Organon

The term Organon is etymologically derived from the Greek word ‘Organum’ which means ‘the tool’ or ‘the instrument’. Originally ‘Organum’ meant any musical instrument’; however , the term attained it’s lasting sense during the middle ages, referring to a specific polyphonic (many-voiced) instrument.

Dr. S. Hahnemann adopted the Aristolean term ‘Organon’ so as to illustrate the importance of the tool that each and every physician needs to employ for the purpose of healing. Organon gives us the rules and guiding principles for the practice of Homoeopathy. Organon of the Art of Healing (Organon der rationellen Heilkunde) by Samuel Hahnemann, 1810, laid out the doctrine of his ideas of homoeopathy. The work was repeatedly revised by Hahnemann and published in six editions, with the name changed from the second edition onwards to 'Organon of Medicine'.