Kunzli Repertory, Introduction, History, Development

1. Kunzli Repertory
Introduction, History,
Development
PRESENTED BY :
DR DEEPTI DEWAN
PG Scholar
UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF : DR ANUSUYA M AKAREDDY
DEPARTMENT OF CASE TAKING & REPERTORY
GOVERNMENT HOMOEOPATHIC COLLEGE & HOSPITAL
BENGALURU, KARNATAKA

3. Full Name : Jost Kunzli
Von Fimmelsberg
Born – 10 October 1915
Died – 05 April 1992

4. • He was Swiss orthodox physician and Gynecologist,
who converted to homeopathy, as his father and his
grandfather were already homeopathic doctors.
• Practiced at St Gallen in Switzerland.
• He was a teacher of homoeopathy and trained almost
4000 physicians
• He learnt homoeopathy from the books of J T Kent in
1947
• He was a pupil of Pierre Schmidt of Geneva.
• He had a roaring practice and commendable
knowledge in homoeopathy, and was able to influence
the doctors in Germany and Europe.
• He died on 5 April 1992
• I wish to live for another 200 years, I feel as if I have
just begun to study homoeopathy.

5. • Between 1957-1973, he was the co-editor of
the Journal of Classical Homeopathy.
• Beginning in 1962 he began teaching
Repertorisation Theory in St. Gallen, and
• In 1971 he was teaching in Frankfurt.
• Between 1973-1986 he taught an annual
Course in Spiekeroog, and
• He also taught homeopathic courses since
1977 in three year cycles in the premises of
the University of Zurich

6. Kunzli and Pierre Schmidt were pioneers of the
rediscovered Q potencies in homeopathy, and
in 1947, they began their manufacture, starting
with Sulphur, the Schmidt Nagel Laboratory is
still manufacturing these remedies today. From
1949 they began to produce and use Q-
potencies of antipsoric remedies.

7. In 1973, Kunzli translated James Tyler Kent’s
textbook Lectures on Homeopathic Philosophy into
German. Almost two decades before that, he
had helped Pierre Schmidt with his French
translation of the 6th edition of the Organon.

8. o Kunzli was a pioneer of the re discovered
Q potencies in homeopathy.
o In 1973, Kunzli translated James Tyler Kent’s
Textbook Lectures on Homeopathic Philosophy
into German.
o He had helped Pierre Schmidt with his French translation
of the 6th edition of the Organon.
o In 1993 Kunzli had also translated 6th edition of Organon
in English along with Peter Pendleton & Alain Naude.
CONTRIBUTIONS

9. TITLE – Kent’s Repertorium Generale
Kent’s Repertorium Generale was first published in
1987 in German language by Barthel and Barthel
publishing, Germany.
Subsequently it was translated in English and
made available in 1990.
It is based on Kent’s repertory.
This book was compiled and edited by Michael Barthel M.D.,
with assistance Charlotte Barthel and LIse Seider,M.D. Kent’s
Repertorium Generale was first published in German language
in 1987 by Barthel. In the year 1990 1st Indian edition was
printed by B.Jain Publishers.

10. Sources
• Various therapeutic observations made by eminent
physicians from 72 reputable sources including H.C.
Allen, T.F. Allen, Boericke, Boger, Boenninghausen,
Burnett, Clarke, Guernsey, Hahnemann, Hering, Jahr,
Knerr, Nash, and Pulford. Number of this sources are
printed in front of that edition.
• Kunzli also added his own observations [40 years of
untiring effort]. Kunzli added many of Hahnemann’s
observations from his chronic disease as well as
Materia medica pura even though they were not
clinically verified.
• Kent’s personal handwritten corrections were also
available for first time.

11. • The work was compiled and edited by
Michael Barthel, with the able assistance of
Charlotte Barthel and Ilse Seider.

