Inonotus obliquus

Chaga Proving.
Source: Great Lake provings.
Master Prover: Mona Niebergall.Trituration & proving April 2015.Supervisors Maggie Olsen & Irene Moulton.
Provers; 4 women ages 50-65, 1 male age 18.This originally was a trituration proving that progressed to a 4-week proving after the provers agreed that they wanted to keep proving the remedy when the trituration was over.This was triturated to a C-4 and then the provers took 1 dose of a 30ch of the remedy to continue with the proving.
***T1-T5 represents the 5 provers experience during the trituration.
***P1-P5 represents the continuation of the proving over a 4-week period.Special thanks to Patricia Maher and Torey Lee for their guidance and wisdom in compiling all the data.Botany
Common names: Chaga, Sterile Conch, Cinder Conch, Birch Fungus, Tinder Fungus Clinker Polypore.Kingdom: Fungi.Division: Basidiomycota.
Class: Agaricomycetes.
Order: Hymenochaetales.
Family: Hymenochaetaceae.
Genus: Inonotus.
Species: Inonotus obliquus.DescriptionInonotus is a parasitic mushroom, or more properly a sclerotium. It establishes an extensive network of mycelium under the bark of a tree, often for several years before emerging and becoming visible. The main body of Chaga that becomes visible is not the “fruiting body”.  It is actually a dense sterile mass of mycelia that appears reddish-brown or orange and slightly spongy, underneath the black, crusty-looking, sterile “conk” or sclerotium which resembles burnt charcoal, erupting through the bark of the host tree. The conk may be up to 40 cm in diameter and project up to 15 cm out from the trunk. Generally, the conk does not appear until after the host tree has died as it causes a form of white rot in the heartwood, but in some cases it may start to appear when there is still life in the tree.Habitat: Indigenous Chaga grows on Betulaceae family members, primarly Betula species (occasionally on Beech, Maple, Mountain Ash or Aspen), in the northern boreal forests of the Northern hemisphere. May be found in isolated locations, usually found inhabiting several or many trees in one locations, throughout Central and Northern B.C. Colonies of Chaga seem to be most apparent in old stands of Birch along the river and lake valleys.Medicinal uses: Anti-tumour. Antiviral. Anti-microbial. Anti-HIV. Stomachic. Anti-inflammatory. Hypotensive. Hypoglycemic. Antioxidant. Immune System Booster. As Inonotus is a circum-boreal species, it was used primarily by Northern peoples of Europe, Asia and North America. Known and used for centuries by Russian and Siberian people, Chaga is a fairly recent introduction to Western Herbalism.The use of Inonotus has also been documented in TCM for several hundred years. Chaga is now used to treat many disorders including gastritis and ulcers, TB, HIV, and auto-immune disorders such as psoriasis or rheumatoid arthritis, but is best known as a cancer treatment. Studies have confirmed Chaga’s anti-tumour effects against several cancers, and in Russia, Chaga has been approved for use to treat breast, cervical, stomach and lung cancers since 1955.  Inhibitory effects have also been shown against HIV in vitro. Inonotus contains the highest amount of antioxidants (in particular superoxide dismutase) of any substance consumed by humans. It has been shown in at least one study to improve brain functions involving learning and memory. It has been generally used as a decoction or a fluid extract. A large number of commercial preparations of Chaga are available, teas, extracts, syrups and balms.Traditional First Nation Uses: Used as a pain reliever, particularly for joint and muscle pain, rheumatism. The decoction is given to children who are not thriving to help gain weight. A decoction for heart condition and high blood pressure is also used.Parts used: Reddish-brown spongy mass underneath the corky black surface material is generally the part used but many sources indicate the whole sclerotium can be used.Harvest: Any time. Cut into pieces and then dry for use.Other uses: Chaga makes an excellent tinder that will hold a spark for several hours so that a fire can be carried, as indicated by one of its common names.Constituents: Amino acids, Phenolic compounds; melanins, B-D-glucans. Triterpenes; Inotodiol. Lanostante-type triterpenoids. Sesquiterpenes; bergamotine, eduesmol; santealene. Ergosterol derivatives. Falvonoids; Inodiol, tramentenolic acid; Betulin, betulinic acid. Fatty acids; linolic. Saponins. Calcium, copper, iron, phosphorous, potassium, magnesium, selenium, zinc.  Germanium, Vitamins B1, B2, B3, D2 and K.Cautions of Contraindications: May be contraindicated when taking antibiotics including penicillin.Other Species in British Columbia: Several other species of Inonotus are found in the province in isolated and /or single occurrences. Most have the appearance of a type of shelf fungus. Most have no common names. None have been investigated or are known to have any medicinal values at this point.From Robert Rogers-“ Mushroom Essences Book”.The Essence of Chaga: Indications, belief, cancer, constriction, self- doubt and pineal gland, pituitary, karma, indoctrination, religion.
