For the record: I have used Herscu's method for 1.5 years now and my success rate after 11 issues of the Herscu letter went from 25-30% to 50-60% withing 9 months. I am taking the 2 year course now and am only 1/2 way through it but am now curing 70-80% of my cases and cutting my case taking time in 1/2 using his method of case taking. Regarding the opposites in thuja, fixed ideas of a person vs. dual ideas or confusion of identity are clearly opposites and are parts of the cycle of the remedy. This method is not simple to udnersrtand until a person understands his whole philosophy and each part of the method including treating the deeper state first and building the whole cycle around that, understanding the heirarchy of methods,and 3-4 other main ideas one must learn to tell which symptoms are important at a given time and which ones are not. Also combining physcial, mental and emotional symptoms into one segement to make the cycle is a critical aspect.

The fact of the matter is I do this in my spare time working under a physician ( I know nothing about medicine) and I know over 20 poeple who went to 3 homeopaths that are considered to be some of the best in the world and only 2 were cured and some ended up stoping homeopathy after many years and the majority ended up seeing Paul Herscu. He has cured or substantilaly improved the health of these people and I am confident he will cure all of them in 2-3 years or less and only a handful of these cases would be considered to be average in terms of difficulty.

I studied many methods of people considered to be the best and Herscu's method has considerably more logic and his interpretation of the Organon, Hanemann and Boenninghausen and a few other classics clearly lead to his method as well as his continued growth in being successful. I wll be publishing more about his method over time but am limited now due to other responsibilities.

I can not imagine there are many homeopaths who would not benefit greatly from learning his method and equally important is his understanding of the true grand characteristics of each remedy and how they form a cycle which results in chronic illness. It is so much easier to distinguish remedies and to find the deeper state as his description of remedies (future materia medica)is more on a modern day level. Even the analysis of the cheif complaint is amazing to understand in order to find out what needs cured first.

best of luck,

John O.