Provings
[Alistair C. Gray]
https://www.narayana-verlag.de/homoeopathie/pdf/Experience-of-Medicine-2-Alastair-C-Gray.06318_3Sample.pdf
THE FOUR REMEDIES INCLUDED
HERE
BLATTA ORIENTALIS; INDIAN
COCKROACH
I recently read an article about the possibility that SARS may have been spread
by the cockroach. If any part of this is true then this proving is going to be
of immense value. I have now used it extensively in my clinic and taught the
use of it and the symptoms of this proving widely. I recall the bizarre
symptoms of swelling of the legs and the exhaustion, deep and profound
exhaustion which was created in these grumpy provers in 2002. The difficulty in
respiration, and the fatigue, oh my god! the fatigue. The symptoms were firmly
centred in the respiratory system and the incapacity to breath was deeply
troublesome. Married to the other provings of Blatta this information will
serve to solidify our previously shakey assertions about this remedy.
BUFO RANA; COMMON TOAD
Early last century, a small minded agriculturalist with finger nail vision
imported the cane toad from Peuto Rico to Queensland to take care of the cane
beetle that compromised the sugar cane crops. The rest is an appalling history.
These beasts have taken over, eat anything, kill native fauna and anything that
moves. Some love them as pests. Some run them over as a duty; in fact it’s
considered unaustralian not to line them up and get as many as you can. Others
use them to practice some golf swings and I must admit that there is some
satisfaction to thwacking the pest that is destroying the countryside and
improving your game at the same time. Others boil them down and drink the juice
in the absence of other hallucinogenic excitement. The cane toad has much
similarity to the toad proven here. The predominant residue from the proving
was dumbness and an utter inability to think.
CACTUS GRANDIFLORUS; CACTUS
Cactus grandiflorus was a small but valuable proving. I feel the results here
will ultimately complement our understanding of the remedy as it is used
currently. It produced the mos extrodianary flushes of heat. Cutting, stabbing
and pressure in the chest. Blood circulating like fire.
HIPOCAMPUS KUDA; SEAHORSE
This proving was conducted to complement the more recent proving conducted in
the USA. Seahorses are in trouble arounds the world. They are struggling in
their environments with the onslaught of human encroachment. They are endlessly
fascinating. A massive one was washed up on Bondi beach the other day with the
autumnal post cyclonic swells that battered the coast. Given their extrodinary
nature I was surpised at the blandness of the symptoms given its animal origin.
Perhaps it goes to confirm that only truly toxic substances in the wild make
for the best provings.
To the generosity of these
students who acted as either provers or supervisors or researchers over these
years, my thanks for your perserverance and courage and time and generosity. I
am sincerely grateful.
Vergleich: Siehe: Homeopathy
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Double-blind: A study conducted with neither the researcher nor
participants knowing which participants are in the control group (i.e. placebo
group).
This is to prevent bias in recording results (Dirckx 2001).
[Catherine Anne Morris] Most
authors, however, agree on the following points:
o
The necessity of further provings o
o
The use of healthy provers
o The use of placebo controls
o
The use of a blinding procedure
o
The use of a poisonous substance in a high potency
o
Non-repetition of the dose once proving symptoms have developed
o
Diligent recording of all symptoms: physical, mental and emotional.
[Jeremy Sherr]
https://sites.google.com/a/homoeoacademe.com/articles/-jeremy-on-homeopathy-and-aids-in-africa---jeremy-sherr
On Provings:
ROWENA: How many remedies have you proved Jeremy?
JEREMY: I don’t know exactly, but I think it is somewhere between twenty
seven and thirty.
ROWENA: How do you choose them?
JEREMY: I have two methods of choosing; intellect and omens. An
intellect choice is like when I decided to prove all the noble gases because I
know that they can increase our knowledge of the whole periodic table.
ROWENA: Are they for very spiritual people?
JEREMY: Yes, there is something spiritual about the noble gases, because
at their full potential they can really touch heaven.
ROWENA: So they feel very connected to the source; to God?
JEREMY: They can be very connected to the source, if they are in the
right place. But their problem is that they don’t know how to disconnect from
it. They feel they are in such a perfect position and everything is so right
that they cannot step into life and get dirty, and if you don’t get dirty, you
are not living. You have to suffer if you want to sing the blues.
So proving the noble gases was an intellectual decision but other
remedies I chose through omens or synchronicities. Swan (Cygnus cygnus) was an
omen choice. I was sitting by the sea with a very sore neck, and this swan
sailed by. I had previously asked for an omen and you have to ask for one
otherwise you don’t get it.
