CARD

REPERTORY
DR. SUMAN SANKAR. A.S, M.D.(Hom)
Professor, Department of Repertory
Sarada Krishna Homoeopathic Medical College
Kulasekharam

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• Boenninghausen’s repertory of Antipsoric
Remedies started the era of repertories.

• Even though the repertories were aimed at

minimizing the labour for finding the
similimum, however in a case with lot of
symptoms it was a matter of hours to find
remedy with the repertories in a plain paper
method.

• This fact made dread to many for not to use

repertories.
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• Later, shortcut methods were adopted to
solve this problem like elimination method
and thumb index method.

• It was at this time that many pioneers

started to contemplate on idea of putting
most commonly used general symptoms and
particular symptoms on a piece of paper so
that when a particular case came with
symptoms corresponding to the paper, it
would be easier to just arrange them in
systematic manner and to know the remedy
running through them
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• This would save lot of time as well as
labour of doing paper work.

• The first work done in this direction was

by Dr. W. J. Guernsey, which was based
on BTPB.

• Card repertory is a system of visual

sorting which help the physician by
eliminating the necessity of writing out
the rubrics and remedies against them.
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Different Cards

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 HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF CARD
REPERTORIES
Year of Name of the Cards Author No. of No. of
Publishing Drugs Cards
1889 Guernsey’s W. J. 126 2467
Boenninghausen Guernsey
slips
Allen’s H. C. Allen _ _
Boenninghausen
’s slip by
improving
Guernsey’s
cards
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191 Punched card Margaret __ 1000
2 Repertory – based on Tyler
Kent’s Repertory –
Incomplete work
191 Loosely punched Card Welch and __ 134
3 Repertory – based on Houston
Kent’s generals
192 The Symptom Index Richard M. 405 6460
2 Field

192 The general Analysis – C. M. Boger 222 304

8 published by Roy &
Company, Mumbai
194 Achyuthan’s Card Achyuthan 659 7000
0 Index K.K.
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194 Practical Homoeopathic Marcos 480 552
8 Repertory in colored Jimenez
and Perforated cards -
Gradation of drugs

194 Broussalian’s Card George 640 1861

8 Repertory – based on Broussalian
Kent’s Repertory

195 Spindle card Repertory Dr. J. G. 274 190

0 Weiss & Dr.
R. H. Farley

195 Attempted but not Dr. Young & __ __

0 published Dr. Pulford

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195 Prepared card L. D. __ __
0 Repertory, which was a Dhawale
modified form of
Boger’s card Repertory
but not published
195 Sankaran’s Card P. Sankaran 292 420
5 Repertory
195 Kishore’s Card Jugal 648 9063
9 Repertory Kishore

198 Dr. B. S. Hatta’s Card Dr. B. S. 220 602

1 Repertory Hatta

198 Sharma’s Card Shashi 400 3000

4 Repertory Mohan
Sharma
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__ HOMOEO CARD Dr. A. B. 299 1245
DECK Patwardhan

197 Master cards Dr. S. S. Adi 45 100

9

199 SPIRO-Shankar Prasad Shankar 67 292

6 Integrated Rotary Prasad Roy

200 Synoptic card Dr. V. R. 320 489

7 Repertory Khanaj

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 METHOD OF WORKING
• Bases of finding out similar remedy by
using Card Repertory are based on
punch system.
• It is a system of visual sorting of data.
• It helps physician by reducing the
work of repertorization.
• Card Repertory is mainly useful in
cases where there are strong generals
and weak particulars symptoms.
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• After analysis and evaluation of symptoms
according to the repertory used select few
more characteristics, peculiar symptoms of
the patients.

• Convert those in to rubrics according to

card repertory used.

• Find out the code number of rubrics and

cards from “Card Box.”

• Arrange the cards according to their grades

and method used for repertorization.
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• Then match the punch and corners of
the Cards to see the holes to get
Similimum against light.

• From which hole light is clearly passing

that will be remedial code number and
from which hole light is partially
passing that will be another group of
remedies.

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• If in a case no hole is clearly seen, in such
cases note down the most transilluminant
code number of remedy and study MM to
prescribe most suitable remedy.

• This concept of transilluminant code is not

applicable to each and every card
repertory.

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 ADVANTAGES
• It is less time consuming method, one can
repertories with in few minutes by handling
cards.
• It gives nearly similar remedy in short time.
• It helps to know other related remedies by
exact matching.
• It is less laborious than that of actual paper
and ink repertorization.
• It reduces the eyestrain by reducing the
work of repertorization.
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 DISADVANTAGES

• Only few no. of remedies are listed on

the cards so chances of missing
similimum.
• There are many symptoms found in
actual practice but in card repertory
few no. of rubrics are present.
• Grades of medicines are not on the
cards so if any one wants to grade he
should refer it in book repertory.
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• If the selected number of rubrics is
many there is problem of blockage so
that there is possibility of indicating
other group of remedies.
• In some card repertories, grading of
remedy is totally neglected.
• There are repertories like Jugal
Kishore which is big in size so
difficult to carry at bedside.
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• Boger says that cards are not seen as
an end-all substitute for a more
detailed repertory.
• Cases with typical symptoms may
not have corresponding cards.
• Other limitation in general for
repertories is, unless symptoms are
properly evaluated and analyzed, it
is futile attempt to use repertories in
finding the similimum.
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• With the advent of computers, cards
have taken a backstage.
• Always polychrest remedies only
come in final result.
• Some rubrics are combined to form
one, which is not always acceptable.
For Ex. Fear of robbers and fear of
darkness are combined.
• Rubrics & sub-rubrics are not well
represented.
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 References
• Achyuthan’s Card Index
• Kishore’s Card Repertory
• Sankaran’s Card Repertory
• A reference to repertories for homoeopathic
students-Dr. SIJU .P.V
• Essentials of repertorisation-Dr. SHASHI
KANT TIWARI

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