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  1. Complete Repertory 2024 edition released

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    Introduced in Vision version 2.0007.004 in WinVision and version 2.0008 in MacVision this edition of the Complete is available as an option to purchase with Vision.

    The author also offers a chargeable upgrade to Complete 2024 at an attractive price to users of previous versions.

    To buy a new copy of Complete click here.
    To upgrade your current Complete to the 2024 edition click here.

    What's new and improved?

    This edition is a result of the large amount of available additions (from January-May 2024 118.934 additions were made from 1072 sources):

    1. The usual verification work of adding Rx from clinical cases (many sources, including MMPP data – see following parapgraph) into Complete Repertory 2024 rev. I has also continued. Therefore, although a lot of new provings data was entered, the percentage of clinical information (cured cases) represented some repertories and still on par with Complete Repertory 2024 previous editions. We focused on clinical cases based on the remedies from the new provings and many older cases, prescribing smaller remedies.

    As a result higher grades frequently apply for many of these remedies in the repertory, leading to better analytical results in repertorization and therefore better results in practice.


    2. Additions from the Materia Medica Pura project (MMP project) by André Saine and a dedicated group of colleagues, (24.658 extra additions). The initial work was started 25+ years ago by André, with data exchange between André and me(Roger van Zandvoort), however that exchange was postponed –but has now been revived and completed.

    3. From Provings published in the last 70+ years, 56 provings were added by Dr. Rajesh Rajendran. 

    Additions have been made from these provings:




  2. Complete Repertory 2023 edition

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    Introduced in Vision version 2.0006 this edition of the Complete is available as an option to purchase with Vision. This edition of Complete cannot be added to Vision version 1 - it can only be purchased for use with Vision version 2. If you are a Vision v2 user make sure you download the free upgrade to v2.0006 and then you can purchase and use this new edition of Complete. The author offers a chargeable upgrade to Complete 2023 at an attractive price to users of previous versions.

    To buy a new copy of Complete click here.
    To upgrade your current Complete to the 2023 edition click here.

    What's new and improved?

    Structure
    Psychological Themes rubrics have been removed from the Mind chapter and relocated into a dedicated new chapter

    Dreams rubrics have also been relocated into a new dedicated chapter

    Source materials
    Many classic additions were included from the six vol. of CG Raue’s Annual Record of Homoeopathic Literature, collected between 1870 and 1875 (28.600+ additions). These amalgamations of homeopathic literature have been at the base of many later Materia Medica, including C. Hering’s Guiding Symptoms. Hering worked on Raue’s volumes and incorporated much of them in his work.

    Besides these classic additions, extra emphasis was put onto adding contemporary cases, specifically those on the Interhomeopathy website (www.interhomeopathy.org/free-international-homeopathy-magazine, for once not working in chronological order as usual ; ). 400+ cases based on J Scholten’s systematic method of finding remedies were thus added, resulting in 40.000+ additions from many colleagues. This website also features several published cases based on R Sankaran’s psychology-oriented, yet also systematic method, which were included. I hope the results lead to higher use of the remedies involved and the methods applied, worthwhile, also combined with the fact that lots of proving information has been added (the Lanthanides) many years ago for quite some of these remedies, allowing the new grading-rules to do their work! This clinical work will have a positive affect on the gradings of the remedies involved.

    More new source additions: 58035 (mostly from TF Allen’s Encyclopedia)
    More new remedy additions: 12035 (mostly from TF Allen’s Encyclopedia)

    Work on grading
    The gradings of the remedies in the Complete Repertory 2023 have been rechecked and recalculated based on the original source information whenever possible, taking proving information, information from cured cases and information from phytotherapy (eclectic medicine, herbal medicine) into consideration. The biggest gain has been made in promoting Boeninghausen’s lowest degree entries of remedies into Boeninghausen’s second degree (symptoms seen in two or more provers). This will have a very beneficial result when using these grades in analysis.

    More important changes in grading: 67000 more entries with clinical confirmations (3th & 4th degree Boenninghausen). Confirmations increased from 26 % in the 2021 version to 28,35 %, which is a big deal and a validation for the work done on the Allen project, together with the more additions in the 2th degree (2th degree Boenninghausen, missing in Kent, Kent’s 2th degree is the 3th degree Boenninghausen, as Boenninghausen’s grade system is used in the Complete Repertory)!

    New remedies/additions of small remedies
    From the clinical cases offered by many colleagues past and present, quite some new remedies (57) and additions for remedies with scarce info have found their way into the Complete Repertory 2023.

