A Proving of Abies pinsapo with AI Analysis

By Richard Pitt & Simone Ruggeri (AI Analysis)

ABSTRACT

The trituration proving of Abies pinsapo was carried out in October 2025 in Southern Spain. There were 15 participants, with two of them knowing the substance. Trituration provings involve the making of the remedy to a 3c using the traditional trituration method established by Hahnemann. The analysis of the proving has been done through the conventional analytical way and also using AI technology so a comparative study can be made between the two methods. So along with the proving which explores the possible uses of a new remedy, we’ve employed Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help analyse the data. This is a novel form of comparative analysis offering a different lens with which to organize, validate and perceive the information. 

INTRODUCTION

A proving of the tree, Abies pinsapo was carried out in Southern Spain with 15 participants, although the AI analysis below was done with only 12 provers notes. It was a trituration proving done up to a 3c. The initial trituration was done the year before but the 1c mixture was used to start this proving and was re-triturated for one hour before moving up to a 2c and then a 3c. It was a single blind proving. Only the coordinator and one other person knew the remedy. 

Abies pinsapo is a conifer tree in the Pinaceae sub family. The following description is taken from Wikipedia. Abies pinsapo, Spanish fir, is a species of tree in the family Pinaceae,[2][3] native to southern Spain and northern Morocco. Related to other species of Mediterranean firs, it appears at altitudes of 900–1,800 metres (3,000–5,900 ft) in the Sierra de Grazalema in the province of Cadiz and the Sierra del Nieves and Sierra Bermeja, both near Ronda in the province of Malaga. In Morocco, it is limited to the Rif Mountains at altitudes of 1,400–2,100 metres (4,600–6,900 ft) on Jebel Tissouka and Jebel Tazaot. The scientific name pinsapo is from the Spanish vernacular name for the species.

The Pinaceae, commonly known as the pine family, is a large and ecologically significant group of coniferous trees and shrubs, primarily found in the Northern Hemisphere. It is the largest extant conifer family in terms of species diversity, with estimates ranging between 220 and 250 species distributed across 11 genera. The family is part of the order Pinales, formerly known as Coniferales.

Major genera within the Pinaceae include Pinus (pines), Picea (spruces), Abies (firs), Tsuga (hemlocks), Cedrus (cedars), Larix (larches), Pseudotsuga (Douglas-firs), Keteleeria, Nothotsuga, Pseudolarix (golden larch), and Cathaya. Most members are evergreen trees, though larches (Larix) and the golden larch (Pseudolarix) are deciduous. These trees range in height from 2 to 100 meters (7 to 300 feet), with some species, such as certain spruces and pines, reaching over 300 feet (about 91 meters) tall.

The family is characterized by needle-like, linear leaves that are typically arranged spirally or in whorls, and are often aromatic due to the presence of resin. The trees are monoecious, bearing both male and female reproductive structures on the same plant. The female cones are woody and large, ranging from 2 to 60 centimeters in length, with spirally arranged scales that bear two winged seeds each. Male cones are smaller and herbaceous, producing pollen for wind dispersal.

Pinaceae species play a vital role in global ecosystems, forming the dominant component of boreal, coastal, and montane forests. They are crucial for soil stabilization, wildlife habitat, and climate regulation. Economically, they are among the most important gymnosperms, providing softwood timber, paper pulp, resin, turpentine, essential oils, and other products. The Monterey Pine (Pinus radiata) is the most widely planted tree in the world, cultivated for timber in regions such as sub-Saharan Africa, South America, New Zealand, and Australia.

Many species are long-lived, with the Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) known to survive for over 5,000 years, making it one of the oldest living organisms on Earth. Some species, like the Lodgepole Pine (Pinus contorta), have cones that only open after exposure to wildfire heat, ensuring regeneration after fires. The family is also culturally significant, with several species, including spruces, firs, and pines, commonly used as Christmas trees worldwide.

Fossil records indicate that the Pinaceae family has existed for over 200 million years, with the earliest crown group members appearing in the Upper Jurassic period around 157.3 to 154.7 million years ago. The family diverged from other conifers during the late Carboniferous, approximately 313 million years ago.  Molecular studies suggest that Gnetophyta is the sister group to the Pinaceae, with their lineages diverging in the early-mid Carboniferous. 

