Sankaran – Provings

Beskrivning

Rajan Sankaran has published a volume of eleven provings conducted by him in recent years. As might be expected, they are of a very high standard and represent a unique addition to the materia medica. He also provides an introduction which surveys the history of provings to the present, and is itself an essential contribution to the on-going discussion about the methodology of provings.

These provings are a joy to read. They are presented in a completely ’hands-off’, unprejudiced way and contain just the raw proving data. This is grouped under brief headings, which Sankaran stresses is not to indicate supposed ’themes’ in the proving, but merely to make reading less cumbersome. Unlike with nearly all other provings, there is no prior discussion of the nature or significance of the substance being proved, so neither the gross nature of the substance nor possible considerations of the doctrine of signatures are allowed to intrude on the inner dynamic qualities of the remedy standing out in a pure form. The only element of interpretation present is the repertorisations, the rationale for which is also discussed in the introduction.

The provings are of: Coca cola, Crotalus cascavella, Dendroaspis polylepsis (black mamba), Lac caprinum, Lac defloratum, Lac humanum, Lac leoninum, Niccolum, Ocimum sanctum (basil), Polystyrenum (polystyrene) and Strontium carbonicum. Some of these substances have never been proved before, such as Coca cola and Polystyrenum, some were proved in the last century (eg Crotalus cascavella, Niccolum) and some are contemporaneous versions of substances which have recently been proved elsewhere (eg Lac humanum, Lac leoninum).

Innehåller följande prövningar:
I
1. Coca-Cola
2 Crotalus cascavella
3. Dendroaspis polylepsis (black mamba)
4. Lac caprinum (goat’s milk)
5. Lac defloratum
6. Lac humanum
7. Lac leoninum
8. Niccolum
9. Ocimum sanctum
10. Polystyrenum
11. Strontium carbonicum