This book extends the work Dr. Paul Herscu started in “Provings Volume 1.” He has gathered a fascinating collection of original articles from the entire history of homeopathy, each of which he carefully reviews, finally showing how a well thought-out model of provings can help us with many of the problems that have so far beset our testing of remedies. Herscu rounds off this volume with two original articles, one offering clear proof of the efficacy of homeopathy and another describing how to select the symptoms to accept as valid during a proving.

Dr. Herscu states in the Introduction: “…This is a compendium of articles and texts which incorporates much of our history as a profession as it relates to provings. It is the study of what our forebears went through on their way to understanding how to improve this process. It forms the bibliography of my own work on the topic of provings. What I would like to do here is restate the steps that Hahnemann began treading and then describe my own. …I wanted to read what my forebears wrote on the topic and how they conducted their provings. It actually turned out to take a long time to gather all the information together. I had to look in many places to get a full rounded historical accounting of this work. In fact, it took too long. The material should have been more readily accessible but it was not. One of the main reasons I present this second volume of provings is to streamline this effort for those who follow.”