ROWENA: Like in Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist ?
JEREMY: Yes, absolutely. To get omens, you have to believe in them, ask
for them, and not miss them when they are revealed to you. When I asked for an
omen before choosing fallow deer, in one day five people mentioned deer to me
or showed me pictures of deer and then I saw a TV documentary and that sealed
the deal.
ROWENA: Do you think sometimes that your patients move you spiritually
on your own journey?
JEREMY: Definitely. Patients come who are in a high place spiritually
and they will impart something to you, but nearly every patient to whom you
give a good remedy will come back with a lesson for you. They will come back
and say one little sentence that will resonate with you; they will come and
give you their gift back.
ROWENA: A lesson about the remedy, or a lesson for yourself?
JEREMY: Both a lesson for me and a lesson about the remedy, and that is
a gift in itself. It will often be just what I need to hear for that day and
will pick me up and make me feel better about life.
ROWENA: Do you think that you get those patients that need your remedies
or do you think we are all getting them but we just don’t recognise the remedy
picture?
JEREMY: A bit of both. Maybe some get attracted to me because they need
those remedies, maybe because I know those remedies I recognise them in
patients and maybe other people miss them because they don’t know them. There
was an interesting experiment in India that some homoeopaths did ten or so
years ago. They did sixty provings and then created a homoeopathic network in a
few centres across India, and for two years, they worked exclusively with those
remedies, and they got great results.
I could probably survive only prescribing my thirty remedies and just
about get by, but it would not be great homoeopathy. Hahnemann only used twenty
remedies for many years until he proved a hundred. You can work with a small
number of remedies that you know very well and get reasonable results, because
similars work, not just simillimums. If only simillimums worked, we would all
be out of business! Hahnemann says there is no such thing as a simillimum.
ROWENA: Really?
JEREMY: He says it is just a theoretical concept and I agree with him.
It does give us a beacon to work towards but it is a delusion that gets planted
into people at college until they start practising and hopefully realise there
is no such thing. If there is a simillimum for each person, and we have only
proved three thousand remedies, then how are we finding the simillimum for
millions of patients around the world? We cannot be.
There are a hundred thousand minerals and plants and a hundred million
animals and insects. Curing like with like is about metaphor and analogy, not
sameness, so there cannot be one simillimum and we don’t want there to be a
simillimum either, just like there can never be only one perfect poem for each
person.
Homoeopathy is poetry or music because it is analogy. You don’t say to
somebody, “Your eyes are beautiful, like eyes!” You say, “Your eyes are like
the lake in the spring and your hair is like the wind blowing through the soft
leaves as they fall to the ground in the autumn.” If it is the right music,
rhythm and words, it will touch. So many poems touch you and they will do so in
different ways. Some poems will be better than other poems, and they will touch
deeper and longer and carry you further. And some will be crap and not touch
much at all!
We want to work ‘in the image of’ and it is better that way because it
means that every level of practitioner can get results. It allows practitioners
the possibility of not being perfect. If you take a case in any class, if you
have got twenty homoeopaths, it is likely that you will get fifteen different
remedy suggestions.
ROWENA: And do you think all fifteen remedies will work?
JEREMY: Probably three or four would act beneficially; some more, some
less. It is a matter of how close you get by percentage. Those within ten
percent of the target would get a good result, those within twenty percent
would get a medium result and with those out of range, nothing much would
happen or they would suppress the case. It is a grey area between the
unattainable Holy Grail of the theoretical simillimum and suppression.
[Tamara Rabinowitz]
http://openscholar.dut.ac.za/bitstream/10321/511/1/Rabinowitz_2009.pdf
Approach to similitude in the way it conducts provings of substances on
healthy individuals (Walach 1994). Paracelsus once said that there is no illness for
which some remedy has not been created and established to drive it away and cure
it.To fully utilize what nature has provided, many more provings will have to
be done (Whitmont, 1994) as this is the only way to obtain accurate and
reliable knowledge of the therapeutic potential of a substance (Sherr, 1994).
An additional reason for continued investigation into new homoeopathic remedies
is that the world has seen a considerable amount since Hahnemann’s time. There
have been world wars, radioactive radiation, petrochemical pollutions and
hormones and additives in food. Most of the remedies in the Materia Medica were
proved during Hahnemann’s time during which none of the above was prevalent.
