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1 Contemporary Proving Method Alastair Gray Endeavour College of Natural Health

2 Introduction and Aims o Ethics, Conducting o Collating, Extracting o Publication o What Hahnemann did o How it evolved The worst practices o Contemporary proving method o A new model

3 Roots: The Origins of the Tradition o What's Homeopathy? Application of the law of similars Another way to create change Provings

4 Roots: Homeopathy and the Age of Enlightenment

5 Roots: Method o At the beginning o Blinding o Timeline o We don t know

6 Roots: Experiment o Why did he start doing provings? o Because he was utterly dissatisfied by the doctrine of signatures DlDOrYjeiYjdjaE5bfX*4lwg4Mq0O7r9yvxmCC/DSC00698.JPG?width=579

7 Roots: Induction o What is it? o Experience o Pattern o Matching o The Empirical Tradition

8 Roots o Science o Positivism o Verificationism o Method o RCT

9 What Does it Mean? If our school ever gives up the strict inductive method of Hahnemann, we are lost, and deserve to be mentioned only as a caricature in the history of medicine. - Constantine Hering

10 Provings: Done one? o Gray (2004) Proving Method Homeopathy Today o Analogy o Chocolate o Curry o Wine

11 Proving Method

12 The Feasts in the High Church o Hering

13 Why Participate? o Improvement of the profession o Contribute o Learn o Better Homeopaths o Understand reactions o Understand the development of our crucial text books

14 Improve what we have o New Medicines o White Tailed Spider o Box Jellyfish o Diamond o Tea tree o Re-prove Old Medicines o Cactus o Bufo o Tuberculinim o Bacilinum

diseases) which lies hidden in the inner nature of medicines can in itself never be discovered by

15 Where do we go to in the literature? o 20 Sixth edition o This spirit-like power to alter man s state of health (and hence to cure diseases) which lies hidden in the inner nature of medicines can in itself never be discovered by us by a mere effort of reason; it is only by experience of the phenomena it displays when acting on the state of health of man that we can become clearly cognizant of it.

16 21 o Now, as it is undeniable that the curative principle in medicines is not in itself perceptible, and as in pure experiments with medicines conducted by the most accurate observers, nothing can be observed that can constitute them medicines or remedies except that power of causing distinct alterations in the state of health of the human body, and particularly in that of the healthy individual, and of exciting in him various definite morbid symptoms; so it follows that when medicines act as remedies, they can only bring their curative property into play by means of this their power of altering man s state of health by the production of peculiar symptoms; and that, therefore, we have only to rely on the morbid phenomena which the medicines produce in the healthy body as the sole possible revelation of their in-dwelling curative power, in order to learn what disease-producing power, and at the same time what disease-curing power, each individual medicine possesses.

17 o Hahnemann s provings Critical Thinking

18 Winston and Vermeulen o The Issues from within Homeopathy o Nenning o Langhammer o Women o Mistranslation

19 Saying One Thing Doing Another

20 Projecting the Present on to the Past

21 Less than 5 Provers o Ant Tart o Bismuth o Carbo veg o Hepar sulph o Nitric Acid o Chamomilla o Palladium o Platina

22 Post Hahnemann Nonsense o Mure o Houart o Bufo o Origano o etc

23 Pharmacognacy o Dimitriadis

24 Relying on our Sources o MMP o CD o Allen

25 How to find Hahnemann s Provings o Where?

26 Modern Provings

27 1999 Vithoulkas o Conflict about best practice

28 His Problem? o Chocolate o Bird blood o Bird feather o Dream o Meditation

29 2003 Winston o A proving is not about having a nice time over a weekend together. o It involves a poison

30 Proving Methodology o Different methods o Hahnemannian o Randomly controlled double blind o Dream o Meditation o Who is right?

31 Proving Method o Left wing o Dream o Hold o Triturate o Meditate

32 Proving Methodology o Nice experience o But problems o Group Dynamic o Coordinators charisma o Ethical

Where to Find Contemporary Provings o www.provings.

