Dear Anna:

I wanted to clarify a few issues and give a better example of how the Herscu methods works.

Lets say a patient comes into your office and says, " I get these terrible headaches and while telling you this she is almost laughing. You relaize this person is acting awkward and it is peculiar for a person to think or act like there is somehting funny about having migrianes.

With Herscus method you ask questions and determine that what needs fixed is this person comes off awkward or shows slightly inappropriate behavior, this makes them timid and embarrassed that leads to causing them to withdraw and constrict or close off(from company)which leads them to become confused with who and what they are and what they want and they start 2nd guessing themselve (lack confidence and have confusion of identity) and this leads them to worry how people perceive them (full of cares and worries build up (develop migrianes, etc) this leads them to try and do soemthing diferent to escape this feeling (need to communicate or change- loquacity) but it turns out awkward in a forced out shy type way and they feel they fasiled and become embarrassed gain and the cycle continues.

This is the cycle for Ambra Grisea

Once you know the true cheif complain of what relaly needs fixed, Herscu gives you a method of logical questioning that covers all the standard case taking questions you need to discover such as the etiology, modaliteis, family history, etc and icludes new consepts such as the opposite of the cheif complaint, the nightmare of the opposite of the cheif complaint which are the main reasons or symptoms as to why the patient cna not break the cycle and keep doing thinks in response to stress that keep them sick.

When you see 100's of these cycles compared to any other materia medica the picture of the remedy becomes crystal clear and it is written in modern day terms and symptoms. This gives you an incredible understanging of remedies like nothing else I have read. The logical connection of how one symptom or set of symptoms leads to another in forming a cycle is invaluable and in fact is necessary to find the pattern of the persons response to stress that the patient is stuck in causing chronic illness.

If anyone who knows homeopathy fairly well was to read about 100 remedies and their cycles in terms of what are their true grand characteristics and if a person learns herscu's method of case taking, not only does there success rate go up, they save a great deal of time in case taking. I cut my time in half as once you find the true cheif complaint - what really needs fixed and then build the case around it looking for logical connections of symptoms/main ideas of how th patient is responding to stress on a physical, mental and emotional level, homeoapthy becomes almost scientific in case taking and in results!

I hope some of this makes mroe sense than my previous responses.

John O.