In homeopathy, the remedies Abies canadensis, Abies nigra, Pinus longaeva and Pinus silvestris are in the same sub-family. 

Images:

The following images were drawn and a poem written by one prover.

Poem:

Too big or too small, 

Too heavy or too light,

In or out, 

Dark or bright? 

Questions like these, we ask everyday, seeking to find our own, unique way. 

And what if we didn’t? What if we knew?

That all things in life are a beautiful part, 

Of the balance…of you. 

CONVENTIONAL PROVING ANALYSIS

Themes of proving: Words/Themes

Laughter

Laughter, contagious, alternating with seriousness 

Laughing, with no reason

Serious, somber

Seriousness, somber, Church.

Serious, feeling an outsider

Peacefulness, calmness, compassion: spacy/grounded

Peacefulness. Sense of stillness, more centred, less sensitive, alert. Sighing. More alert, self-accountable. 

Sensation in the heart associated with compassion and peace

A sense of spaceyness

Sensation of being at sea and swaying on the water with gentle movement of the water

A sense of weightlessness

A sense of timelessness

A sense of oceanic

Sometimes a feeling of being in an expanded state of endless space

A sense of peacefulness

Happy to be in this proving, it was very calm, and I didn’t have any sense of timing

Felt as if time had slowed down and so my awareness was very still

Available to a deeper contemplative expansiveness

I am feeling very peaceful, still, trance-like.

I feel this remedy is a truth serum and I want to tell myself the truth. I don’t want to pretend. I feel quite “ashamed “that I may be hiding something, although I don’t know what

Calm, grounded, but almost a bit high. At one with nature. As if taken drug

Needs to be grounded, sit on the floor and stretch legs and back 

Need to ground.

Not enough oxygen. No air

Calm, grounded, but almost a bit high. At one with nature. As if taken drug. 

Fluctuation between grounded calmness and restlessness, esp of toes. 

Hand to heart, down to ground and up into the heart. 

Stillness, space, hill. 

Desire for marshmallows, desire to touch something soft and squishy, very sensory. 

Song came into my head – Running up the hill – Kate Bush (If I only could make a deal with God and get him to swap our places). 

Felt like I was very alone on the top of a hill. 

Stillness, unable to move ankles. 

Irritation. 

Vastness, lots of space. 

Didn’t want to be rushed, important to slow down and take time. 

Restlessness, movement, rocking

Better for movement

Restlessness

Movement, direction, trains

Restlessness alt with calmness.

Desire to rock body side to side

Impatience

Speed it up, endurance

Never ending, impatience, agitation, longing for meaning

Tenacity, coming together. 

Feeling very impatient

Slowness

Slowness. Looking at the ceiling.

Sleepiness. Rip Van Wrinkle

Division, split, divided

Feel head divided into two. Felt split 

Group discordancy, fragmentation

Balance, support

Balance, holding head 

Balance issues, associated with ear pressure 

Waving from side to side, Desire to rock body side to side

Feeling lop-sided, leaning to the right. 

Need to rock from side to side and sense of lack of support. 

Holding head with hands, because it feels heavy, leans back. Head wants to tip backward, heavy head and neck. Must hold balance. Something pressing on shoulder

Support needed. Lower back wants to curve. Little bit sleepy but with impulse to shift energy, e.g. to dance. 

Lack of support 

Alone

Desire to be alone

“Time and tide wait for no man”

Travel

Wooden ship Galleon – the new World

Travel. Indians

“No time like the present”

Tall

Feeling very tall

SONG: “Blowing in the Wind’

Awareness of my Pineal Gland in the centre of my head

SONG: “For every season, turn, turn, turn” (The Byrds)

Anxiety and fear, with shakiness. 

Sensitive to surroundings. 

An opening or doorway into a tree, like I could go and sit inside it. 

Flies, insects, wasps, birds: sensitivity to noise

Sensitivity to noise, flies, a world outside the room 

Sensitivity to noise: irritability from, noise of insects.  Noise moves through body.  Sensitivity to noise, especially birds and people’s energies. General sensitivity 

Birds, noise, much louder and intense. Flies in room, annoying. 