Chaga is associated with emotional and spiritual constriction and is useful for individuals whose rigid belief systems have diminished their vitality and energy.
Colors of the Chaga are black which represents heaviness, issues of death, decay and lack of awareness. Rusty brown represents blood, groundedness, instincts and lower emotions.”Betulaceae Family, The Birch Tree.Represents protective tree against evil spirits and the evil eye. Symbolizes fertility and love. Used as an instrument of punishment in medieval times and as a symbol of authority and as a means of correction. To the druids the tree represented wisdom, like a young bard in training. Birch is said to help us confront ourselves in relationships. From reading the proving the essence of the remedy was the fear to express oneself, to show the inner core to the outside world. Isn’t it interesting that not showing its inner core to the world allows for the Chaga to feed off of it and be represented on the outside instead of the tree itself. Jan Scholten describes this tree/plant as more silent and like to be on their own, which showed up in the trituration and the proving as well.Birch gives the essence of truth and is considered the “giving tree.” It is given in a flower essence for confusion or disorientation about the direction life should take.  For people unable to connect and with deeper levels of insight regarding life purpose.Aspects of the proving that could be.Birch vs Fungal:Communication/ lack of communication- / Both.Anger/irritation more fungal.
Environment/destruction/ Fungal.
Animals/ Birch.
Energized/exhausted/ Both.
Focus/memory/ both.
Colors/ sound enhance- both.
Spacey/stoned /shamanic/ medicine/ both.
Food/ both.
Betrayal/ both.
Music  not sure.
Past life/ deja-vu  - fungal.
Sleep/sleepiness- both.
Environmental destruction- fungal.
Violence and death- fungal.
Dreams- fungal.Commentary from the Master Prover, May 2017.Publishing the results of this Trituration and 4-week proving has become a daunting task. The information has seemed overwhelming and I needed to get my head wrapped around all the aspects of this remedy because it has plant, fungal and imponderable quality to this remedy. I did not consume any of this remedy, but I was greatly affected by it. My memory was non-existent, and I really struggled during the trituration itself to keep everything on track. I wrote things down repeatedly for a reminder. It was like my memory and focus were non-existent and it made me anxious. It was a spaced out drugged kind of feeling, like I had lost my ability to remember or keep anything clear in my mind. Very terrifying because I knew I had to supervise the trituration and I needed to be on top of things. I really struggled through the trituration, and during the extraction meeting it was very difficult to stay on task. It felt like my brain was going through sludge. During the trituration itself I felt like time and space were altered. Very surreal process. Putting together the information for this proving it seems like the information keeps on growing as I write and yet I am determined to finish the process!! This is a slow growing fungus that can take 7-10 years to come to fruition and I feel like the final writing of this proving has followed that process much to my dismay.Communication/Lack of CommunicationRight from the beginning people had the wrong date and time for the trituration. Provers did not have the desire to communicate in regard to journaling or drawing. They did not want to keep notes in regard to the proving itself, or keep in contact with their supervisor. From the beginning of the proving there was communication issues and it lasted until after the extraction meeting itself. 1 prover didn’t come to the extraction meeting, 1 prover was 30 minutes late, and 1 supervisor couldn’t stay on-line through out the extraction meeting and left the meeting early.
