We all know, how important "as if" sensations are, because very often they are pretty unique descriptions of how a patient experiences something. Unfortunately such valuable symptoms are sometimes "hidden" in sublevels or by the simple fact that there are many places in the repertory where you might find them.
 
Here are three examples to show how we will make it easier to find such sensations.
 
1. In Synthesis 9.2 you find:
GENERALS - COLD - air - sensation of cold air
standing in between a group of modalities (e.g. GENERALS - COLD - air - agg. - overheated; when).
 
Since the sensation of air is something completely different from a modality, where air leads to a change of some complaint, we now created a separate (general) headrubric and put "cold air" as a subrubric.
GENERALS - AIR; sensation of - cold air
 
2. In the same way we changed
GENERALS - WIND - sensation of - blowing - Covered parts; on
and created an own head rubric for the sensation:
GENERALS - WIND; sensation of
 
3. You find similar types of sensations all over the repertory, like "as if there were a cold stone in the stomach".
In the old version, you could find this symptom in two places:
STOMACH - COLDNESS - stone, as of a cold
and
STOMACH - STONE; sensation of a - cold
Now the "new" system makes it easy to find the "correct" rubric immediately:
 
STOMACH - STONE; sensation of a - cold stone
(We repeated the word "stone" in order to avoid any ambiguities in the meaning.)
 
Our aim is to achieve several goals with these changes:
•      keep symptoms of a similar meaning together (and not to mix sensations and modalities if it can be avoided)
•      make it easier to find sensations, by creating rubrics starting with the "thing" the patient feels (a stone, a lump, air, wind, whatever)
•      make it easier to decide where to add new remedies and rubrics (in order to avoid duplicate rubrics)