- Dr. Sarat Chandra Ghose of Midnapore made the first provingTesting a remedy on healthy volunteersThe systematic method of administering a substance to healthy subjects to observe and record the symptoms it produces. and thereby discovered its power to cause and cure hemorrhages of many kinds.
- Ghose related s ome striking cases cured with the remedy in cases of dysenteryIntestinal infection with severe bloody diarrheaInfection of the intestines resulting in severe diarrhea with the presence of blood and mucus in the feces., hematemesis, hemorrhageProfuse bleeding from a ruptured blood vesselAn escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel, especially when profuse. of typhoid, bleeding hemor rhoids and nosebleed.
- General hemorrhages.
- Vomiting of a bright red blood.
- HemoptysisCoughing up blood from lungsThe spitting or coughing up of blood or blood-stained mucus originating from the respiratory tract..
- MenorrhagiaAbnormally heavy or prolonged menstrual bleedingMenstrual periods with abnormally heavy or prolonged bleeding..
- Pro fuse discharge of bright red blood, bearingdown pains in lower abdomen.
- Bloody urine.
- Very weak and restless.
- Headache, burning at the top of the head.
- Sight dim.
- COMMENTS-Dr. Ghose participated in his own proving, along with his wife and a dog.
- The dog, which was perfectly strong and healthy, received 40 drops of the tinctureConcentrated liquid raw extractA mother tincture prepared by soaking botanical, animal, or mineral raw materials in alcohol and water. one morning.
- No result followed that day and the dose was repeated the next morning.
- The animal commenced and continued to vomit blood of a bright red color.
- It kept very quiet and was unwilling to move.
- After three doses of five drops of the tincture given in quick succession, the vomiting ceased.
- The same treatment (minute doses of the remedy) was effectual in arresting the effects of the drug throughout the provings.
- Mrs. Ghose took the tincture in 20-drop doses repeatedly throughout two days.
- On the third day dysentery and menorrhagia set in simultaneously.
- The blood was bright red.
- Other symptoms included a headache, very weak a nd restless, sight dim, burning at the top of the head.
- The face became yellow ish, breathing difficult.
- She became sad and melancholic.
- With the profuse discharge of bright red blood there were bearing-down pains in the lower abdomen.
- Dr. Ghose took 40 drops in one dose.
- The result was a frequent desire to pass water, which gradually became bloody, containing much blood.
- Inclination to cough, causing him to spit blood.
- Slight headache, giddiness and nausea.
- Sight dim.
- The tincture was taken three drops every two hours, and after the third dose the symptoms vanished.
- Bearing-down pains in lower part of abdomen