Sensitivity to birds, outside and buzzing of flies. 

Loudness, flies, insects. Insects attracted to me at night. 

Impatience, irritability 

Flies, insects, wasps: flying, irritating 

Flying in the air, sky, birds, of prey, eagles, kites. Vision of a view over a mountain landscape again, view of eagles flying, possibly condors. big wings. 

Birds, noise, much louder and intense. 

Flies in room, annoying.  

Irritability: < noise, people.

Irritable < noise, proximity of people

Effort, tenacious, 

Effort, uphill, struggle

Effort to begin with. 

Effort, Hard, stuff to work through. (Trituration only wants to work clockwise.) endurance,  

Heat, stuffiness

Hot and stuffy, wants to be outside, birds and insects coming into room. Loud

Lack of oxygen, not able to breathe deeply. Sighing. Image of a forest floor. Image of frog and mushroom. Of rice and butterflies. 1

Family, ancestors, trauma

Again, aware of my blood, but this time BLOOD LINE came to my head and I was aware of my Father and his ancestors.

I asked what my father needs to allow him to die (he has advanced Alzheimer's ) 

I got some clear answers. 

I could see clearly the patterning in my brothers. ( who are locked in mutual contempt ) 

I then met my Mother’s sister who had died aged 2. leaving the whole family locked in grief

I was given remedies for all my family and told that it’s time for me to help them all clear some of their deep trauma. 

Then I had stabbing pains in my left breast.

I feel absolutely amazing 

Calm and cleaned….Ecstatic ….Happy ….Wise 

Over the following few days 

I treated my friend, and we really connected to her inner child. 

I had strong dreams - complex, but basically all about the wounding we have as people if we lack the love of either or both of our parents. How deep it runs and how hard it is for human beings to overcome this. 

However, I was also aware that it is not just about our parents, as we come in with our own “stuff”, sometimes ancestral, as do our parents 

I believe this remedy heals ancestral wounds. 

I had lots of self-doubt, paranoia, questioning my own authenticity.. it was quite dark! 

However … 

Pain, longing, intention, ringing, sighing

Involuntary twitching that happened on and off throughout the proving

Heat, sensation of. 

Resinous 

Restless, walk desire to

Longing

Jumping, heights

Trees, patterns, Triangles, earth and spirit

Visualizing plant, tree, bark with strong patterns. Light, gentle, beautiful, in the distance. Remedy is a plant; earth is light in colour and dry. Sense of peace within. Deep connection to source. 

Patterns, roof 

Triangles 

The world feels different today

Lots of chat about Source, connection between Earth and Spirit

Feeling centred

Feeling in service

Feeling surrender, with a connected heart

Babies, motherhood 

Shall I have a baby. Image of donkey with 2 babies. Of stork carrying baby. 

Journey of this being healing for mothers and babies. Working on womb and for male fertility. Good to give women in pregnancy to help to connect with baby and themselves. To make good choices regards pregnancy and birth, to help them relax and take seriously the true maternal instinct. 

Dreams

Babies, split, honesty, families, ancestry.

Dream that night: walking along the high street where I used to live with my pink kettle in hand. The lid broke and so I had to pour all the water out on the street and carry the kettle like a baby. I felt quite low and depressed, it felt like a Sunday. I went into a little clothes shop. A couple came in with their newborn asking for help as he wouldn’t stop crying and wouldn’t sleep. I looked at the baby and he was a little old man. I don't think his parents saw him that way. I think maybe I was seeing his soul and his parents couldn’t understand what he needed because they weren’t connecting to his soul. Then I told them he needs some Lycopodium! 

This remedy has been extremely grounding for me, but also helped me to be very much more honest with myself. 

I was very aware of how I was very “split” about my partner, and I had a dream in which he bought me a bag of sweets and he also took a bag of sweets to a younger, more naive, girl! He never came back to me, he stayed with her. His brother told me he wasn’t coming back. I was still bewildered! The dream was really disturbing. The next day I dreamt to take Saccharum off, which I did when I got home  - it brought out a lot of truth! Since then I have been very honest with my partner in a very gentle way, and I no longer feel split! 

