Doctrine of Drug Proving

Habnemann in his early days of practice wrote to his friend "I have been
putting drugs of which I know little into the bodies of which Iknow less:
so l can but renounce the practice of medicine that l may no longer incur
the risk of doing injury. Such was the state of materia medica in 18th
century. The medicines were administered carelessly. To avoid this
careless prescriptions Hahnemann insisted "only those medicines whose
curative effects are known, must be administered to the patient". So in
homeopathy only the well proven medicines have to be administered to
the patients. Moreover the medicines have to be proved on both healthy
males and females of different age groups, various constitutions.
Hahnemann was the first person to practically prove the medicines on
healthy humans.
Homeopathic drug proving can be defined as "the process of
administering the drugs to the healthy human beings of different ages,
different constitutions and both the sexes with the sole purpose of
observing. compiling and recording their sick making- oF-sick curing
properties"y
The advantages of human drug proving over animal drug
proving:
1. Man is intellectually superior to other animals on this planet. Hence,
the effect of the drug on his mind and the intellect can only be studied
by human drug proving.
2. Animals may not explain subjective and mental symptoms accurately.
Ex: fear, anxiety, desires, aversions and sensations etc.
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