A large part of the excitement of proving a substance, in this case a triple blind proving, is guessing what the substance is and then waiting to see how close you were. 

The Day of the Reveal of the Proving Substance

After a month, the group of six and the two supervisors met in an online meeting due to distance and time restraints.  It was revealed on June 22, 2024 and the Proving had started on the day of trituration, May 25, 2024.  Here are some of the comments made by the provers as they share together their personal experiences and as a group we begin looking at the themes and commonalities.  Each prover sharing and guessing just before the substance becomes known.  At this point I usually do not know what the remedy is myself, but I had decided to look at which one it was just before the meeting and it was good I did as it took me at least half an hour to figure out what had happened. For a few seconds I had believed we had proven the blue jay, but when I saw that it was not one of the 3 possibilities I realized they had only really had two to choose from – I had prepared two envelopes with the great blue heron and one other remedy. The odds were stacked in the great blue heron’s favour which was eventually picked by Prover A from one of the unmarked sachet. Because at this point I knew what the remedy was, I have shared their final comments as written down by me and typed up by the second supervisor. 

The information given at this point is for interest only and is not included in the final write up of the proving as provers are listening to each other and being influenced to the point where any extra information is not reliable. 

To keep the proving a triple blind study – the supervisor who prepared the remedy and gave the unmarked sachets to the prover to choose from, the prover who chose it and the other provers do not know the nature of the substance. Our automatic (autonomic) brain is so much more intelligent than the neocortex – biasing the choice to make it a two to three ratio instead of a one in three in the proving of the great blue heron stresses this once again.  

After writing up the proving in four parts, and sharing it on the podcast, Homeopathic Healing – How Nature Heals, I have summarized much of what was experienced and written up a short analysis on the remedy’s sphere of action, its source words as well as aspects of the proving that showed major themes and experiences that would be helpful when proven with clinical application.

Prover A – Either animal or plant. I feel it’s an insect. Symptoms came up from my childhood [healing] from fifty years ago; more content but more tired, not as stressed, my hands and related arthritis excreted things into a rash. [The rash spread throughout her body and finally needed to be antidoted.] Before I could barely move my hands, my hands are no longer swollen. The rash left and came back on my face. Rash seems to be moving. Arthritis got better, almost normal on hands. Left hand better than right hand. Ups and downs, feeling really good and really shitty. Affected the left side of body more. During the proving I felt more emotional, almost high, intoxicated. I saw a spider, smelled milk – I’m lactose intolerant but smelled milk. Saw a lot of wasps, chasing me, a big wasp. A lot of insects, getting bitten and stung a lot.

Prover B – Some sort of a plant. Tip of the plant, splinter? On the tip. Looked like a crochet book. Very emotional, past present anything and everything. Going to work I’m happy I’m content willing to help, go home and I’m beat, tired exhausted frustrated leave me alone. A lot of ex-husband, brings up not worthy, not worth it. Nothing would come back dream wise. Couldn’t document dreams even though trying. According to smart watch I was sleeping better, but still exhausted. Tiredness feels like Nothing left. I was very  emotional and content [she cried while describing her symptoms].  I went home from work tired and exhausted. I slept well. A lot of the past came back;  more exhausted. She made a slumping movement at this moment]. She did not share her guess of what the proving substance could be.

Prover C – While triturating, I felt quiet. [This was noted by the supervisor during the trituration.] I was tired and felt stones; I had a stiffness in jaw and neck, but noticed that got better during the 30 days. Itchiness around scalp and eyes. Heavier on right side. Rash under my right armpit, that got worse with heat and sweating. Similar to a rash I’ve had before. Finally, now starting to go away. Black bear dreams, as a kid would have black bear dreams. [She would freeze up and wake up, this time she froze and then came too and started moving. After two weeks, extremely depressed; can’t get myself out of bed; don’t want coffee (normally 2 a day and it was hard to even go through 1 cup of coffee). Miserable, negative. PMSing. Had to antidote on June 19 . Waking up every day nauseous after antidoting until today felt a bit better. Thinking about Black feathers, black birds, like a crow, black stickers on the windows in the clinic bathroom. Bananas as a pattern? Been eating bananas quite frequently.

