homeopathic software point

[andyh]

To correct earlier info I had given re: homeopathic software:

I wrote to Kim Elia about RADAR,; the following explains my question:

Kim,

Wrote this recently to someone when discussing computer software:

Note that one reason (among many others) to use the Complete Repertory
and

Synthesis in Tandem: one feature of the Complete Repertory is COMPOSITE
MAIN

RUBRICS,

which contain all the remedies in all the subrubrics.
.
This lends itself well to initial repertorizations

in difficult cases without missing any remedies.

I assume Radar version of synthesis does not have any way of creating

such composite main rubrics, since they are not present in the book. .
The idea of keeping a main rubric

which is limited

to remedies which have a certain characteristic in general and markedly,
instead of just

absolutely (as in Kent's original), is a good one in my opinion if the
rubric can be maintained

accurately, but I would say its usefulness

is diminished if new remedies come around that have the characteristic
markedly,

but this has yet to be confirmed, and thus they
are not included.
As in the above statement about the

Complete Repertory, the Composite rubric is far more useful in doing

computerized elimination repertorizations, so it actually would be

optimal to have both features in a repertory. And since Synthesis
covers more obscure

remedies (although typically has smaller rubrics) than the Complete, it
would be quite useful to have that

capability built in to

RADAR, say a function which

adds the "marquis" rubric and all the subrubrics together, and takes

that for the repertorization;
or (in Synthesis 9), having a composite main rubric, followed by a main

rubric as exists now in the book. With
more remedies included in synthesis, the elimination would nicely
complement one done with the Complete.

For a practitioner using both repertories,
the likelihood of doing an elimination and missing a remedy having a
particular characteristic

would be optimally minimized if
both repertories have this capability.
Can Radar do this already (with synthesis)?

Kim Elia wrote: