RELATION BETWEEN ORGANON AND MATERIA MEDICA

This post is about Organon of medicine and Homoeopathic Materia medica along with relation between them.

Organon of medicine is a book written by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann in German language.

While Homoeopathic Materia Medica is a symptom register obtained from drug proving on healthy human beings (You can read the Evolution of homoeopathic materia medica here).

Organon of medicine contains a set of rules established by Dr. Hahnemann for the guidance of the theoretical and practical methods to apply medicines written in Homoeopathic Materia Medica.

Organon of Medicine was written after many years of careful experiments and observations of Dr. Hahnemann.

While homoeopathic Materia medica is a systemic record of clinical experiences, uses, effects, mode of actions etc. obtained from drug proving written in patient’s language.

There are 6 Editions of Organon of medicine written by Dr. Hahnemann.

Where as approximately more than 400 books of Materia medica in English and other languages have been written by a number of Homeopaths all over the world (you can read the classification and types of homoeopathic materia medica here).

Organon of medicine also contains the guidelines for preparation and application of Homoeopathic drug substances.

The pharmacological concepts like, Selection of Dose and Potency, Susceptibility, Minimum dose, Law of simplex including the introduction to 50 millesimal scale are covered in Organon of medicine.