What are the advantage of using repertory?

Using a homeopathic repertory brings multiple practical and clinical advantages:

– Helps individualize each case by matching the patient’s exact symptoms to the most fitting remedies, rather than relying on memory alone.
– Prevents routinism: by listing all possible medicines under a symptom, it forces careful selection instead of defaulting to the most familiar drug.
– Offers symptom‐gradation: rubrics are graded so you can choose a remedy whose proven intensity matches your patient’s severity.
– Speeds up prescribing: a broad rubric‐to‐remedy process narrows your options rapidly, saving time in acute or busy settings.
– Consolidates complete symptom pictures—including scattered concomitants and modalities—into single rubrics for easier cross‐referencing.
– Suggests follow‐up or complementary remedies by showing related drugs under adjacent rubrics, aiding second prescriptions.
– Enhances clinical skill: regular use refreshes your materia medica, teaches you to ask more precise questions, and hones your judgment.

Altogether, repertories elevate both the precision and efficiency of remedy selection, making them indispensable tools in a homeopath’s practice.