Dear Anna,

Regarding your response,while I may not have been clear regarding Herscu's method, all laws of hoemoapthy and the organon are referred to extensively in the "Herscu Letter" and classes he teaches. Also I do not beleive I used the term "theme" and did not intend to imply that remedies have themes, as each remedy has many themes or grand characteristics that must be present in the patients response to stress for the remedy to be prescribed. All remedies have 5-9 grand characteristics that will present themselves in various mental, emotional and physical responses to stress that form a cycle or pattern of disease which is the patients way of responding to stress.

Regarding opposites, fixed ideas (a type of rigidness)and confusion of ideas or identity are often responses to stress and when to much energy is used by the patient as a response to stress, they must be used in analysis. There must also be opposites to form a cycle and there must be a cycle or pattern of behavior as a response to stress that the patient uses over and over which prevents there body/mind from healing resulting in chronic illness. One such segment that is critical to address and include in analysis is the opposite of the cheif complaint. Every cheif complaint of every patient has a major oipposite idea of the complaint. For example, the cheif complaint of Rhus-t is an injury or some type of restriction to the paitent, and the opposite is the need for motion. Just like in Nat-m has the opposites of: being emotionally vulnerable -grief/emotinal pain and are so open to being hurt that they introvert and close off to protect themselves and become hardened. The opened aspect and the closed are the opposites.

Herscu' clearly describes how these grand characteristics of segments of the cycle are developed in case taking.

Please refer to other responses i have sent regarding the fact Herscu has developed cycles for almost all remedies, 100's of them and I have observed this in practice over and over in addition to reading 100's of cured cases by Herscu, in addition to the fact I know 20 people as mentioined in other notes who went 3 of probably the top 30 homeopaths in the world and only a few were cured, yet Paul is in the process of or has cured many of them. In the end, the proof is in the pudding and over time I will be providing more information on Paul's success rate which is remarkable compared to any other homeopath I have studied and more importantly heard about in talking to many people about there results with other homeopaths. This is not to say good homeopaths can not cure maybe 50% of their patients in 2 years or less, but for complicated cases, I am convinced Herscu is superior as most of his cases are severe illnesses or have been people who went to several practiitoners before they ended up cured by Herscu.

Also as I have noted his method is unique and it is complicated on the surface. Regarding the issue of treating the deeper state, it is true you must prescribe on the patients symptoms and what Herscu's method allows you to do is to make sure you uncover the deeper symptoms if they exist by utilizing his methods of case taking. It also allows smaller remedies that are similar to larger more common remedies to consider which usually leads to furtehr questioning of the patient and often results in finding a remedy that better matches the deeper state. So if you take a case and they have 100 Cal-carb symptoms they will eventually need it but of those 100 symptoms, when combined rubrics form similar ideas or grand characteristics that form a cycle, other remedy choice become strong possibilities but represent a deeper layer of the patients current state. It basiclaly allows you to determine which symptoms are logically connected creating a chronic response to stress. In summary it is all symptom based work but focuses on the syumptoms that matter and need cured first. If not and the wrong remedy is selected, deeper state symptoms are often supressed and I have seen this happen over and over until i discovered Herscu's method.

Also the mehtod of heirarchy, which shows 4 differnt levels of illness that represent differnt groups of remedies,provides a tool to bring the patient from a more severe state to a less severe state and reduces symptoms being supressed and allows for a full and complete sustained cure, often in 2 years or less even for the more complicated an severe states of disease.

Again, when time permits I will be compiling more detailed information about Herscu's method and success rate and it will eventually be available through 1 of the 2 web sites I am slowly but surely developing. HomeopathyCuredCaes.com and MedicalHealthcures.com

Until then, thank you for your responses and the best of luck to you in your practice.

John O.