Hydrogen was proved by Jeremy Sherr and his students at the Dynamis School in England. Because it is a new remedy, its full picture will become evident only over time. Most especially, the physical conditions and clinical entities most commonly associated with the remedy will only then become evident. Nevertheless, everything is present even at the beginning, and much can be said about the remedy based upon a careful reading of the proving in the light of what is known about the element.
Hydrogen is the most immediate material link to that mysterious and unknowable process by which the material universe arose: it is the something that first arose from nothing. Even today, billions of years after the Big Bang, 90% of all atoms are hydrogen, and all other elements are even now being created from hydrogen by thermonuclear fusion in the cores of the stars, the wombs of matter. On earth, likewise, it is from hydrogen, whose name means "water-forming," that that unique substance which is the mother of all terrestrial life, arises.
Hydrogen is the first element of the Periodic Table. As such, a case could be made that it belongs to the group 1A, which includes sodium and potassium (natrium and kalium), or in group 7B, the halides. In reality, it is unique, possessed of a dual nature, neither fully male, yang, metallic, an electron donor, nor fully female, yin, non-metallic, an electron acceptor.
Hydrogen is also the lightest gas. It may be said that it epitomizes lightness and upward diffusion, and, by extension, "spaced-out-ness," but also lack of grounding, severance of connection with reality.
Those of us who are not physicists or chemists might immediately think "bomb" when we hear the word "hydrogen". Thermonuclear fusion may eventually be our salvation, since it promises an inexhaustible and almost pollution-free source of energy, or "fire," but in our time, it has been the substance of our worst collective nightmare. Here again we have the dual nature of hydrogen: it is pure energy, limitless, at once the fire that liberates, and the all-consuming holocaust.
It is with all this in mind that we must consider the remedy.
Thus, the first symptom in Jeremy's Sherr's Materia Medica of Hydrogen is: "It dawned on me that it was as if there was a shift in the universe." We have also: "The general impression is that the prover entered a larger totality/dimension in terms of space and time, whereupon all previous or smaller totalities became trivial and alien..." Another prover of hydrogen (hydrogen the mother of all things), gives: "Almost the impression that I am pregnant. Many old sensations and emotions from previous pregnancies recurred. Like having another person inside of me. All physical symptoms of pregnancy. Went for a test. " Yet another reports: "I can honestly say I'll never be the same again - a bit like having a baby..."
The diffuse, ethereal quality of the element is reflected in: "Everything feels lighter and more clear"; "Feeling spacey, lightheaded"; "Feel spaced," "feeling of being out of reality." Eventually this becomes "I felt I had gone mad, possessed, hysterical laughter, singing and a feeling of non-reality, as if in a dream, out of the body - like my mind went out of the window," or "I feel I have moved into a different state of consciousness and there aren't any guiding posts or means of navigation - a bit like being lost in space."
When terrestrial contact is completely lost, we have the report of one prover who felt "... in the presence of a totally pure energy, like meeting God... I felt overflowing love for humanity and wanted to give everything away. My mind turned to the Buddha. It was like seeing the complete picture instead of fragmented bits;" and "Greatly increased tendency to theorize and philosophize, especially concerning esoteric matters." Unfortunately this reflects a diseased state, rather than true mystical ecstasy, and the proving reports that these latter effects lasted for 28 days, and then changed to a paranoid state. As this same prover reports: "There is a very fine line ... between enlightenment and insanity - a split consciousness... I guess the price of going into the heavens is a trip to hell."
Even the body reflects this "lightness": "My appetite is gone. I just want light food;" "Appetite diminished, with weight loss."
The proving manifests "thermonuclear" quantities of energy, as in "Doing everything faster - driving faster than usual;" "Charged around like a bull in a china shop;" "During fever, mind working in a kind of frantic haste - a sense of panic." Always bipolar, however, hydrogen also manifests as "Moving slower than usual."
Again, there is high sexual energy, but also lack of sexual interest, and hydrogen the hermaphrodite produces confusion of gender, even to the point of altering the secondary sexual characteristics in a woman: in the same prover, in separate provings, her moustache first disappeared and her breasts grew, and later, she felt "anxiety about being masculine ... harder inside. " A male prover became confused about his sexual orientation, developing bi-sexual and homosexual inclinations.
The remedy produces elation, fear, irritability, and likewise their opposite states. One prover expresses it succinctly: "Experiencing swings of mood from one extreme to the other."
This is but a brief sketch of Hydrogen, indicating the shape of the structure upon which it is hung. The reader is referred to "The Homeopathic Proving of Hydrogen, " which may be obtained by writing to :
Jeremy Sherr
69 West Malvern Rd
Malvern Worcs UK WR14 4NF
A study of the proving with the above outline in mind will be quite rewarding.