Provers should start with a small dose and then increase it if necessary.

Medicinal substances should be proven in potentized form in order to reveal their full hidden powers.

Provers must be both male and female. 

Requirements of a prover

A prover’s diet during the proving must be simple, nutritious, non-stimulating and non-medicinal. 

Provers should take nothing medicinal during a proving except the substance being tested.

How to prepare unpotentized medicines for provings.

Medicinal substances used in provings should be perfectly well-known.

In provings with unpotentized medicines, substances of different strengths should be proven in different quantities.*

Medicines must be thoroughly tested on the healthy to ascertain each medicine’s powers and true actions and to differentiate the medicines from one another. 

As certainly as each kind of plant is different in its outer form, in its own way of life and growth, in its taste and…

Each medicine acts in a unique way. 

Belonging to this latter category are the so-called idiosyncracies.

Idiosyncratic provers reveal a medicine’s power to cure all sick people with similar symptoms.

Some medicines have an initial action with  reciprocal states.

With the exception of these narcotic substances, in provings with moderate doses of medicine in healthy bodies, one only perceives the initial action of the…

Narcotics may have a perceptible counter-action even in moderate doses.

While the counter-action of the life principle is perceptible in poisonings, it is rarely perceptible in provings or in the treatment of diseases. 

Each medicinal substance engenders a certain, unique set of symptoms.

Symptoms from poisonings agree with those from provings.