Homoeopathy is thus obligated to find cures for the patients of our times who
have been exposed to these situations (ICCH, 1999).Performing provings is
considered by many to be the only reliable way to fully ascertain the action of
any substance that is to be used as a homoeopathic remedy (Dantas, 1996;
O’Reilly, 1996; Sherr,1994) and the only way of identifying homoeopathic
remedies (Cook, 1989).Provings form a fundamental part of the philosophy and
practice of homoeopathy and form the foundation on which homoeopathic
prescribing rests (Louw, 2002). These medicines, which may determine life or
death or cause disease or health, must be thoroughly and carefully studied and
distinguished from one another. They must be tested by accurate experiments on
the
6healthy body in order to ascertain their real effects, to obtain an
accurate knowledge of them and to enable us to avoid any mistake in their
employment in disease.
It is only by the correct selection of a homoeopathic remedy that the
health of the body and of the mind, can be rapidly and permanently restored
(O’Reilly 1996).
Historical Perspectives
The history of provings can be traced back as far as 129AD, with Galen
being one of the first documented physicians to have tested medicinal
substances on healthy people. Provings were also performed by Paracelsus in
1493AD (Walach, 1994). In the East, the court of Emperor Shen Nung is thought
to have seen the first known provings of remedial agents on healthy people
around 3000BC (Little 1998). Hahnemann (1755-1843) is considered the father of
homoeopathy. He describes, in his book, the Organon that the fundamentals of
the Law of Similars can be discovered in all ages. He mentions a number of such
incidental cures and practitioners who utilized homoeopathic principles, but
failed to develop an official methodology (O’Reilly, 1996).The first substance
said to be proved by Hahnemann was Chinchona Bark which he came across while
translating Cullen’s “A Treatise on Materia Medica” wherein the anti-malarial
properties of Chinchona bark were attributed to its bitter and astringent
properties, however, Hahnemann knew that bitter herbs are not active against
malaria and thus thought this reasoning to be illogical and improbable. He then
experimented on himself
(a healthy person) by taking doses of Cinchona bark and observing and
documenting the signs and symptoms it induced. The symptom picture induced was
a disease
state similar to that of malaria (de Schepper, 2001). He then went on to
experiment with other substances on healthy individuals, but this time reduced
the dose (Herscu, 2002). This led to the development of the first law of
homoeopathy, the Law of Similars (de Schepper, 2001).During the period of
1805-1839 (Dantas, 1996), Hahnemann investigated the effect of 101 remedies by
carefully conducting provings on himself and 64 volunteers (Louw, 2002). Most
of these remedies are still utilized in homoeopathic practice today (Taylor,
2004).
Modern Developments
Vithoulkas (1980) states that in order for homoeopathy to continue to
advance it is necessary to perform provings on new substances so as to further
expand the Materia Medica and that for these purposes it is necessary to have
clearly defined standards and methodologies in order to perform accurate and
thorough provings.It is considered
by many that Hahnemann’s method of proving is still the most reliable
(de Schepper, 2001; ICCH, 1999; Kreisberg, 2000; Sherr,1994), however, provings
have deteriorated
in quality over time (Riley, 1997; Sherr, 1994; Vithoulkas, 1980;
Walach, 1997).
Hering, Wells and other 19th century homoeopaths conducted
thorough provings, but provings of today lack the refinement of the earlier
provings. This results in the Materia Medica being made up of only a few
hundred comprehensive provings with the remaining being partial provings or
merely toxicological reports (Sherr, 1994).Sherr published The Dynamics and
Methodologies of Homoeopathic Provings, in 1994, in which he provides a basic
and practical
8framework for conducting comprehensive provings. This is the first book
devoted solely to provings and was pivotal in the resurgence of homoeopathic
provings throughout America and Europe(Herscu, 2002). In it he describes two
opposing extremes regarding the types of provings conducted.
1. A highly organized, accurate and thorough proving on a large group of
people. The purpose of which is to fully explore the remedy picture including
mental, emotional and physical signs and symptoms. These provings follow
Hahnemann’s original design as well as his protocol with regards to both
application and intention (Kreisberg, 2000).
2. The informal or partial proving, which gains a direct +/o. personal
experience of the remedy. These provings are conducted in small groups or on
oneself and are seldom suitable for publication (Sherr,1994). This proving
utilized the first method as described by Sherr.
2.1.4 Types of Provings
There are several forms of non-traditional contemporary provings. An
attempt wasmade to highlight a few of the more prevalent contemporary methods
as well as to show case the developments in modern provings.
92.1.4.1 DREAM PROVINGS
As the name suggests this method is focused on eliciting the unconscious
play of dreams. The concept is that the dream state is altered by the proving
and that it is a reflection of the mental and emotional state of the prover
(Herscu, 2002) as well as an access route to deeper aspects of the remedy
picture. Although the focus is on dreams other symptoms are not excluded
(Kreisberg, 2000).