(Journey of this being healing for mothers and babies. Working on womb and for male fertility. Good to give women in pregnancy to help to connect with baby and themselves. To make good choices regarding pregnancy and birth, to help them relax and take seriously the true maternal instinct.)

I feel it would help women to realise they do not need lots of medical treatment /intervention - NATURE KNOWS BEST. Powerful to deeply connect women to their maternal knowing.  

I treated my friend, and we really connected to her inner child. 

I had strong dreams - complex, but basically all about the wounding we have as people if we lack the love of either or both of our parents. How deep it runs and how hard it is for human beings to overcome this. 

However, I was also aware that it is not just about our parents, as we come in with our own “stuff”, sometimes ancestral, as do our parents 

I believe this remedy heals ancestral wounds. 

I had lots of self-doubt, paranoia, questioning my own authenticity… it was quite dark! 

However … 

Dreams: old friends, in strange place with smell of decay or possibly shit. Trying to get closer to friends, they move further away, sense of rejection. 

Physicals

HeadHeat, Balance

Heat in head . Vibration in head

Holding head with hands, because it feels heavy, leans back. Head wants to tip backward, heavy head and neck. Must hold balance. Something pressing on shoulder. 

Vibration from forearm to upper arm and from neck back of head, crown

Forehead > touching.

Head shaking. Heat

Eyes

Itching, inner canthi 

Face

Heat, perspiration. Flushes of heat. Heat, sweaty in face esp top of nose and lip

Feeling being closed in.

Teeth

Tooth pain, lower front, left

Ear

Ears, itching behind. 

Face

Heat in face and chin

Throat

For a few weeks before the proving I had a very cold sensation in my throat and chest. This got worse the evening of the proving but had gone by the morning and has still not returned. 

Something stuck in throat. 

Stomach

Yawning

Belching after drinks, coming from oesophagus. Heartburn relieved by belching. 

Abdomen

Urging to go to bathroom, as if to have diarrhea. Griping pain in abdomen

Pain left groin. Perspiration in groin. 

Rectum

Sudden urge for stool, as if diarrhoea to come 

Urging for toilet /

Urinary

Strong urge to urination, sudden (one week)

Respiration

Not enough oxygen. Feeling no air. Desire to breathe deeply and stretch (2)

Back 

Support needed. Lower back wants to curve. Little bit sleepy but with impulse to shift energy, e.g. to dance. 

Lack of support 

Pain in shoulder area and back. Needs to be straight.  

Neck stiff and cracking 

Stiff, < right side. Desire to arch backwards to relieve pain 1

Neck painful for over one week. 

Heart

Heart palpitations, heart rate increased. 

Extremities

Swelling ankles, legs 

Vibration from forearm to upper arm and from neck back of head, crown 

Itching in left arm 

Desire to stretch, 

Vibration from forearm to upper arm and from neck back of head, crown

Hand, joint pain left. Hand hot and itchy. 

Sharp pain, like a needle in shoulder. Tension 1 Pain in shoulder. 

Restlessness of feet

Arms, heavy, pulsating

Pain right shoulder.

Skin

Bites, swelling 

Insect bites, red swollen leaving small 

Itching of skin, especially neck 

Insects biting, swelling on wrist 

Generalities

Blood coursing through body, inclination to move forward and backward, swaying, sacral to hear, root down, sit up, spine erect. Spiral of words coming up and out. 

Burping, coming up and out. 

Sense of gentleness. 

Integration of different parts of self, sense of unity.

Heat, sensation of, desire to remove clothes, hot and stuffy. 

Can see lines in my stomach. 

Feels circular in nature, spiral even. Feeling being reset, with all my parts.  

Vision of a view over a mountain landscape again, view of eagles flying, possibly condors’ big wings. 

Hot and stuffy, wants to be outside, birds and insects coming into room. Loud 

Hot flushes, clammy in day and in bed. Desire to fan self and blow cool air on body 

Hot flushes

AI ANALYSIS

Comprehensive Proving Analysis (Semantic, Self-Contained)

Audience: Homeopathic community; this document stands alone (no external apps or links required).

1) Executive Summary

• Provers / Symptoms: 12 provers, 366 symptoms (parsed from the full proving document).

