Saine Repertory
The Repertory - More than 150,000 entries
The Saine Repertory, with over 150,000 entries, is the result of the MMPP’s (Materia Medica Pura Project) efforts to improve the Complete Repertory 4.5 edition originally developed by Roger van Zandvoort in the 1990's. Following successful negotiations, the MMPP version of Complete Repertory 4.5 is now available to the entire homeopathic community under the name Saine Repertory. You can easily integrate it into your current practice and improve your prescribing accuracy with Vision.
Aims
The main aim of MMPP (Materia Medica Pura Project) is to summarise the vast amount of information available in our Materia Medica and homeopathic literature and integrate it into our repertories.
Reliable, hidden materials were found creating many additions leading up to the Saine Repertory 2024. MMPP have also been busy proving old remedies that were poorly proven in the past, and proving new, promising remedies — in line with Hahnemann’s vision that we can never have too many remedies.
Absolutely reliable
- F. Allen and Constantine Hering were the last homeopaths to publish comprehensive Materia medica, and these systematic reviews took place before the end of the 19th century. An enormous amount of literature, some of which was difficult to access, had never been explored, but the MMPP group combed through the many provings, cured cases, toxicology reports, and valuable clinical experience, in order to bring it to the forefront and improve the prescribing accuracy of all practicing homeopaths. Their work eventually culminated into the development of a monograph for each researched and studied remedy. Further,all the characteristic symptoms contained in these monographs were integrated into the repertory in the form of new entries, changes of remedy grading, corrections of rubric wording, and creation of new rubrics and sub-rubrics.
Some of these repertory additions and changes were incorporated into other repertories over the years, but the Saine Repertory 2024 will have all the changes, in one place. The Saine Repertory 2024 will also be updated on a regular basis.
Much of the MMPP work has been oriented towards finding information that would treat severe or terminal disease, especially cancer. Recent statistics have revealed that about 50% of people living in developed countries will get cancer, so the MMPP work has been focused on getting information about difficult-to-treat diseases. Much of the new information has greatly improved outcomes of patients with serious pathologies, as reported by the MMPP group members in homeopathic practice.
MMPP’s endeavours consist of revising old remedies and testing new ones. A monograph with the core symptoms (genius) is created for each of these remedies, which are then integrated into the Saine Repertory in the form of new entries, changes to the valency of the remedies, corrections to the wording of the rubrics and the creation of new rubrics and sub-rubrics. In recent years, MMPP has carried out tests for Carboneum oxygenisatum, Natrium fluoratum and the mushroom Reishi (Ganoderma tsugae), for example.
The MMPP monographs are more than the accumulation of lost Materia medica information. The comprehensive summaries also allow the genius of each remedy to come to the forefront, so that busy homeopaths can understand the essential characteristics and easily compare them with the genius of the disease being treated. All this information finds its way into the repertory, and the MMPP group has received excellent feedback from homeopaths who have had access to these additions. Also, thanks to digitalization, existing monographs continue to be updated as new information is found on specific remedies, which means that the repertory is also updated.
The monographs of these remedies and, most recently, of Fluoricum acidum and Calcium fluoratum were completed, which led to an impressive increase in the number of entries in the repertory. The monograph of Conium maculatum has contributed to 3,026 new entries in the repertory, which corresponds to an increase of 45 %. In addition, the work of MMPP has closed a considerable gap in our repertories – about 30 % of the typical symptoms of known remedies such as Ipecacuanha, Hepar sulphuris, Nitricum acidum, Magnesium muriaticum and Plumbum metallicum were missing and have been supplemented.
The MMPP group has seen that, on average, about 30% of the characteristic symptoms seen in the Materia medica are missing from the repertories. Many remedies have only a fraction of their symptoms represented in the repertories, but the MMPP group is working hard to correct that imbalance. For example, they have added around 800 entries for Ipecacuanha, over 1,500 for Hepar sulphur, over 1,500 for Nitricum acidum, over 200 for Magnesium muriaticum (from Hahnemann’s Chronic Diseases) and over 3,000 for Plumbum metallicum. Historically, many remedies were not considered for a case simply because they did not show up during repertorization, or because the Materia medica on them was inaccessible. These remedies can now be found.
Since T.F. Allen and Constantine Hering published their comprehensive works on the materia medica towards the end of the 19th century, there has been no further systematic review of the materia medica. Since then a large number of remedy provings, successfully treated cases, intoxication reports and clinical evidence have been published. However, these can only be found scattered throughout a vast amount of literature. Valuable information slumbers unused in old journals and books and is not readily available to homeopaths for their everyday practice.
The main goal of our MMPP is to collate, catalogue and integrate this material into our materia medica and repertories in order to improve the reliability of prescriptions for all practicing homeopaths.
Under the initiative and leadership of André Saine, 50 colleagues have been working since 2005 in Europe and in North and South America on a comprehensive revision of the materia medica of 600 remedies. All the available sources of a remedy are looked through: provings, case studies, toxicological reports and clinical evidence. A monograph is then compiled for each remedy from this material, based on reliable sources. Newer information is only integrated provided that it is not purely speculative.
The work culminates in the presentation of the genius (a precise summary of the most characteristic features) of each remedy, as well as in the improvement of the repertory in the form of additions, changes in the grading of remedies, corrections of the wording of rubrics and the creation of new rubrics and sub-rubrics. The genius of a remedy allows the homeopath to quickly access the most essential characteristics of a remedy in order to compare it with the symptoms of the case being treated, thus greatly facilitating the differential materia medica.
Provings, successfully treated cases, intoxications and clinical evidence published in the last 125 years have usually not or only unsystematically been incorporated into our materia medica and repertories. Many characteristic symptoms, even from the oldest sources such as Samuel Hahnemann’s Materia Medica Pura and Chronic Diseases and Allen’s Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica have not yet found their way into our repertories. For example, around 800 entries for Ipecacuanha, over 1,500 for Hepar sulphuris, over 1,500 for Nitricum acidum and over 3,000 for Plumbum met. have been added through this project.