Dear Anna,

First, I did not intend to make everything a cycle is made of be mentals and emotinals as it clearly is not the case in practice. The Ambra Gr case just happen to unfold that way but it did have many physical generals as well that supported the cycle. It was just a summary as an example.

All of Herscu's information comes from all the classical sources such as Hahnenaman, Kent, Boenninghousen.,etc. and all well proven rubrics still apply, but he has added over 20 years of experience and in some cases provings he has done for remedies like psornium which had few symptoms. Most importantly his success rate is very high and is based on his cycles and segments which interestingly enough, if a person knows the basic out line of cycles and segments you can actuall go through all the rubrics for remedies and find the cycle of the remedy. In fact he does this for his students as part of their training and to learn the method.

Also cycles for a remedy can be represented by mentals/emotionals and/or physical only. an example is Merc. this is not his completed version as it is to long nad detailed but will give you an idea. One is a short version I often see with acute physically dominated cases. The other is a more detailed cycle but the ideas of segments are similar.

MERC. Inflammation leads to > swelling > closing off to a > strong re-action (ie when performance required) leads to anxiety > to tremors and these tremors lead to shakiness that creates inflammation –

Containment > swelling up > close off > strong reaction – eruption > evaporation>…need to contain again…used volcano as example:

Confusion, leading to => chaos, chaotic impulsive unstable thoughts or fluids they try to contain them => but this scares them -fears, fears of these chaotic thoughts and the fears lead you to fill up more and become swollen => a rigid, closed, monomaniacal, dictatorial person and become so rigid (closing off)that they => become fine, oversensitive to the slightest stimuli and become so oversensitive that they => react in a violent, manic, impulsive, unstable, incredible discharge (eruptions)which makes them feel like => sad, depressed, weak, depleted, empty, guilty and they feel so much of this that they get into this whole major => death of the self feel and destruction (evaporation -perspiration/fluid loss)and then (try ot contian themselves)become confused...

You do not have to have all mentals and in fact never do but the ideas of physical generals are similar to the main ideas of a segment.

Regarding organon 211 the main point is if you really look close and use logic you can see how the mental state of the remedy is mirrored by the physical and they are similar ideas and rubrics can be grouped togehter for analysis. This si critical as you said and it is true you don't alwasy get the mental picture. but again a snoted in previous response there is a person attached ot the physicals and if you use the line of questioning with the 4 main questions to ask you will get more mental and emotional response as I do this all the time.

I have read probably over 30 cases of infants and observation and the physical generals as well as questioning the parents on " What has changed since the illness started, ie - sad, quiet, irritated acting, etc cna help, but even what happens before, during and after a stool for example and modalities like eructations amel, etc will form a cycle aand I have had many acute cases where I used 90% physical generals, if not all in some. In the acute post operative case 80% of symptoms were general physicals but we were able to get some mentals and emotionals as the patient wa snot drugged out of his mind like all the others so it went real well. In fact I knew which remedies he was going to give except I may have missed the Arnica when he gave it but in retrospect it made sense and surely did the job. The anesthesiologist was blown away as were other doctors and it was one of the 10 largets hospitals in the country.

Regarding the The organon I must be honest in syaijng I have never read it other then when herscu gave his own interpretation which as you know has varied greatly form one persons method to another. Also it's original interpretations form german were somewhat skectshy in many areas. Paul goes into greta detail about Hahnaman, Boenninghousen and many other of the old timers and strictly adheres to all classical homeopathy principals. For example, herrings law matches his heirarchy of Methods in terms of deeper state remedies that have more severe symptoms in taking the patient to a less severe state andthe path in whihc things are cured. he has demonstartaed this over and over.

All I can say is what I have seen happen to many people not being cured and Herscu curing many people who went to other homeopaths that wwere considerd some of the best. I know many of these people well and folowed their cases, some 10 -20 years wiht poor results. They go to Herscu and in some cases one remedy cured them.

If oyu were to read the first 13 Herscu letters, you would be amazed as to the logic of everythign he says and does in practice relative to all you legitiamte concerns.

Best of luck!

John Oljace
Perennial Medicines