Preparation of Medicines

Organon Aphorism §283

In order to work wholly according to nature, the true healing artist will prescribe the accurately chosen homoeopathic medicine most suitable in all respects in so small a dose on account of this alone. For should he be misled by human weakness to employ an unsuitable medicine, the disadvantage of its wrong relation to the disease would be so small that the patient could through his own vital powers and by means of early opposition (§ 249) of the correctly chosen remedy according to symptom similarity (and this also in the smallest dose) rapidly extinguish and repair it.

Samuel Hahnemann, Organon of Medicine, 6th edition, translated by William Boericke (1922, public domain). Checked word for word against the 1922 printing in October 2026.

Note on the text: The 1922 printing gives this reference as “(p. 249)”, a page reference rather than an aphorism number. The aphorism number shown here is an editor’s reading and is being checked.

Study notes for this aphorism are not published yet. They appear here once a homeopath has reviewed them.