Repertory and materia medica

The repertory workbench is where you turn a case into a remedy. Search rubrics across the classical repertories, read the materia medica, collect the rubrics that fit your patient onto a Repertory Sheet, weight them, and watch the remedy ranking build itself. It exists twice — as a full page in the doctor portal, and as a floating dock inside an open consultation so you never have to leave the case sheet.

Two places to repertorise

Searching the repertory

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1. 1

   Make sure the Repertory tab is selected.

   The other tab, Materia Medica, searches remedy descriptions instead of rubrics.

2. 2

   Type the symptom.

   Plain words work: headache, anger, fear of death. The page searches the rubric path, so a multi-word search finds rubrics containing all of those words.

3. 3

   Open Filters if you want to change the repertory, the minimum grade, or narrow to one remedy.

4. 4

   Click Search.

5. 5

   Read the results.

   The heading shows Results (N). If there are more, a Load More button appears at the bottom.

Repertory

Which book to search. Defaults to Kent (English). The list is grouped — an Online Catalog of classical repertories, and Local Repertories if any have been published into Hello Homeo's own library.

Minimum Weight

All (1+), Medium (2+), Strong (3+) or Very Strong (4+). Raise it to hide the faintly-marked remedies and see only the ones the author printed in bold. In the consultation dock the same filter reads Grade 1+ / 2+ / 3+.

Filter by Remedy

Type a remedy abbreviation — Bell, Arn — to see only rubrics that carry it. Useful when you want to confirm a remedy you already suspect. It works on the online catalogue and on materia medica; it has no effect on a local repertory.

What a result actually tells you

Each result is one rubric. The small chip on the left is the repertory it came from; below it sits the full rubric path, exactly as it is printed in the book. Three controls sit on the right of every card.

• Copy — puts the rubric path on your clipboard and confirms with Copied to clipboard.
• + — adds the rubric to your Repertory Sheet. Once it is on the sheet the icon turns into a tick and the button is disabled, so you cannot add the same rubric twice.
• Chevron — expands the card to show Remedies (N): every remedy in the rubric, colour-coded, with its grade as a small superscript.

Building the repertory sheet

1. 1

   Click + on every rubric that genuinely belongs to the case.

   Resist the urge to add everything — a sheet of 30 loose rubrics ranks worse than a sheet of six characteristic ones.

2. 2

   Click Repertory Sheet (N) in the top bar.

   A panel slides in from the right listing Selected Rubrics (N).

3. 3

   Set each rubric's Importance.

   Normal (1x), Important (2x) or Very Important (3x). In the consultation dock the same control is the ×1 / ×2 / ×3 buttons. Use it to let a peculiar mental symptom outweigh a common physical one.

4. 4

   Read Remedy Analysis underneath.

   It re-ranks live as you add rubrics or change importance. The leader carries a small award icon.

5. 5

   Remove anything that does not belong.

   The bin icon on a rubric drops it from the sheet; Clear All empties the sheet completely.

Each remedy in Remedy Analysis shows four numbers: a coverage percentage, Score, Rubrics (how many of your rubrics contain it, out of the total) and Max (its highest grade in any one of them). The list is sorted by coverage first and score second — a remedy that appears in every rubric outranks one that scores highly in only two.

The repertorisation chart

With at least one rubric on the sheet, Repertorise Chart opens Case Repertorisation — the classic grid. Rubrics run down the left, remedies across the top with their totals, and each cell holds the grade that remedy carries in that rubric. A dot means the remedy is not in that rubric at all.

• Columns are sorted by how many of your rubrics the remedy covers, then by total score, so the likely similimum sits on the left.
• The chart shows the top 24 remedies. Click All N to show every remedy, and Top 24 to go back.
• Grade notation at the foot expands the legend: 4 bold and underlined, 3 bold, 2 italic, 1 plain.
• Export offers CSV Spreadsheet, Image (PNG) and PDF Document. Files are named with today's date.

Materia medica lookup

Switch to the Materia Medica tab and the page becomes a remedy reader — the title changes to Materia Medica and the subtitle to Search remedy descriptions and symptoms. Search a remedy name (Belladonna) to read it, or a symptom (fever) to find the remedies whose provings mention it. Results are passages of text, not rubrics, so there is no + button — there is nothing to repertorise. You can still copy any passage.

The workbench inside a consultation

During a consultation, the black Repertory pill floats at the bottom-right of the case sheet (it steps aside while Vita AI is open). Clicking it opens the Repertory workbench as a dock you can expand to full width and collapse again — the case sheet stays live behind it.

1. 1

   Search on the Search tab.

   Same syntax, same grades. Each card shows the rubric's strongest grade as pips, how many remedies it carries, and a strip of its top remedies tinted by grade — so you can judge a rubric before you add it.

2. 2

   Click + to put a rubric on the sheet.

   Clicking it again takes it off. The tab badge and the footer keep count.

3. 3

   Click the rubric text to open it in full.

   The detail dialog lists every remedy with a grade legend, and gives you Copy, Add to Sheet and Add to Notes.

4. 4

   Open the Sheet tab to weight and rank.

   Rubrics on the left with their ×1 / ×2 / ×3 importance, a live Remedy ranking on the right. The footer always shows N rubrics · leading {remedy}, wherever you have scrolled.

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   Click Chart in the footer for the grid, or Clear to empty the sheet.

Add to Notes is the reason to repertorise from inside the consultation. It appends the rubric path and its ten strongest remedies, with grades, into the case sheet — into Totality Analysis on a normal case, Consultation Notes on a follow-up, and Acute Diagnosis Analysis on an acute case. From there it is saved with the record and appears on the case PDF. See Running a consultation.

Which repertories you get

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