Moving Away From Material Doses : Homeopathic Provings healing through the ages

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Let me also add, that it was soon realized that material doses were

just too harmful and that itself gave birth to the idea of

potentization of the dose- the successions of dilutions.

 

The article below has a nice explanation.

Misty

http://health.

 

 

HISTORY OF HOMEOPATHY

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Samuel Hahnemann founded homeopathy about 200 years ago. He was a

Doctor, chemist and translator. He was so disillusioned with

medicine after the death of his son that he stopped medical practice

and earned his living translating books.

 

While translating a medical book he noticed that the action of

quinine was such that it could cause symptoms similar to malaria,

yet he also knew it was used to treat malaria. This intrigued him

and led to him formulating the idea of curing with 'similars'

 

He looked for other examples of substances that could cause symptoms

similar to diseases, started experiments and soon discovered that

the principle worked; however there were side effects when using

crude substances, so he tried diluting them. He discovered much to

his amazement that not only did this remove the unwanted side

effects but the remedies also continued to work no matter how much

he diluted them. He wasn't just diluting though, he also repeatedly

banged the remedy hard on a firm surface at each stage of dilution,

it was this that made the difference, and which he

called 'dynamisation'; now called 'potentising'

 

He started taking patients again, using only homeopathy, and soon

had other Doctors, sceptical at first, become his students and

staunchest supporters.

 

He wondered what would happen if he potentised substances not

normally known to have much effect on people, or substances too

dangerous to try in their crude form, and gave the 'potentised'

version to healthy people. He tried this on himself and his heroic

student volunteers and found that symptoms were indeed produced.

These were meticulously recorded and added to the Materia Medica

thus expanding the therapeutic range of homeopathic remedies and

this then became his practice for discovering new remedies which he

called the 'proving' of remedies.

 

Samuel Hahnemann went on to develop his new system of medicine,

expounded in his book called the 'Organon of Medicine': essential

reading for any serious student of homeopathy. In it he wrote 'There

could not be any true, best way of curing dynamic (i.e. all non

surgical) diseases other than pure homeopathy, just as one could not

possibly draw more than one straight line between two given points.'

 

 

 

, " Misty L. Trepke "

<mistytrepke wrote:

>

> Dear Betsy,

>

> Actually, there is a specific reason why a person would in a very

> narrow case take something to make them sick in the name of

healing.

> That is called proving a homeopathic remedy. In this case you

would

> give a material dose of a substance until it makes a person ill

and

> then record what those symtpoms of illness are. If you take

arsenic

> it might result in stomach upset, waking around 1:00 in the