The whole essence of the proving became stagnant and ended early. The remedy just seemed to stop working after about 4 weeks.Chaga Addiction/ CancerThis remedy was very addictive for people. People wanted to eat it throughout the proving or drink it as a tea. If they drank it they drank a lot of it, not just one cup. It was like a drug for some provers, and even though it wasn’t a pleasant experience people kept sleeping with the remedy under their pillow. One prover reported that the packet of the remedy "scratched her" when she took it out from under the pillow. Throughout the whole trituration when the pellets were "jumping out of the mortar" people were eating the pellets. The provers had many experiences with acquaintances offering them Chaga or telling them about Chaga while they were doing this proving. Many of the provers commented that the Chaga was everywhere and everyone they spoke to were "doing Chaga." It had an invasive quality to it right from the beginning. Even though the provers weren't supposed to know what they were proving as soon as they walked in the house one of the provers was grinding the Chaga and it was soon discovered by everyone that we were proving the "Chaga" on that day.Many months later one prover is still eating pieces of Chaga frequently. It’s almost becoming common place for people to be consuming Chaga on a regular basis. A comment from one prover is that it is penetrating everywhere even at Starbucks. (This is not true, but the comment was made.).Murder/Violence/Betrayal
Dreams from Proving:
Dreams that occurred in the 4 weeks of proving had a lot of darkness, murder, fear of outside influences. One prover dreamed that someone broke into her house and killed our dogs. "Dreamt of a flood of the earth, I was looking at all the devastation and ponds wondering if there was any fish in then. Trees and grass were scattered in between the pools and there wasn’t a lot of color to the scene."Deliverance like dream. Didn't recognize any of the faces. All people I've never seen before. We were kidnapped and my partner and I. Held in a rural house by a family. Were accused of killing 2 of our captors. I don't know if we actually did it. We escaped but were separated. I found someone who took me home and to call the police. But they didn't call the police. They were friends of the deliverance people and called them. Realized what they were up to and snuck out.
Dream ended- it felt like watching a movie and you know something bad is going to happen. Very clear and vivid. "Violent, and fearful dreams, annihilating, kidnapped, false accusations and betrayal.Dreamed that my son is going kill us.
Prolific dreams or dreams stopped completely, deep sleep. Unremembered dreams.Dreamt about vaccinations. I was being vaccinated then they gave me a cookie and when I asked what it was for they said it was a cold vaccine. When I turned the cookie over it had a big green splat that looked like sputum. I threw it away immediately.Notable Issues During Trituration and Proving:
During the proving it felt like things were cyclical. Every 2 weeks things would re-occur. In the process of C1-C4 trituration 2 ceramic spoons were broken in half. a lot of provers had intermittent physical and mental things coming and going.3 provers and 2 supervisors had hospital crises in a 2 week period. All of the hospital crisis had to do with heart related issues.Death was very prevalent in the proving but feeling very composed and calm amongst it all. Death was also a theme in the dreams, as well as murder and violence. This is common to fungal remedies. A possible good remedy for concussion or ADD, hard time remembering words, and staying on task.Synchronicity: while doing proving getting a package of Chaga from a neighbour wanting me to make a tincture out of it. Very strange. Felt like things were going in cycles. I was putting together a recipe book during the proving and I kept getting recipes sent to me either all at once or none at all.The room we were triturating in became very cold and 4 out of the 5 provers had to wrap their feet in blankets. It was a beautiful Spring day outside, with sunshine.Curative healing of right foot issue that has not healed for over 4 months, felt like original injury of horse stepping on my foot.Pellets continually jumping out of the mortar, could not be ground down not even after 4 hours. After the trituration the provers were intent on seeing what would happen to the pellets without the Chaga in the mortar. People couldn't believe it when the pellets broke down into powder in a few minutes of trituration. They worked so hard to break the Chaga down, but even after all that time they didn't break completely down.*The trituration process suggested that Chaga can break down the hardest of tumors in a body*.ProvingMindT4: Feeling trapped.
T5: Feeling alone in a group, crowd.
T4: Desire to be alone, content.
T4: Feeling very rooted. Desire to stay home.
T4: Avoidance of people.
T4: Huge desire to be around trees and not people.