Prover D – During the trituration, thought I was seeing black feathers, and felt high. First night I had a dream, elephant chasing a black bird or yellow bird. Two other weird dreams; in the first I was getting nose reconstruction surgery, they took a piece of the nose off, while in the second dream I went to a cottage with random people, a lady happened to be a homeopath, I was nine months pregnant and ready to pop, asked homeopath to come to my birth. Homeopath said there were two thousand remedies for hemorrhaging during birth, and they would inject it into her spine like an epidural. In the beginning left-sided headache, moved around, behind ear. Got sick, had a sinus cold, lost taste. Have a rash on right side of my face, from before trial, and now it’s moving a little to the left side. Second half, big days of depression, by mid-day was tired and exhausted. PMS symptoms were way worse. No energy for son, feels like relationship is affected negatively with son. One of my feet at the bottom of my feet after 3am, been itchy and got worse throughout the proving (right foot and then started going to the left, used word MIGRATING instead of moving. Emotional stuff.

Prover E -  I saw a lot of marsupials [a group of mammals] – raccoons, opossums, skunks I think it is a marsupial. Rash on my belly, the skin looked like an island, like a peninsula, a thousand little bumps on my skin, it was in a line. A new rash on my chin I have seven bug bites, my shin looks buggy. I had severe season allergies in my sinuses - a problem for 2 to 3 weeks and then I took Reactin [in the last week of the proving]. [This ended his contribution in his journal as a new medication would antidote the proving remedy with its own symptomology.] I was more angry, I was argumentative and aggressive, had to point out people’s wrongdoings. I had dreams of a truck, driver killed by whiplash, falling into the sea, majestic whales, and a dog that was hit by a car, got worse and was turning into a puppy at the same time. Had a red dot on his eye—like a hemorrhage. Another dream, I was traveling on an Alaskan highway, pulled over and saw children’s toys. Also, I dreamed of an accident where the driver behind got killed by whiplash. Colour of the car was black.

Prover F – I felt tired and had a left sided headache during the trituration; sharp pain in the ear. I was emotional and crying when I got home.. I thought it was an animal remedy, maybe a raccoon like prover E, didn’t have a lot of energy. Felt a weird dry spot on left foot, like a very dry spot. Rough. Drowzy. Felt different kind of tiredness in my body. Didn’t feel like I had a lot of energy. I had a dream I was working in a store, and a kid came up to me and I showed him cookies. Took him to an isle and put money all over the floor. I asked him why, and he said he wanted to help people and then the dream ended.

The journals were slowly given to me. It took quite a length of time to get the 5 journals. It took over 3 months to finally get all the journals, minus one that was lost.

Rubrics 

ALTERNATING SIDES

Head, pain, frontal forehead, moved [Prover E]

Pain, moving, to teeth, left to right [Prover E]

Head pain, migrates to the right side, ends up on the left side [Prover D]

BACK

Back, pain, lower [Prover A]

Back, pain, lower, tight [Prover B]

Back, pain, lower, tiredness [Prover B]

Back, pain, right side, tight, low-mid back [Prover C]

DREAMS

Accidents: car, a dog got hit, walked it off [Prover E]

Aluminum: beer cans, was picking them up [Prover C]

Animals:

• dog died [Prover E]
• black bear frozen in fear, made myself big and ended up getting away [Prover C]
• an elephant is chasing a bird, a grey elephant, a black or canary yellow bird [Prover D]

Cosmetic Surgery: had a nose job. The surgeons sliced the top layer of my nose off and took cartilage off the bottom tip and stitched me back up [Prover D]

Death: dog died from lethargy [Prover E]

Fire: I’m alone walking down the hill playing with matches.  I started a grass fire in the field. [Prover B]

Family, own:

• my aunt and uncle live on the hill, one of my cousins comes down yelling at me and puts out the fire   [a healing dream that she connects to a dream where she was yelling so loudly her neighbours heard her] [Prover B]
• Mother-in-law, glass, looking for a piece of [Prover E]
• random, I was away with a random family at their cottage type place, the wife/daughter in the family happened to be a homeopath.  I was wondering why my other homeopath said she could be on call from a different country [Prover D]

