2 Quick, brief and vigorous aggravation followed by speedy relief: a sign that improvements will be of long duration and structural changes are in non vital organs. Abscesses and suppurations may appear as part of the aggravation.

3 No observable aggravation, steady recovery: there is little organic disease. The condition is superficial, nervous rather than structural.

4 Individual symptoms stand out clearer and the patient feels better: the patient will experience the return of old symptoms in the reverse order of their coming.

5 Provings: the healthy patient will develop the symptoms of the remedy. His constitutional state will also have an effect which should be subtracted from the symptoms.