Master wanted to differentiate his MMP from old materia medicas... So he named *Materia medica PURA*
That's what he wants to convey here...
*Although there is great resemblance and botanical relationships visible (what family /classes it belongs to) between homeopathic remedies*....
*But see only what each individial drug produce in healthy human beings..,*
Though nuxvomica and Ignatia having botanical relationship, there is a great *difference in their therapeutic employment*... Etc...
Master Hahnemann in MMP volume 1
So, there is...
*No need to check what family or kingdoms* our patients belongs to...
Instead
*We must check individual remedies therapeutic employment (disease producing/curing ability)*
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A total revolution was brought about in all these aspects when Samuel HAHNEMANN (1755-1843) published in 1796 in the ‘Journal der practischen Heilkunde’ of HUFELAND (1762-1836), his “Essay on a New Principle for ascertaining the Curative Powers of Drugs, with a few glances at those hitherto employed.”
Until this time Medicine was merely empirical and was based on:
(i) Chemical experiments
(ii) Animal experiments
(iii) Assumptions on the basis of the shape, smell, taste etc. of the drugs.
(iv) their Botanical relationships.
HAHNEMANN points out that all these are uncertain and of insufficient result and will not tell us with certainty the medicine’s nature. What can then be done? “Nothing remains for us but to experiment on human body”. But “what kind of experiment? accidental or methodical?” (HAHNEMANN)
For this purpose, two ways are open:
(i) Application of the drug on sick person.
(ii) Proving of medicines on the healthy
The First is the Uncertain Way:
This method will give only an approximate, uncertain information. “When I talk of the methodical discovery of the medicinal powers still required by us, I do not refer to those empirical trials usually made in hospitals, where in a difficult, often not accurately noted case, in which those already known do no good, recourse is had to some new drug, hitherto untried altogether, or untried in this particular affection, which drug is fixed upon either from caprice and obscure notion for which the experimenter can give no plausible reason either to himself or to others. Such empirical chance trials are, to call them by the mildest application, but foolish risks, if not something worse.” (HAHNEMANN)4
The Second is the Methodical, Certain Way:
(ii) Through Proving of medicines on the Healthy.
Regarding methodical investigation HAHNEMANN thought, as he inquired whether it was not possible to find “any method, any easy, sure, trustworthy method, wherein they may see diseases in their proper point of views and whereby they may interrogate medicines as to their special uses, as to what are really, surely and positively serviceable for?” HAHNEMANN
And so: ‘Proving’ of the Medicine as the fundamental experiment: ‘Drug Proving’ is a word peculiar to Homœopathy. The purpose of this experiment - Proving - is to ascertain the symptoms which a particular substance is capabale of producing in a healthy person. This information is a ‘sure’, ‘certain’ one and there is no arbitrariness or speculation. It is therefore sure, certain to cure a disease with similar symptoms. There is certainty.
Although there were eminent persons before HAHNEMANN, like Anton VON STOERCK (1731 - 1803) and Albrescht VON HALLER (1708 - 1777) who have done experiments on humans to ascertain the medicinal qualities of the drugs so tested, it was only HAHNEMANN who linked directly the medicine’s power to arouse symptoms in a healthy person with the symptoms presented by a sick person - symptoms felt by patient him/her-self and the symptoms observed by others, observation of the physician’s - the totality of these alone and not so called disease names - for purposes of prescription of a sure and certain curative remedy. “.....it rebounds to my honor that I am the only one in recent times who has subjected it to a serious honest investigation and has communicated to the world the results of his convictions in writings published some with, some without my name” (HAHNEMANN). Medicinal Proving is therefore fundamental to Homœopathy.
Until this time Medicine was merely empirical and was based on:
(i) Chemical experiments
(ii) Animal experiments
(iii) Assumptions on the basis of the shape, smell, taste etc. of the drugs.
(iv) their Botanical relationships.
HAHNEMANN points out that all these are uncertain and of insufficient result and will not tell us with certainty the medicine’s nature. What can then be done? “Nothing remains for us but to experiment on human body”. But “what kind of experiment? accidental or methodical?” (HAHNEMANN)
For this purpose, two ways are open:
(i) Application of the drug on sick person.
(ii) Proving of medicines on the healthy
The First is the Uncertain Way:
This method will give only an approximate, uncertain information. “When I talk of the methodical discovery of the medicinal powers still required by us, I do not refer to those empirical trials usually made in hospitals, where in a difficult, often not accurately noted case, in which those already known do no good, recourse is had to some new drug, hitherto untried altogether, or untried in this particular affection, which drug is fixed upon either from caprice and obscure notion for which the experimenter can give no plausible reason either to himself or to others. Such empirical chance trials are, to call them by the mildest application, but foolish risks, if not something worse.” (HAHNEMANN)4
The Second is the Methodical, Certain Way:
(ii) Through Proving of medicines on the Healthy.
Regarding methodical investigation HAHNEMANN thought, as he inquired whether it was not possible to find “any method, any easy, sure, trustworthy method, wherein they may see diseases in their proper point of views and whereby they may interrogate medicines as to their special uses, as to what are really, surely and positively serviceable for?” HAHNEMANN
And so: ‘Proving’ of the Medicine as the fundamental experiment: ‘Drug Proving’ is a word peculiar to Homœopathy. The purpose of this experiment - Proving - is to ascertain the symptoms which a particular substance is capabale of producing in a healthy person. This information is a ‘sure’, ‘certain’ one and there is no arbitrariness or speculation. It is therefore sure, certain to cure a disease with similar symptoms. There is certainty.
Although there were eminent persons before HAHNEMANN, like Anton VON STOERCK (1731 - 1803) and Albrescht VON HALLER (1708 - 1777) who have done experiments on humans to ascertain the medicinal qualities of the drugs so tested, it was only HAHNEMANN who linked directly the medicine’s power to arouse symptoms in a healthy person with the symptoms presented by a sick person - symptoms felt by patient him/her-self and the symptoms observed by others, observation of the physician’s - the totality of these alone and not so called disease names - for purposes of prescription of a sure and certain curative remedy. “.....it rebounds to my honor that I am the only one in recent times who has subjected it to a serious honest investigation and has communicated to the world the results of his convictions in writings published some with, some without my name” (HAHNEMANN). Medicinal Proving is therefore fundamental to Homœopathy.
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