Hans, during a proving, it's the experience of the disease rather than the actual disease that is produced. Lets take a remedy that produces a runny nose and fever and a few days later a blotchy rash that starts on the face. When we have a kid with measles, we might think of this remedy as a possible prescription. It doesn't mean that measles were produced during the proving. Often times when repertories have remedies listed under measles, it is a clinical SX, i.e., in clinical practice, the remedy has been found to be effective when someone has measles. In this case, the rubrics which would comprise the symptoms of measles were not necessarily produced during a proving. As for a hernia, the proving may have produced the same sensation that someone with a hernia would experience, but, as far as I know, none of the provings have ever produced actual pathological tissue changes.

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Shirley Reischman