Transcript File - Dynamic Health

AUSTRIAN
PROVERS
Presented By,
Dr.Shenu P.Kareem
Dr.Sreelakshmi V.
INTRODUCTION
• Hahnemann started a new line of materia
medica by testing the drugs on himself, his
friends and family members.
• He called this process by the name of Drug
proving which literally means proving the
(curative) properties lying in drugs.
HAHNEMANNIAN SYMPTOM
ARRANGEMENT
• Anatomical schema
• Detached symptoms
• The underlying unity of symptoms and
the evolutionary order in which
symptoms occur in a prover in
connection with a particular drug are
missed
NEED FOR REPROVING ??????
• Most serious obstacle to the practice
and advance of the homoeopathic
method- HAHNEMANNIAN SYMPTOM
ARRANGEMENT.
• To compete against the allopathic
opponents.
FOR UNDERTAKING THIS
RESPONSIBILITY A GROUP OF
PHYSICIANS FROM AUSTRIA WITH
THEIR UNTIRING AND HEROIC
DEVOTION FORMED AUSTRIAN
HOMOEOPATHIC SOCIETY (1842-1848)
HOMOEOPATHY IN
AUSTRIA
• The homeopathic mode of treatment of
Samuel Hahnemann was prohibited in Austria
by a decree of the Chancellor’s Court of the
2nd of October, 1819.
• Notwithstanding this, the cholera was
successfully treated in 1831 by Austrian
Homeopathists in Galicia, Moravia, Austria,
Bohemia and Hungary.
• The immediate result obtained was the
removal of the prohibition to practice
Homeopathy in Austria in February, 1837.
•
The liberty to dispense the dilutions and
triturations was subsequently accorded.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
• The re-proving of medicines
• Without excluding occasional
original experiments.
• To study the full physiological
action of drugs from repeated
and increasing doses of the
mother-tincture.
MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY
• Watzke
• Huber
• Mayerhofer
Had 8 members each
was entrusted with
proving of 20-30
provers.
• Wachtel
• Wurmb
• Arneth
• Gerstel
• von Zlatarovich
Franz Wurmb
• 1805 – 1864
• An Austrian orthodox physician who converted to
Homeopathy
• Become the founder and six times the president of
the Austrian Homeopathic Society
• The founder of the Vienna Provers Union
• And an Editor of The Oestrerreiche Zeitschrift
Für Homëopathie
• An honorary member of the German Homeopathic
Physicians
• Wurmb published his essay on proving of
Sulphur, a proving of Nat mur
• In 1852, he published the Homeopathic Clinical
Studies with Caspar, detailing their results
from the clinical trials into homeopathy at the
Leopoldstadt Homeopathic Hospital, including
some his most important lectures, illustrating
his astonishing knowledge of homeopathic
remedies, techniques and philosophy.
Philipp Anton Watzke
• 1803 – 1867
• Austrian orthodox physician who converted to
homeopathy
• Editor of the edited the Oestrerreiche Zeitschrift für
Homëopathie
• Member of the Austrian Homeopathic Society
• President of The Vienna Provers Union
• In 1843 began a proving of salt (Nat mur), and he also
conducted a proving of Colocynth
Adolph Heinrich
Gerstel
• 1805 – 1890
• A Czech orthodox physician who converted to
Homeopathy
• Member of the Vienna Society of Homeopathic
Physicians
• Was elected an Honorary Member of the Institute at
Philadelphia in 1876
• Gerstel was a student of Samuel
Hahnemann, and one of his provers
• Elected an Honorary Member of the
Institute at Philadelphia in 1876
Josef von Zlatarovich
• 1807 – 1874
• Held the chair of Homeopathy In Vienna,
• Professor Of Pathology and Professor Of
Materia Medica in the Joseph’s Academy Of
Vienna.
• Zlatarovich arranged provings of Aconite,
and Bryonia, and, Kali bichromium, and Nat
mur, and Sulphur, and Thuja.
