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We have all been there – struggling with all the issues which make practicing classical homeopathy so challenging.
How do you know when you have taken a complete thorough case? As everyone says taking a full case is 90% of the battle. Some clients seem to have endless issues. Others can talk endlessly about the same issues. When do you know enough? We need to find a characteristic totality but what is that exactly? Maybe we have just seen the tip of the iceberg. How do we know?
A therapeutic approach can work sometimes. A client has diabetes. Do we take the top five diabetic remedies for consideration? The top ten? The top twenty-five? The top two hundred? What if none of them seem to fit well? Very possibly the remedy they need is not known for diabetes. What then?
So you start repertorizing. You identify a few symptoms that seem characteristic. If you are able to repertorize them, they may not highlight remedies that seem to fit. So you start including more rubrics covering more symptoms. But each rubric you add, adds more remedies that you might need to consider. But no remedy seems to stand out from the herd as you keep finding more rubrics. The polycrests seem to crowd out the other remedies at the top but none seems to fit. Should you look at the top 10 remedies in the repertorization? 20? 200? What about the small remedies nearer the bottom for which not a lot is known?
Can we justify ignoring certain aspects of the case, and still call what we are analyzing a “totality”? But practically it is impossible to repertorize everything.
Perhaps you have identified a delusion or “sensation” that seems central to the client's state. But what about the contradictory and opposing symptoms? Periods when the client is quite functional or differently-functional. How do you reconcile them? Do they really fit together into a cognizable totality?
Paul Herscu, ND is someone who has thought deeply about these difficulties in practicing classical homeopathy. I think he reconciles these issues elegantly & practically within Hahnemann's classical construct. Using his approach has made a huge difference in my level of success and I am just getting started with it.
His approach is to look at the disease process or totality as dynamic, not as a fixed state. Its a cycle that repeats over and over. This reconciles the opposing contradictory states; they are all part of the cycle. How do you know when you have taken a complete case covering the totality? When you have identified the cycle that includes the chief complaint, you are done! How do you know when you have all of the remedies that need to be considered? When you have all the remedies that cover all stages, or segments, of the cycle.
I am summarizing this comprehensive system in a single paragraph. You can learn it attending his 8 weekend course (held alternate months) in San Diego, with remote sessions in Seattle. It starts at the end of February. Hope I can see you there!
Roger Barr

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Everybody is trying to grasp the "Elephant" that is homeopathy in their own way. And I cant criticize. Its not easy.

But on this list I see a lot of people trying to find remedies via a therapeutic approach (what are the best remedies for X disease) or via a theme (what are the remedies that have X aspect e.g. "closed"). And I presume that the questions about finding rubrics are from people who are trying to find remedies using long lists of rubrics, who are trying to find "magic" rubrics that crack the case.

But we all know that we have to find a remedy that covers a totality, not just the theme, or the allopathic disease or the one or two "strange, rare or peculiar" symptoms. From my experience the theme, the therapeutic and the "magic" rubrics approaches are not very effective. They all work sometimes but not consistently enough to avoid frustration.

I hope you may consider attending Paul Herscu's workshop in San Diego or doing his email training program. I find that time after time the Cycles and Segments approach gives me a small group of remedies, one of which is a good match for the client.

Roger

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Hi Roger,
Maybe it's a system that works, but I have the cases from the journals (I think). Got the books in the late 90's. I read the cases (presented by some students) and the results and can't say I would call them good cures. Despite the cases being presented as cures.
I attended two of Paul 's seminars when he came out and was a bit disillusioned when he repeated his section on coma that many of us had heard at the first one. I almost felt it was used as a filler, when he could have spent more time on more cycles.
But that's my opinion. Your experience has obviously been different.
Regards,
Paul
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Hey Paul,

I cant speak to what you have read or seen presented. And I dont know what Paul's audience was for the two lectures you attended. Perhaps he had to bring everyone up to speed.
I have probably studied with over 20 different practitioners including Klein, Murphy, Pitt, Sherr, Vithoulkas, Mangilavori, Sankharan, Scholten, Amara, etc. ALL of them had something valuable to offer. I didnt find that I could reproduce the incredible results of those master clinicians.
I would recommend you seriously try using the C&S system before dismissing it. Every homeopath needs multiple approaches. No one approach works in all situations. I just find Cycles & Segments to be the most effective over all, from what I have tried. When I first started with C&S in '96, I tried it for a while and then reverted to my old ways, mostly out of inertia. It wasnt til I started the email training and really worked it that I started getting more consistent results.

Roger