[Hansjee]
2.1.4.1 Dream provings
The dream proving is defined as a systematic
procedure which entails getting in
touch with the
dynamic influence of
the remedy and
focussing on and
observing the remedy‟s influence on the vital force, in the form of
symptoms, with dreams being
the important focus
(Dam, 1998).
These provings
focus upon eliciting the
unconscious play of dreams.
The notion is
that the dream state
is altered by
the proving and
that it is
a reflection
of
the mental and emotional state of the prover (Herscu,
2002) as well as a means of access to deeper aspects of the remedy picture.
Although the focus is on dreams,
other symptoms
are not excluded
(Kreisberg, 2000). Brilliant
(1998:113) is of the view that
dreams are feelings
and to interpret
them can be
treacherous. There are limitations to dream provings related to whether
the dream is part of the picture or all of the picture of the substance that is
being experienced (Pillay, 2002).
2.1.4.2 MEDITATION PROVINGS
The concept here is to establish a meditation group that comes together
to meditate a few times before the proving. The idea is that the group comes
together as one consciousness. The meditative state is also said to put the
prover group more attuned to themselves and thus able to pick up slight
variances in the mental, emotional and physical states. The substance can
either be ingested or just be in close proximity after which the group
meditates on the substance (Herscu, 2002).
[Hansjee]
2.1.4.2 Meditation
provings
These provings establish a
meditation group that meet together to meditate a few times before a proving.
The idea is that the group meets together to form a single
consciousness. The
meditative state makes
the prover group
more attuned to their
individual selves and
thus able to
pick up variances
in the mental,
emotional and physical states. The
substance can be ingested or be in close proximity to the meditation group
(Herscu, 2002).
Scholten (2007)
was cautious in
using the data
gained from meditative provings unless
they were verified
in clinical cases.
The lack of
a scientific basis in
the
data was noted
as recordings are
provers imaginations and manifestations on their meditation and on
this basis he discarded them.
2.1.4.3 SEMINAR PROVINGS
The method is to administer a dose of the remedy to an entire group of
people a few days prior to or during a seminar that they are all to attend. The
effects of the dose are then discussed during the seminar. This process was
very productive in terms of symptomology especially on the mental and emotional
levels as well as dreams and uncovers the unconscious level of the remedy. The
effect of the dose seems to be more prominent when given to a group than to an
individual (Herscu, 2002).
[Hansjee]
2.1.4.3 Seminar
provings
In
this proving, the remedy is
administered to a group of people a few
days prior to or
during attendance at a seminar.
The effects of
the dose is
then
discussed during
the seminar. The
proving thus reveals
the unconscious level of the remedy
and its symptomatology on the
mental, emotional and dream
levels which are then discussed
(Herscu, 2002).
102.1.4.4 N=INFINITY PROVINGS
In this methodology, all symptoms that occur within the group as well as
in the outside world are taken into account. It doesn’t matter whether all or
only some of the provers take the remedy; the fact that the test is underway is
enough to include all symptoms. From the time the proving begins anything that
happens within the group or in the world fits within the remedy. The concept is
based on Carl Jung’s concept of collective unconsciousness and synchronicity
(Herscu, 2002).
Hahnemann (1755-1843) impressed the importance of using only material
doses in provings. He states that all substances can produce symptoms if taken
in large enough quantities. Only sensitive provers can produce a symptom
picture from high potencies and this is only if they take the remedy everyday
for several days (O’Reilly, 1996). Methods containing any less than a 30CH
potency will thus only react with very sensitive provers and the results will
be unreliable. This proving was conducted as a double blind placebo controlled
study in accordance with the proving methodology set out by Sherr
(1994).2.1.5Randomised Controlled Trials (RCT) and Provings
[Hansjee]
2.1.4.4 C4 trituration
provings
The C4 triturationprovings are
carried out in
groups during a
trituration process where the
trituration is carried
out by hand.
Provers grinding
the proving substance experience
the symptoms of
the remedy althoughthe identity
of the substance is kept hidden (Hogeland and Schriebman,
2008). A recent C4
trituration proving of the
Protea cynaroides by
Botha (2010) was conducted
at the Durban
University of Technology.
Botha (2010)
gathered clear and verified
data in this
trituration proving so as to evaluate the effectiveness of the
methodologies employed during the trituration.
This
proving was conducted
as a double
blind placebo
controlledtrial in accordance with the
proving methodology as set out by Sherr (1994).