P1: Scattered anxiety with the drive back and forth from Granville Island.Anger/IrritationT3: Bitter betrayal.
T5: grieving for our water and animals.
T5: angry destroying the world.
T3: feelings of being observed.
T4: had to stop myself from going on a rant last time.
T3: a good remedy for anger, it keeps coming up.
P1: Having periods of impatience.Environment/DestructionT5: I feel protective of the Chaga. They’re so exploited.
T5: trust in universal time. Fruit and root day today. Planted my raspberry canes.
T4: Burned house, loss/things you lose. There were positive things to come out of the fire. We restructured the design of the house.
T4: they’re harvesting it when they find it (chaga) when you see it harvest it.
T4: chaga is not fast growing like black fungus. It grows on dying trees. The trees are infested with mycelium not sure if it kills the tree.
T1: birch is one of my favorite trees.
T5: watching. Needing to harvest more cotton wood.
T5: grieving for the waters of the earth. Still feel high yet exhausted.
T4: warning to all that we need to take notice. All about money. Contingencies in place.
T5: Feeling things on a personal level, we need to pull it together worldwide.
T1: talking about fire.
T4: unstable 15 nuclear power plants all on a fault line.
T1: mother earth is going to shake again.
T5: Chaga medicinal principles to help with destruction.
T5: angry need a remedy. Humans destroying world. Mount Polly disaster in our own back yard.
T5: Talk of raping and pillaging, cutting down the birch to harvest.
T4: Antiques, irreplaceable.
T5: unstable 15 nuclear power plants all on a fault line.
T5: Chaga medicinal principles to help with destruction.
T5: angry need a remedy. Humans destroying world. Mount Polly disaster in our own back yard.
T5: Talk of raping and pillaging, cutting down the birch to harvest.
P4: Big storm took out power lines just a couple up the road. Couldn't get a vehicle out of our driveway.
P4: This feels like a disaster remedy and I want it to end.
P3: Since being at the hospital with my grandfather I have watched one person die every day. Their spirit move on; freaks me out a little.AnimalsT3: Snakes Iguanas Rainbow boa.
T3: rainbow boa slithers around prover and glows in the light.
T3: what do I do with the lizards?.
T3: Dungeon, snakes walk both sides of life.
T1: had a pet crow while growing up.
T3: the pellets resemble frog eggs.
T5: Blue Heron and rabbits.
T4: Red Headed Woodpecker.
T3: Fear of dirt/animals, sad existence snake at bottom of stairs.
P4: Woodpeckers are attacking my house during the proving.
P4: Almost hit by two different deer in one week while I am doing this proving. (Woodpeckers like Birch trees to live in and are full of bugs) Chaga grows primarily on birch trees.Energized/Tired/ExhaustedT5: dreamy and thrilled without the excitement.
T5: I want to take a nap.  Want to curl up and get a massage.
T4: more awareness of the body.
T3: just letting it be. Taking care, nurturing it.
T5: felt the calmest of the whole day.
T1: felt spent of all the ups and downs of the day.
T5: this remedy can be used to calm. Feeling super excited and grounded. Bipolar mood changes maybe. Feeling grounded stable calmness.
T3: could take a nap. Feel sleepy.
T5: Exhausted, tired, tired, tired.Focus/MemoryT5: I changed direction with my grinding.
T5: Very focused over the bowl and slow to pass the bowl on.
T1: Calm when I came in, more focused now.
T5: tried reading from a book. Can’t see anything can’t read.
T3: determined to break down pellets “I feel like one gets crushed and 4 more problems are added.” It feels like my whole body is in the trituration.
T1: lost in her process while triturating, didn’t hear the timer.
T1: withdrawn / out of the loop.
T4: My mission is to grind this up.
T1: can’t believe that it’s time already. Over cradling the bowl like a baby; nurturing the bowl.
T2: by the time it goes around and it’s your time to speak it feels not as connected. When your grinding the pellets you feel very connected.
T4: intensity of focus.
T5: I feel dreamy intentional thrilled and yet not excited.
T4: feels intention as well calm feeling feel like working hard.
T2: very strange that the pellets are not breaking down.
