This is most homeopath’s gold standard of materia medica and what is used in homeopathic colleges… it may however be a bit heavy going for home use!

https://www.helios.co.uk/en/shop/nature-s-materia-medica-fourth-edition

Great question! This is applying the principles of ‘homeoprophylaxis.’ If you kept on taking it then there is a chance you could prove it, but generally you only take a very limited number of doses in a low potency so unlikely. This is a great resource to learn more about homeoprophylaxis

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Thanks for this discussion! I have a question related to this … We have been giving my son remedies for a barking cough he’s had for several days now. We got a cough & respiratory kit from Homeopathy for Mommies and in the handout that came with the kit it says for whooping cough: “for family who have not had it. Take: Drosera 6c night…

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This is for the thread but also in answer to @Ari s question on Materia Medicas:

Here is a great free resource:

https://www.materiamedica.info/en/free-materia-medica-books.php

It has the materia medicas of many of there original homeopaths and is searchable thru homeopath and alphabetically by remedies they proved.

I was able to find Clarkes…

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Great question. I’m popping a quick reply but will try and come back to it later this week when I’m back. Our Materia Medicas are really a database of provings. Provings are how we work out what the remedies will cure. We get healthy volunteers to repeatedly take the remedies and see what symptoms they ‘prove’ – this is then compiled in…

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Thank you! That’s lovely to hear! 😀 so glad you enjoyed it