In Homoeopathic treatment only those medicines are used / prescribed which have properly proved or tested according to the rules laid down by Dr Hahnemann. The process is known “Drug Proving”. Actually Hahneann wants to know the potentized drugs actions in human body.
Drug proving is a systematic process and arrangement to procure the disease producing power of any substance, say medicine in human say healthy human, both sexes, any and all age, body built, temperaments, constitution, etc.
The recording of the drug proving must be reliable and thats why reliable and genuine person should be selected for the drug proving. Hahnemann writes directions for conducting the drug proving in the Organon of Medicine in aphorisms 120 -145 to procure the curative properties of medicine substances for curing thousands of thousands disease conditions.
The directives are that drug should be proved on the human being because,
- Animals can not give the mental and subjective symptoms
- Effects of some drugs on animal and on human being will be different.