Organon of Homoeopathic Medicine: The Classic Guide Book for Understanding Homeopathy - the Fifth and Sixth Edition Texts, with Notes

By Samuel Hahnemann, Conrad Wesselhoeft, C 1834-1904 Wesselhoeft

Book Overview

Samuel Hahnemann was a German physician who created and introduced homeopathy, a system of alternative medicine which claims that a substance which causes diseases in some individuals can cure it in others.

Writing in the early 19th century, Hahnemann set out the principles of homoeopathic medicine in a total of 297 aphorisms. Each of these discussed the various attributes of healing that underpin homeopathy as a method of curing. The notion of 'miasms' as the origin and cause of all chronic disease, and how such can be alleviated, is elaborated upon by the author.

Today, homeopathy has been widely discredited, with its methodology and teachings contrasted with established discoveries in biology and chemistry. Numerous studies of homeopathy's efficacy have shown that the results of treatment are no better than placebo. In the 19th century however, its use was popular with Hahnemann himself contrasting his methods by terming conventional medicine 'allopathic'.

This edition combines side-by-side two editions of the Organon; the fifth, translated in late 19th century by R. E. Dudgeon, and the sixth, translated in 1922 by William Boericke. Both translators were practising homeopaths who added their own discoveries and annotations to Hahnemann's principle text.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789875919
• ISBN13: 9781789875911
• Release Date: January 1922
• Publisher: Pantianos Classics
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

oldie but goody

I'm a student of homeopathy and this is one of my textbooks, and so it is very good.

Organon of Medicine

Not for the beginner or intermediate. Overall it is a good book if a person has reached that point of a strong knowledge base in radionics and alternative healing.

Everything you need to know about homoeopathy in one book!

If you want to know how to practice homoeopathy, this is all you should need to read from the Founder himself. Forget Kent, Sankaran, Scholten, Sherr, Murphy, Hercu - this is the guy to read and learn from, Christian Samuel Hahnemann. Every answer to every question you may have will be found in this book and if you intend to study homoeopathy, this should be the very first thing you read. Not many people like the Boericke translation. I find it easier to read every year - yes, you should read it once a year (from cover to cover). Most prefer Kunzli or O'Reilly's editions, but I like Boericke. This little edition published in India is great for keeping in your handbag and carrying with you to read and re-read at your leisure. If you want a reference edition, without so many editorial glitches, get an edition published in America or the UK.

The Bible for every Homoeopath

No Homoeopath can actually practise practically with out going thorugh this bible which is one of it's own kind.