The 'Complete' Repertory:
Repertorium
Universale
In 1982 homeopath Roger Van Zandvoort bio began adding to and correcting Kent's Repertory. Initially, he had no intention to publish – his work was for the benefit of his patients.
But gradually, Roger found he spent less time in his clinical practice and more time in his work on the repertory.
His efforts evolved into a database called the Repertorium Universale, or RU. Soon a derivative of that database, called the Complete Repertory or CR, was used in commercial homeopathy software such as MacRepertory.
The 'Complete' Repertory is now offered for RADAR software in three versions.
I. CR Basic
Roger began adding remedies and rubrics to his repertory from the common sources, including Kent's Materia Medica, Hahnemann's Materia Medica Pura, and The Synthetic Repertory.
The structure of CR Basic follows the structure dictated in Kent's repertory. The only changes are:
- Dreams are now a main rubric within the Mind chapter
- Speech and Voice have their own chapter
The inner arrangement of every section follows Kent's repertory structure, except for the following change:
- Any remedy present in a sub-rubric was elevated to the main rubric (That is, if that remedy wasn't already there). Having no clinical confirmation for this change, the remedies were listed in the lowest degree.
II. CR 2001 (with the RU I database; formerly named Millennium)
The Complete Repertory 2001 represents years of additional scholarship over CR Basic. The Repertorium Universale I (RU I) database used in CR 2001 includes more cross-references, additions, and new provings – as well as further corrections.
A repertory does not only grow or improve as it gains additions. Sometimes there is a need to reorganize, and possibly even restructure the repertory so that long existing, but hidden rubrics can be found.
For this reason, CR 2001 includes a lot of restructuring to enhance the many new references. For example, many new cross-references have been made, in the knowledge that people will use modern day English to find information.
New remedy information was taken only from what is available in print, so that one can always check the original material.
Boenninghausen Repertory Format
In CR 2001, new entries were made for generalized characteristic modalities, times, sides etc., in order to offer information in the Boenninghausen format.
The well-known Kentian block structure as applied to the sub-rubrics is now also applied to the main rubrics of every section.
III. CR 2005 (with the RU V database)
The Complete Repertory 2005 (included in RADAR software Pkg #6) contains all the information in CR 2001, plus all the information from these 4 Boenninghausen repertories:
- 1832 Repertory of Psoric Medicines
- 1835 Repertory of the Non-psoric Medicines
- 1846 Therapeutic Pocketbook
- 1907 Boger Boenninghausen Repertory
Changes in Structure and Grading
The Repertorium Universale V database (RU V) used in CR 2005 represents a radical departure from previous versions. It incorporates both a major structural change and a complete revision of the grading system – the Boenninghausen grading system has been utilized throughout the CR 2005 repertory.
The structural changes result from the integration of rubrics that allow the Boenninghausen Method to be used with the same facility as the more customary Kentian-style rubrics. This creates much greater repertory flexibility, allowing the practitioner to individualy tailor the methodology to the particular case.
Kent Integrates Seamlessly with Boenninghausen
The great benefit of CR 2005 is that it combines both the Kent and Boenninghausen structures in a wholly seamless way. Roger van Zandvoort used Kent's block-structure as applied to the sub-rubrics, making Kent's own main rubrics the seventh block in the structure – since they present the phenomena listed alphabetically.
The six other blocks belong to the Boenninghausen concept rubrics. Because these are generalized rubrics that can be combined to create complete symptoms that cross a phenomenon, a generalized location and at least one generalized modality, they offer an outcome that goes beyond all information currently found in the literature.
The seven blocks now applied to the main rubrics are:
- Alternating Symptoms (presented in a block of their own, since they are more than a modality as presented in Kent)
- Sides
- Times
- Modalities, Causations and Concomitants
- Extensions
- Locations
- Phenomena (also called Sensations; this includes Kent's rubrics and additional information)
Roger also followed Kent's block structure in arranging the information from Boenninghausen, Boger and Phatak. The beauty in this structure is that when you arrive at the seventh block, consisting of the information arranged in the Kentian way, it repeats the same pattern of blocks presented with the Boenninghausen general rubrics, a kind of fractal repetition.
In CR 2005 you will find new chapters for Heart and Circulation, Blood and Clinical, as well as the chapters that were included in CR 2001, such as Mirilli's Themes.
The Numbers at a Glance
 | CR Basic | CR 2001 | CR 2005 |
| No. of symptoms with remedies | 125,583 | 151,320 | 158,475 |
| No. of remedy occurences | 1,536 | 1,724 | 1,846 |
| No. of remedies in each degree: | |||
| – grade 1 | 720,027 | 1,008,507 | 1,078,098 |
| – grade 2 | 171,064 | 223,835 | ** 23,159 |
| – grade 3 | 41,107 | 62,219 | ** 303,956 |
| – grade 4 | 438 | 685 | ** 141,190 |
| Avg. remedies per symptom | 7.43 | 8.55 | 9.75 |
| Boenninghausen method | No | Yes | Yes |
** Because of structural changes in CR 2005: – grade 4 is grade 3 in the other repertories
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CR 2001 $245 |
CR 2005 $395 | |
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