Repertorium Universale 5.0 by Roger van Zandvoort

Repertorium Universale 5.0 is the largest repertory in the world and Mercurius is the first homeopathic software in the world to release this repertory. (released on 1^st July 2005)

It includes updated rubrics and remedies, organized with inspiration from the enlightened prescribing method of Boenninghausen, which facilitates selection of more meaningful symptoms.

There are two versions of this repertory available:

Repertorium Universale 5.0 - RU V
Complete Repertory 2005 - CR 2005

RU V and CR 2005 contain exactly the same number of symptoms and remedies, but differ in structure.
While RU V uses Boenninghausen-style rubrics, CR 2005 is for users that rely on Kentian-style structure.
When purchasing this repertory, the user will receive both versions and is free to use whichever he/she likes.

Over the past three decades much work has been carried out integrating and improving older and existing repertories, but the templates used to make these improvements are still largely based on the one created by James Tyler Kent over a century ago. This has its limitations as the full potential of other methods of repertorization, particularly Boenninghausen's, cannot be fully utilized in any single repertory.

Boenninghausen's technique has considerably greater flexibility and potential for solving cases than a repertory based only on complete recorded symptoms. This is because the complete symptom of the patient, whatever it might be, can be built up from its component parts by the use of partial symptom rubrics, each of which is generally characteristic of the remedies it contains. This is enormously useful in cases where a very distinctive and characteristic symptom cannot be included in the repertorization because it simply isn't in the repertory.

By re-structuring the format of the rubrics in the Repertorium Universale, both Kent's and Boenninghausen's models are accommodated and presented as a single fully integrated repertory. The Kentian-structured repertory (i.e. the Complete Repertory) has been nested within an expanded hierarchy which now includes Boenninghausen's rubrics in the primary classification of symptoms. This results in a repertory which effectively offers the best of both worlds - the greater precision of the complete symptoms found within the Kentian structure, plus the greater flexibility of symptom combination provided by the Boenninghausen-style rubrics.

In the Repertorium Universale nearly 1.5 million remedy additions have been made in over 180,000 rubrics with extensive cross-referencing. It includes all the features of the Complete Repertory. The grades of remedies - an indication of their reliability in the context of each symptom - have been re-classified and further clarified. The abbreviations of the remedy names have been corrected and synonyms reconciled. Most importantly, the re-structuring of the layout of rubrics makes it possible to use different repertorization methods in a single search strategy. This makes the Repertorium Universale a much more flexible tool for evaluating how closely a patient's symptoms match a given remedy's therapeutic profile in the materia medica.

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