<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" article-type="Research Article" dtd-version="1.0"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="pmc">iarjms</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="pubmed">IARJMS</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IARJMS</journal-id><issn>2708-3594</issn></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.47310/iarjms.2021.v02i02.005</article-id><title-group><article-title>Desire &amp; Aversion- It’s Importance In Homoeopathic Prescription</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><given-names>Avirup</given-names><surname>Basu</surname></name></contrib><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-a" /></contrib-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><given-names>S.Seetha</given-names><surname>Lakshmi</surname></name></contrib><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-b" /></contrib-group><aff-id id="aff-a">PG Scholar of Dept. of Materia Medica, Mahesh Bhattacharyya Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital, Howrah, India</aff-id><aff-id id="aff-b">PG Scholar of Dept. of Organon of Medicine, National Institute of Homoeopathy, Kolkata, India</aff-id><abstract>The development of food preferences begins early, even before birth. The likes and dislikes of taste and food items changes as we grow into adults. Taste preferences have strong innate component about the role of desires and aversions and thus acts as guiding symptoms for a case and in prescription. So, these can help us in individualization, miasmatic analysis of the patient in hand and further in Homoeopathic prescriptions. A case report of acne also has been given, showing how considering the desire and aversion of food in the totality of symptoms helps us in achieving the desired result easily.</abstract></article-meta></front><body /><back /></article>