Although any patient may (or may not) respond to them, homeopathic remedies are most likely to be successful in the following situations, or should at least be considered before resorting to more drastic methods, or after conventional treatment has failed:

• Functional complaints, with little or no tissue damage, such as simple headache, PMS, and the like.
• Conditions for which no effective treatment is available, such as viral illnesses, wound healing after major trauma or surgery, and crippling diseases, such as emphysema, AIDS, multiple sclerosis, etc., where great benefit is possible and little or no harm can be done.
• Conditions for which elective surgery has been proposed, such as fibroids, gallstones, hemorrhoids, and the like, as long as immediate operation is not required, and the surgery can always be performed later if necessary.
• Conditions for which conventional drugs would have to be taken for a prolonged period or indefinitely, such as recurrent bacterial infections (otitis media, PID, etc.), allergies (eczema, hay fever, asthma, etc.), and severe chronic diseases (epilepsy, ulcerative colitis, lupus, etc.) without irreversible tissue damage or chronic drug dependence.
• Conditions in which conventional treatments have not worked, or for which the patient refuses to take them, including incurable or terminal cases, in which only palliation is possible.

Homeopathy tends to be much less suitable for severe chronic cases with marked tissue damage and established dependence on conventional drugs, especially corticosteriods, antipsychotics, anticonvulsants, hormones, or any others where it would be dangerous or harmful to withdraw them. Nor should it be regarded as an alternative to or substitute for appropriate correction of structural or mechanical problems (suturing lacerations, reducing fractures, emergency surgery, and the like).