MEDICINES REPROVED
•
Aconite
•
Bryonia
•
Colocynth
•
Natrum muriaticum
•
Sulphur
•
Thuja
•
Glonoine.
PRIMARY PROVINGS
• Argentum nitricum
• Silver
• Kali-bi
• Cochineal
• Coccus cacti
DOSE AND POTENCY
• Proving were instituted with massive
doses
• The middle and higher potencies
were invariably tried after the
former.
• Used upto 1000 drops of mother
tincture at a time.
PUBLICATIONS
• The monographs containing
these most valuable provings
were chiefly published in the
Oesterreichische Zeitschrift
fur Homoopathie, a journal
conducted by the Austrian
Society, which runs through
four years.
CONCLUSIONS
• Confirmation of Hahnemann’s discoveries.
• Powerful arguments against allopathic
opponents
• Got massive physiological reaction of drugs
in orgnism
• Delicate reaction of drugs
lost(attenuations)
• Less important in practical use.
•
The lower preparations did not
influence the susceptibility of the
system in comparison to the higher
potencies.
RECORDS OF
AUSTRIAN PROVERS
SOCIETY
PROVING OF ACONITE
• Sixteen provers
• Conducted thirty-seven experiments.
•
Six of these were made with dilutions
from the first to the twelfth centesimal
• In five of these cases, large doses of the
tincture had been taken before the
dilution.
• In one case the prover began with the
first centesimal dilution and got symptoms
PROVING OF BRYONIA
• Fourteen provers
• Made twenty-nine experiments, of which
• Ten were with dilutions from the first
decimal to the 203rd.
• In two of these, the provers began with
the dilutions, viz.: With the tenth and the
thirtieth, and got in one case very
graphic symptoms.
 In the other, symptoms unequivocal
though less numerous.
 In the cases in which dilutions were
used after massive doses of the
tincture had been taken, considerable
intervals were allowed to elapse after
the last symptoms from the tinctureproving disappeared before the
dilutions were taken.
PROVING OF SILVER
• The drug was taken by one
prover each in the first, second,
and third triturations, and in
the fourth, fifth, and sixth
dilutions, and valuable symptoms
were obtained by each.
PROVING OF ARG.NIT
• The proving was begun with the first decimal
trituration, and subsequently in succession the
second, sixth, and thirtieth dilutions were used.
•
The effect of each dose was allowed to expend
itself before a new experiment was instituted.
• Symptoms clear and characteristic covering a period
of six to nine days, were obtained from a single dose
of the thirtieth dilution
PROVING OF KALI.BI
•
In only two cases was a dilution higher than the
third employed.
•
In both of these the twelfth was used and
symptoms were obtained.
•
In one, that of Dr.Wachtl, the symptoms from a
single dose give a complete picture of the subjective
and objective effects of this drug in the pharynx
and neighbouring organs.
•
In neither of these cases had the drug been
previously taken in massive doses.
PROVING OF COLOCYNTH
• Fifteen provers
• Made twenty-five experiments.
• Ten were made with dilutions, and in nine,
symptoms were obtained.
• In three of these, the third dilution was
used
•
No other preparation of colocynth had
previously been taken
THUJA
• Twenty-three provers
•
Made fifty-nine experiments.
• Seventeen were made with dilutions, and, in thirteen,
unequivocal symptoms followed.
• Nine began their provings with dilutions and got
symptoms.
•
Four began their provings with dilutions and got no
symptoms
• seven conducted their provings with massive doses of
the tincture without obtaining any unequivocal
symptoms.
PROVING OF COCHINEAL
• Four provers began their experiments
with the hundredth dilution
• One with the sixtieth
• One with the thirtieth dilution
• Everybody got all valuable symptoms.
•
One prover, on the other hand, began
with the 200th dilution and gradually
descended, getting no symptoms until
he took massive doses.
PROvING OF NAT.MUR
• Thirty-nine provers took part.
•
Fourteen began with dilutions varying
from the sixth to thirtieth.
• The majority beginning with the thirtieth.
• Twelve obtained symptoms of which some
are of great value, lasting and recurring
for many days after the last dose.