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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