T2: too many sugar pills here. Very focused like addicted to it (trituration).
T1: a lot more alert. Can’t believe its time already.
T3: memory coming back more positive.
T2: I think you forget when you’re doing it. Not the same frame of mind, kind of meditating, calming, relaxing, get into it and don’t hear the timer. In the moment lost connection, individual experience.
T4: I could have drifted and gone (trituration) Want to do more. Continue to see where it goes.
T3: feel forgetful, feel gone, can’t remember complex words, can’t remember words like fluffy and light.
T5: kind of a mono focus. Things vibrating fast.
P1: Loss of focus can't remember what I was going to do.
P1: Nice to drive home but found it hard to focus on driving, attention kept going to day dreams thinking of Arnica plant. Happened a few times.Food/RavenousT5: I want to eat the pellets but not from hunger.
T5: I’m looking for the jumped out pellets: I feel carnivorous, “calling the pellets, my precious”.
T5: Eats a pellet “I feel better” I feel hungry but I don’t want to eat”.
T4: focused, straighter, light. Not negative or depressed.
T3: feels famished.
T4: talks about being addicted to chocolate but not wanting any.
T3: loss of appetite is my normal state. Now I want more food.
T3: feeling hungry again.
T3: nurturing pellets like eggs. eggs keep coming up spraying eggs.
T5: pellets referenced to frog eggs.
T2: not eating (usually has a large appetite).
T4: Cancer won’t let you eat.
P3: The hunger I experienced is almost gone now and I feel lazy, sluggish.Betrayal.T5: Conversation about books, knowledge and lending people books and not getting them back.
T3: Talk of taking remedies, alchemy, old medicine, taking courses.
P1:   Didn't sleep well had dream of confrontation with BC.
P1: Dreamt about teacher who trained me in the work that I do. I stood up to her and said, "no more. The whole thing is stupid. Feel that it was sabotaged. Feel like I didn't get trained properly and it was about the money for her. I did the work.MusicT1: madly in love with Waylon Jennings.
T1: Gravelly voices of singers.
T4: “I Do” unless Tom Petty comes into my life.
T4: keep thinking of bob Dylan: Johnny’s in the basement.
T5: like a rolling stone album. Pellets jumping out.Past Life/Regression/De Ja VuAll the provers agreed with this statement during the trituration that they had all been a part of many life times of healing.
T1: I was a witch. They drowned me. People believed if you were a witch you could save yourself.
T4: I was thrown from a bridge.
T3: Past lives – Secret service for Kennedy – Old man with a cane. Came out of a trance and the woman who transgressed me was very excited. Remember the hall people – Camelot – Merlin – an amazing experience.
T5: We have done this before in the old days. We were doing this in the past all having dresses on in medieval times. Gives me shivers. Done this before. The circle.
T3: we would have to hide doing this 100 years ago. Winston Churchill took the law of burning witches off the books in 1950’s.
P1: Comment that was made about getting a job, I remembered that I had heard Maggie talk of this job before, and I don't know her at all. Felt like deja-vu.Purple/ColorsT5: sees purple.
T1: saw orange to pure red.
T3: sees purple in the mortar.
T5: hands looked purple.
T3: purple vibrating.
T1: color changing of the pellets in front, tripping out things are accentuated.
T5: Everything is enhanced, like trees, mushrooms, colors.Rhythm / Mesmerizing / HypnotizedT1: This is mesmerizing.
T2: Going this way and that, I have no rhythm.
T2: want to look into the bowl, mesmerized.
T1: I could have spent the rest of the day scraping.
        This doesn’t feel like a chore. Cathartic. Like splitting wood rhythmic.
T4: shut out / focus / external stuff not important.
T1: rhythm was different each time.
T1: sounds like a rhythm being created by the substance.
T5: still want to eat them badly. The medicine itself is very elusive. Like it hides.
T2: no rhythm like other provers.
T5: I couldn’t stop watching it. I couldn’t look away.
T1: I feel myself drifting away from the room. Focus drawn into the pellets they fascinate me.
T4: sound of trituration calm rhythmic. Could almost dance.