2.1.5.1 CLINICAL DRUG TRIALS
It has been question whether a homoeopathic proving can be seen as a
clinical trial. The purpose of a homoeopathic drug proving is to obtain the
full and detailed symptom picture produced by the drug where as the purpose of
a clinical trial is to demonstrate or measure the safety and efficacy of a drug
on a specific disease while being
compared to the placebo for statistical significance (Wieland, 1997).
Homoeopathic drug provings are comparable to the first phase of a clinical drug
trial. In the first phase
of a clinical drug trial the new drugs are tested on healthy human
beings in order to elicit and study the pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and
tolerance, safety and efficacy. It is therefore possible to conduct
homoeopathic drug provings that conform to the biomedical model by
incorporating placebo control, double-blinding and
crossover (Sherr, 1994).
2.1.5.2 RANDOMISED CONTROLLED CLINICAL DRUG TRIALS
The principle components of randomized controlled clinical drug trial
(RCT) include the double blind or masking technique, the placebo control and
the crossover technique (Dantas,1996). Dantas (1996) suggests placebo control
to be the only way to accurately assess the effects of a test substance. He
recommends that the placebo control undergoes the exact same manufacturing
procedure only without adding the active ingredient. It is the only way that
the pathogenic effects of the substance can truly and reliably be associated
with its presence. Placebo control is achieved by administering a placebo dose
which is identical to the verum, in both a visual and gustatory sense,
to a percentage of the prover group so as to accurately ascertain which
symptoms are due to the verum and which are merely circumstantial. The
double-blind or masking technique is used to prevent the unconscious or
deliberate imbalance of attention given to the subject on verum or the
misinterpretation of subjective changes (Dantas, 1996). This is achieved by
ensuring the codes identifying the verum and placebo subjects remains hidden
from both the researcher and the provers (Vithoulkas, 1980).
[Hansjee]
2.1.5 Randomised
controlled trials (RCT) and provings
Wieland (1997)
asserts that Hahnemann‟s provings
have demonstrated reliable results
as tested by
the clinical
application of these remedies,
although his protocols
can be regarded
as unreliable according to the
modern standard measures
of clinical trials.
He argues further that
the purpose of RCT is to demonstrate the efficacy and safety of a drug
compared to placebo in terms of statistical significance. The key components of
a RCTis the double
blinding, placebo control
and crossover technique
(Dantas, 1996).
The homoeopathic proving of Yam ha-Melach 30CH was conducted as a double
blind placebo controlled study on a proving population of 20 healthy volunteers
who met
the inclusion criteria detailed in 3.5.2 of this chapter.
2.1.6 Proving Methodology
For a long time proving methods and techniques have remained poorly
developed (Walach, 1997). The International Council for Classical Homoeopathy
(ICCH) found a great difference in the standard and approach to homoeopathic
provings and stressed the need for remedies to be properly proven. In an effort
to encourage a process by which the highest standards of proving is adopted, the ICCH (1999) has
developed a set of guidelines for good proving methodology which states that
the ideal prover group size should comprise between 10 and 20 provers (ICCH,
1999).
2.1.6.1 Hahnemann in the Organon of Medical Art
Hahnemann described the basic guidelines for ascertaining the medical
actions of a substance.
These are detailed below
The medicinal substance should be pure
Provers should take no medicinal substances during the proving other
than the test substance
The prover’s diet must be simple, nutritious and non-stimulating
Provers must be reliable, conscientious and able to clearly and
accurately record their symptoms while being in a relatively good state of
health
The prover group must include both males and females
The proving substance should be in the 30th centesimal
potency
All symptoms need to be qualified in terms of the character, location
and modalities.
To acquire a full picture of the substance multiple provings should be
done on the substance including provers of both genders and various
constitutions
Moderate proving doses yield better results and are safer than large
doses
During the proving all ailments and alterations should be attributed to
the proving substance
Provers should keep detailed proving journalsProvers should be
interviewed daily by the supervising physician
2.1.6.2 Sherr in “The Dynamics and Methodologies of Homoeopathic
Provings”,
Sherr (1994) compiled a proving design of a very high standard, which
encompasses the basic design and methodology outlined by Hahnemann, is
considered by the ICCH
to be the most accurate and most widely used. Sherr (1994) stated that a
thorough proving can be achieved with 15-20 provers. He argues that any more
than that may lead
to an over proved remedy that will overcrowd the Materia Medica with
many common symptoms. He describes how he has used a wide range of potencies in
his many provings and concludes that his results were as varied using a single
potency as with multiple potencies and confirms this in his proving of
Hydrogenin which most mental and emotional symptoms were produced by
the30CHpotency (Sherr, 1994). From his experience and other literature he
concludes that there is no evidence to support the notion that high potencies
specifically affect the mind and emotions while lower potencies affect the
physical plane and that it is up to each proving committee to decide on the
potency they wish to explore (Sherr,1994).