     Complete 2023

  3. Complete Repertory 2021 edition

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    Complete Repertory 2021

    Introduced in Vision version 2.0005 this edition of the Complete is available as an option to purchase with Vision. This edition of Complete cannot be added to Vision version 1 - it can only be purchased for use with Vision version 2. If you are a Vision v2 user make sure you download the free upgrade to v2.0005 in order to purchase and use this new edition of Complete. The author offers a chargeable upgrade to Complete to users of previous versions (see below)

    New information incorporated:

    312,000 additions have been made by using data from Knerr's Repertory, an increase of 29,000 additrons compared to the 2020 edition.

    Many additions to partial rubics have been made using the remedy information contained in more specific rubrics  - this information are called 'donor-receptor' additions. Here is an example:

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    In total, 46969 source additions have been made compared to the 2020 edition, most of these coming from the work derived from Knerr and some new remedy additions. There are 7 new remedy additions made :

    CR2021.NewRx

    To add Complete Repertory 2021 into your Vision click here.

    To upgrade an older version of Complete into the latest 2021 edition click here:

    Please note: Complete 2021 is available Vision for Windows and Vision for Mac. 

  4. Complete Repertory 2020 edition

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    Complete Repertory 2020

    This edition of the Complete is available as an option to purchase with Vision. This edition of Complete cannot be added to the dongle version of Vision - it can only be purchased for use with a product key version of Vision version 2.

    The author offers an upgrade to Complete to users of previous versions.

    New information incorporated:

    1. Additions from the Materia Medica Pura Project by Andre Saine & the Canadian Academy of Homoeopathy. It includes remedies - Quassia amara and Trilium pendulum.
    2. Many additions extracted from rubrics in Knerr's Repertory (van Zandvoort)
    3. Additions from provings of the following remedies:
    • Bitis gabonica gabonica : Gaboon viper - B Thomson
    • Bitis arietans : Puff adder - Faroukh Master
    • Curcuma longa : Turmeric - Pillay K and also clinical verification study by the Central Council for Research in Homeopathy 
    • Latrodectus tredecimguttatus :  Mediterranean Black Widow Spider - Bonnet
    • Samarium Cobaltum Magneticum - Huenecke
    • Chamois Milk : Lac rupicaprinum - Deschamps & Tribouillard
    • Eastern Green Mamba : Dendroaspis angusticeps  - Hansjee
    • Acridotheres : Mynah Bird  - Hoosen
    • Triticum vulgare : Common Wheat - Homöopathischer Arzneimittel
    • Ostracion cubicus : Yellow Boxfish - Klein & Phillips
    • Thiosinaminum - Grinney NorthWest College of Homeopathy
    • Streptococcinum and Colibacillinum - Dominici & Allegri & Andreotti & Impallomeni & Marcolin & Mariani & Tonini & Pomposelli
    • Pycnoporus sanguines : White Rot Fungus - Morris
  5. Sherr Provings of:
    • Polaris : Pole Star
    • Argon
    • Jade
    • Punica granatum (Pomegranate)
    • Americium nitricum
    • Krypton
    • Hafnium
  6. Dr. Rajesh Rajendran provided a lot of contemporary material into the repertory with the emphasis most on those materials that have had a known toxicological effect on interaction accidentally by poisoning or through exposure and contamination. 
  7. The book 'Drugs of Hindoosthan Provings and Materia Medica' (Ghose 1970) was reviewed and additions extracted
  8. To add Complete Repertory 2020 into your Vision click here.

    To upgrade an older version of Complete into the latest 2020 edition click here:

    Please note: Complete 2020 is available Vision for Windows and Vision for Mac. 

    Chart to show you the content of the Complete compared to Kent, Synthesis and older versions of the Complete :

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  9. Complete Repertory 2016

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    A lot of work went into this release of the Complete Repertory version 2016. In previous years Roger mostly concentrated on remedy additions from cured cases. However this time an original materia medica and repertory, (Carl Friedrich Trinks’ Handbuch der homoöpatischen Arzneimittellehre from 1847), has been added.

    This is considered a primary materia medica much like Hahnemann’s seminal Materia Medica Pura, only it contains more remedy provings and toxicology. Trinks was a very early disciple of Hahnemann (see edited biography later in this document)

    It is important to note that this work has never been translated into English and therefore few English materia medica and repertories since 1847 have had access to this material.

    For Complete Repertory 2016 a huge effort has been made to include the provings/toxicology symptoms from Trinks’Handbuch der Arzneimittel 1847 in 3 volumes, by taking the rubrics and remedies from the repertory section in the third volume and merging those into the Complete Repertory.

