Repertorium Universale (by Roger van Zandvoort)

Profiling Criteria for Complete / Millenium Repertory

• MILLENNIUM the largest Kentian style repertory.
• Numerous additions available.
• Many corrections in text and remedies.
• All remedies from sub-rubrics represented in the main rubric and all remedies and rubrics of the specific pains taken into the general pain rubrics.
• Extensive use of cross-references and references to lead you to the correct places in the repertory.
• Includes all the material from Boenninghausen's clinical practice.
• leading to 50.000 additions of which 50 % clinically confirmed.
• Includes Dreams in the Mind section, a new section for Speech & Voice and a thematic section by J.A. Mirilli.

Profiling Criteria for Repertorium Universale

• The ultimate repertory when it comes to clinical confirmation and Kentian, Boenninghausian and Bogerian style repertorization.
• All of Boenninghausen and Boger's generalized rubrics are included.
• Uses Boenninghausen's more detailed grading system.
• Easily recognizable new division of the main rubrics, enabling one to quickly use all new information
• All generalized rubrics updated with all Boenninghausen and Boger provings and confirmations. (Except for the very latest provings.)
• Repertorium Universale enables you to find unique information formerly undefined in our Homeopathic literature.
• Repertorium Universale has all the Complete Repertory/Millennium information included in it, with 6 additional rubric types offered.

Profiling criteria for the Complete repertories
WE AIM TO CREATE A PROFILES LIST THAT WILL ENABLE THE END USER TO SEE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE REPERTORIES SO THAT THEY CAN ASSESS THE ADDED BENEFIT OF PURCHASING THE COMPLETE REPERTORY.

	Complete Basic	Compete 2001 / RU I	Complete 2005 / RU V
No. of rubrics with remedies	141418	151316	158437
No. of remedies	1650	1656	1816
No. of references and cross-references	1419	114127	132017
No. of autohor references	1108046	1119273	2217840
No. of remedy occurrences	1079760	1294251	1536953
grade 1	141418	1008504	1072622
grade 2	180689	223834	22972
grade 3	47077	61219	302070
grade 4	562	685	139180
No. of additions clinically verified (grade 2, 3, 4 or 3, 4)	228328	285738	441250
Clinically verified	21.10 %	22.10 %	30.28 %
In R.U. grade four is grade three in the other repertories, grade three in R.U. is grade two in the other repertories. Grade two R.U. is non-existent in the other repertories (Boenninghausen's grade two means mentioned by two or more provers but no clinical confirmation)
Average number of remedies per rubric	9.5	8.55	9.7

Amount of hours of work: 13 years full time, 9 years part time, with many people involved.

The following criteria are for Universale
Number of original authors 424
Number of repertories used 57
Number of pre-1904 authors 107

Example rubrics for rule one:

Remedies from subrubrics should always be added to the main rubric.
Kent; Cough; paroxysmal: No ant-t. Here, although the remedy appears in three or more subrubrics in R.U., same for Apis, Aral., Choc., Grat., Mosch., Rhus-t.

Kent; Extremities; Pain; burning; foot: No Canth. Here, although the remedy appears in three or more subrubrics in R.U., same for Bros-g., Carb-v., Fl-ac., Helo., Hura, Hydrog.,Iign., Kali-n., Mag-m., Mangi., Mur-ac., Nat-p., Neon, Ol-an., Tarent.,

Example case for rule one:

Case 6. A lady pregnant with her fourth child. She complained of a painful stiffness and a sensation of swelling and weakness in her left leg, which continued to some extent during pregnancy. Hamamelis gave her prompt relief and there was no return of the problem after confinement.

In Kent; Extremities; swelling; lower limbs, Ham. Is absent. It is found though in the sub-rubric 'under thighs'. Had the remedy been updated to the main rubric here (i.e. lower limbs) the rubric would have been useful.

Example case for rule two:

Rubrics and remedies from specific pain subrubrics should also appear in the general pain subrubrics of that specific section.

American Homeopathic Review, June - July, 1860, page 412. "Curative Effect of Hamamelis," by L.M. Kenyon, M.D., Buffalo, N.Y.

Perhaps the following case, showing the curative effect of Hamamelis virginica, may be interesting to your readers.
Mary F., aged fourteen years, has always enjoyed tolerable health until within the last eighteen months, when she menstruated for the first time. There was considerable pain in the head and back for several days preceding it, accompanied by nausea, vertigo, etc. I gave her Hamamelis sixth and thirtieth dilutions in alternation, two doses of each in twenty-four hours;which was all the medicine she got during the month following, except a few doses of Arsenicum for the dyspnea when it was troublesome. When the next month came round, she menstruated regularly and had no more bleeding; and from this time, she went on rapidly to a perfect recovery, using no other remedy but Hamamelis.

In Kent: Head; pain; menses; before Ham. Is not found. But it is found in Kent; Head; pain; bursting; menses; before. By adding Ham.to the general pain rubric, you have extra information to solve this case, since there is no mentioning of bursting pain.

Clinical case of Sciatica by C.M. Boger

from C.M. Boger, Collected Writings
Edited by Robert Bannan

Mrs. J.K. aet. 42. For six weeks has had stiffness and aching in lumbar region on rising or sitting down. Now confined to bed by throbbing, quivering, soreness, numbness and shooting pains down right sciatic nerve to foot, which feels as if she were stepping on a ???? and the thigh as if lying on rocks; pains agg. on outside of thigh. Aching in right calf on standing and right sole burns.
Menses profuse, with backache and hydroae or aphthae. Leucorrhea causes itching. Sleeps in catnaps.
Easy fatigue in hot weather.
Thirsty. No appetite.
Nervous, weepy, and restless.
Hot flashes.
Aggravation: Morning and evening. Pressure of clothes. Before storms. Trifles.
Amelioration: Rubbing. Motion. Heat, locally.
1929-12-26. Rx. Lachesis 200 one dose. Better in five days and in ten days entirely well.
Parkersburg, W. VA.

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