2.1.6.3 Vithoulkas
Another proving design was established by Vithoulkas (1980). He outlines
a comprehensive list of inclusion and exclusion criteria with which to
establish a good prover from
a poor prover. This design includes the preparation provers need to
undergo before commencing the proving namely moving to a more natural
environment to optimize their health. He recommends that a number of potencies
be used namely 1X-12X, then repeated with 30CHand again with 10M-50M potencies
with long periods of time elapsing between potencies so that each stage is
fully exhausted and a full and comprehensive remedy picture can be obtained.
The proving would require a large number of people, approximately 50-100, and
would take two and a half years to complete (Vithoulkas, 1980). The subjects
involved would have to be exceptionally dedicated and prover compliance would
be difficult to monitor and ensure. It can be seen that although this
methodology would be highly comprehensive and meticulous, the practicality must
be questioned with regard to the number of people required, the time period as
well as the expense.
2.1.6.5 Deductions
There are arguments both for and against the usefulness of using placebo
in a homoeopathic proving. The ICCH highlights the importance of the placebo
group as a means to increase reliability of the proving (ICCH, 1999) and may
help to distinguish the effects of the remedy form those that are unrelated to
the remedy (Sherr, 1994).
Sherr (1994) suggests using a placebo group of 10-20%, the ICCH (1999)
suggests 10-30% while Vithoulkas uses a placebo percentage of 25% of the total
prover population.
Sherr’s methodologies are thorough and well researched as well as very
user friendly thus for the purpose of this study the methodologies suggested by
Sherr in his Dynamics and Methodology of Homoeopathic Provings will be used
(1994).
2.1.7 Publications
There have been a large number of new provings performed and studied
over the last decade, it has thus become necessary to publicize these provings
in detail in order to educate and update the public with the latest
developments in homoeopathy (Sherr, 2006). In his book The Dynamics and
Methodologies of Homoeopathic Provings (1994), Sherr includes a list of over
180 provings that had been conducted by various homoeopaths including Jürgen
Becker, David Riley, Tinus Smits and Rajan Sankaran as well as provings
performed by his own school such as Androctonos (scorpion), Chocolate, Hydrogen
and Neon, over the 15 years prior to publication (Sherr, 1994). He subsequently
developed an online catalogue listing over 1000 provings. The aim of this forum
is to make this information available to all homoeopaths. He invites anyone
that has conducted a proving to add to this catalogue. Sherr is not alone in
this endeavor. Lou Klein (2006) of the Luminous School of Homoeopathy in New
York encourages the proving of new
substances and the sharing of this information with the rest on the
homoeopathic world. Peter Frasier from the School of Homoeopathy in Devon,
England catalogues his provings online. The Journal Homoeopathic Links
regularly publishes articles sent in by homoeopaths all over the world
regarding provings.
[Jürgen Becker]
Homöopathische Heilmittelforschung ist ein weites Feld. Die Betonung liegt hier auf "homöopathische Forschung", also einer Forschung auf homöopathische Art.
Sie hat sich in den letzten 20 Jahren entwickelt. Grundlage dieser Forschung war und bleibt die homöopathische
am Gesunden. In der damals bestehenden klassische Homöopathie, wie ich sie von Köhler vermittelt bekam (Lehrbuch der Homöopathie Bd. 1), hieß es, hAMPen seien heutzutage wenig ergiebig. wohl wegen der vielen Verunreinigungen. Das war für mich der Anlaß, tiefer zu bohren. Es folgten Selbstversuche mit homöopathischen Mitteln, über viele Jahre eine Prüfgruppe in Freiburg und schließlich die Gruppen-Traum-AMPen bei den Kursen in Bad Soll mit 100 Teilnehmern und mehr.
Dabei erlebten wir immer mehr, wie tief die homöopathischen Mittel im Lebensgeschehen selbst ansetzen und wie weitreichend und vielfältig ihre Wirkungen waren.
Eine enorme Bereicherung war die besondere Beachtung der Träume in der AMP. Dadurch war eine enorme Fülle subtilen Materials gegeben, das es auszuwerten galt.