    This work has resulted in over 275,000 source additions into Complete Repertory 2016.

    Trinks work is one of the few that make a clean separation between provings/toxicology and any clinical/cured material coming from practice, so it is considered a true primary Materia Medica.

    A very nice detail in Trink’s opus is the fact that all remedies have been graded using Bönninghausen’s grade system (of course : given the date of preparation!), resulting in lowest degree, plain type, and second degree, italics, additions. These additions, combined with already available information from practice (cured cases) will often increase the grading from lowest or second degree (i.e. provings/toxicology or single cured case-additions without proving/toxicology) to third or even fourth degree additions (provings/toxicology AND cured) which will make analyses with ISIS Vision that includes Complete Repertory 2016 much more refined.

    Often Trinks data has been already been verified by other authors and so has already been included in the repertory. However  a quick examination using Complete 2016 with ISIS Vision shows there are many new additions made that we now have access to! Please also bear in mind that these are additions made on the basis of sound provings and toxicological reports in the classical way

    Here is a screenshot of just one rubric: anxiety, with pain. Trinks is author number 4 in our classification system and the additions he has made to Complete 2016 are highlighted as below.  And this is just 1 rubric in the entire repertory.

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    In addition to Trinks’ work, around 760 more articles from the Homoeopathic Recorder and to a lesser degree from the British Homoeopathic Journal have been read and remedies from these have been added into the Complete Repertory 2016.  Also as a reaction on a promise made during a repertory workshop with George Vithoulkas around the year 2000 in Alonnisos for those working on repertory, in which it was concluded that much more cured case-info should be added into the existing repertory material, - for this edition of the Complete Repertory nearly 3000 sources have been consulted since then to update the repertory with more cured material.

    Charles Friedrich Gottfried Trinks (1800-1868)
    (taken from on online article translated by Dr Bradford and edited by David Witko)

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    One of Hahnemann's earliest disciples, he was also one of the greatest gains to the new system. A man of indefatigable industry and self-sacrifice, he contributed largely to the construction of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica, and his name will be found constantly recurring among the band of provers who aided Hahnemann in his Herculean task.

    In conjunction with Noack, (or we should say almost single-handedly for Noack soon gave up) he published the Materia Medica that bears their joint names.

    Hahnemann, whom he frequently saw on the promenade at Leipsig, he visited first at Coethen in 1825, again in 1832, and once, subsequently, with Councillor Wolf. In 1824 Trinks settled in Dresden. He and Ernst von Brunnow were the earliest Homoeopathists there.

    In 1830 Trinks attended the first meeting of Homoeopathic physicians held at Leipsig, and assisted in the foundation of the Central Society of German Homoeopathic Physicians.

    The only volume of importance published by him was that in which he was a joint author with Noacks - the well-known Noack and Trinks' Handbook of Materia Medica ; but the essays he has contributed to the periodical literature of Homoeopathic medicine are numerous.

    This preference for fact over theory, his love for the real rather than the ideal, contributed largely to make Trinks what he was: a thorough physician.

    Homoeopathy he loved, because in its school alone did he meet with that full development of the principle of pure observation he felt to be so necessary for the practice of medicine.

    A thoroughly independent thinker, it was not long before he found himself somewhat opposed to Hahnemann ; and on one occasion he had a discussion with Boenninghausen, when Boenninghausen endeavoured to introduce mixed medicines into the practice of Homoeopathy.

    He most earnestly opposed everything in the shape of mysticism, everything having the aspect of humbug with which it was sought to connect Homoeopathy. On these grounds he declared himself an enemy of the so-called high potencies and a supporter of the lower dilutions.

    At an early period of the history of Homoeopathy, when Hahnemann was in danger of being led away by some of his enthusiastic but incautious disciples to promulgate crude and untested notions, Trinks' common sense prevailed with the founder of Homoeopathy and prevented him from committing himself to views that could not stand the test of experience.

    Trinks' manner to one seeing him for the first time was often blunt and even somewhat repulsive. His dietetic rules for those under his care were very rigid, his prescriptions, carefully selected, were adhered to with a tenacity which, though often regarded as unwise by those around him, was generally rewarded by satisfactory results.

    Throughout the North of Germany Trinks was regarded as the most distinguished physician who had practiced Homoeopathy since the time of Hahnemann.

    Dr. Trinks died at Dresden. June 15, 1868, at the age of sixty nine years. (Brit. Jour. Hom., Vol. XXVI, p. 693.)