Flying: bird’s flying forward, the string is flung, floating on diagonally behind the bird, below and beneath it, the string is trailing, the string below and behind the bird on its ankle. [Prover D]

Glass: break, stayed in one piece, did not [Prover E]

Medical:

• Surgery, on nose [Prover D]
• Hemorrhaging at birth, a homeopathic remedy injected into the spine like an epidural [Prover D]
• Old woman…needed to go see a doctor [Prover B]

Money: I was working in a store. A boy asked where the workers were, in that area he put money on the floor, he said he wanted to help people and do something nice. [Prover F]

***[Extended dream; after asking them to tell me more and that they look at the periphery of what else was in the dream on Money]

…white tile smooth with shelves in front with boxes of cookies, 6 boxes in a row – the cardboard was red with a u-shape where [she] was at.  In the right corner, boxes of cardboard in 4 rows of 6 boxes – a shelf of blue boxes as  well.  The ceiling has push tiles that move, drop ceiling with grey ceiling tiles – light grey. The money on the floor – a lot of it is spread around assorted bills. It was American money – green money in a pile – then he spreads, he drops the money on a pile. I never had that dream before, when he said he wanted to do something nice and put the money down, then I woke up. [Prover F]

Neighbour: house, burned it down, could have [Prover B]

Pregnant: about to pop [Prover D] 

String: there was string on the , a jut like a natural fiber, stringy type of string, fibrous string, around the bird’s ankle, floating like a dream in motion. The bird is flying forward, the string is flung, gloating on diagonally behind the bird, below and beneath it, the string is trailing, the string [is] below and behind the bird, on its ankle [Prover D]

Violence:

• Woman, beating people with glass and tools [Prover E]
• Pioneer village, killing others [Prover E]

Women: old, putting her on her bus, she needed to go see a doctor, having trouble walking [Prover B]

Bus: greyhound bus, a grey blue bus, not solid blue [Prover B]

EARS

Ear, pain, right, as if pressure at the back of[Prover F]

Ear, pain, above ear [Prover D]

EYES

Eye, itchy, left [Prover E]

Eye, itchy, right, lid [Prover C]

Eyes, itchy, at bed time [Prover C]

Eye, itchy, right, before falling asleep[Prover C]

Eyes, blurry vision x2 [Prover A,B]

Eye, twitching, left [Prover C]

Eyes, vision, lose, in spots [Prover B]

Eyes, irritated [Prover F]

EXTREMITIES

Finger, itchy [Prover E]

Hands, heavy [Prover A]

Hand, left, stiff [Prover A]

Hand, left, hot, sweating [Prover A]

Arm, pain, left, shoulder [Prover A]

Knee, pain, left [Prover A]

Ankle, pain, right [Prover A]

Shoulder, left, prickly [Prover A]

Shoulder, left, swollen, hot [Prover A]

Shoulder, pain, between the blade and spine [Prover C]

Joints, pain [Prover A]

Limbs, weak [Prover C]

Wrist, itchy. Left [Prover C]

Leg, right, thigh, itchy [Prover C]

FACE

Jaw, pressure [Prover C]

Gums, sore, as if food was stuck between molars [Prover D]

FEMALE

Menses, late [Prover C]

Menses, cramps, weird, early in the morning [Prover C]

Menses, breasts, pain, swollen x2[Prover C]

Menses, flow expected but does not come [Prover C]

Menses, cramping, random [Prover C]

Menses, cramps, as if in intestine or uterus [Prover C]

Sexual arousal [Prover D]

Uterus, cramp minor [Prover D]

Menses, got it May 30, more emotional [Prover F]

HEAD

Head, pain, forehead [Prover E]

Head, pain, moved [Prover E]

Head, pain, hemi, left [Prover E]

Head, pain, middle of, to the left side [Prover D]

Head, pain, eyes, above, pressure , worse weather [Prover B]

Head, pain, throbbing, above my right ear [Prover D]

Head, pain, left, dull, throbbing, moving right with pressure and nausea [Prover D]

Head, pain, ear, behind and above [Prover D]

Head, pain, worse looking at a screen [Prover D]

Head, pressure [Prover C, F]

Head, scalp, itchy, right side [Prover C]

Head, cold, burping weirdly [Prover D]

