REPERTORY

1. LOGIC OF CONSTRUCTION,STRUCTURE &
APPLICATION OF REPERTORIES
PRESENTED BY-Dr RUQSAR FARHEEN J
MD PART 1
UGO-Dr ANUSUYA AKAREDDY
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF DEPT OF CASE TAKING &
REPERTORY

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3. REPERTORY
 Rich source of symptoms and their medicines
 It consists of medicines that are indicated for the rubrics that are listed
 Connecting link between the materia medica and disease
 Qualitative & quantitative source of information

5. COMPILING A REPERTORY
1. Vision of the repertory
2. Need for the repertory
3. Principles of construction
4. Availability of resources
5. Efficiency of resources
6. Layout of the repertory
7. Filling the outline
8. Refining the details
9. Identifying the strength & weakness of repertory

6. VISION OF THE REPERTORY
 Long term usefulness
example:Kent’s repertory-general symptoms
BBCR-pathological generals
Boericke’s-clinical symptoms
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8. NEED FOR THE REPERTORY
 Assessed in terms of requirement of practitioners and availability of resources
 Hahnemann’s time-need was felt for working manual to ease the task of finding out a
specific drug.
 Swedenborg philosophy-Kent
 Quote by Dr P Schmidt
 “No one can know everything and that is why in all honesty one must admit that no
conscientious homoeopathic doctor can practice homoeopathy in a serious and really
scientific way without a repertory”

9. PRINCIPLES

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11. PRINCIPLE OF CONSTRUCTION
 logic of structuring the repertory-Inductive logic & deductive logic
 Anatomical schema/alphabetical indexing
 Content-pathogenetic trails or clinical verification

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13. AVAILABILITY OF RESOURCES
 Drug provings
 Clinical verifications
 Already existing materia medica
 Already existing repertories

14. RESOURCE EFFICIENCY
 Quality & reliability of the information to be assessed before it is accepted for the
incorporation into proposed repertory
 Credibility of the source
 Reproducibility of the data

16. LAYOUT OF THE REPERTORY
Outline has to be made
 Macrostructure-Broad structure that would list the chapter
eg:BTPB
Murphy’s repertory
phatak’s repertory
Knerr repertory

17. Microstructure-setting instruction for
organising each individual rubric in the
chapter of the repertory
eg:Kent’s repertory-STME

18. SYMPTOMS
 Organising of rubrics from the symptoms
 For ex:headache during pregnancy in kent’s repertory
MEDICINES
 Scale of grading in the repertory

23. REFINING THE DETAILS
 Entries of symptoms and medicines are cross checked for the authenticity and quality
 Typographical errors are removed
 Grammatical corrections are made
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24. IDENTIFYING STRENGTH & WEAKNESS
Testing process
Tested under controlled condition

25. STRUCTURE
 Boenninghausen’s therapeutic pocket book
 Inductive reasoning
 Paticulars to generals
 MACROSTRUCTURE
Mind & intellect
Parts of the body
Sensation & complaints
In generals
of glands
of bone
of skin
sleep & dreams
 Fever
 Alteration in state of health
 Relationship of remedies

26. APPLICATION
 To find out the similimum
 As a reference book
Sometimes the symptoms strike a physician but he is not able to recall all medicines.he
can seek the help of a repertory.
Expands our knowledge
 Helps in study of materia medica
 Helps to find out complete symptoms
 Helps in formulating questions which is an essential ingredient in case taking
 Second prescription
 Cross references-helps us to find out similar rubrics
 Introduction of computer repertories has become valuable companion both for clinicians
and academicians

27. BOENNINGHAUSEN’S THERAPEUTIC POCKET BOOK

28. INTRODUCTION
 Published
1846
 Original name:
”Therapeutic Pocket Book For Homoeopathic Physicians ,To Use At The Bedside and in
the Study of the Materia Medica”
 remedies
126
 1891-Allen’s edition-dropped 4 remedies
added 220 remedies(342)
 1935-Dr H.A Roberts
362
 SOURCES:
Antipsorics
Relative kinship of homoeopathic remedies

29. GRADATIONS
 CAPITALS
 Bold
 Italic
 Roman
 (roman)
PHILOSOPHICAL BACKGROUND
 Location
 Sensation
 Modality
 Concomitant
LOGIC
 Utilitarian type
 Inductive logic

30. CONSTRUCTION
 Mind & intellect
 Parts of the body
 Sensation & complaints
 Sleep & dreams
 Fever
 Modalities
 Relationship of remedies

