Repertorisation Software - Fast Solutions For A Fast World

Homoeopathy has come a long way since its discovery by Samuel Hahnemann way back in 1796. As the years have progressed, homoeopathy has kept up with the pace, movement and rhythm of the world. Its philosophy has stood the test of time and emerged richer and stronger.

Newer remedies were discovered as years passed. Provings became more scientific, extensive and exhaustive. Keeping track of all the drugs and their indications became an uphill task as physicians had to sift through 1000s of pages of Materia Medica books in their search for the perfect similimum.

Today, Homoeopathy boasts of not less than 3000 remedies as part of its therapeutic armamentarium. The ever increasing data of homeopathic literature has gradually deemed manual repertorisation extremely tedious and time consuming. It is a major hurdle for every homeopath in his busy practice.

The introduction of the Computer revolutionised the field of technology and made its presence felt in all the fields of work spanning across the world, and homeopathy was no exception.

Soon, various repertorisation software were created, making remedy searching and targeting quicker and nullifying the time-consuming process of skimming through numerous Repertory books.

The Computer made the process of repertorisation faster and more efficient, and was the key factor in generating more awareness about its necessity and its advantages.

From very basic repertorisation software to the newer and more sophisticated homeopathic software like Hompath, the goal of each has been the same – reducing manual work, saving time and making the perfect prescription.

How does Repertorisation Software benefit you ?

• Saves your time: It saves your precious time by doing the mechanical repertorisation work within a few seconds and enables you to concentrate on more important tasks.
• Suggests multiple strategies: It allows the application of various strategies of repertorisation and filters to narrow down your search and promptly arrive at a more refined result. A variety of filter options can narrow down your search from 3000 to 3 and finally to 1 final remedy.
• Improves accuracy / refines search: Various symptoms as well as their cross references, synonyms and parallel words can be accessed promptly and with very high accuracy. Get the precise symptom as described by the patient.
• Saves valuable space: Advanced software have huge databases – almost like an entire library – compressed and condensed in the PC. Thus, one can save all the space required for storing various books, magazines, references, records, etc. Imagine replacing a room with 3000 books with just one software-loaded PC or Laptop.
• Helps organize your work: When working with a repertorisation software, all information is available at the click of a button, making referencing easier and well-organized. In software like the latest version of Hompath - Hompath Wildfire - every aspect of a remedy / rubric / repertorisation is available in a single screen with suggestions, options and alternatives.
• Widen your search: One of the biggest benefits of repertorisation software is that you can search through the materia medica for symptoms NOT found in the repertory.
• Carry along your clinic: You can carry the entire database and your records in the repertorisation software on your laptop and soon on the cellphone too. Thus, one can carry one’s entire office along anywhere one travels.
• Research: You can create your own repertory (cancer, diabetes, asthma repertories) or compile research thesis in a speedy yet professional manner using the repertorisation software tools and applications.
• Expert Systems: One can learn from the wonderful homeopathic Experts sitting in the comfort and convenience of your home or clinic.

………………… and many, many more amazing features at your disposal and service 24x7

Isn’t the repertorisation software an amazing tool and a boon to all homeopaths around the world ? Now, every homeopath can become modern and tech-savvy so as to maximize his resources and skills and write his own success story. Isn’t that the goal and dream of every true homeopath ??

Robin Murphy Repertory- A New Approach To Clinical Homoeopathy

Modern homoeopathic practice entails a more clinical and practical approach towards patient diagnosis and remedy selection. The dynamicity of our science is such that we see the addition of newly proved remedies to the homoeopathic armamentum everyday.

Robin Murphy Repertory is the answer to the changing mode of prescribing in homoeopathy. The 3rd edition of the Robin Murphy Repertory is the upgraded version of the second, having 20,000 new rubrics and hundreds of new remedies.

The new Robin Murphy Repertory boasts of an updated database of modern medical terminology and disorders. It comprises thousands of new clinical rubrics that the physician can refer easily and in a more efficient manner.

An alphabetical mode of formatting of the Chapters as well as the rubrics and sub-rubrics makes searching through the vast and well-researched 74 chapters in the Robin Murphy Repertory an easy task and a delightful experience.

Robin Murphy Repertory includes gems from the original Kent’s repertory, as well as significant embellishments from the literature of Samuel Hahnemann, Allen, Hering, Boericke, Knerr, Kunzli, Phatak, Boenninghausen, Burnett, Clarke, Grimmer, Julian, Kunzli, Nash, and many more noted authors.