33 Where to Find Contemporary Provings o o o Individual publications

34 Other and Contemporary Literature o Jeremy Sherr, The Dynamics and Methodology of Homeopathic Provings. o JT Kent's Homeopathic Philosophy o George Vithoulkas The Science of Homeopathy o Paul Herscu Provings I and II o Alastair Gray I, II, III, IV o Richard Pitt The Californian Homeopath o Wallach

35 ECHR / ECCH o Pitt o Gray o Sherr o Herscu o Wallach

36 Timeline o Very Specific o Run in o Inclusions criteria o Case taking

37 Proving Method o Lifestyle issues during provings

38 Sampling and Population o Age

39 Proving Method o Baseline of Health

40 Stages of a Proving o Preparation o Ethics consent o Entry o Proving o Exit o Extraction o Collation o Repertorisation o Publication

41 Proving Methodology Method for choosing a remedy

42 Proving Methodology o Provers role

43 Supervisors Role o Observe o Extract

44 COORDINATOR SUPERVISOR SUPERVISOR PROVER PROVER PROVER PROVER PROVER

45 Endeavour College and Ethics o HREC

46 Proving Methodology o Blinding o Placebo o Dose o Potency o Sensitivity o Consent

47 Proving Methodology o Necessary numbers involved

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48 Proving Collation / Editing o Creating Materia Medica and Repertory o Issues of inclusion of what o What is the criteria for inclusion

49 Extraction / Publication o Must be published o Where

50 Critical Evaluation of Method o Tuminello: o Gray: o Sherr: o Klein; o Twohig: o Pitt: o Sankaran: o Nancy Herrick : o Schuster: o Norland: Diamond, Black Opal Morton Bay Fig, Bufo, Agathis australis Plutonium nitricum, Chocolate, Scorpion Brown Racleuse Spider Red Back Spider Tobacco Lac Leoninum Dinosaur Bamboo AIDS o Hahnemann: Ledum, Circuta, Cyclamen, Platina, Hepar Sulph, o Allen s Encyclopedia : Camphor, Origanum

51 Contemporary Debates o To Essence or Not o The Attitude of the Repertory Makers o An imperfect science

52 The Dilemma o Evidence based Homeopathy o Research o Method o Precision o Induction o Empiricism o Experimentation

53 The best thing to participate in

54 References o Hoffmann et all (2010) Evidence Based Medicine Across the Health Professions Churchill Livingstone o Deans, M.E. (2004) The Trials of Homeopathy. KVC Publishing, Essen, Germany o American Med Association 2001, Evidence-Based Medicine: A New Approach to Teaching the Practice of Medicine, Centre for Health Evidence, viewed 20th June 2009, o Ernst, E, Pittler, MH, Stevinson, C & White, A (eds.) 2006, The Desktop Guide to Complementary and Alternative Medicine: An evidence-based approach, Mosby o Ernst, E & Hahn, EG 1998, Homeopathy: A critical appraisal, Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford. o Polgar, S & Thomas, S 2008, Introduction to Research in the Health Sciences, 5th edn, Churchill Livingstone, Sydney o Lewith, G, Jones, WB & Walach, H (eds.) 2002, Clinical Research in Complementary Therapies: Principles, problems and solutions, Churchill Livingston, Sydney o Carlston, M. 2003, Classical Homeopathy, Churchill Livingston, New York

55 PROVINGS o American Medical College of Homeopathy o Limited number of provings, some with info o Homeopathy Home o Mostly not available or available through other websites o Provings.com o App provings, some with info, others with contact o Provings.info Developed by Jörg Wichman. o Alphabetical overview of provings. Some proving info free. o Advanced search options and more info accessible by subscription 25 Euro / annum. o The Provings of New Homœopathic Remedies o 23 remedies, detailed information o The Dynamis School for Advanced Homœopathic Studies o Adding new provings. Cooperate with Provings.com o Whole Health Now o Proving literature

56 Arthur Schopenhauer ( ) o All truth passes through 3 stages. o First, it is ridiculed. o Second, it is violently opposed. o Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Suck it and See Alastair C Gray

Suck it and See Alastair C Gray Everyone has conducted a proving at some point in their lives. Every time you have a symptom and you attempt in some way to cure that symptom but get the dose of the medicine