T5: feels like being hypnotized and addictive. Feel like shutting everyone out and  keeping the remedy for myself.
T5: I felt driven.Enhanced SoundT3: listening to sound of mortar like a stampede of horses.
T2: toilet noise is annoying.
T1: sounds like thunder when triturating.
T2: I didn’t like the interrupting, external interruptions.
T3: The sound of the tinkling spoon was irritating.
T2: In tune to sounds, hearing enhanced.Spacey/Stoned/Ceremony/ShamanicT3: Mordor instead of Mortar/Pestle.
T3: What’s normal to the spider is chaos to the fly”.
T1: Warm bowl: Feel the energy of it.
T3: Vibrational, shaking energy.
T1: drifting away from the room.
T3: forgetful, feel gone, happy fluffy and light, out of body not remembering words.
T5: don’t you wish we could all live together and do this all the time.
T4: good group for a proving.
T5: getting grounded again, I can read again, I feel like this when I come out of.         Ceremony (native ritual).T5: felt high.
T5: I go between being easy and light.
T1: Singular focus, mono focus.
T5: exhausted.
T1: spacey relaxed Felt moving wave of the house and space.
T5: stars, star nation, shaped globular stars.
T5: I see a flower in the petal pattern a sunflower a mosaic seed.
T2: I see a geometric pattern like a triangle.
T4: I see a mosaic.
T3: My Grandfather showed up and tapped me on the shoulder.
T3: want to keep the pestle clean and did not want to put it down.
T3: Chinese woman put 2 dead lizards in my hand. To make into fertility medicine.
T5: feels stoned. Tripping out feeling high.
T1: feeling dreamy.
T5: feeling dreamy intentional, thrilled yet not excited.
T3: These pellets fascinate me.
T3: it must be like a supervisor watching drunk people.
T3: everything feels enhanced. Like trees mushrooms and colors.
T3: feel like a kid with too much alcohol with brain trauma. Unable to put words.TogetherT1: feel stoned. It’s like a high like when I have fasted.
P1: I left the hotel and realized all that I forgot, I'm a bit scattered.MedicineT3: Talk of taking remedies, alchemy, old medicine, taking courses.
T4: Witchy woman, chaga feed off Birch trees.
T4: Chaga medicinal principles to help with "DESTRUCTION". I find people by smelling them.
T4: Talk about the legend of Chaga after a scab was ripped off an arm.
T3: The medicine is very elusive, like it hides.
T5: Talked about herbal medicine.
T3: Feels like whole body is in the trituration.
T5: Medicine reveals the truth.
T5: St John's Wort, sparkly. Tincture bright and sad grieving. Quesnel Lake makes me cry. Grieving for the waters of the earth, still feel high, yet exhausted.
T4: Mushrooms being used to clean up toxic sites and various fungus used.
T5: Using this remedy to heal our earth.
T4: It's not fast growing Chaga, like black widow fungus grows on dying trees, trees infested with mycelium not sure if it kills the tree.Sleep/ SleepinessT5: feel like I could curl up and have a nap (Prover 5 had a nap during the trituration).
T5: also went and did some spinning on her head (during the trituration).
P3: Woke up early, and felt sleep deprived all day.
P2: Sleeping better than I usually do. Good sleeps for the most part.
P3: Trying to sleep and there was a pounding in my chest almost an irregular and heavy heartbeat as if it were trying to beat out of my chest, worrisome.
P1: Did not sleep restfully although I slept I woke with a headache. Couldn't wait to get out of the room and be by myself.
P1: Slept really sound but low energy today.GeneralsLots of healing energy talks during the trituration.
Just have fun with it. Doesn’t have to be perfect, comments.
Don't you wish we all lived together and do this all the time (trituration).
People can only harm things they are disconnected to.
People disconnected, people don't feel it.
Hearts so closed disconnected.T5: Left group in the middle of trituration to balance on her head in another room. No one seemed to notice or care.
T3: loves the number 3. Start of c3 trituration.
T4:   this is draining, like work, a lot of work.
T3: the more we do it the more work it is.
P3: People seem to be interested in me and enjoy my presence more; weird.