31. METHODS OF REPERTORISATION
Classifying under location, Repertorial sheet
Sensation,modalities,concomitants Computers
ROBERT’S
METHOD
MODERN
METHOD

32. APPLICATION
 Cases with complete symptoms
 Prominent sensation and modalities in some part but vague in other parts
 Prominent concomitants
 Generals are lacking
RELATIONSHIP SECTION
 Studying the relationships of remedies at various levels
 To find close running remedies
 Second medicine
 Analogue of deep acting remedy

33. REPERTORY OF THE
HOMOEOPATHIC
MATERIA MEDICA
DR J.T KENT

35. INTRODUCTION
 1st edition-1897
 2nd edition-1908
 3rd edition-1924
 4th and 5th edition-1935 & 1945
 6th American edition-1957
 Indian edition-1961
 Final general repertory of Kent-1974
No of rubrics
648
SOURCE
 Lippe’s repertory of the more characteristic symptom of our materia medica-1879

36. TYPOGRAPHY
Bold letter-3
Italics-2
Ordinary roman-1
LOGIC
Utilitarian type
Deductive logic

37. CONSTRUCTION & STRUCTURE
Chapters
33 (38)
ARRANGEMENT OF RUBRIC
Alphabetical order
Rubrics
generals to particulars
STME
Ex:
PAIN-general rubric
side
time
modalities
extension

40. APPLICATION
Symptoms to be taken
 Most important
 Relating to the loves and hates or desires and aversions
 Belonging to the rational mind ,intellect
 Belonging to the memory
 Next most important symptom related to the entire man and his entire body or his
blood and fluids;as sensitiveness to heat,to cold,to storm,to rest,to night,to day,to
time
 Symptoms most similar to the particulars of the regions of the body,of the
organs,parts and the extremities
 Modalities of the affected part

42. BOGER BOENNINGHAUSEN’S
CHARACTERISTIC REPERTORY
DR C M BOGER

43. INTRODUCTION
 Published
1905
This book is a valuable addition to homoeopathic literature in making available the
combined observation and logic of Boenninghausen and the wide and wise observation
gathered by Dr.Boger from long year of study & practice
 Preface
2 parts
 Introductory essay about source books
 Notes by Dr.Boger
On the use of repertories
choosing the remedy
repetition of dose
homoeopathic prognosis
 Index of contents
 Index of medicines in Materia Medica part
 Index of chapters in Repertory part

44. ARRANGEMENT OF MATERIA MEDICA PART
 total no medicines
140 medicines ,alphabetical order
 Hahnemann schema i.e from head to toe
 There are taken from the notes of hering confirmed by Boenninghausen and it is said
that the symptoms which appeared last in the proving are of great value.
 In MM part remedies are graded into 2-italics & ordinary roman

45. CLASSIFICATION & LOGIC
Logical utilitarian type
Particulars to generals
Especially on pathological generals & complete symptom based on the doctrine of
INDUCTIVE LOGIC

46. SOURCE BOOKS
• BTPB
• Antipsorics
• Sides of the body
• Repertory part of intermittent fever
• Whooping cough
• Aphorisms of Hippocrates

47. PLAN AND CONSTRUCTION
 Chapters
53
 No of remedies
464
 54 word index
 Chapters can be classified into 2 groups
General section
Regional section
location
sensation
modalities
concomitants
cross references

48. SUBSECTIONS IN CHAPTER
 Location
 Sensation
 Time
 Aggravation
 Amelioration
 Concomitants
 Cross reference
CONCORDANCES
125 remedies
TYPOGRAPHY
Main rubrics-bold letters
Sub rubrics-italics
CAPITALS-5
Bold-4
Italics-3
Roman-2
(Roman)-1

49. ARRANGEMENT
 In general
 Location followed by subdivision of parts
 Sensation in alphabetic order
 Time
 Aggravation
 Amelioration
 Concomitant
 Cross reference

52. APPLICATION
 Cases rich in particulars with marked
modalities,concomitants,pathological generals,clinical symptoms
 One sided diseases
 Objective symptoms and pathological symptoms
 Fever cases
 Working on the chapter of concordances to get related remedies

53. REFERENCES
 Advance teaching book – Dr Munir Ahmed
 Dr Munir Ahamed-Fundamentals of repertories
 Dr S K Tiwari-Essentials of repertorisation
 BBCR,KENT,BTPB-Repertories
 www.homoeobook.com
 Google images