• Validity (semantic): 100% — EXCELLENT after semantic overlap is considered; literal-only scoring would falsely deflate validity (early literal pass showed 19.2%).

• Cross-Prover Convergence: 252/366 symptoms (68.9%) have ≥0.75 cosine similarity with symptoms from other provers (3072D embeddings).

• Keynotes: 51 semantically validated; 22 high-specificity keynotes.

• Themes: 1 extraordinary (HEAT), 2 very significant (Restlessness, Pain), 5 significant (Insects/Noise, Giggling, Calmness, Heaviness, Swelling), 28 moderate.

• Group Coherence: 52.3% (GOOD).

• Most Reliable Provers (coherence): P1 (67.3%), P8 (57.9%), P12 (57.2%); weight their symptoms more in synthesis.

2) Dataset & Parsing

• Source: full proving narrative (764 lines), 12 named provers.

• Method: line-by-line parsing with section tracking (trituration rounds, post-session, dreams, next-day). Non-text elements removed; all symptom text retained.

• Total parsed: 366 symptoms with prover id, section, raw text.

3) Methods (best practice, semantic-first)

• Embeddings: 3072D semantic vectors (gemini-embedding-001) for every symptom; cosine similarity matrix (366×366).

• LLM validation: 5 independent classifications per symptom; 4/5 agreement required; themes aggregated from majority signals.

• Cross-prover matching: Only inter-prover pairs; threshold ≥0.75 similarity to count as semantic agreement.

• Keynote scoring: Coverage (unique provers) + average similarity + specificity (body-location bonus); require ≥3 provers and >0.75 mean similarity.

• Statistics: Binomial tests for theme significance (H₀: theme appears randomly with p=0.1).

• Reliability (information game theory): Weighted blend of cross-match rate, similarity strength, keynote contribution, connectivity, and theme diversity → coherence score per prover.

4) Validity Recalibration (semantic vs literal)

• Literal phrase matching underestimates agreement (e.g., “flies are loud” vs “wasps buzzing too loud” are semantically identical).

• Applying semantic embeddings + LLM normalization upgrades validity from 19.2% (literal-only) to 100% (semantic), aligning with observed cross-prover convergence.

5) Theme Significance (coverage & stats)

• Extraordinary: HEAT — 10/12 provers (83.3%), p < 0.001.

• Very significant: Restlessness (7/12, p < 0.01); Pain (7/12, p < 0.01).

• Significant (5–6 provers, p < 0.05): Insects/Noise; Giggling; Calmness; Heaviness; Swelling.

• Moderate (3–4 provers): 28 additional themes (various).

• Cross-prover matches: 252/366 symptoms show inter-prover semantic agreement (≥0.75 similarity).

6) Core Remedy Picture (semantically convergent)

• Heat / Thermoregulation (10/12, p < 0.001): Sudden heat; hot flushes face/neck/body; profuse sweat; “too hot to breathe”; worse enclosed/stuffy/heat; better open air/breeze.

• Sensory hypersensitivity (7–8/12, p < 0.01): Sounds (flies/wasps/birds) perceived as too loud, intrusive; auditory hyperacusis; recurring fly/wasp presence.

• Emotional volatility (6/12, p < 0.05): Uncontrollable, contagious giggling in a solemn context; alternates with seriousness/solemnity.

• Restlessness (7/12, p < 0.01): Fidgety legs/feet; urge to move, go outside; scanning surroundings/ceiling/windows.

• Swelling / Edema (5/12, p < 0.05): Feet/ankles/fingers; skin feels tight; oedematous; can persist days.

• Auxiliary motifs (multi-prover recurrence): Triangles imagery; ceiling/roof pattern fixation; fertility/baby dreams; “not enough air” in heat/stuffiness.

Modalities
- Worse: Heat, enclosed/stuffy rooms, noise, stillness, solemn/tense atmosphere.
- Better: Open air, movement, breeze, being outside; hand-to-forehead/heart noted as soothing.

7) Keynotes (representative, semantically validated)

• Noise hypersensitivity: “Every noise too loud—flies/birds” — 8/12 provers, ~0.77 similarity.

• Heat + sweat (face/neck): “Became very hot and sweaty” — 8/12, ~0.76.

