ROLE OF COMPUTERS IN

REPERTORISATION AND DIFFERENT

SOFTWARE

Dr SHALINI G UNNITHAN MD(Hom.)Prof. & HOD

Dept of Repertory

SVRHMC, Nemom

SOFTWARES• PROCESSING – less data, learning & teaching

• ORGANON 96• KENTIAN

• REFERENCE/ DATABASE – easy, quick reference & repertorisation, libraries• RADAR • Clinician • Hompath • Stimulare • Diagnoz-it • Open-Rep • Similimum Ultra • ISIS • Mercury

Utility in Homeopathy

•Academic purpose

•Medical Practice

•Research

•Thesis

RADARRapid Aid to Drug Aimed Research

•Author : Jean Feichfet

• Research project

• Prof of mathematics, Univ. of Namur, Belgium

• 1982

•Marketed by : Archibel

• 1987 – Synthesis as a database

• India : B.Jain Publishers

BASIC FUNCTIONS

• UNSTRUCTURED SEARCH

• Able to search with any key word to get all the symptoms

that contain that particular key word

• F4

• STRUCTURED SEARCH

• Particular repertory can be opened to search rubric &

sub rubric

• Rubrics belonging to same hierarchy are viewed at a

time, in alphabetical order

• F3 – rubric starting from the current rubric

COLLECTING SYMPTOMS

• Easy to add a symptom found to the symptom list

• Drag to clipboard / TAKE

ANALYSIS

• Helps to overcome difficulties in manual repertorisation

• Any number of rubrics can be taken to repertorize

• Case can be approached with different point of view

with different techniques

• F8

VES – Vithoulkas Expert System• Only software providing VES

• Shift + F9

REMEDY EXTRACTION

• Symptoms of a particular drug

• All rubrics under which a remedy is indicated

• Comparison upto 10 remedies

• 3rd & 4th degree symptom of a particular drug in a chapter

can be gathered

• For teaching, learning, research

• F5

ADD MORE INFORMATION

• Physician can add new symptoms, new remedies, notes etc.

• Chance to add their own knowledge & share the information

with other RADAR users

• Base : 6th edition of Kent’s Repertory

• I edition : 1987

• RADAR Book version : 1995

• Indian edition : 1996

• 9.2 version of RADAR : 2006

• 10 Version : 2007

• 10.5 Version : 2009

• Latest : Radar Opus 2010

Gradations :

• BOLD CAPITAL

• BOLD CAPITAL

• Italics

• roman

International time table 0-24 hr

•Different Views

Packages• RADAR • Encyclopedia Homeopathica (EH)•Winchip -> CLIFICOL

Repertories• Synthesis

• Murphy

• Complete

• BBCR

• TPB

Modules

• VES

• Herscus’s

• Prakash Vakil

Key notes RADAR Key note

Allen’s

Boericke’s

Phatak’s

RADAR 10

• Camera after rubric indicates picture

• Speaker sign - Audio explanation

• Bulb – Concepts or related rubrics /conditions

• Red dot – Kunzli’s dots

• Paper mark – Explanation on that rubric

Key board Short cuts • F1 – Help

• F2- Open chapter

• F3- Select symptoms

• F4- Open extended search

• F5- Comparative extraction

• F7 - Open symptom clipboard

• F8 – Analysis • ALT+F2 Select a family of rubrics • CTRL+SHIFT+ F3 Display authors ON/OFF • ALT+F4 Close Radar • CTRL+SHIFT+F5 Display cross-references ON/OFF

• Ctrl + F6 – Next repertory

• Ctrl + Shift +F4 - Previous search result

• Ctrl+Shift+F3 – Author

• Ctrl+Shift+F5 – Cross reference

• Alt + F4 – Close radar

Merits

• Saves lot of time

• Process more enjoyable & exciting

• Reduces manual work

• Can search through MM very easily

• Clinical mistakes can be avoided

• Excellent tool in therapy & teaching

• Create data bank of cured cases

• Homeonet – contact with homoeopaths all over the world

• So many programs for Ready references

• Creates impression upon patient

• More readable symptom format

• User friendly and authentic

• Repeatedly checked additions

• New standard list of remedy & author abbreviations

• Highly reliable

• Every source is just one mouse click away

• Jump to cross-references and synonyms

• Filter the information you don't want to see and use

• Keep up-to-date using the live update - if you want to

De Merits

• Computer wont accept slightest typing error

• Not a final solution to the indicated remedy

• Remedy will be wrong if case perceiving is wrong

• Very costly

• No logical thinking

• For proper case taking and selection of symptoms, computers

cant offer any help

• Full Synthesis

• Quantum View

• Quantum View Represents the Complete Synthesis without any of

the more recent provings or experimental information. Does include

contemporary clinical information and can be considered an

expanded traditional view.

• Millennium View

• Millennium View Represents the Complete Synthesis Without

experimental information such as proposed by Scholten, dream

provings and meditation provings

• Modern 1987 (Schmidt)

• Includes information from sources up to 1987 (Pierre Schmidt's

death).

• Additional information from Clarke, Oscar and William Boericke,

Borland, Duprat, Foubister, Grimmer, Mezger, Paterson (bowel

nosodes), Raeside (provings), Roberts, Stephenson, Templeton,

Yingling and Boger's Boenninghausen Repertory.

• Classics to 1916 (Kent)

• Includes information from sources up to 1916

• Information from more German authors such as Stapf, Ruechert

etc.

• Classical American authors : HC Allen (nosodes), TF Allen, Gentry,

Guernsey, Farrington, Hering, Lilienthal, Lippe, Knerr.

• Additional authors are: Burnett, Hughes and Dake and the first

publications of Clarke, Nash and others.

• Vithoulkas View

• A selection of authors which were suggested by George Vithoulkas

with an emphasis on clinically confirmed information and classical

authors