How are the remedies discovered in the first place?
The clinical indications of Homeopathic remedies are discovered in three ways:Firstly, the toxicity symptoms (or poisoning picture, eg. vomiting and diarrhoea caused by arsenic). Secondly, the signature of the medicine, an ancient medical idea based on the affinities of certain substances (eg. Deadly Nightshade, Atropa belladonna has large shiny black berries that resemble the dilated pupils of the eyes in high fever). Thirdly, the proving, in which the highly diluted substances are tested blind on a group of healthy volunteers who then record the symptoms they experience. Where there is agreement amongst these volunteers, the symptoms are documented in a book and this information goes on to provide a picture of this particular remedy and its potential healing qualities.