Head, sinus, heavy, full [Prover A]

Head, sinuses, clogged, after 8 pm [Prover D]

Head, sinuses, pain, stuffy and drippy, with sore throat and hiccups [Prover D]

LUNGS

Hard to breath [Prover A]

MOUTH

Teeth, gums, pain, aching, dully, throbbing [Prover D]

Taste, bland [Prover D]

NOSE

Increased sense of smell [Prover A]

I smell yeast [Prover A]

Sinuses, clogged, after 8 pm [Prover D]

Sinuses, pain, stuffy and drippy, with sore throat and hiccups [Prover D]

SKIN

Rash, itchy, on arms, elbows, behind knees and down the ankles [Prover A]

Rash, itchy, shower amel. [Prover A]

Rash, itchy, spreading, front of knees [Prover A] 

Rash, armpit, right, under x2 [Prover C]

Rash, armpit, worse heat and sweat [Prover C]

Dry, skin, spot, rough, foot, left, rain drop shape, as if  [Prover F]

SLEEP

Woke up sweaty [Prover A]

Woke up with a very dry mouth, thirsty [Prover B]

Back ache worse after sleep [Prover B]

Wake up relaxed, my watch tells me I am sleeping more [Prover B] [watch monitors her sleep]

Sleeping very well [Prover B]

Terrible sleep, awareness all night [Prover D]

Sleep good, bad, alternating [Prover D]

STOMACH

Stomach, bowel movements good [Prover E, B]

Stomach, bowel movements more frequent [Prover F]

Stomach, hungry [Prover E, A]

Stomach, well-formed stools [Prover B]

Stomach, upset, worse sugar [Prover B]

Stomach, uneasy, like a red ball was rolling and flipping [Prover B]

Stomach, hiccups [Prover E, D]

Stomach, nauseous in throat [Prover C]

Stomach, hungry accompanied by nauseous [Prover C]

Stomach, tummy, off [Prover C]

Stomach, nauseous, upset [Prover D]

Stomach, burping, from my stomach, non-food related [Prover D]

THROAT

Throat, closing, allergy, cherries [Prover E]

Throat, sore [Prover A, D]

Throat, nauseous, in [Prover C]

Throat, acid reflux, mild [Prover C]

Throat, heartburn [Prover A]

VERTIGO

Dizzy [Prover A]

Not dizzy [Prover D]

Themes and Generalities: Mind Rubrics

Anger

1. Angry clarity, aggressive righteous anger; got angry about everything [Prover E]
2. Short tempered; incredibly short tempered, aggravated by little things [Prover D]
3. Angry over lots of things including small things, …my son [Prover D]
4. Hard time coming out of the negative emotion, aggravated quickly again [Prover D]
5. Easily frustrated, short fuse, argumentative [Prover F]

Animals

1. buy a poodle / wanted to pat the powder[Prover E]
2. Dream … we were insects [Prover E]
3. A fluffy puppy scraggly thing hair rather than fur [Prover E]
4. Seeing unusual critters in obscure situations, saw a racoon during the day and it was running across the street [Prover E]
5. I saw a cat, a red robin, but no red cardinal [Prover E]
6. Crow [Prover E,C]
7. Seeing insects legs or antenna [Prover C]
8. Black or canary type yellow bird [Prover D]
9. Elephant chasing a bird, a grey elephant [Prover D]
10. Like a big wide mouth, like a big mouth bass [Prover B]

Appetite Increased/Hunger/Ravenous

1. Having the munchies [Prover D]
2. Haven’t been this hungry [Prover E]
3. Hungry and nauseous [Prover C]

Calm/silence/peaceful

1. Not too much wind or cloud silence in the sky, a peaceful sky [Prover E]
2. Decreased itching, calm [Prover A]
3. I felt relaxed, very balanced [Prover A]
4. I’m very content and relaxed in my sleep [Prover B]  [Her husband told her]
5. I am quiet [Prover C]
6. Calm [Prover D]
7. Relaxed, calm [Prover A]

