What are homeopathic remedies, and how are they made?
Homeopathic remedies are highly dilute and yet very powerful medicines made from natural substances found in the animal, mineral and vegetable kingdoms. They are administered by homeopathic practitioners in accordance with the principles of homeopathy that is, laws of Nature. Each remedy has its own unique symptom image, which is discovered through drug trials called provings. In a proving, healthy people take a single remedy frequently until they start to come down with symptoms just as Hahnemann did when he experimented with Peruvian bark. During a proving, a single remedy causes mental, emotional and physical symptoms to appear in the prover, revealing how that remedy effects the overall state of health of people. This overall effect the remedy has on the provers shows us the unique symptom image of that remedy. The symptoms the provers come down with are documented, and this documentation builds the homeopathic Materia Medica: the catalog of remedies used by homeopathic practitione