All the additions included in the repertory have been included after a methodical review of the enormous literature of our homoeopathic treasures, so that the final output is a well-authenticated piece of writing that is the Robin Murphy Repertory.

With the concept of keeping practicality as the core of the Robin Murphy Repertory, Dr. Murphy himself adds a host of clinical updates from his years of homoeopathic experience and herbal study. Thousands of new clinical rubrics have been especially incorporated in sections of emergencies, infections, mental disorders and pathologies, thereby improving the chance of finding the similimum more easily than we thought in many clinical and pathological conditions.

Some rubrics found only in Murphy’s Repertory

[Murphy] [Clinical] Acne, general: Chocolate, from:

[Murphy] [Spleen] Bubbling, sensation:

The new remedies added in various rubrics staunchly refute the allegations that homoeopathy is an ancient and stagnant science. In fact, many new remedies added in Robin Murphy Repertory are dynamized versions of the modern allopathic drugs.

[Murphy] [Sleep] Yawning, general: Vomiting, between the acts of:

New Chapters in Robin Murphy Repertory: Cancer, Clinical, Dreams, Fainting, Gallbladder, Speech, Spleen, Taste, Time, Vaccinations, Weakness.

[Murphy] [Gallbladder] Bile, general: Yellow, watery bile, full of pale:

New Clinical Rubrics in Robin Murphy Repertory : Addictions, A.I.D.S., Anxiety attacks, Asphyxia, Appendicitis, Auto-immune disorders, Burns, Cancers, Chemotherapy, Chronic Fatigue, Compulsive-Obsessive Disorder, Coma, Dehydration, Diabetes, Drug overdose, Endometriosis, Food Poisoning, Gastroenteritis, Hepatitis, Herpes, Infertility, Influenza, Malaria, Mononucleosis, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, Radiation Sickness, Retinitis, SARS, Seasonal Affective Disorder, Sea sickness, Surgery, Tetanus, Tourette's syndrome, Typhoid fever, Vaccinations, etc.

[Murphy] [Clinical] AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome:

The Robin Murphy Repertory is one of the pioneers of the changing face of homoeopathy, veering the trend towards a more practical and clinical approach to the science, so that the physician can give a more confident prescription, thereby ensuring sure success in his practice.

Expert Systems: Experts experience in your clinic

Different schools of thoughts have different approach to perceive a case and understood deeper aspects of patient management. They have attempted their methodology in hundreds of cases and have evolved a concrete system. Expert systems bring this knowledge and experience of stalwarts in a condensed form of an application, which helps in choosing the similimum effortlessly according to their respective methodologies.

Hompath Wildfire brings to you 7 Expert Systems developed on understanding of National & International Wizards to make it a truly global experience. Hompath offers these decision support systems – Expert Systems to help you treat your patients better.

Tempraz Expert System by Dr. Parinaz Humranwala:

The main principle of Homeopathy is that each human being is different and unique. This intrinsic core, our temperament, is unique and cannot be changed and this is the basis of the homeopathic prescription in Tempraz, one of the first expert systems developed by Dr. Parinaz and Mind Technologies.

Tempraz Expert System by Dr. Parinaz Humranwala

The temperament is the “real self” and personality is the dress one puts on over oneself. Thus, understanding temperaments makes the process of choosing the similimum easier and almost foolproof.

Acute Expert System by Dr. Prafull Vijayakar:

This is one of the comprehensive expert systems, which becomes the first choice of preference while treating acute conditions with homeopathy.

Acute Expert System by Dr. Prafull Vijayakar

Many a times, homeopathic practitioners find it very difficult to handle acute cases. Dr. Prafull Vijayakar’s Acute Expert System gives us the confidence to treat even acute conditions with ease and confidence.

Acute prescriber is a feature created out of essence of experience of 30 years of homeopathic practice of Dr. Prafull Vijayakar.

Element Theory Expert System by Jan Scholten:

After successful completion of these two widely used expert systems, Mind Technologies with Jan Scholten of Netherlands made up the mind of coming up with yet another marvellous application - Scholten Expert system.

Element Theory Expert System by Jan Scholten

We always wonder why there were so few remedies that we really know well? What about Hafnium or Krypton or any other element? Jan Scholten, through his work on elements and minerals tries to fill these incomplete patches very successfully.

Tempraz and Scholten Expert systems are so intuitive and interactive that they involve many intelligent calculations and processes in background helping us to narrow down to a similimum.