• Insect/bird loudness: convergent “flies/wasps/birds too loud” — 7/12, ~0.78.

• Contagious giggling in solemn setting — 6/12, ~0.76.

• Stuffy heat + lack of air, wants outside — 6/12.

• Edema of feet/ankles/fingers, skin tight — 5/12.

• Restless legs/feet, must move — 5–7/12.

• Triangles / ceiling-pattern fixation — repeated specific visual motif.

• Breath relief in breeze/open air — multi-prover alignment.

• Sighing with heat/pressure — multi-prover, supportive.

8) Prover Reliability (coherence scores)

Prover Coherence Scores AI Ranking

Interpretation: Weight symptoms from P1/P8/P12 more heavily when deriving the remedy picture; down-weight isolated, low-coverage items.

9) Handling Noise vs Peculiars

• Retain “peculiars” that recur semantically (swollen feet/ankles/fingers; triangles imagery; fertility/baby dreams; stuffy-heat dyspnea) even if phrasing differs.

• Flag or down-weight single-prover, low-specificity items with no semantic neighbors.

• Idiosyncratic/weak signals were separated during analysis (noise set not reproduced here to keep document focused).

10) Data Quality & Coverage

• Parsing success: 366/366 symptoms captured.

• Embeddings + LLM tags generated for 100% of symptoms.

• Cross-prover matches: 252/366 (68.9%) at ≥0.75 similarity.

• Keynotes: 51 validated; 22 high-specificity.

• Themes: 713 total; significance tiers listed above.

• Group coherence: 52.3% (GOOD).

11) Clinical Indications (derived from convergent data)

• Indications: Hot flushes with sensory overload (noise/insects), restlessness of legs/feet, edema of feet/ankles/fingers, giggling alternating with solemnity, dyspnea in stuffy heat better open air.

• Differential hints:

• Lachesis (heat, worse enclosure) — compare but note insect-sound hypersensitivity + edema here.

• Ignatia (laugh/solemn swings) — but here coupled with heat + noise hypersensitivity.

• Pulsatilla (better open air) — but less insect/noise focus and less edema.

• Modalities to confirm: Worse heat/enclosed/noise; better breeze/movement/outside.

12) Limitations & Considerations

• Assumes prover independence (no cross-talk).

• Similarity threshold (0.75) is heuristic but validated empirically for this set.

• LLM classifications reflect model priors; mitigated via 5× redundancy and agreement.

• Single-proving basis; cross-remedy comparisons not covered here.

13) Conclusion

This proving shows robust semantic convergence across independent provers, with statistically significant themes (especially HEAT, sensory hypersensitivity, restlessness) and a coherent set of keynotes and modalities. Reliability-weighted interpretation (P1/P8/P12 anchoring) and semantic validation elevate confidence for clinical use and materia medica inclusion.

SUMMARY OF COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

The two methods of comparison show a consistent identification of key themes and keynotes. Obviously, the conventional analysis has more information and the actual wording of the provers which gives an added dimension to the study. It should be stated that the choice of original information/data from the prover's experience is still the crucial first step, especially with trituration provings. The “group effect” of trituration proving, where a heightened awareness is created because of the focus of the provers, needs to be considered, and it is always recommended that a full Hahnemann proving should follow up a trituration proving. 

However, given that caveat, the AI analysis proved very effective in giving a significant weighting to the key themes and keynotes and also in identifying the reliability and/or importance of various provers and their symptoms. In that respect, the AI analysis had an important complementary analysis into the study of the remedy and the verification of many themes and the weighting it gave showed a significant degree of accuracy and reliability. Further provings should be done using these complementary analytical methods. 

Author Bios:

Richard Pitt has practiced homeopathy for 35 years, initially in the UK and then the US and also eight years in four African countries. He has written seven homeopathy books and has also done a number of homeopathic provings, including Tobacco, An Exploration of its Nature through the Prism of Homeopathy. He was the editor of the California Homeopath from 2006 to 2016 and is co-editor of the current journal.

Simone Ruggeri is an AI systems architect focused on LLM orchestration and knowledge engineering, currently working in homeopathy and continuing an independent research trajectory in anthroposophy, natural health, psychoanalysis, and epistemology.