Das andere Element war der Gruppen-Ansatz. Mit Hilfe der Gruppe stellte sich wie von selbst heraus, was das Gemeinsame der vielen unterschiedlichen individuellen Reaktionen der Prüfer war. Somit konnte die Prüfung im feinstofflichen Bereich der Hochpotenzen bleiben (meistens Einzelgabe C 30) und brauchte keine heftigen körperlichen Störungen zu beinhalten. In dieser Entwicklungszeit verfeinerte sich einerseits die Wahrnehmungsfähigkeit der P ruf er immer mehr, andererseits das Eingehen
der Prüfungsleiter auf den gesamten Vorgang des Gruppengeschehens während der AMP. So hat sich im Laufe von ca. 15 Jahren das Instrument der von Hahnemann vorgegebenen hAMP (Schwergewicht der Symptome bei den Körperempfindungen) enorm verfeinert und vertieft zu der sog. einfachen Gruppen-Traum-AMP. die ziemlich direkt die Essenz eines AM-Bildes zu Tage fördert. Damit wurde es möglich, die Ähnlichkeit oder Homöopathizität zwischen dem Kranken und dem AMB seines Heilmittels gleich auf einer wesentlichen Ebene herzustellen oder finden zu können. In meiner Praxis hat sich diese Ebene der Wesensähnlichkeit als die therapeutisch wirksamste und auch für meine persönliche Arbeit befriedigendste erwiesen.
Neben der geeigneten homöopathischen Methodik für diese homöopathische Forschung ging es immer mehr darum, die Mittel zu prüfen, die sich später als für unsere Zeit und unser kollektives Kranksein als wesentliche Heilmittel erweisen würden. Auch für diese Suche haben wir neben einer guten Spürnase einige Kriterien gefunden, mit denen sie gefunden werden können. Im Prozeß dieses subtilen Suchens und Bemühens, die äußere Welt mit ihren sozialen Problemen und die innere Welt des menschlichen Krankseins mithomöopathischen Augen zu sehen, bin ich dann auf die Braunkohle gestoßen. Insgesamt ist mein Eindruck dabei, daß echte homöopathische Heilmittelforschung immer mehr ein vom Leben insgesamt und dem Wesen des Prüfmittels gestaltetes lebendiges Gesamtgeschehen wird. Der Einzelne, ob Prüfer, Prüfungsleiter oder Auswerter ist dabei aufgefordert, sich so weit es seine Möglichkeiten erlauben, sich auf diesen Prozeß einzulassen. Unser Motto dabei lautet: "Macht's weiter, aber macht's wahrhaftig weiter!"
[Brenton Ricardo Moonsamy]
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2.3.1
Dream provings focus on the remedy’s ability to actively influence our
subconscious mind in the form of symptoms, with dreams
being the important focus (Dam 1998). These provings focus upon
eliciting the unconscious play of dreams. The idea is that the dream state is
tainted by the proving, the dream state is now an indication of the
mental and emotional state of the prover (Herscu 2002).
Even though dreams are the main focus, other symptoms elicited are not
excluded (Kreisberg 2000). The drawback to dream provings
is deciding whether the dream is a minute part or fragment of the entire
picture of the substance that is being qualified (Pillay 2002).
2.3.2
Meditation provings: The correct procedure in is that a group of
individuals meet and meditate for a few minutes at a time. The group meditate
together to create a bond that unifies the group as of one mind.
The meditative state makes the prover group more sensitive to their
individual selves and thus able to pick up variances in the mental, emotional
and physical states. The substance can be ingested or be in close
proximity to the meditation group (Herscu 2002).
Scholten (2007) was cautious in using the data gained from meditative
provings unless they were verified in clinical cases. The lack of a scientific
basis in the data was noted as recordings are provers’ imaginations and
manifestations on their meditation and on this basis he discarded them.
2.3.3
Seminar provings
In this proving method, the remedy is administered to a group of people
a few days prior to or during attendance at a seminar. The effect of the dose
is then discussed during the seminar. The proving thus reveals the
unconscious level of the remedy and its symptomatology on the mental, emotional
and dream levels which are then discussed (Herscu 2002).
2.3.4
C4 Trituration provings
C4 provings are carried out in groups during a trituration process; the
trituration is carried out by hand. Provers grinding the proving substance
experience the symptoms of the remedy although the identity is kept
blinded (Hogeland and Schriebman, 2008).
A proving of Protea cynaroides by Botha (2010) was
conducted at the Durban University of Technology.
2.5.3
Comparative materia medica
Analyzing proving symptoms in a comparative study provides an
understanding of the remedy in its totality enabling an understanding of its
comparable and different characteristics in relation to other remedies
(Cahill 2008).
