Provings

Question 1

Define Provings?

Answer 1

• test, examination, drug trial
• homeopathic pathogenic trial

Question 2

Purpose of provings?

Answer 2

• testing of substances to discover their healing properties on healthy volunteers who journal their symptoms & interviewed during test period
• used to expand knowledge of material media & # of known remedies.

Question 3

What is materia media?

Answer 3

• compilation of knowledge about therapeutic properties of substances administered.
• includes compendium of remedies, with their detailed symptoms, tissue & organ affinity & their sources

Question 4

Where is info for materia medical collected (4)?

Answer 4

1. Traditional knowledge of herbal medicine
2. Clinic findings
3. Intoxication/ poison reports
4. Testing of substances in human subjects (provings)

Question 5

Prover characteristics (6)?

Answer 5

1. No ill & healthy
2. Not undergoing high stress levels
3. Familiar with homeopathy (*helpful not essential)
4. Not anxious/ neurotic
5. sensitive but not hypersensitive
6. Resident

Question 6

Methodology of provings?

Answer 6

1. Coordinator pairs prover & supervisor
2. Provers record baseline symptoms & are interviewed 1 to 2 weeks prior
3. Coordinator distributes remedy/placebo to provers and proves takes 1 to 3 times per day
4. Once symptoms/sensations/feelings occur prover stops & records symptoms
5. Supervisor interviews prover daily
6. Coordinator reviews & material on new remedy can be recommended.

** supervisor & prover are blind
** if no symptoms occur after 1 week, prover stops

Question 7

Why do we see contradictory symptoms for same remedy?

Answer 7

Prover overdoses to trigger a body response
-can be primary or secondary action symptoms
-thus, contradictory info