Colours 

1. Red – the dog’s right eye had a red dot, more red than dark brownish blood blister in the eyeball [Prover E]
2. I saw…a red robin, but not a red cardinal [Prover E]
3. A grey blue bus not a solid blue [Prover B]
4. She’s barrel shaped with brown tones, not a brown colour [Prover B]
5. Grey cement [Prover B]
6. Uneasy stomach …like a red ball [Prover B]
7. Randon thought about how I get a red face with intense exercise since a kid [Prover C]
8. Black, canary type yellow bird [Prover D]
9. Grey elephant [Prover D]
10. the cardboard was red with a u-shape where [she] was at.  In the right corner, boxes of cardboard in 4 rows of 6 boxes – a shelf of blue boxes as  well.  The ceiling has push tiles that move, drop ceiling with grey ceiling tiles – light grey. The money on the floor – a lot of it is spread around assorted bills. It was American money – green money [Prover F]

Death

1. Didn’t want to touch it, didn’t want it [puppy] dying [Prover E]

Delusions

1.  Seems to double, the volume [of the trituration mixture] [Prover A]
2. Feel beaten [Prover A]
3. I saw a spider and smelled milk [Prover A]
4. Saw sutras that looked like stitches, they were picky. [Prover A]
5. Prickly [Prover A]
6. An older style purse with hinges on both; open the clasp and it opens like a big mouth like a big mouth bass.  The purse was probably a black leather. The sidewalk was wide, wider than on a normal street at the bus station, grey cement [Prover B]
7. Saw a shell, or shrimp/seafood type creature (she included a drawing of a shell) [Prover D]
8. I felt awareness all night, I had terrible sleep [Prover D]

Dreaming 

1. Cannot remember them [Prover E]
2. Don’t remember my dreams [Prover C]
3. Could not remember my dreams [Prover A]
4. Premonition dreams – usually there is a large delay to a premonition dream – five or six years, but this time it was the day after [Prover E]
5. Husband says I am reacting in my dreams, he says he sees me moving and dreaming [Prover B]
6. My dreams are not waking me up. The black bear dream usually scares me, I froze in fear, but this time I eventually got out of the frozen state . [Prover C] [Curative dream]
7. Had a daydream – an elephant traveling with or chasing a bird [Prover D]

Euphoria/Intoxication versus Lethargy/Tiredness/Exhaustion (Physical and Emotional)

1. Dog….started to die from lethargy [Prover E]
2. During the proving there was a feeling of heavy and lethargy, tired. As I got home immense clarity and a lot of anger. [Prover E]
3. A short period of feeling almost euphoric [Prover A]
4. Hiccup, drunk…[Prover E]
5. Feel ‘stoned’ [Prover C]
6. Feelings of doom, depressed, can’t get out of bed in the morning [Prover C]
7. Feel almost stoned [Prover D]
8. Feeling zoned out…loopy [Prover D]
9. A tingling feeling in my feet and toes as if I have a buzz [Prover D]
10. Exhausted [Prover E,D,A]
11. A heavy fog …lifted, the sun is out and the sky is clear, an overwhelming sense of mental clarity [Prover E]
12. It brings me clarity of being on the right way [Prover E]
13. Tired x2, relaxed, calm [Prover A]
14. I curl up and go to sleep, just exhausted [Prover B]
15. Very tired!!! [Prover C]
16. Less confident x2, less positive, hard on myself, feels like my work is going backwards, so tired [Prover C]
17. No energy, negative mindset, lack of desire, no motivation [Prover C]
18. Tired [Prover D, F]
19. Lethargic [Prover D]
20. Feelings of sadness, negativity [Prover D]
21. Depression x3 [Prover D]
22. Exhausted by midday x3, feels like my nervous system is on a form of  overdrive [Prover D]
23. Exhausted by midday and second half of the day. Emotionally and physically drained. Feelings of survival mode and overdrive. [Prover D]
24. Feeling drained and unable and partly unwilling to put much effort or creativity into parenting [Prover D]
25. Drowsy, sleepy, groggy [Prover F]
26. Whispering [Prover F]
27. Easily frustrated, emotional [Prover F]

Family/Relatives/improved connections

1. In-laws – [it] was tension with the in-laws [Prover E]; my in-laws offered [us] a job [Prover E]
2. Dream of aunt and uncle, and cousin [who] puts out the fire.  It was his job, I was just watching. [Prover B]
3. Had a family friend waiting to get hired for a job. [Prover C]
4. There had been a guy I was talking to before …which dramatically ended…now reconnecting [Prover C]
5. I had a dream I was away with a random family at their cottage type place [Prover D]