12. • Kunzli’s new Repertory takes off from Kent’s
Repertory, 3rd edition, the one in general
circulation which preceded the Final General
Repertory of Kent revised by Dr. Pierre Schmidt
and Dr. D. Harish Chand.
• All entries found in the 3rd edition are also
found in Kunzli’s Repertory.
• First of all, Kunzli has included symptoms from
Kent’s Lectures, which are not found in the 3rd
edition.
• He has included a numbered annotation above
every remedy taken from Kent’s Lectures very
carefully.

13. • Beginning in 1950, Kunzli, a careful student
of homeopathy, began to make additions to
his own 3rd edition of Kent’s Repertory.
These he penciled in. Kunzli began by
including certain symptoms from Hering’s
Guiding Symptoms.
• Asked how he determined which symptoms
to include, he said, “I chose Symptoms which
I had verified clinically in my own practice
plus strange, rare, and peculiar symptoms
which seemed important to me.”

14. • In 1981, after more than 30 years of penciling
in additions to his copy of Kent’s Repertory,
Kunzli decided to share his additions and
invited a small group of classical homeopaths
together.
• From 8 a.m. until 6 p.m , He read from his
additions and they copied.” Later Will
Klunker, editor of the Synthetic Repertory,
suggested to publish a separate volume of
Kunzli’s additions but omitting the
symptoms taken from Hahnemann.

15. Kunzli could not agree with this idea. He
thought all the additions from Hahnemann are
very important. Also, the idea of a separate
volume of additions didn’t appealed him.
He felt it wouldn’t be used. He felt these
additions had to be interpolated into the
general text of Kent’s Repertory if they were to
become useful to the average homeopath.

16. • If I read something in Clarke which interested
me and which was not in Kent’s Repertory, I
added it to my repertory”. “Some symptoms
were verified by me personally, others were
not.
• I added unverified symptoms if they were
strange, rare, and peculiar.”
• Of particular importance are the additions from
Hahnemann himself. “I took the last edition of
Chronic Diseases and the last edition of Materia
Medica Pura,” said Kunzli.
• “I compared symptoms in these two works with
Kent’s Repertory. If they were not in Kent, I
added them. From Hahnemann I added
everything.”

17. Repertory – Kent’s Repertorium Generale
Year of publication – 1987
Edited by – Michael Barthel, Charlotte Barthel and
Ilse Seider
Number of Remedies – 689
The list includes 7 synonyms, total number of
remedies – 689-7 = 682
Number of chapters – 27
Type of repertory – modern repertory
Typography – similar to kent’s repertory
bold
italics
Roman

18. 35 Allen, J henry
19 Allen keynotes
17 Allen, H.C
11 Allen, T.F
68 Alther
58 Boericke, G.
8 Boericke W
67 Boericke Ch.
3 Boger
3a Boger-boenninghausen
21 Borland
61 Boyd
20 Burnett
12 Clarke
22 Dewey
23 Dienst
27 Dunham
65 Duprat
28 Fields
56 Fieltz
5 Gallavardin
15 Gentry
31 Gibson, D.M
29 Griggs
51 Gross, G.W
30 Guernsey
16 hahnemann
63 hartmann
32 hempel
34 hering
66 hughes and dake

19. 52 imhauser
4 jahr
14 julian
48 kafka
1 kent
26 Kirsch
37 kishose
36 klein
2 knerr
18 kunzli
64 lathoud
40 del mass
38 lilienthal
53 lippe
13 lodispoto
39 lorbacher
55 mersch
72 meyhoffer
10 Mezger
71 Muller j
41 Nash
42 Priestman, C
43 Pulford
44 Rademacher
45 Roberts
60 Schmidt, R.
57 Rogers, Ruth
54 Ross, T.D
47 Schepens
7 Schimdt, P.
46 Schussler
69 Seidel
70 Schreter
25 Stapf
6 Stauffer
9 Stephenson
49 Tyler, M
59 Wadia
62 Weir, Sir J
33 Wright-Hubbard, Elizabeth
50 Yingling

