Addressing Ignorance

[Roger Barr]

I got an email from a "well-trained" homeopath in India. I dont use the word ignorance in the disparaging sense. Although I did use it to get people's attention. He is apparently without knowledge or experience of using LM water potencies and using the Herscu's Cycles & Segment's approach to homeopathy. So I thought I would address the ignorance displayed.
Here is the text of his email:
.......

btw - LM potency is another rubbish waste of time.

study good old simple. homeopathy / keynotes /vithoulka.

rest all / new teachers / new theories.... completely useless and rubbish.<
The "herscu theorist" has been in a full time homeopathy practice for around 30 years, so his theory is very grounded in practice. The ad-hominum attack is totally unwarranted.
I have done keynotes/Vithoulkas and many similar approaches, which I find to be simple paths into the wilderness. We all have or are doing these approaches at one time or the other. Nothing really simple about them. Every client has keynotes of multiple remedies and usually numerous symptoms. There is no simple approach to identifying Vithoulkas essences. One can easily be fooled.
How do you know when you have taken a complete case? When do you have enough information? When do you have too much?
How do you decide what issues to select and repertorize?
After a typical repertorization of the what one thinks is the "Totality" one gets a list of many hundreds of remedies typically. Do you look at the first 20, the first 50, the first 100, the first 500? How do you know you havent neglected some small remedy? How do you keep from being fooled by some over-represented polycrest remedy?
All these issues are addressed elegantly in the C&S approach.
He is disagreeing with Hahnemann when he disparages LMs in water! H. felt it was his final most perfect approach to posology. I would agree.
I find they are incredible. I can usually tell within a few days if it is the right remedy. Ruling out a wrong remedy can take longer.
And an aggravation, if it happens, is extremely short.
Then if the potency is wrong they are infinitely adjustable.
Clients improve quickly and dramatically. No infinite watch and wait and hoping that the client doesnt antidote, or give up in frustration.
I found Kali-c for myself by repertorizing the Cycle then confirming it when it relieved an “acute” exacerbation of the chronic.

I only needed to differentiate between about ten remedies discovered in the repertorization of the cycle.
LIke skeptics of homeopathy who I urge to try it, I would urge homeopaths to try LMs & Cycles&Segments instead of rejecting them, a priori, on some theoretical basis or out of laziness.
Roger Barr

[Carol Orr]

Is there a cycle of calc, sulphur and lyc with Herscu?

[Roger Barr]

In his newsletter Herscu identifies the cycles and gives cases for 50 remedies including the major polycrests. In his S.Diego workshop he will be covering 100 remedies. I think he has done many more than that.

Here are the segments for the cycle of Calc-carb.
1) Fear leading to...

2) Control their environment leading to...

3) Organization / Occupation ameliorates leading to...

4) overwork/overwhelm/filling up leading to...

5) Discharges leading to...

6) Breaking down leading to ...

7) Fear
Each segment is labeled by a shorthand title but related symptoms for that segment may actually appear on any level - mental, physical and/or emotional.
For example, Calcaria-carb. "Discharge" might be mental in the form of confusion, delirium or other mental sxs that discharge mental energy. Discharge might be emotional in the form of anger, anxiety or other emotional sxs that discharge emotional energy. Discharge might be physical in the form of perspiration, nasal discharge or other physical discharges.
In some point, in some manner(s) Calc will discharge energy.
And all Calc-c symptoms fit in one of those segments.
The nice thing is you dont need to memorize cycles in order to use them. More important is to identify the cycle of the client, repertorize it, and then differentiate between the handful of remedies that are identified as having all (or nearly all, for "small" remedies) those segments.
For clients, you can find remedies that dont have an identified cycle yet. You can discover on your own, the cycle for that remedy by carefully observing and analyzing the client.