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CARD
REPERTORY
DR. SUMAN SANKAR. A.S, M.D.(Hom)
Professor, Department of Repertory
Sarada Krishna Homoeopathic Medical College
Kulasekharam
SARADA KRISHNA HOMOEOPATHIC
MEDICAL COLLEGE, DEPT OF REPERTORY

• Boenninghausen’s repertory of Antipsoric
Remedies started the era of repertories.
• Even though the repertories were aimed at
minimizing the labour for finding the
similimum, however in a case with lot of
symptoms it was a matter of hours to find
remedy with the repertories in a plain paper
method.
• This fact made dread to many for not to use
repertories.

• Later, shortcut methods were adopted to
solve this problem like elimination method
and thumb index method.
• It was at this time that many pioneers
started to contemplate on idea of putting
most commonly used general symptoms and
particular symptoms on a piece of paper so
that when a particular case came with
symptoms corresponding to the paper, it
would be easier to just arrange them in
systematic manner and to know the remedy
running through them

• This would save lot of time as well as
labour of doing paper work.
• The first work done in this direction
was by Dr. W. J. Guernsey, which was
based on BTPB.
• Card repertory is a system of visual
sorting which help the physician by
eliminating the necessity of writing out
the rubrics and remedies against them.

Different Cards

HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF CARD
REPERTORIES
Year of
Publishing
Name of the Cards Author No. of
Drugs
No. of
Cards
1889 Guernsey’s
Boenninghausen
slips
W. J.
Guernsey
126 2467
Allen’s
Boenninghausen
’s slip by
improving
Guernsey’s
cards
H. C. Allen _ _

1912 Punched card Repertory
– based on Kent’s
Repertory – Incomplete
work
Margaret
Tyler
__ 1000
1913 Loosely punched Card
Repertory – based on
Kent’s generals
Welch and
Houston
__ 134
1922 The Symptom Index Richard M.
Field
405 6460
1928 The general Analysis –
published by Roy &
Company, Mumbai
C. M. Boger 222 304
1940 Achyuthan’s Card Index Achyuthan
K.K.
659 7000

1948 Practical Homoeopathic
Repertory in colored
and Perforated cards -
Gradation of drugs
Marcos
Jimenez
480 552
1948 Broussalian’s Card
Repertory – based on
Kent’s Repertory
George
Broussalian
640 1861
1950 Spindle card Repertory Dr. J. G.
Weiss & Dr.
R. H. Farley
274 190
1950 Attempted but not
published
Dr. Young
& Dr.
Pulford
__ __

1950 Prepared card
Repertory, which was a
modified form of
Boger’s card Repertory
but not published
L. D.
Dhawale
__ __
1955 Sankaran’s Card
Repertory
P. Sankaran 292 420
1959 Kishore’s Card
Repertory
Jugal
Kishore
648 9063
1981 Dr. B. S. Hatta’s Card
Repertory
Dr. B. S.
Hatta
220 602
1984 Sharma’s Card
Repertory
Shashi
Mohan
Sharma
400 3000

__ HOMOEO CARD
DECK
Dr. A. B.
Patwardhan
299 1245
1979 Master cards Dr. S. S. Adi 45 100
1996 SPIRO-Shankar Prasad
Integrated Rotary
Shankar
Prasad Roy
67 292
2007 Synoptic card Repertory Dr. V. R.
Khanaj
320 489

METHOD OF WORKING
• Bases of finding out similar remedy by
using Card Repertory are based on
punch system.
• It is a system of visual sorting of data.
• It helps physician by reducing the
work of repertorization.
• Card Repertory is mainly useful in
cases where there are strong generals
and weak particulars symptoms.

• After analysis and evaluation of symptoms
according to the repertory used select few
more characteristics, peculiar symptoms of
the patients.
• Convert those in to rubrics according to
card repertory used.
• Find out the code number of rubrics and
cards from “Card Box.”
• Arrange the cards according to their grades
and method used for repertorization.

• Then match the punch and corners of
the Cards to see the holes to get
Similimum against light.
• From which hole light is clearly passing
that will be remedial code number and
from which hole light is partially
passing that will be another group of
remedies.

• If in a case no hole is clearly seen, in such
cases note down the most transilluminant
code number of remedy and study MM to
prescribe most suitable remedy.
• This concept of transilluminant code is not
applicable to each and every card repertory.

ADVANTAGES
• It is less time consuming method, one can
repertories with in few minutes by
handling cards.
• It gives nearly similar remedy in short
time.
• It helps to know other related remedies
by exact matching.
• It is less laborious than that of actual
paper and ink repertorization.
• It reduces the eyestrain by reducing the
work of repertorization.

DISADVANTAGES
• Only few no. of remedies are listed on
the cards so chances of missing
similimum.
• There are many symptoms found in
actual practice but in card repertory
few no. of rubrics are present.
• Grades of medicines are not on the
cards so if any one wants to grade he
should refer it in book repertory.

• If the selected number of rubrics is
many there is problem of blockage so
that there is possibility of indicating
other group of remedies.
• In some card repertories, grading of
remedy is totally neglected.
• There are repertories like Jugal
Kishore which is big in size so
difficult to carry at bedside.

• Boger says that cards are not seen as
an end-all substitute for a more
detailed repertory.
• Cases with typical symptoms may
not have corresponding cards.
• Other limitation in general for
repertories is, unless symptoms are
properly evaluated and analyzed, it
is futile attempt to use repertories in
finding the similimum.

• With the advent of computers, cards
have taken a backstage.
• Always polychrest remedies only
come in final result.
• Some rubrics are combined to form
one, which is not always acceptable.
For Ex. Fear of robbers and fear of
darkness are combined.
• Rubrics & sub-rubrics are not well
represented.

References
• Achyuthan’s Card Index
• Kishore’s Card Repertory
• Sankaran’s Card Repertory
• A reference to repertories for homoeopathic
students-Dr. SIJU .P.V
• Essentials of repertorisation-Dr. SHASHI
KANT TIWARI
MEDICAL COLLEGE DEPT OF REPERTORY

MEDICAL COLLEGE DEPT OF REPERTORY

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