20. List of medicines added to kents
repertory - 48
ADEPS- Adeps suis
AGAVA- Agave Americana
AGRA- Agraphis nutans
ARAl – Aralia hispida
AVEN- Avena sativa
BAC- Bacilinium burnet
CADM.MET- Cadmium. Met
CARC- Carcinosinum
CER-OX- Cerium oxalicum
CHAP- Chaparro amargosa
CHIN.b- China boliviana
CHINCH.b- Cincona boliviana
CHROM.K.S- Chromicum Kali. Sulph
COFFIN- Coffinium
CORTICO- Cortico tropinum
DICT- Dictannus abus
DIPH- Diphtherinum
DYSCO- Dysentrico Comp. (Bach – Nosode)

21. • EPHIP- Epiphugus. Vir.
EUPH – Pi- Euphorbia Pillifera
GLAND.GLANDRINE- Hippozaenum
HElM- Helminthortos
JANOS- JanosiaJUST- Justia Adhatoda
LINUM- Linum Usitatism
LOL- loleum temultum
MERC- Mere. Sol
MERC P.A.- Mere. Paracipirus albus
MERC P.F.- Mere. Paracipirus lavus
MUC. U- Mucuna urens
NAT-Ch – Natrum Chrolenicum
NAT-I- Natrum lodatum
PlLO- Pilocarpinum

22. •
PIX – Pixliguida
PROT- Baceilus proteus
QUASS- Quassia
ROS.d -Rosadamascena
SKOOK- Skookum Chuck
TAT- T etradymile’
THIOSIN- Thiosinaminum
TITAN- Titanium Met
TUB.K- Tubercalinum Koch
VANAD- Vanadium Met
VICHY –G- Vichy aqua – grande
X-RAY- X – Ray
ZINC.CHR- Zincum chronicum
ZINC. I – Zincum iodatum

23. • The Drugs Omitted By Kunzli Which Are There In
Kent’s Repertory
Arundo donax,
• Cainca,
• Chenopodium glauci aphis,
• Chininum brom,
• cinchona boliviana,
• Ingluvin,
• Magnetis poli umbo
• Total : 7.

24. Seven remedies synonym and remedy name is
mentioned seperately
Hippozaenium – glanderine
Illicium aniastum – anisum stellatum
Alumina silicate – kaolin
Nux jugulans – juglans regia
Ozonum – oxygenium
Hippomanes – mancinella
Ictodes foetida – pothos foetidus

25. Philosophy
• Same as Kent
• Generals to particulars.
• Arrangement of this repertory is same as
that of Kent’s repertory.

26. Gradation
Medicines are graded similar to Kent’s
repertory :
• Bold- 3 marks
• Italics- 2 marks
• Roman-1 mark

27. CONSTRUCTION OF REPERTORY
TOTAL NO OF SECTIONS ARE 27
• This no reduced by placing anatomical parts
& their function in one section.
• E.g,. Eye & vision.
• All sections of urinary under one heading.
• Chill, Fever, perspiration under one heading.

28. There are 27 chapters in this repertory.
1. MIND
2. VERTIGO
3. HEAD
4. EYE VISION
5. EARHEARING

29. 1. NOSE
2. FACE
3. MOUTH
4. TEETH
5. THROATEXTERNAL THROAT
6. STOMACH
7. ABDOMEN
8. RECTUM
9. STOOL
10.URINARY
ORGANSBLADDER,KIDNEYS,PROSTATE
GLAND,URETHRA,URINE

30. 1. GENETALIA MALE FEMALE
2. LARYNX & TRACHEA
3. RESPIRATION
4. COUGH
5. EXPECTORATION
6. CHEST
7. BACK
8. EXTREMITIES
9. SLEEP
10.CHILLFEVERPERSPIRATION
11.SKIN
12.GENERALITIES

31. REPRESENTATION OF VARIOUS CHAPTERS
WITH RUBRICS ADDED TO KENT’S REPERTORY
MIND - 27 RUBRICS Agoraphobia (Fear of crowd-
kent), Awkward, Bad temper, morning, Bliss, feeling
of, Clothed improperly etc.
VERTIGO - 10 RUBRICS Feet sensation as if rouse,
Palpitation during, Pushed forward as if etc.
HEAD - 16 RUBRICS Anxiety in head, atheroma,
Blood vessels,Body hot in forehead, Brittle sensation
etc.
EYE- 13 RUBRICS Cramp (See Spasms),Dermoid
Swelling, Drops before eyes, Fat sensation in eye