Candegabe (1997) states that in the scope of homoeopathic practice,
information on remedies comes from three different sources:
pure materia medica, clinical materia medica and the repertories. The
first source gives a detailed account of provings, but this source cannot be
relied
on alone as it lacks cohesion and synthesis. The second source is
clinical materia medica, which is the knowledge gained by a physician through
clinical
practice. The third source of knowledge comes from the repertories. This
is not a new concept to homoeopathy. In 1904 Kent described the relationship
of various remedies in terms of the symptomatology shared by said
remedies (Kent 2004). For example in describing the complete symptom picture of
Fluoricum acidum, he illustrates similarities and differences between,
Fluoricum acidum, Silica and Pulsatilla nigricans (Kent, 2004: 539).
He further compares aspects of Fluoricum acidum to Picricum acidum and
Cuttlefish (= Sepia) ink illustrating how these three remedies also have some
symptoms in common (Kent 2004: 540). In this way he better enables the
reader to understand the primary remedy under discussion and differentiate it
from other remedies. This is only one example of many that may be found
in his Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (Kent 2004).
Thomson (2004: 114) conducted a proving of Bitis gabonica gabonica and
in his study recommended that comparative studies of a remedy with
those remedies which bear a close resemblance to it should be undertaken
to give the homoeopathic practitioner the best possible idea as to what
differentiates each substance in the healing context and as to where the
remedy sits in the homoeopathic armamentarium (Thomson 2004: 114).
Repertory:
MIND: ALERT
ALONE; being – desires to be alone
ANXIETY (from anticipation/beside oneself from anxiety/causeless/from
excitement/with hurry)
AVERSION – to all persons
CHEERFUL morning; on waking
COMPANY - aversion to
CONCENTRATION – active/difficult (cannot fix attention
CONFIDENCE – want of self confidence
DESPAIR
DETACHED – sensation of being
DISCONTENTED
DOUBTFUL of himself
DULLNESS (“As if intoxicated”)
DYSLEXIA
FORSAKEN – “Wie isoliert”
IRRITABILITY (morning/easily/from trifles)
MISTAKES in writing
MOOD - alternating/changeable
PROSTRATION of mind
RESTLESSNESS (in bed)
SADNESS (extreme/gloomy)
SPACED OUT feeling
SPEECH – low, soft voice
STUPEFACTION
THOUGHTS - rush, flow of – from sleeplessness
WEEPING from despair
VERTIGO: [+ pain in head/+ blurred vision
CLOSING eyes >
INTOXICATED, as if
CLOSING eyes >
INTOXICATED, as if
SITTING >
TURNING; “As if head is turning round”
WALKING
Head: EMPTY, hollow sensation
HEAVINESS (bending forward/in forehead/in temples)
PAIN <(<(<( viele
)>)>)>
PULSATING
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EYE: Desire to CLOSE the eyes
CLOSING the eyes involuntary
DISCOLORATION – red
FULLNESS, sensation of
HEAVINESS
OPENING the eyelids difficult – hard to keep
PAIN – r. eye/”As from sand” (r.) in morning/sore in morning on waking
EYE: PAIN [sore (r.)/pulsating]
Sensation of WARMTH
VISION: BLURRED + vertigo
Provings Conducted at the Durban University of Technology Remedy Name
Common Name Year
Bitis arietans arietans = African Puff Adder 1999
Sceletium tortuosum = Kougoed 1999
Pycnoporous sanguineus = Tropical Cinnabar Bracket 2002
Bitis gabonica gabonica = Gaboon Viper 2004
Naja mossambica = Mozambique Spitting Cobra 2004
Harpagophytum procumbens = Devil’s Claw 2004
Sutherlandia frutescens = Cancer bush 2004
Chamaeleo dilepis dilepis = Flap-necked Chameleon
2006
Erythrina lysistemon = African Coral Tree 2007
Pseucedanum galbanum = Blister Bush 2007
Gymnur a natalensis = Bacjwater butterfly ray 2008
Haemochatus haemochatus = Rinkhals 2008
Loxodonta Africana = African Elephant –Ivory 2008
Acridotheres tristis = Indian Mynah 2010
Protea cynaroides = King Protea 2010
Dendroaspis angusticeps = Green Mamba 2010
Strychnos henningsii = Red Bitter Berry 2011
Bitis atropos = Berg Adder 2011
Malus domestica = Apple 2015 [Brenton Ricardo Moonsamy]
Withania somnifera = Ashwangandha 2015
Acacia xanthophloea = Fever tree 2016
Hoodi gordonii = Hoodia 2016
Cardiathinus leucas = Zambezi Shark 2017
Adapted from Laidlaw (2016)
Vorwort/Suchen Zeichen/Abkürzungen Impressum