What is the Repertory?
The Repertory is a book that lists all of the symptoms for the homeopathic single remedies. It is like an index for the Materia Medica. Here’s a little more detail: Every single remedy has a set of symptoms associated with it. Rather than read the entire Materia Medica every time you want to find a remedy, it is easier to look up the specific symptoms first. The Repertory lists the guiding symptoms and corresponding single remedies. The Repertory is like an index to the Materia Medica. A sample listing in the Repertory is as follows: Throat Pain Sore Right: Ars., bell., calc-p., carb-ac., ham., ind., lac-c., lith., Lyc., lyss., mag-c., merc., merc-i-f., nat-p., nicc., phyt., ptel., sars., tarent., ter., xan. The “code” to the listing of remedies is as follows: Bold = 1, Italic = 2, Normal Type = 3. When looking up symptoms, each remedy should be listed in terms of importance. Bold symptoms are stronger than italicised symptoms and italicized symptoms are stronger than normal typed symp