Organon §148
Natural diseases are dynamically engendered by potences that mistune the life force. Medicines cure by dynamically over-tuning the life force with a similar but stronger…
Natural diseases are dynamically engendered by potences that mistune the life force. Medicines cure by dynamically over-tuning the life force with a similar but stronger…
Among those medicines whose human condition-altering power has been investigated, the medicine whose observed symptoms are most similar to the totality of symptoms of a…
The third item of business for the genuine medical-art practitioner concerns the most expedient employment of the artificial disease potences (medicines) which have been proven…
Only a very considerable supply of known medicines will enable us to find the most fitting remedy for each case of disease. So far, a…
Let all that is supposition, merely asserted or even fabricated, be entirely excluded from such a materia medica. Let everything be the pure language of…
A true materia medica is a collection of the genuine, pure, unmistakable modes of action of simple medicinal substances.
Clinical data: The investigation of medicines by studying their actions in sick people should be left to masters of observation.
The best provings are those that the physician employs upon himself.
If the prover cannot write, the physician should interview him daily as to what may have happened to him and how.
Provers should keep detailed proving journals.
During a proving, all ailments, befallments and alterations in the prover’s condition should be attributed to the medicine.
Moderate proving doses yield better information, and are safer, than large doses.
Even those symptoms that are only rarely brought forth in the proving of a medicine can be cured by that medicine when the symptoms appear…
To fully prove a substance multiple tests, with provers of both genders and various constitutions, are needed.
Different symptoms of a medicine appear in different provers and in different tests with the same prover.
Determine the exact character of each symptom and its modalities.
However, when one wants to investigate only the symptoms themselves (especially of a weak-powered medicinal substance) without regard for the sequentiality of the befallments or…
The action of a medicine is less clear when a prover must take increasing doses on successive days.
Provings made with only one dose provide information about the order in which symptoms appear. The duration of a medicine’s action can only be ascertained…
Provers should start with a small dose and then increase it if necessary.