32. • VISION- 16 RUBRICS Brighter Objects seen, Field of
vision sees object beside, Halo around light,
Hemaralopia (loss of vision night)
• NOSE- 14 RUBRICS Blisters burning sensation,
Contraction, Cramps, Distension, Drawn up or rose
by string etc.
• EAR-10 RUBRICS Excoriation behind ears, Foreign
body, Hammering, Lipoma etc.
• FACE- 16 RUBRICS Acridity Upper lip, Clucking
lower jaw,, Fur like in Hemiplegia, Humming
sensation lower jaw etc.
• MOUTH-16 RUBRICS Astringent sensation, Chorea,
tongue, Desquamation check inside, Furry gums,
Thrush etc.
• TEETH-9 RUBRICS Discharge from caries tooth,
Smooth feeling, Stiff from cold, Twitching in teeth
etc.

33. • THROAT-17 RUBRICS Adenoid, Biting sensation in
back pains of fauceous Drawn out sensations, Gluey,
Puts finger in throat etc.
• EXTERNAL THROAT- 16 RUBRICS Excoriation
from rubbing of clothes, Presses throat with both
hands, Trembling, Heat, etc.
• STOMACH- 23 RUBRICS Acridity, Aerophagia,
Bitter as if in stomach, Falling out sensation, Food
lodges at cardia etc.
• ABDOMEN- 22 RUBRICS Blood from umbilicus,
Cobweb sensation, Hands support the abd. during
urination with, Ileus, Noises, etc.
• RECTUM- 5 RUBRICS Congestion, Dropping of
some thing cold out the anus, sensation, Intertrigo,
Nausea,Standing, stool passes better on.

34. • STOOL-14 RUBRICS Earlier every day, Intestines
like, like, Rice grains like etc.
• BLADDER- 1 RUBRIC- Agonizing dysuria
• KIDNEY, PROSTATE GLAND- No Additions
• URETHRA- 6 RUBRICS Blue spot meatus,
Carbuncle, Raw sensation etc. URINE Filaments
(see sediment thready),Hot (see burning)
Urobilin (see bile)
• GENETALIA MALE- 6 rubrics Mucous glans,
Quivering scrotum, etc.
• GENETALIA FEMALE- 5 Rubrics Squeezed
sensation by a hand;uterus, Weight sensation;
uterus etc.

35. • LARYNX AND TRACHEA- 6 Rubrics Air rose
through trachea in waves as if, Numbness trachea
etc.
• RESPIRATION- 1 Rubric Chyne Stokes (see
irregular).
• COUGH –12 Rubrics Abdomen seems to come from,
Constipation during, Highly seasoned food from,
Solid food from, twitching in hip etc.
• CHEST- 30 Rubrics Broncheactiasis, Conscious of
heart action, Injuries to mammae, Inverted nipples,
Mealy coating nipples etc.
• BACK- 15 Rubrics Decubitus (skin sore),Lameness
cervical, Paralytic sensation, Spina bifida (see
bifida), Sondylitis (see caries) etc.
• EXTREMITIES- 32 Rubrics Amputated stump
painful, Catalepsy, Curvature of bones, Elevation
shoulders, Falling nails etc.

36. • SLEEP- 3 RUBRICS- Long to, Sitting up and retching
• CHILL- 9 RUBRICS- Anterior part of body, Riding on
horseback, Starting from sleep, Vomiting before etc.
• FEVER- 11 RUBRICS- Catheter fever, Convulsions after,
Dengue fever, Dentition during, Traumatic fever etc.
• PERSPIRATION- 9 RUBRICS- Debilitating, luminous,
Salty deposits after perspiration, Scratch must, Thighs
except etc.
• SKIN- 6 RUBRICS- Decubitus (see sore), Keloid (see
cicatrices), Varicosities, Withered etc.
• GENERALITIES- 44 RUBRICS- Anesthesia, Auburn air,
Blondes, Brunets, iod. abuse after, lying in women (child
bed) etc. Rubrics are not added in following chapter-
Hearing, kidneys, prostate, expectoration.
Total no of rubrics added – 446.

