In acute conditions such as cold and flu, one can try homoeopathic medicines after reading it from any book on homoeopathy, but it is always advisable to consult a qualified homoeopathic physician and take medication under the physician’s supervision. However, in chronic and more complicated cases, self medication should never be tried and a homoeopathic physician should always be consulted. In the course of the treatment of chronic cases, there may be a series of combination of medicines that are prescribed after taking into account the severity and the progress and a book will not help in prescribing the correct homeopathic remedies to be taken and how much.