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The California Homeopath is the Journal of the California Homeopathic Medical Society. The Journal was founded in 1882 by Dr. William Boericke and Dr. W.A. Dewey. Published in San Francisco, the bimonthly journal existed under this name until 1892, when it was replaced by The Pacific Coast Journal of Homeopathy. The California Homeopath was revived in 2006, co-edited by Richard Pitt CCH and Premananda Childs. Our first online edition was released in January 2009.
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This edition of the California Homeopath is dedicated to the study of homeopathic provings. Where would homeopathy be without provings? Would it exist as a medical art at all? Provings are a central tenet of homeopathic philosophy and practice, the “scientific” methodology of homeopathy and the most significant expression of the genius of Hahnemann the scientist and physician.
Fri, Dec 01, 2006
A report on the first ever Joint Annual Homeopathic Conference, held April 7-9, 2006, in San Jose, California.
Fri, Dec 01, 2006
What if our classical provings on which most of our knowledge rests were defective? What actually is a classical proving, to which other designations have been given such as full proving and Hahnemannian proving? What is a proving supposed to prove except for recording the reactions of provers, with all the subjectivity and personal, private biases of the prover?
Fri, Dec 01, 2006
Students and homeopaths alike often wonder about our repertories. In each new edition there are thousands of new symptoms and thousands of new remedy entries into existing rubrics: 'How big can they get?' 'Will it ever end?' I asked the writer of the Synthesis repertory, Dr. Frederik Schroyens what he felt.
Fri, Dec 01, 2006
We put a series of questions to of a number of homeopaths with experience in doing homeopathic provings: Jeremy Sherr, Todd Rowe Susan Sonz and Peter Fraser.
Sat, Dec 02, 2006
The American Provers Union was organized as a society on August 15, 1853,and published its first pamphlet,“Suggestions for the Proving of Drugs on the Healthy.” The Provers Union’s last publication,“The Proving of Cannabis Indica,”was published in Philadelphia in 1859. In the Homoeopathic literature, little is mentioned about this society. This is also true of the American Institute of Homoeopathy’s Central Bureau of Materia Medica, which appears to be the catalyst for the American Provers Union, and other similar local societies. This article contains the complete text of the original pamphlet, “Suggestions for the Proving of Drugs on the Healthy.”
Fri, Dec 01, 2006
The first part of this article is the introduction of a book on provings by Alistair Gray, of Sydney, Australia. He proved the remedies – Box Jelly Fish, Red Tail Spider and Moreton Bay Fig. The second and third parts are the introduction to upcoming books on further provings by Alistair Gray.
Fri, Dec 01, 2006
It is often thought that the information we find in the materia medicas has come only from detailed and well conducted Hahnemannian provings of potentized remedies, but this is not so. Only a small proportion of information comes this way. This article outlines some of the ways that we get information about a remedy picture and to examine the strengths and limitations of them, including toxicological information, traditional uses, doctrine of signatures and the correspondence of the substance to other things, particularly myths and legends.
Fri, Dec 01, 2006
As homeopaths we are familiar with the life of Hahnemann, but our knowledge of Constantine Hering may often be limited to his proving of Lachesis and the picture of him on his couch where he studied and slept in his library. These excerpts from Calvin Knerr's "Life of Hering" offer another view of the author of "The Guiding Symptoms".
Fri, Dec 01, 2006
The introduction to the proving of Nicotiana rustica and other extracts from the book Tobacco, An Exploration Of Its Nature Through The Prism of Homeopathy
Fri, Dec 01, 2006
Having a resource that helps one locate new proving information is a great help. There is now a website in which much of this information is available.
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