ADVANTAGES AND LIMITATIONS OF REPERTORYCourtesy: www.homeobook.com
Repertory is an index of homoeopathic materia medica which is full of information collected from toxicology, drug proving and clinical experiences.
The process of repertorisation is essentially an elimination, which starts with a broad choice and slowly narrows down the field, giving us adequate small group of medicine, so that the final selection is made easier with the help of further reference to the materia medica.
NEED/ SCOPE OF REPERTORY1. To avoid routinism.
2.It teaches by gradation the relative importance of various medicines
3.To select similimum quickly.
4. Helps to find out complete symptom.
5. It promotes discovery of medicine which one had not thought of
6. Second prescription and related remedies
7. Its constant use makes the physician efficient.
8.. It help the physician to ask intelligent questions.
9. Repertory teaches us to be careful about those symptoms belonging to the disease [common symptoms] and to consider only those symptoms which lie outside the disease [uncommon symptoms of the disease]
10. It help the study of Materia medica and comparative study of drugs.
11.To recall
LIMITATIONS OF REPERTORY- Repertory is basically an index, never suggest a final choice.
- Different repertories have different philosophy and construction.
- New additions to materiamedica cannot be accommodated in repertory.
- Many rubrics are not represented well.
- No guidance about potency, dose and repetition.
- Nosodes and sarcodes not represented well.
- If the physician makes mistakes in interpretation, and just counting the symptoms and markes, he will fail.
- Use of repertory cannot be independent of knowledge of materia medica, organon or clinical subjects.