37. No rubrics added in
• Hearing
• Kidney
• Prostrate
• Expectoration

38. MICRO CONSTRUCTION
➢ Drugs omitted by Kunzli which are there in
Kent’s repertory – 7 drugs e.g.-
1. Arundo donax
2.Magnetis poli umbo
3. Cainca
4. Chenopodium glaici aphis
5.Chinninum brom
6. MERC VIVUS (??)
7. Ingluvin

39. List of Medicines Added in Kunzli
Repertory – Total 47 Medicines
• ADEPS- Adeps suis
• AGAVA- Agave Americana
• AGRA- Agraphis nutans
• ARAl – Aralia hispida
• AVEN- Avena sativa
• BAC- Bacilinium burnet
• CADM.MET- Cadmium. Met
• CARC- Carcinosinum
• CER-OX- Cerium oxalicum
• CHAP- Chaparro amargosa
• CHIN.b- China boliviana
• CHINCH.b- Cincona boliviana
• CHROM.K.S- Chromicum Kali. Sulph
• COFFIN- Coffinium

40. • CORTICO- Cortico tropinum
• DICT- Dictannus abus
• DIPH- Diphtherinum
• DYSCO- Dysentrico Comp. (Bach – Nosode)
• EPHIP- Epiphugus. Vir.
• EUPH – Pi- Euphorbia Pilulifera
• Helminthortos
• JANOS- Janosia
• JUST- Justia Adhatoda
• LINUM- Linum Usitatism
• LOL- loleum temultum
• MERC- Mere. Sol
• MERC P.A.- Mere. Paracipirus albus
• MERC P.F.- Mere. Paracipirus lavus
• MUC. U- Mucuna urens
• NAT-Ch – Natrum Chrolenicum

41. • NAT-I- Natrum lodatum
• PILO- Pilocarpinum
• PIX – Pixliguida
• PROT- Baceilus proteus
• QUASS- Quassia
• ROS.d -Rosadamascena
• SKOOK- Skookum Chuck
• TAT- T etradymile’
• THIOSIN- Thiosinaminum
• TITAN- Titanium Met
• TUB.K- Tubercalinum Koch
• VANAD- Vanadium Met
• VICHY –G- Vichy aqua – grande
• X-RAY- X – Ray
• ZINC.CHR- Zincum chronicum
• ZINC. I – Zincum iodatum

42. • Seven remedies synonym and remedy name is
given seperatly.

43. There are 72 sources
These sources are mentioned by numbering the
authors, which are mentioned above after the
remedy as superscript
Eg: FACE- EXCORIATED LIPS- mouth corners of ●:
ant c., ….., nat c16,….. Zinc 16
HEAD – NAUSEA : cocc .49

44. KUNZLI’S DOTS
• Kunzili used these dots to relay his own therapeutic experience to the
readers.
• In the repertory red points ● are used which is printed now as (black
points ●)
• A black point behind the symptom underscores the therapeutic
importance of the rubric & often points directly to the remedy in
question or at least to general area (It represents pretty complete
rubric )
• The black point entered behind a drug means the therapeutic
efficiency of a remedy has been frequently proven.
• E.g.
• HEAD – motions-rolling head ●: agar ., apis., arn, bell●, bry
• HEAD –motions –rolling head- when too weak to move body ●: ars

45. The cross references are mentioned
immediately after the rubric by using the
word “see”
For example :
• HEAD –NOISES in head – cracking( see
crackling )
• FACE -EXPRESSION-hippocratic:( see
hippocratic)
• HEAD – MOTIONS of head – rolling head –
sitting while ( see turning )

