emotionally and physically.  Homeopathy looks at the entire person as a whole, on all levels, in order to find the most similar remedy for them. 

In contrast, conventional medicine considers only some of a person's symptoms to be part of a their particular disease, whilst dismissing others as unimportant or unexplainable.  In this way homoeopathy treats the person with the disease and not the disease alone. 

The principle 'like cures like' is holistic - the whole person heals.