Complete Repertory 2011

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, or is being translated into many languages (German, French, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese, Hungarian, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, Russian, Hindi). Based on Kent’s Repertory, it has been extensively revised, corrected and updated through several editions and incorporating material from materia medica, clinical cases and other repertories.

In its latest 2011 edition it contains nearly 2.3 million remedy additions in over 206,000 rubrics. The 2011 Complete Repertory features the changes to the remedy grading system that were introduced in the Repertorium Universale, ie. uses the Bönninghausen grading system for more detailed results in analysis, 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 in 1995, over 81.000 rubrics, over 130.000 cross-references/references and 1.4 million remedy additions have been made.

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

Authors profile

An enormous amount of work during the last several years has gone into integrating the important sources of the past into the Complete Repertory. The percentage of material from old sources (pre-1931) has been substantially increased with additions from the likes of T F Allen, Jahr, Farrington, Clarke, etc. (See also the Top 13 Complete Repertory 2011 Authors below). There have been criticsms that modern repertories feature too many additions from modern sources. These statistics here show this is not the case. In the last two years emphasis has been on Clarke’s Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, from which all smaller remedies are being added.

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(NB. CR 2008 statistics are anomalous due to some errors in the Bilbiography that attributed post-1930 dates to pre-1931 material.)

Some authors, like Hahnemann, Boger, Kent and Knerr, who where already well represented in the last six versions of the Complete Repertory/Repertorium Universale, have seen their additions increase gradually, while authors like Allen, Jahr, Farrington, Clarke and Lippe have increased substantially due to the inclusion of all second degree and higher symptoms from Allen's Encyclopedia, Jahr’s Symptom Codex, Farrington’s Clinical Materia Medica, all repertory work in Lilienthal's Homeopathic Therapeutics, all material out of Lippe's (Bannerjea's) Keynotes and Redline Symptoms, (nearly) all Lippe’s articles, and of course the process of adding Clarke’s smaller remedies. All these sources have considerably increased the amount of clinical verifications (ie. 3rd and 4th degree additions). For Complete Repertory 2011 emphasis has been on completing the information from Homeopathic Links, new remedies and especially updating information from J H Clarke, from which source additions will continue to be made for Complete Repertory 2012.

The latest edition of the repertory features:
- About 15,000 additions from contemporary Homeopathic Magazines like Homeopathic Links, Zeitschrift für Klassische Homöopathie, Homöopathie Konkret, Homöopathie Zeitschrift and hundreds of additions from internet magazines like Interhomeopathy.
- 14 remedy-pictures have been added since 2010.
- nearly 300,000 additions from John Henry Clarke's Clinical Materia Medica of mainly the smaller remedies out of Volume 1, start of 2 and 3 (an ongoing process of upgrading that will continue in the next versions of CR).

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Structural Changes

For Complete Repertory 2011, no further structural changes were 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 were made for the 2008 edition:

• The "Ailments from" rubrics were 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., were 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 were 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 were 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 were 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 were 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 2011

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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 Complete Repertory 2001. Starting with Complete Repertory 2005/Repertorium Universale V 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

In the Complete Repertory 2011, over 400 remedies have 50% more information than the Complete Repertory 2009 including:
Abrus precatorius, Absinthium, Acalypha indica, Acorus calamus, Calcarea arsenicosa, Cerium metallicum, Cocainum hydrochloricum, Diphtheria pertussis tetanus vaccine, Echis carinatus, Equisetum arvense, Exrementum caninum, Fabiana imbricata, Ferrum phosphoricum hydricum, Fraxinus americanus, Glycyrrhiza glabra, Heracleum spondylium, Hochstein aqua, Hydrangea arborescens, Niobium metallicum, Ocimum canum, Paeonia officinalis, Paraffinum, Pastinaca sativa, Paullinia pinnata, Paulinia sorbilis, Pecten jacobeus, Penthorum sedoides, Pertussinum, Petiveria tetandra, Phallus impudicus, Phaseolus nanus, Phenacetinum, Phlorizinum, Phosphorus hydrogenatus, Picrotoxinum, Pimpinella saxifraga, Pinus sylvestris, Piper nigrum, Placenta humana, Platinum muriaticum, Plumbum chromicum, Plectranthus fruticosus, Plumbago littoralis, Polygonum hydropiperoides, Polymnia uvedalia, Polyporus pinicola, Populus candicans, Primula obconica, Primula veris, Prunus padus, Pyrethrum parthenium, Pyrus americana, Quassia amara, Quebracho, Radium bromatum, Ranunculus acris, Ranunculus glacialis, Rhamnus cathartica, Rhamnus frangula, Rhodium oxydatum nitricum, Rhus diversiloba, Ribonucleicum acidum, Ricinus communis, Rumex acetosa, Russula foetens, Sabal serrulata, Saccarum lactis, Salicinum, Salolum, Salix nigra, Salix purpurea, Sambucus canadensis, Saponinum, Sarracenia purpurea, Scorpio europaeus, Scrophularia nodosa, Scutellaria lateriflora, Sempervivum tectorum, Senecio jacobaea, Silphium laciniatum, Sinapis alba, Sinapis nigra, Sium latifolium, Slag, Solanum arrebenta, Solanum mammosum, Solanum oleraceum, Solanum tuberosum aegrotans, Solidago virgaurea, Solaninum purum & aceticum, Sphingurus martini, Spiranthes autumnalis, Spirea ulmaria, Stachys betonica, Stanum iodatum, Stellaria media, Stigmata maydis, Strontium nitricum, Succinum, Sulphur hydrogenisatum, Sulfonalum, Symphytum officinale, Tartaricum acidum, Teplitz aqua, Tetradymitum, Trillium pendulum, Triosteum perfoliatum, Trombidium muscae domesticae, Tuberculinum Koch, Tussilago fragrans, Tussilago petasites, Vaccininum, Variolinum, Veratrum nigrum, Veratrinum, Vesicaria communis, Viburnum prunifolium, Viburnum tinus, Viburnum opulus, Vichy Grande Grille, Voeslau aqua, Wiesbaden aqua, Wildbad aqua, Yucca filamentosa, Zincum aceticum, Zincum iodatum, Zincum muriaticum, Zincum oxydatum, Zincum sulphuricum, Zincum valerianicum and of course all the Lanthanides

Over 800 remedies have 25% more information compared to Complete Repertory 2009.

Over 1,440 remedies with 10% more information compared to Complete Repertory 2009.

Nearly 28,000 new rubrics compared to Complete Repertory 2009, the result of extensive additions of material from mostly Clarke.

Many corrections, especially to so called "double rubrics", merged into one, and further streamlining of expressions and meaning (which is one reason for the large amount of references and cross-references).

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Comparisons with previous editions and Synthesis Treasure edition

* See Synthesis 9.1 Treasure edition profile. Statistics to enable a comparison with Synthesis Treasure edition 2009 are not available.

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