Repertorium Publicum
Repertorium Publicum is the first open source repertory. It is based on the latest version of Kent's Homeopathic Repertory and is fully dependent on the efforts of community to make it as best as possible.
Repertory structure
The structure of the Repertorium Publicum uses mostly the original structure of Kent's repertory, that was enhanced by symptom groups from Boenninghausen's repertory. This means that apart from very detailed symptoms describing the full symptom in its totality, Repertorium Publicum also contains so-called supergroups of symptom that meaningfully group locations, aggravations, ameliorations or phenomena for the whole group of symptoms. In this way the repertorization is very much enhanced and allows using the principle of supergroups and also the detailed symptoms used in Kentian style.
The symptom of grades remained unchanged from Kent's system, which means that Repertorium Publicum contains 3 grades and their meaning is the same as was used by Kent.
The first changes to the repertory have consisted in replacing the old medical terms used in the time of Kent for more modern terms (and also the spelling was changed from British to more widely used US version). The most important change consisted of adding remedies from subrubrics to the superrubrics and generating a system of symptom references and cross-references. The other important change was moving clinical symptoms from the rubric Generalities to newly created rubric Clinical and enhancing the clinical section by cross-referencing the symptoms with the relevant symptoms in repertory.
Contributing to the repertory
Contributing to the Repertorium Publicum project is so easy. We are looking for people willing to help the community and to promote homeopathy, that are willing to offer their free time to make additions to the repertory and to share them with the community.
Modification of the repertory can be done by using the OpenRep - free homeopathic software. Each time a modification is made to the repertory, the list of changes is added to a "history file" generated by the REPed. The whole file is composed as a .xml file that is totally human-readable, so you can review the information stored there. To contribute to the Repertory Project, simply send us the history file and we will incorporate it into the Repertorium Publicum and make it available to the whole community. After the updates were done, you can download the new version of the repertory with all the updates made by you and all other people working on the project and thus use the most current version of the repertory.
Current version
Repertorium Publicum version 0.5 (last modified 2009-05-12)
Current statistics
| Kent | Repertorium Publicum 0.5 | |
| Remedy additions | 503,145 | 735,566 |
| 1st grade | 338,879 | 465,346 |
| 2nd grade | 129,362 | 198,628 |
| 3rd grade | 34,904 | 71,592 |
| Cross-references | 0 | 38,888 |
| Symptoms | 64,230 | 74,667 |
See statistics chart
List of contributors to the Repertorium Publicum
- Vladimir Polony
