The Homeopathic Proving of Chocolate

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My decision to prove chocolate was based on clinical experience. Patients often reported adverse effects from eating chocolate, sometimes resulting in severe symptoms. The number of patients who were seriously addicted to chocolate was always impressive. It seemed that the desire for chocolate exceeded any other category of food craving.

— Jeremy Sherr

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Author

Jeremy Sherr was born April 2, 1955, in South Africa, and grew up in Israel. Homoeopathy found him 23 years ago, and Jeremy began formal studies at the College of Homoeopathy, London, in 1980. He completed a degree simultaneously in Acupuncture at the International College of Oriental Medicine. Though he has practiced homoeopathy exclusively since 1982, his knowledge of Chinese Medicine shines through his homoeopathic thinking.

Mr. Sherr began teaching while still in college. He taught in most of the British schools, and began his Dynamis School in 1987. It is the longest running post-graduate course in the UK.

Jeremy has taught the Dynamis curriculum throughout Europe and North America, and is a popular lecturer worldwide. He maintains a busy practice in London, Tel Aviv, and New York.

He was the first to re-develop the science and art of provings after a century of near silence. In 1982 he conducted his first proving of Scorpion, and has since completed 21 thorough provings.

He has written The Dynamics and Methodology of Homoeopathic Provings, which has become a standard textbook in most colleges and the basis of worldwide proving guidelines. It has been translated into French, German, and Russian.

He was awarded a fellowship from the Society of Homoeopaths in 1991 and a Ph.D. from Medicina Alternativa. He is a Member of the North American Society of Homoeopaths, and is an honorary professor of Yunan Medical College, Kunming, China.

Some of his publications are:

• The Proving of Plutonium Nitricum and the Collective Toxicology of Ionizing Radiation - 1999
• Dynamic Provings, Volume 1- 1997
• The Dynamics and Methodology of Homoeopathic Provings, 1st & 2nd ed. - 1994, 1997
  Translated into French, Russian, German, Spanish, Italian
• The Proving of Chocolate - 1994
• The Proving of Hydrogen - 1992
• The Proving of Scorpion - 1985
• Dynamic Provings, Vol. 2 - 2001
• Dynamic Materia Medica, Vol. 1 - 2001

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Contents

Introduction -- 5

Chocolate - The Facts -- 7
Cocoa - Allen -- 19
Comment -- 21
Anecdotal Information -- 23
Cases -- 37
Provers and Potencies -- 39
Method of Proving -- 40
Pharmaceutical Preparation -- 41

The Proving Prover No.1 -- 42 Mind to Generalities -- 61 Notes --149

Repertory Introduction -- 152 Mind to Generalities -- 154

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