During proving , we introduce into the organism a substance sufficiently high in concentration to disturb the organism and mobilize its defense mechanism. The defence mechanism produces a spectrum of symptoms on all three levels (mental, emotional, and physical level) of the organism; this spectrum of symptoms then characterizes the peculiar and unique nature of subtance.
In a similar way, we note down the symptoms of the patient, recording the peculiar way in which his organism reacted to the morbific stimulus on the dynamic plane.
Fortunately for the science of therapeutics, it happens that the symptoms pictures of remedies match quite accurately the symptom pictures of virtually all illnesses in existence, in all their variety. Today there are thousands of remedies which have been proved in this way and which cover the major part of all possible disturbances in the human being.
If the symptoms of a proving are recorded only on the physical level, the proving is still incomplete. It is for this reason that simple toxicology described in medical schools in insufficient. The symptoms have been recorded in too gross a form, without adequated individualizing information and they record almost exclusively actions on the physical level.