Symptom study
The best way to study the materia medica is to take a drug or remedy yourself and carefully note in writing all the symptoms it will produce on or remove from you….
This booklet is a collection of articles about how the symptoms of a patient should be studied and how drug provings should be studied. Originally published in 1930. A good way study a symptom or a drug is to read, study, think; study, read; over the records of provers as found in the Encyclopaedia of Drug Pathogenesy, T.F. Allen’s Encyclopaedia of Materia Medica, J.H. Clarke’s Dictionary of Materia Medica, and also in some of our Journals which have been published since the above were published.
The best way to study the materia medica is to take a drug or remedy yourself and carefully note in writing all the symptoms it will produce on or remove from you….
A “red hot” feeling to one prover may mean the same as “burning” to another; “Shooting and darting” “pounding and beating,” “pulsating and trembling” may mean the same thing or similar things. …