P3: Developed strep throat while visiting grandpa in hospital. Not sure if it’s part of the proving or a result of being in the hospital. Dr. Prescribed antibiotics, not taking them unless necessary. Had a thought about this strep throat thing a few days later and it could be a side effect of the tubes that are down grandpa's throat.
P1: Old pains in ribs that come and go.
P1: Numbness that comes and goes in C6 and C7.
P1: Nice to have jobs done for the AGM but taking away my job should have been done differently. Feel they just took my job away and not even an acknowledgement of all my time, although some individuals thanked me.
P1: Have to tell my husband that I don't want to do this tracking thing anymore.
P4: Braiding my hair every night, I haven't done that in years.Dichotomy.Fast, slow.
Quiet, Loud.
Reverence for earth to joking about person dying and getting information.
Hungry to not hungry.
Excited to sleepy.
All-inclusive to singular mono.
Desire to be in group to being off on their own.
Energy in the room going high to low, people excited and then yawning.Physical Symptoms From Trituration and ProvingHead
T4: awareness of dizziness on top of head. Like a top spinning.
T5: pain left upper side.
T2: sensation of swirling around the top of head.
T1: head feels like it’s off to the left side.
T3: right side head pain.
T3: pressure in my head, right side, hard to focus.
P3: strep throat (sensation).
P4: frontal headaches feel more like congestion. Feels like it hurts to think. Might be pressure change from the weather.
P4: Head Pain, feels neurologic. More of a spasm in my head.EyesT4: right eye tearing.
T1: eyes feeling dry. Burning dry.
T3: eyes wet. Tearing outside corners.
T2:outer corner right eye watering.
T4:dizziness upon shutting eyes.
P4: eyes watering in the morning.
P4: suggestion of an earache. Not necessarily painful.EarsT4: ringing in right ear.
T1: pressure and ringing in the ears.
P1: ringing in ears, left ear feels heavy.
P4: weird sensation in ears. Not ringing, but muffled ears.NoseT2: loose mucus.
T3: sniffling.
P4: sinuses dryer. Much less nasal waste than normal.ThroatP4: had to try clear throat 3 times before I could speak. Gluey mucous build up.
P4: tightness or constriction.
P4: fell like sore throat starting but not materializing. Been off and on for a few days.
P3: Strep throat sensation that went away without antibiotics.Neck/ShouldersT3: stabbing pains in right shoulder.
T3: reconnective healing, popping in joints.
P1: left side of neck cracking and popping.
P3: Heavy heart beat as if it were trying to beat out of my chest.Stomach/AbdomenP1: gassy.
P3: sharp cramp like pain, Heart; right side.
P4: nausea couple of times a day. Nearly vomited. No desire for food.
P4: Abdominal pain, right side. Feels like my liver.
P3: Cramping in the middle of stomach as soon as I laid down.StoolP4: defecating little hard balls, but still regular, not constipated.
P4: defecating more often and more at a time.Genital/UrinaryT3: urinated 8 times in 5 hours. Has no previous bladder problem history.
P2: bladder infection during proving.
P4: intermittent uterine cramping.
P4: mild hemorrhoid sensation.
P4: intermittent strange sensation in the urethral opening. Much urgency to urinating. No pain. (Barely made it to the bathroom sometimes).
P4: lower abdominal cramping. More uterine than intestinal.BackT4: Sitting straighter.
T4: Back feels straighter.
T4: Feeling centered.
T1: twinge in my left sacrum 1 -2nd joint feels like an old injury.
T1: stab in back right side.
T3: cracking spine both sides.
T1: back stabbing pain. Moving and shifting pains in ribs. Hard bone stuff, more left sided.
P1: issue with T2-T3. Seems easier today. Pain in left arm associated with that is gone.
P1: lower rib cage very sore like something released.
P1: rib cage feels like a band around them and a bulging in my belly pushing up.
P1: lower spine readjusting. I felt taller and straighter.
P4: feeling like a bruising in the middle of my spine, more towards the left side.Extremities.******Cold hands and feet: all but one prover.
T1: hips tightness on top.
T2: pain going down left side leg.
T4: twinge in right elbow.
