The project "Confirmed Repertory"

By G. Vithoulkas

Introduction

Everybody agrees that there is a need for a new Repertory that will contain reliable and confirmed information.

There is no doubt that our contemporary repertories are loaded with information that many times is totally unreliable. The authors had no way of screening the incoming information and therefore included everything that was published anywhere, and by anybody, which many times were the result of hysteria, or imagination, or incompetence or ambition for something new and glamorous and in general for all kind of reasons except for the main one: reliability.

Hence the need for a new Repertory that will contain only reliable and confirmed information.

Such a project is not the duty of one person of course but it is the duty of all of us who care about our science.

The aim of the "Confirmed Repertory" project is to produce a new Repertory that that will contain:

1. Old existing symptoms in our materia medica and our Repertory that will be confirmed by clinical application

and

2. with new symptoms of remedies that were cured by the remedy. (Such symptoms should not be already in our materia medica or in the Repertory.)

In this Repertory we want to have the highest reliability possible. This is going to be the new tool of the millennium that every homeopath could trust. In the beginning of this project only selected homeopaths could send information. The catalogue of these homeopaths will be publicized.

But we need the experience of everybody who may have a good case from which reliable information could be deducted. Therefore we would like you to propose yourself or other practitioners who, according to your experience and information are reliable, trustworthy and persons with integrity in order to include them in a catalogue that will eventually become public as "The Contributors of the Confirmed Repertory". Selected practitioners should be able to send information in to a central committee, which will judge the validity of the submitted information.

The names of the writers will be also mentioned in the new Repertory. The names of the writers will become public once they have contributed a substantial amount of information: at least 200 new symptoms for different remedies and 500 old symptoms.

Conditions under which an addition is acceptable:

It should be absolutely understood that only practitioners prescribing one remedy at a time could participate in this project.

Care and judgment should be taken before deciding that: the disappearance, the going away of a symptom of the patient after the remedy was prescribed is due to the remedy and not to others factors. The practitioner should make certain and it is not because of a change in the diet of the patient or other changes in the mode of life or because of other drugs that were taken at the same time. In any case the exact situation has to be mentioned every time in the report.

1. The best situation for confirming a symptom or giving a new one will be : From a case that has been cured in its totality and the particular symptom has been eliminated though even may not known to belong to the remedy.

Of course in case the symptoms belongs to the remedy it should still be reported as confirming the particular symptoms. In such cases the additions or the confirmation will be acceptable without reservations.

Even better, the reliability of such symptom could be confirmed if a video case exists.

2. The second best possibility for an addition will be:

When two or three or more symptoms have been modified or eliminated in a case without reaching a total cure. Again the ?additions? have to be accompanied with a note about the exact situation.

3. The third possibility is when only one symptom has been totally eliminated in a case while the rest of the case has been left untouched. For instance, in a common cold we have the symptom that " the inhaled air feels icy cold " and the symptom has been eliminated by cistus can. Attention should be paid to the exact expression, in this case "icy" and if this is gone with cistus and not with another remedy that was given immediately after or before cistus. But the symptom has to be accompanied by the notice that this was the only change in the case.

4. The fourth possibility is: When a proving symptom has appeared, that is known to belong to the remedy, without modifying the rest of the case. It is very interesting that a patient after taking the remedy complain the next day that is suffering with a particular symptom that is known to belong to the pathogenesis of the remedy. Sometimes this happens with a few keynotes of the remedies.

5. The fifth possibility for acceptance: when a new single clear symptom appears that is not known to belong to the pathogenesis of the remedy. Such an addition will have the lowest degree of acceptance and will wait for several confirmations before been accepted in the Repertory.

It is obvious to everyone who uses the Repertory that such advanced information about new symptoms could be utilized and confirmed in practice.

Eventually we will construct a list of practitioners that will be eligible to add to the project.

Because at this moment is not possible to know all good practitioners we appeal to the international community for suggestions of reliable classical homeopaths who can be added to the list. Those who propose a new practitioner will have the responsibility for him and will be the first to examine the reliability of an addition.

We will have two groups that can send information: the one pre-selected and the other pending until their reliability is established.

We would like to hear the opinion of other homeopathic doctors and practitioners about this project. All ideas are welcomed.