Homeopathic repertory

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A homeopathic repertory is an index of symptoms. For each entry, a number of remedies are listed that are associated with that symptom either through a homeopathic proving or from clinical experience. The inclusion of remedies renders the repertory an example of materia medica. Repertories have inclusion criteria intended to result in a high degree of accuracy and are continually corrected. There is often lively debate among the compilers of a repertory and interested practitioners over the veracity of a particular inclusion.

A line on the page of a repertory might look like this.

Mind; Fear; Animals; Snakes, of (19): lach. abel. arg-n. ars. bell. calc. calc-s. carc. elaps. hep. ign. spig. sulph. syph.

Each of the above is an abbreviation for the full name of a remedy. In the example above, lach refers to Lachesis muta, a south American snake. Often a subscripted abbreviation is appended, which indicates the name of the author or the authoritative source from where the entry is derived. For example, "Schm" indicates that it has come from the book Homeopathy and Minerals by Jan Schotlen.

The first symptom index of the homeopathic materia medica was arranged by the founder of homeopathy, Samuel Hahnemann, an eighteenth century German physician and chemist. Soon after, one of his students Clemens von Bönninghausen, created his Therapeautic Pocket Book, which Hahemann strongly approved of. The most famous homeopathic repertory was compiled by James Tyler Kent, MD, one of the major contributors to homeopathic science and philosophy at the later part of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. The most popular modern repertories are The Complete Repertories by Roger van Zandvoort. and Synthesis by Frederik Schroyens.. Rogers van Zandvoort's latest repertory is the Repertorium Universale V (RUV). This work incorporates the ideas and principles which von Boenninghausen. These principles were for a time thought less important and were not used very much after the release of Kent's repertory. Recently, Boenninghausen's genius has begun to inform the contemporary homeopathic thought^{[citation needed]}. The result is a far more reliable repertory as in the RUV^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] References

• Rajan Sankaran, Spirit of Homeopathy, Dr Rajan Sankaran, 20 Station Rd, Santacruz(West), Bombay 400 054, India.

• George Vithoulkas, The Science of Homeopathy, Grove Press, 1980. ISBN 0-8021-5120-5

[edit] External links

• Synthesis Repertory - Information about Synthesis homeopathic repertory.
• Homeoopathic Repertory - Considerable information about homeopathic repertories and Materia Medica is available.
• Homeopathic Repertory - Extensive information about homeopathic repertory with online repertory books.
• Homeopathic Repertory - More information about computerised repertories.
• Repertorium Universale V - Repertorium Universale V in a homeopathic computer software.
• Online repertorisation 1 - Kent's repertory as a web based application.
• Online repertorisation 2 - another web based application of Kent's repertory.