The wonderful world of the plants has been systematically investigated for our materia medica in recent years. The focus of the work of Jan Scholten and Michal Yakir was, however, on the flowering plants, and Rajan Sankaran also considered the conifers. The classification based on typical characteristics and themes of individual orders and families enables a precise assignment of less known plant remedies.

Primitive plants such as mosses and ferns have so far largely escaped the attention of homeopathy – maybe due to their tried-and-tested survival strategy. Many of these plants, some over 400 million years old, have survived to the present day only by extreme adaptation, becoming ever more inconspicuous. This is especially true of the once impressive club moss and horsetail, the two familiar representatives of primitive plants in our materia medica. They guide us in taking a homeopathic look at the world of ferns, with which – using new provings and clinical cases – we develop the themes of the pteridophytes in this issue. The door to the kingdom of mosses was opened in 2017 by Jan Scholten with his “sense provings” of over 30 different species. We would like to dig deeper here with the help of a series of cases.

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