PROVINGS
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- The homeopath must find the similar remedy for cure
- Full knowledge of a remedy's actions on healthy provers must be known
- Conclusive effects cannot be obtained by prescribing to sick people
- The remedy's power of cure is revealed by changes in health observed
- during provings.
- Homeopathic use of remedies is the only way to cure human diseases
- Symptoms from poisonings are indicative of their homeopathic curative action and agree with those from provings. (move to proving section)
- Remedies alter the healthy human body according to fixed natural laws, and it is by these lws that each remedy can produce reliable symptoms that are characteristic of it.
- The small homoeopathic dose eliminates the aggravation and restores health.
- Narcotics in their primary action take away sensation and irritability, but in moderate doses in the healthy, it can increase in sensitivity and irritability during the secondary action (an aggravation)
- In the healthy, one can notice primary effects of the medicine, with the exception of narcotics.
- The primary action of some remedies may show an opposite reaction, and should not be considered as an aggravation but an alternating action.
- Some symptoms are produced by provings frequently and some less frequently.
- The variable symptoms depend upon the individuals susceptibility to disease.
- Each remedy acts in a unique way.
- Because each remedy is unique, the homoeopath must know the individual nature of the remedy for true cure.
- Provings help distinguish remedies so the homoeopath can then prescribe accurately.
- The effects of the mother tincture can be revealed on a healthy person, taking into account individual susceptibility.
- The well being of future generations depends upon this knowledge.
- Provers should take no other medicinal substance during experimentation.
- Provings should be made from mother tincture, without addition of any other foreign substances
- Food and drink intake must be simple, non stimulating and carefully regulated during a proving so as not to interfere with the course of the remedy
- The prover selected must be of healthy mind and body.
- Remedies must be proven by both sexes
- To reveal the full hidden powers of a remedy, it must be potentised to the 30th potency, and taken upon an empty stomach, daily for several days
- Provings commence with a small dose and increase individual doses if necessary until the effects have become clear.
- The order of symptoms may appear from only one dose, and the duration of the remedy's action will become known after comparing the results of several provings.
- The action of the remedy becomes confused when a prover must take increasing doses on successive days.
- 132 A daily increased dose(given for several days) will reveal the symptoms only, not the duration.
- When symptoms appear, determine their exact character and modalities.
- Different symptoms of a remedy appear in different provers according to individuality.
- Multiple tests on suitable persons of both sexes with various constitutions are needed to fully prove the remedy
- Symptoms that are rarely brought forth in the proving can be cured in a sick person by the law of similars
- Provers are selected for their sensitivity, and if the dose is too large an aggravation may occur, which will cloud the picture.
- If the prover has an occurrence of previous dispositions this must be attributed to the remedy being proved.
- 139 Detailed, daily proving notes must be made.
- If the prover is unable to write, a responsible person must be allocated to record notes.
- The best proving are self-provings done by homoeopaths upon themselves.
- Symptom analysis must be left to the observant homoeopath.
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