Fears

1. I didn’t want to touch it [the puppy] scared of it dying [Prover E]

Fog/haze versus clarity/clear/sky

1. Hazy [Prover E]
2. Hazy heavy fog from the weekend [Prover E]
3. Heavy fog…lifted, the sun is out and the sky is clear [Prover E]
4. Came out feeling the sky was more beautiful, neutral blue, no cloud in the sky, misty blue, crispy air – not too much wind or cloud, silence in the sky, a peaceful sky [Prover E]
5. I had a dream I was driving through the fog and suddenly above the clouds, above the fog, [I was] emerging from it [Prover E]
6. Clogged/blurry, blurry vision [Prover A]

Food and Drinks

1. Meat

• pork going bad [Prover E]
• totally cut out pork and eating less meat [Prover B]

1. Cherry agg. Allergy/anaphylactic-like response [Prover E]
2. Humus [chick peas and garlic], desires [Prover B]
3. Grapefruit, tastes bland [Prover D] [grapefruit usually tastes flavourful to Prover D, husband tasted it and found it flavourful]

Heaviness (physical)

1. Heavy machinery [Prover E]
2. Heavy fog [Prover E]
3. Hand heavy, heavy dust [Prover A]
4. Feel heavy [Prover C]
5. Body feels heavy when still [Prover D]

Heavy versus light

1. Heavy then light [Prover E]
2. Hand heavy, heavy dust, lightheaded, slightly intoxicated/drunk [Prover A]
3. Calm, lightheaded, but not dizzy [Prover D]
4. Light headedness came back after lunch [Prover D]

Job opportunities

1. Work went crazy after the proving [making of the remedy], life is being filled up quickly, a lot of things came up, got a job from my wife’s family – out of the blue my in-laws [Prover E]
2. One of my cousins …It was his job to put out the fire, I was just watching. [Prover B]
3. I got a new job on May 27 [was not expecting it that soon] [Prover C]

Movement

1. Dreams of buses [Prover B]
2. Dreams of walking, having problems walking [Prover B]
3. My husband sees me moving and dreaming [Prover B]
4. My body was a little uneasy in the stomach, as if it was just rolling and flipping a ball. [Prover B]
5. It stops travelling in a linear form goes like a straight arc over my head [Prover D]
6. It migrates to the right side [Prover D]
7. An elephant chasing a bird [Prover D]

Righteous/Justice/Courage is a form of clarity

1. Aggressive righteous anger [Prover E]
2. I went grocery shopping and I had an item with a sale tag that I knew would not scan up as a different price. I lost it in a good way trying to trick and scam and deceive people…it was a righteous anger [Prover E]
3. Had a few arguments with my wife, she got upset, …I hadn’t done anything.  Usually, I brush it off or dismiss it, this time the anger was righteous and justifiable – a moral sense it is wrong so morally I speak out for it. I get peoples’ attention when I speak up – courage to speak about it – express myself invoke empathy. Clarity and the fog became beautiful, clear blue sky [Prover E]
4. Wanted people in the store to observe what was going on, felt it was being ignored, needed to bring it out in the open. [Prover E]
5. Being right, I usually don’t care about being right. I welcome being wrongs as much as being right. Just being nice, going with the flow, out of the blue. [Prover E]
6. I know I have done something wrong [in dream]. He gives me shit for being bad, that I could have burnt down his house, could have been really bad. [Prover B]

Stitches

1.  The surgeons sliced the top layer of my nose off and took cartilage off the bottom tip and stitched me back up. [Prover D]
2. Like a black sutra stitches taken out [Prover A]

Temperature 

1. I’ve been feeling warmer, usually in the morning [Prover B]
2. Hot all of a sudden [Prover D]
3. Body temperature seems more hot than normal [Prover F]
4. I’m so hot, so warm…I usually wear socks all the time, now I walk around bare feet, never do that my feet are cold all the time [Prover F]