46. o Some errors in Kent’s Repertory are corrected
(Printing Mistakes) E.g. Head – Bond (KR) -
Corrected to Band; EYES – Wind look (KR)-
Corrected to Wild look
o The user of Kunzli’s Repertory will find
the miasmatic remedies better represented as
many symptoms from H.C. Allen’s Materia
Medica of the Nosodes have been included.
SPECIAL FEATURES OF THIS REPERTORY

47. In each chapter
• Sub rubrics are given in capital (sensations )
• STME is given in small letters

48. ADAPTABILITY:
As Kunzli’s Repertory is based on Kent’s
repertory it has the similar Philosophical
background and plan and construction.
Its adaptability is also similar to that of Kent’s
It is useful in cases with predominent mental
symptoms
Cases where the generals are prominent

49. Cases which have characteristic particulars
It is also applicable in cases which have complete
symptoms as there are many complete symptoms
in the repertory which are denoted by ‘ . ‘after the
rubric ( pg no 109 )
In situations, where a disease diagnosis is made,
but there is paucity of individualizing symptoms.
Here the diagnostic rubric may be used as the
eliminating point to proceed with further
repertorisation.

50. This repertory can be adapted to cases which have
symptoms which are peculiar and characteristic
but are not verified. This is because this repertory
has many additions from the clinical or practical
experiences.
This maybe used as an accessory repertory, more
notably for the particular symptoms, while
attempting the integrated medium of
repertorization with synthetic repertory

51. SPECIAL FEATURES OR SCOPE OF REPERTORY:
The repertory is constructed in a comprehensive
manner, where the entire book can be classified
into different chapters and rubrics, subrubrics
Rubrics are arranged in simple hierarchical manner
As it is the augmented version of Kent’s repertory
more number of medicines(48) and rubrics(446) are
added from the experience and literature search
made by Kunzli.

52. The repertory is enriched with the compilation of
information from 72 sources
The sources are numbered and mentioned
separately which makes the book more
authenticated.
Incorporated many therapeutic observations of
various leading Homoeopathic authorities
Drugs mentioned under rubrics are verified by
author himself

53. Number of drugs with their abbreviations are
mentioned in the beginning of the book
Kunzli dots- the therapeutic experience and verification
made by the author.
At the end of a symptom it indicates the complete
symptom and also concomitants in some places
At the end of a remedy it indicates the therapeutic
efficiency of that remedy had been frequently proven.
Observations of Hahnemann from both Chronic diseases
as well as Materia medica pura are added

54. Some errors in Kent’s repertory are corrected
Eg: head, bond corrected to band
eyes, wind look corrected to wild look
User of Kunzli’s repertory will find miasmatic remedies
better represented as many symptoms of H C Allen’s
materia medica of nosodes have been included.
Kunzli said “ if I read something in Clarke which
interested me and which was not present in Kent’s
repertory, I added it in my repertory. Some symptoms
were verified bt me personally others were not. I added
unverified symptoms if they were strange, rare and
peculiar”

55. LIMITATIONS:
Number of drugs only 689 (685 in the list)
Observations of Hahnemann from chronic diseases
and MM pura taken directly without verification
Some rubrics that are present in Kent are missing in
this repertory. Eg: in Ear, wind sensitive to; worm
sensation of
Arrangement even though similar to Kent’s, becomes
confusing in some places as there is slight difference
and there is no explanation or manual regarding them

56. Even though Kunzli used nosodes extensively in
his practice and also included it in repertory
they do not find adequate mention in the
repertory.

57. Need for the repertory
• Among the repertories published, Kent’s
Repertory is considered to be most
comprehensive and authoritative source
available even today. After Kent’s death,
many important therapeutic observations
have been made by leading Homoeopathic
physicians. These reports were not available
to the physicians as most of the time they
are hidden in the literature.

58. Dr. Jost Kunzli has made an attempt in
enriching Repertory by incorporating all the
observations of important stalwarts and
brought vital information to the limelight.
Apart from this, he added his own
observations to Kent’s repertory.