T5: both hands tingling, red inside and quite warm.
T4: hands redder than usual.
T1: chipping, cracking, peeling nails. Snapping off at the tips.
T3: Arm feels more elastic.
P4-cramping and tightening of muscles while and after walking.
P4-blood blisters became like a dry fire burn on the surface. Flat and crusty.
P4: Finger, sharp stabbing pain. Like a needle going into my forefinger on left hand.
T3: pain on the top of his right foot.
P4: Foot cramping.
P4: chronic right foot injury pain is gone.  ***curative healing from remedy****.
P1: Contracted the Noro Virus during the proving. *******.DreamsSome of the provers had violent fearful catastrophic annihilation type dreams.P4: Deliverance like dream. Didn't recognize any of the faces. All the people I've never seen before. We were kidnapped, my partner and me. I don't know who my partner was. Held in a rural house by family. We were accused of killing 2 of our captors. I don't know if we; did it.  We escaped but were separated. The rural scene morphed into what seemed to be a semi urban area close to the border maybe near Twawwassen or Point Roberts.  I found someone who took me home and to call the police. But they didn't call the police. They were friends of the deliverance people and called them. Realized what they were up to and snuck out. Dream ended-it felt like watching a movie and you know something bad is going to happen. Very clear and vivid.  Being chased, being held captive, killing, accusations, betrayal and escape.
P4: Dreamt about vaccinations. I was being vaccinated then they gave me a cookie and when I asked what it was for they said it was a cold vaccine. When I turned the cookie over it had a big green splat that looked like sputum. I threw it away immediately.
P2: Someone broke into our house and killed our dogs.
P5: Dream that her son was going to kill them.
P4: Big storm took out power lines just a couple up the road. Couldn't get a vehicle out of our driveway. Called a neighbor and she came and picked me up. So not really trapped, but delusion I was trapped.
P4: Dream of a guy putting together a gang. Not sure why or who any of them were, but they were all very unsavory individuals. I didn't recognize any of the faces and no idea why I was there. I wasn't frightened by any of them. It was like I knew them even though I didn't recognize them. The guy putting this together I DID know him.  He used to come into the pub I used to work in, but he was a real wanna be, just a hanger on punk. Not sure what that was all about. What kind of gang it was, or what they were going to be doing. But it wasn't going to be legal whatever it was.
P5: Dreamt of a flood of the earth. I was looking at all the devastation and ponds wondering if there was any fish in them.  Trees and grass were scattered in between the pools and there wasn't a lot of color to the scene.
P4: Brief dream about money. Think I was needing some money for something. Found some then had money repaid that was owed to me.
P1: Big German Shepherd and I played together. In the car, the dog crawled from the back seat and wouldn't get down. He pinned me down. Really restricted couldn't move. I had a bit of fear. On the surface it felt safe, but it wasn't safe after all. The owner of the dog wouldn't let me go. He wouldn't do anything. I thought the dog and I were friends.
P1: dreamt about teacher who trained me in the work that I do. I stood up to her and said no more. The whole thing is stupid. Feel that I was sabotaged. Feel like I didn't get trained properly and it was about the money for her. I did the work.
P1: Woke up from dream being interrogated. What happened on Nov 3rd? It is my mother's birthday and my mother died 32 years ago.
P1: waking at 3 am. Can't remember dream.
P5: Dreams of anger.
P4: A neighbor said that he had been past our house at night and said the glow from our "grow-op" was visible. Tried to tell him that it was just tomatoes and herbs. False accusations and betrayal.
P1: Dreams of husband driving again. Different, not a car.
P3 No dreams which is unusual for this prover. I AM A PROLIFIC DREAMER USUALLY.  .
P3: remembering walking around a house I don't remember and eating all the food.
P4: Fleeting thoughts more so than normal.
P4: G normally doesn't dream. Had a bad dream and weird people chasing him (Husband of prover #4).
P4: Halls and doorways that were very narrow and kept getting narrow as i walked through them. This is very unlike me to have so many recollections of dreams in such a short time.ReferencesChaga Mushroom or Fungus also known as “King of the Herbs”.
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