AUSTRIANPROVERSAUSTRIANPROVERS 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 ( )

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, 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, 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 Wachtel Wurmb Arneth Gerstel von Zlatarovich Had 8 members each was entrusted with proving of provers.

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 tincture- proving 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.