Seigal Expert System by Sehgal Brothers:

Expert systems help us choose the right medicine easily and quickly. Seigal expert system does just that using mind as a base.

Seigal Expert System by Sehgal Brothers

We are able to derive mental rubrics of the patient in just a matter of 5-10 minutes, which is a great help to us in our practice. Thus, many hours can be saved. This methodology developed by Sehgal Doctors helps us to select mental rubrics while the patient is narrating his chief complaint. Just come to the right remedy in a shortest possible time!

Along with these 4, Hompath also includes 3 more strong expert systems based on stalwarts’ philosophies – The Kent, The Boenninghausen and The Boger Expert Systems. Each of these Expert Systems represents different schools of thoughts backed with extensive clinical experiences by homeopaths and their followers.

These Expert Systems make Hompath a software built with most innovative features, different approaches to homeopathy, exhaustive analytical database of remedies and symptoms. Let treating patients be an enjoyable experience!

Homeopathy at its best for Hair fall disorders

In the world of today, working at an express pace, there has been inevitable increase in the stress levels amongst the people. Ever since before, hair fall has been its invariable associate. Major causes of hair fall today include:

• Hormonal Imbalance
• Heredity
• Poor Nutrition
• Emotional Disturbances/Stress
• Systemic diseases
• Local Infection
• Aging
• Auto-immune affections

Amongst all these causes of hair fall we understand that about 90% of the causes are internal causes or causes not directly related to the hair. Then, why do we resort to local means for treatment of such a disorder? Hairfall is the external expression of the internal dismay. Then is it not futile to keep treating a manifestation and not target the cause? What results do we expect with such an approach? No wonder we keep getting patient of hair loss with a mere temporary relief and the complaints recurring again and again. A disease with such high cosmetic significance needs to be handled in a very defined and meticulous manner. Most of the treatments just treat the external expressions not taking into account the internal derangement.

Homeopathy here has something to proffer. Homeopathy has been showing miraculous result when it comes to most of the forms of hair fall.

Homeopathy has reasons to work

• Homeopathy acts on the defective immune response
• Homeopathy pays heed to the family histories and genetic predispositions
• Homeopathy considers hairfall to be an internal disease and not a local or an external derangement
• Consideration of all levels with regards to a disease, i.e. physical and mental, to be precise, a holistic approach

Homeopathic treatment for hairfall comes to an ideal and lasting retrieval. Some ‘On the move’ prescriptions for treating hairfall.

Acid Phos, only remedy in Homeopathy for alopecia occurring after grief or sorrow.

Acid Phos in hairfall

Homeopathic remedies indicated in cases having hairfall after repeated attacks of headaches are Aurum Met, Hepar Sulph, Nitric acid and Phosphorus.

Hairfall after frequent headaches

Natrum mur is the indicated remedy for hairfall occurring when the head is touched

Natrum mur for hairfall

An effective homeopathic remedy for hairfall after vaccination is Thuja.

Thuja for headache

We also have two great remedies Vinca Minor and Phosphorus commonly used in cases of hairfall. But for faster and easier prescription we can compare them.

Difference between Vinca Minor and Phosphorus in hairfall

Phosphorus has hairfall in spots with profuse dandruff with premature graying of hair. Hair comes out in bunches. Whereas, Vinca minor is a remedy which has corrosive itching of the scalp with foul smelling eruptions on the head, face and also behind the ears. Live vermin present on the scalp. Entangled hair causing plica polonica. Hair falling out wherein the lost hair are replaced with grey hair. Bald spots are covered with short, wooly hair. Moist eruptions on the head containing vermin causing night itching with burning and intense scratching.

Also of great help is the Homeopathic remedy Ustilago, useful in cases of hairfall with intense dryness and heat of the scalp and congestion. Filthy mass of inflammation is present on the scalp constantly oozing out a watery serum.

Right since the ancient past hair has been attributed as a person’s might and allure. Hair though being an external adjunct account to the completeness of a person. Healthy hair indicate health, energy and youthfulness whereas, white hair or no hair relate to aging and weakness. Bald headed or grey-haired people are known to suffer isolation, lack of confidence and thus depression. Selecting the right path towards treatment of hairfall is the need for today. External relief is no relief in true sense. Don’t you feel Homeopathy to be the most apt system for such a disease? We Homeopaths are privileged to be a part of the system which heads to the correct path.