Treating anxiety about health

This is being written with a professional homeopath in mind.  I wrote it before the patient was given his remedy.

I have a question about how to guide a hypochondraic patient.  For those who are not homeopaths, hypochondrasis is a symptom involving excessive worry about one's own health.  In the remedy Ars, it can lead to despair because he believes he will never recover from his disease.  In this patient, the disease is minor or not yet apparent.

I am going to change minor details of the case so the patient could not be identified.

A patient came with a minor chronic cough and some skin lesions.  The cough wakes him, so it is possibly more significant, but the skin bumps hardly itch.  The rashes occur on the back and elbows.   

He is the anxious fear creating type but certainly not neurotic.  He had a grandfather who had psoriasis that started in his 40.  The young man is 30. Someone in Iran told her that such lumbar pain is indicative of psoriasis. He does desk work and has a slump forward in the upper spine from that work.  So his back is going to bother him.  He reasons that his if the rash spreads to his face, he will others will not want to work with him.  He is doing business that involves marketing and is quite ambitious.  The doctor told him his rash is not psoriasis.  Whew!  Still he has had gout of the big toe so he still may have tendencies for psoriasis.

Even with these minor symptoms, I came up with Ars.  And his personality seems to fit too.  Including the hypochondrasis.

He has been seen by homeopathic doctors all his life.  For small things, and he has occasionally taken minor allopathic drugs.  I suppose both can suppress.  Emotions are also someone suppressed. 

In looking at this suppression, I am trying to account for the lack of symptoms (a paucity of symptoms).   He has never had childhood illnesses, but develops a cold from drinking cold water. (Ars)  The lack of childhood illnesses suggests suppression to me.  But checking pain points in a Chinese Medicine way, I came up with an extremely healthy body.  

The physical symptoms do not even seem worth treating but the hypochondrasis is potentially a bigger problem.  He came to see me and and several days later he went to a dermatologist.  I am against suppressing skin problems, but I really hope I have enough of a case to treat the hypochondrasis.  I could suppress skin problems with homeopathy.  I doubt that Ars is going to change his character if indeed he is Ars now.

I am thinking that I should recommend some light reading about homepathy.  He is already pro-homeopathy, but goes for allopathy before he goes to a homeopath.  He is getting all the fuel for his hypochondrasis from surfing the Internet.  I suspect the fear mongering information is allopathic.  I would like to get him to study homeopathy for home care and quit going into negative forms of allopathic treatment. 

Any suggestions for intros to homeopathy? He is a digital thinker, not a deep thinker or an avid reader.  He says he is lazy, but I think he is probably tired from all the worrying.

Any suggestions?  I think digital resources might be good.  Has anyone tried the iphone homeopathic repps and MMs?  He is analytical so it might work to teach him to repertorize and look up MM.  30 some young adults live in a digital world.