Thirst

1. Thirsty, drinking more water than usual [Prover B]
2. Not as thirsty as usual [Prover F]

Tight and Stiff feeling

1. Woke up not feeling stiff [Prover C]
2. Low-mid back on right side tight [Prover C]
3. Left hand was stiff, my left shoulder was hot, and then went away [Prover A]

Transforming

1. Sneaking in between an older husky it turned into a more feeble puppy; the puppy was soft, a different breed more like a bulldog [Prover E]

Violence

1. Dream of a woman beating people with glass and tools [Prover E]
2. Dream of violent pioneer village killing others [Prover E]
3. Had a big problem [but] crushed all of them [Prover E]
4. Huge wasp/hornet in camper. Had to kill it. Chased me. [Prover A]

Yeast

1. I saw yeast [Prover A]
2. Feel like I am getting a yeast infection [Prover C]

The Great Blue Heron in Homeopathic Literature

In order to understand the great blue heron it is a good idea to look at the other provings done on this remedy. There are two excellent write-ups on this bird and the general themes for both animals and birds are quite clear here.  What I find the most impressive in this proving are the source words and the two interesting expressions of ‘strings’ on a bird’s ankle and the ‘island shaped and peninsula’ rash. There is a complete write-up on this that can be accessed by emailing me at hownatureheals@gmail.com or listening to the fourth part of the McQuaby Provings – Trituration Proving of Spring 2024, Part 4 released as narrative number 132 on the podcast, Homeopathic Narratives – How Nature Heals.

Source Words for Ardea herodias

The Substance

Feathers,  [Prover E] [characteristic of substance]

Feather/Bird [Prover D]

Black feather [Prover C]

Noticed blackbird stickers on the window in bathroom [Prover C] 

Red dot was on his eye (the dog that got hit by a car) [Prover E] [not sure]

Beat the snot out of someone with glass [Prover E] [absurd] 

Grey [Prover B]

Prickly, picky[Prover A]

Migrates: a left sided headache lately …throbbing it migrates to the right side…ends up back on the left side, . Now behind and above the ear. It stops traveling in a linear form, goes like a straight arch over my head, and doesn't linger over the right side. It is almost as if my headache migrates.  [Prover D]

Dream had a front view, going left to right they would be flat, a front view, no bird’s eye view, no elevation, very unusual dream [Prover D]

A string on a bird’s ankle [Prover D]

Not solid blue [Prover B]

An island, peninsula shaped rash [Prover E]

diagonally behind the bird [Prover D]

Provers Pointing to the Family of the Substance – A Bird

Crow [Prover E, C]

Red Robin [Prover E]

Red Cardinal [Prover E]

Black or canary type yellow bird [Prover D]

Curative symptoms

Prover F-  started up pole dancing again after 5 years because a friend asked

Prover C- her dream of freezing after seeing a black bear had a curative ending as she ‘unfroze’ and the dream ended positively 

Prover B – she was happy and calm in her sleep instead of having a worried look [her husband said]

Prover A – joint pain in her fingers has been given cortisone shots for rheumatoid arthritis for years, the rash came out and the hands became loose and less stiff

Conclusion

When including information as proving symptoms we are looking for the specific sensitivity of the substance and as a result we use both the things provers experience and those things they emphatically deny seeing: ‘didn’t see’.  When you negate an experience you are moving up the centesimal scale of denial: 30C being no denial, 200C negating it and 1M having never experienced it. This is hard with the proving information, so for specific detailed repertory rubrics I used what was observed, but for general themes and topics of interest that came up during the proving I did add those experiences that were observed and then also denied.  A prover who expresses a point and then negates it is still reliable, but at a different level of posology.

The two feathers used in this proving were a light grey blue colour. I collected the feathers one very windy day after the great blue heron had moved on from the reedbeds where it had stood looking for minnows and suddenly catching one and then going back to the silent waiting behaviour. This calmness of the heron followed by motion and movement I believe is the essence of this remedy as shown through the observations and experiences of the provers of this proving. There is always a great blue heron that comes to our shores every summer, I wonder if it is the same one, or an offspring.  On the day I started writing up the second part of the proving, discussing the provers’ symptoms in their own words, a great blue heron walked across our shore on McQuaby Lake, moving on from its minnows.

Image Source: Brian E. Kushner

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