the procedure for ascertaining the effects of substances by administering them to healthy human subjects, then observing and recording the consequent mental, emotional, and physical changes.
A test of the action of a drug upon a healthy human; a record of all the unusual sensations or deviations from the normal; health experienced by the one taking the drug.
A method of testing homeopathic remedies developed by Samuel Hahnemann, a German physician who founded homeopathy, in which healthy people receive full-strength doses of a substance and their symptoms are observed and recorded. Highly diluted amounts of the substance are then determined to be remedies for those symptoms in an unhealthy person.
A homeopathic proving is an experiment undertaken by a group of healthy individuals in order to test the medicinal effects of a particular substance. After taking one or more doses of the remedy , the symptoms produced are recorded, collated and organized into a comprehensive description of the action of the remedy. Provings can also happen during the therapeutic process if the homeopath has not properly taken into account the healing path of the vital force, and repeats an incorrect remedy too often. Proving symptoms usually disappear of their own accord with a little time.
a monitored study of people taking a remedy
a trial on healthy human subjects to determine what a substance causes in overdose
Experiment in which substances are administered to supposedly healthy persons who report what happens afterward. Most "provings" were done 100 to 200 years ago.
the most accurate method of ascertaining the action of medicines on human health. Medicines are administered to healthy people to discover the symptoms they are capable of producing and thereby able to cure.
the process of testing a medicinal substance on healthy people in order to discover the symptoms it can elicit.
