USES OF REPERTORY Dr sandip gurchal MD (HOM) SCHMC Jalgaon
Find Out Similem After Taking The Case The Physician Especially A Beginner Is Perplexed By Maze Of Symptoms. He Has To Categorize, Rearrange And Evaluate Them In Order To Construct A Totallity . Symptom Place Under Totally Will Have To Be Converted Into Rubric. The Rubric Should Be Located In The Repertory. After Further Processing The Repertory Gives An Idea About Close Running Medicine So That The Indicated Medicine That Is The Similimum Can Be Found Out. As A Reference Book Sometimes The Symptoms Strike A Physician But He Is Not Able To Recall The Medicine. In Such Cases He Can Seek The Help Of A Repertory
AS A REFERENCE BOOK Some Physicians Have Habit Of Making Keynote Prescription. They Know One Or Two Medicines For Those Symptoms. Repertory Expands Our Knowledge By Giving More Remedies For Keynote. For Example; 1. One Fee ls Better While Constipated 2. Says I Am Well No Need For Doctor. Usually One Would Think Of Calcarea Carb And Arnica Respectively But On Referring To Repertory It Would Reveal Many More Medicine. Sometimes In Acute cases a few Characteristic And Striking Symptoms Are Noticed Which Can Be Referred In Appropriate Repertory Immediately. Thus To Select A similimum Quickly It Becomes An Essential Reference Book.
IT HELP IN STUDY OF MATERIAL MEDICA The Repertory Is Prepared From The Materia Medica And The Diaries Of Stalwarts And It Bring All The Information To One Place Thus A Drug Can Be Studied With The Help Of Repertory. For Example Take Any Drug Lycopodium Or Sepia And Refer To Any Section In The Repertory Which One Wants To Study Then Note Down The Presence Of The Remedy Against The Given Rubric For Example If One Want To Study Throat Symptoms Of Lycopodium He Should Open Chapter Of Throat In Any Repertory And Look For The Lycopodium Under Rubric And Note Down Its Presence In Various Rubrics It Also Helps In Comparative Study Of Drugs,Two Drugs At A Time Can Be Taken And Compared By Above Process
HELP TO FIND OUT A COMPLETE SYMPTOM Since A Rubric Enlists The Medicines In Different Grade The Intensity Of A Symptom In A Drug Can Be Studied Which Often Changes Our Idea And Decides Final Choice Help To Find Out A Complete Symptom In The Repertory A Complete Symptom With All Its Components Can Be Referred To At One Place Especially Concomitants Which Are Scattered In Several Places In The Materia Medica The Knowledge Of The Rubric And Sub Rubrics Helps In Formulating Questions Which Is An Essential Ingredient In Case Taking
It's Constant Use Make A Physician Efficient. By Constant Handling One Refreshes his Knowledge Of The Materia Medica The Different Symptoms And Medicines With Different Grade It Suggest Related Remedies Which Could Be Useful For Selecting A Drug For Second Prescription. Boennninghausen Has Written A Separate Valuable Section On The Relationship Of Remedies. the quest For Compiling And Updated Repertory Has Not Only Given Birth To Many repertories, But Also To Authentic repertory. Modern Repertories Can Also Be Considered As Sources Of Information. Each Medicine Mentioned Against The Rubric Also Carry The Source Of Information. This Unique Advantage Can Be Had From repertories
Through References And Cross References One Can Know The Similar rubrics. thus repertorry Help Us To Select The Right Rubric Among Similar Rubric Addition Of Number Of Medicine ,Clinical Rubrics And Pathological General Helps In Study Of Homeopathy In Relation To Modern Pathology Introduction Of Computer In The Repertory Has Become Invaluable Companion Both For Clinician and Academician It Helps In Speedy Retrieval Of The Known Facts Synthesis Of New Rubric.
ROLE OF COMPUTER REPERTORIES IN STUDY OF MATERIA MEDIA U sing softwares like RADAR OPUS or COMPLETE DYNAMICS one can now extract all the rubrics of a remedy. F or ex. I f you want to study every possible symptom in arsenic album, you just have to type ars in search window in complete dynamics and 21806 symptoms from mind and head to foot will be displayed O r you want to study a specific symptom in a remedy for ex fear in arsenic alb all 213 rubrics which have word fear in them will be displayed