Complete Repertory 2008

The Complete Repertory is a standard reference source, being one of the two principle modern repertories in daily use by homeopaths all over the world, and has been translated into several languages. Based on Kent’s Repertory, it has been extensively revised, corrected and updated through several editions and incorporating material from materia medica and many other repertories.

In its latest 2008 edition it contains more than 1.7 million remedy additions in over 167,000 rubrics. The new Complete Repertory features the changes to the remedy grading system that were introduced in the Repertorium Universale, and benefits from the extensive revision and increase in number of cross-references between rubrics undertaken for the introduction of this repertory. (See Repertory Guide for further details.)

Since the release of the Complete Repertory 4.5, an additional 42,000 rubrics and 815,700 remedy additions have been made.

• Authors profile
• Structural changes
• Repertory grade comparisons
• Latest additions
• Comparisons with previous edition and Synthesis 9.1

Authors profile

Despite the inclusion of a large number of modern provings in recent editions of the Complete Repertory, the bulk of repertory additions are still being made from the existing materia medica. The proportion of modern sources (post 1930) in the repertory remains constant at 19%.

Some authors, like Hahnemann, Boger and Knerr, who were already well represented in the last 3 versions of the Complete Repertory/Repertorium Universale, have seen their additions increase gradually, while authors like Allen, Hering, Lilienthal and Lippe have increased substantially in CR 2008 due to the inclusion of all second degree and higher symptoms from Allen's Encyclopedia, all repertory work in Lilienthal's Homeopathic Therapeutics and all material out of Lippe's (Bannerjea's) Keynotes and Redline Symptoms. All three sources have considerably increased the amount of clinical verifications (ie. 3rd and 4th degree additions).

Structural Changes

For 2008, some structural changes have also been made to the repertory. After working on the Repertorium Universale structure for quite some years and seeing that most people do not understand it, or for various reasons do not want to work with it, it was time to go back to the more Kentian version: Complete Repertory. In order to make the information easier to access the following structural changes have taken place:

• The "Ailments from" rubrics have been rearranged under the Mind section. Previously some of these (eg. Anger, vexation agg., Anguish agg., Anticipation, foreboding, presentiment agg. and Anxiety agg.) were contained in the Generalities section.
• In the extremities section all specific localisations under "Upper limbs" and "Lower limbs", ie. upper arms, elbows, ankles, feet, etc., have been moved up a level in the hierarchy. You can now open Extremities; Pain and go directly to feet, or hands, etc. That means a lot of rubrics have become much more easy to reach, being less deeply embedded in the hierarchy of the repertory.
• Similarly, in the Mind Section, body parts in Delusions have been moved up a level from the 'body parts' subrubric, eg. Delusions; body; body parts; hands becomes Delusions; body; hands. This is also the case with body parts in the Dreams section.
• Mind Section rubrics featuring animals in Fears, Dreams and Delusions have been moved up a level in the hierarchy so that, for instance, Fear; animals; dogs becomes Fear; dogs.
• In the main rubrics of all sections the generalised modalities have been merged with the phenomena. In CR2005 there were sometimes long listings of generalised modalities before the list of phenomena, and many users would like to see the phenomena more directly. Therefore I have merged them and, when the first word of the modality was the same as the first word of the phenomenon, I have made the modality a sub-rubric of the phenomenon, thus emphasizing the phenomenon a little bit more. For example, instead of having two entries for Activity, the first a modality and the second a phenomenon, both the modalities and phenomena attributable to Activity are now listed under the one rubric.
• The specific tastes, discolourations and smell/odours have been taken out of their main rubrics when appropriate and moved up a level in the hierarchy, enabling the user to go to a specific discolouration, taste or odour directly.
• In Speech & Voice, the main rubrics now begin with the descriptive term, eg. Speech, awkward becomes Awkward speech.

Repertory Grade Comparison from Kent's to Complete Repertory 2008

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Originally the third degree was the highest degree available in my repertories, an inheritance of Kent's grading system. On top of these was later added a fourth degree, inheritance of Pierre Schmidt. I am convinced P Schmidt's fourth degree is actually the same as Bönninghausen's fourth degree (fifth degree when you count the zero degree in Bönninghausen as the first) and therefore in later versions of my work this P Schmidt degree is amalgamated with the fourth degree of Bönninghausen. This change took place in CR2001. Starting with RU III in this graph the Bönninghausen degree system is used. The second degree now expresses the information found in provings and available from two or more provers, enabling us to have a more pronounced analysis of especially those often new remedies that would otherwise be 'flat', not expressing any addition in the repertory in any degree but the lowest.

Latest additions

Compared to RU/CR 2005, 199 remedies now have 40% or more additional entries, amongst which are:
Adren., alch-v., aral, ars-s-r., asim. beryl, cadm. calc-acet. card- caul. cere-s. culx. cupr-ar. diox. erech. ferr-m. fic-i. galeoc-c. gins. hippo-k. hist. hyosin. leon. lycpr. mand. mim-p. nelu. parth. sal-ac. sanguin-n. thal-s. thyr. turul. trio. uran-n., each with more than 300 additions in Complete Repertory 2008. (see Bibliography for full list):

Comparisons with previous edition and Synthesis 9.1

* See Synthesis 9.1 profile

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