CCH CCH Repertory & Repertorization Techniques 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: When a patient's most important symptom is not found in Kent's Repertory, which step should the homeopath take?
- Ignore the symptom entirely
- Look for related or synonymous rubrics in Kent's or consult other repertories (Correct answer)
- Prescribe based on diagnosis alone
- Switch to combination remedies
Correct answer: Look for related or synonymous rubrics in Kent's or consult other repertories
When a key symptom lacks a direct rubric, the practitioner should search for synonymous rubrics or consult additional repertories such as Synthesis or Complete.
Question 2: What is the 'Totality of Symptoms' in homeopathic repertorization?
- The complete list of the patient's diagnoses
- The full picture of characteristic mental, emotional, and physical symptoms used to select a remedy (Correct answer)
- All symptoms listed in the materia medica for a given remedy
- The total number of rubrics entered into a repertory program
Correct answer: The full picture of characteristic mental, emotional, and physical symptoms used to select a remedy
Totality of Symptoms refers to the complete individualized picture of the patient—mental, emotional, and physical—used as the basis for remedy selection.
Question 3: Which of the following rubrics would best represent a patient who is worse from consolation?
- Mind; Indifference
- Mind; Consolation aggravates (Correct answer)
- Mind; Sympathetic
- Mind; Weeping, tendency to
Correct answer: Mind; Consolation aggravates
The rubric 'Mind; Consolation aggravates' directly captures the modality of symptoms worsening when the patient receives sympathy or consolation.
Question 4: How does 'Synthesis Repertory' differ from Kent's Repertory?
- Synthesis includes only mental and emotional symptoms
- Synthesis is a comprehensive compilation drawing from many source repertories with expanded rubrics and remedies (Correct answer)
- Synthesis was authored by Kent himself as a revised edition
- Synthesis focuses exclusively on acute prescribing
Correct answer: Synthesis is a comprehensive compilation drawing from many source repertories with expanded rubrics and remedies
Synthesis Repertory is a modern compilation that integrates rubrics from dozens of source repertories, greatly expanding the number of remedies and rubrics compared to Kent's.
Question 5: What does the term 'modality' refer to in homeopathic repertorization?
- The method of remedy preparation
- Conditions that make the patient's symptoms better or worse (Correct answer)
- The patient's constitutional type
- The frequency of remedy dosing
Correct answer: Conditions that make the patient's symptoms better or worse
Modalities are conditions—such as time of day, temperature, motion, or position—that ameliorate or aggravate the patient's symptoms.
Question 6: In classical repertorization, why should the practitioner avoid using too many low-grade rubrics?
- Low-grade rubrics are not accessible in software
- Overloading the analysis with minor rubrics dilutes the signal of truly characteristic symptoms (Correct answer)
- Low-grade remedies are generally contraindicated
- Low-grade rubrics are only valid in acute prescribing
Correct answer: Overloading the analysis with minor rubrics dilutes the signal of truly characteristic symptoms
Including too many low-grade or common rubrics drowns out the characteristic symptoms and may lead to a polycrest remedy appearing simply due to its large size.
CCH CCH Repertory & Repertorization Techniques 2
When a patient's most important symptom is not found in Kent's Repertory, which step should the homeopath take?