Abstract :
Background: Drug proving is the method to ascertain the curative power of drug in healthy human beings, in both sexes, in various ages, in different constitutions. In drug proving a drug is given to different provers in same quantity and quality for a period of time. During the process of drug proving the prover develop the symptoms which are appearing on the individual susceptibility of the prover. Methods: Guidelines issued by the Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy New Delhi will be taken as a base for planning this study. Drug proving is done by Draysdale’s Double blind method. - Drug proving is done on both the sex; Age group of 18 to 45 years, Prover should be educated up to 7th STD. 40 provers from different fields. Results:- All provers (100%) with high susceptibility responded to Calcarea flour 30 with production of symptoms, while only 33.33 % provers with low susceptibility produced symptoms, validating the role of susceptibility in response to dynamic Homoeopathic medicines. Conclusion: - After going through above all discussion we come to the final conclusions about the role of susceptibility and sensitivity of provers during the placebo and Calcarea Flour 30. The ability to respond to Calcarea Flour 30 is directly proportional to pre trial state of susceptibility. Response to placebo is having no variation as per pre trial state of susceptibility with provers from all 3 categories of susceptibility responding in equal percentage. Hence response to placebo is not governed by state of susceptibility. It may be more related to suggestibility of provers.
Keyword :
Susceptibility & sensitivity, provers, location, intensity of symptoms, placebo, doses, Duration of response,