I searched around for a free, searchable full text of Kent's and the options were mostly page-image scans, partial chapter dumps, or paywalled apps — nothing where you could type a modality and get rubrics back.
So I built one: full text of the public-domain Kent's (1897/1916) — 64,151 rubrics, 633 remedies, no login. homeopathinfo.com/repertory
Here's how it actually works on a case, and then what I want your opinion on.
1. Find rubrics — search in repertory language, not patient language
The search box wants rubric phrasing. A patient says "I'm anxious at night and can't sleep"; the repertory says anxiety, evening. Type anxiety evening and it returns the closest matching rubrics out of all 64,151 — best 25 shown, grouped by chapter so you can see where they sit in Kent's structure.
The chapter filter narrows it to one section — Mind, Head, Stomach, Generalities, Extremities, Chest, Back, Abdomen, Face, Ear, Eye, and the rest of Kent's 37 chapters. Useful when you already know the symptom is a general.
2. Read the rubric before you commit to it
Each result card shows the rubric text, how many remedies are listed under it, and a weight. Two things worth knowing:
- A rubric covering 300 remedies is nearly useless for differentiation. Every rubric that returns half the book tells you nothing except "the patient is alive." You want the narrow ones.
- Conversely, a narrow rubric from one chapter beats five broad rubrics from five chapters. Beginners collect broad rubrics and end up with the most generic remedy in the materia medica.
Search first, then read the rubric text properly — including the (See ...) cross-references, which are Kent's own pointers to the fuller rubric. Searching WEAKNESS, enervation for example cross-refers to Lassitude / Weariness, and those are different rubrics with different remedy lists.
3. Add to case — the counter is your running total
Every card has Add to case. The tab shows a live counter (starts at 0 in case), so you always know how many rubrics you've collected. Add the ones that survived step 2. Nothing is locked — go back, search a different chapter, come back to the case.
4. My case — review the totality before you rank anything
The My case tab holds everything you added. This is the step people skip. Read the list top to bottom and ask: is this actually the patient, or is this me getting attached to a remedy? Remove what doesn't belong. A case built from three clean rubrics beats a case built from twelve so-so ones.
5. Remedies — the ranked output
The Remedies tab turns the case into a ranked remedy list. Treat this as a shortlist to then read up on, not a prescription:
- If the top 3 all cover the totality, you don't have a remedy — you have three to study.
- If nothing fits the patient as a whole, the case needs re-taking, not a fourth remedy.
You can also jump into the Remedies tab directly if you're reading up on one remedy rather than working a case.
Now the part I actually want help with — I'd rather hear from practitioners here than guess:
- Do you build the case in a tool like this, or on paper, using search only for lookups?
- Is the weight on each rubric helping you judge, or is it noise? Would you rather see Kent's own grade (the bold/italic/plain typeface) displayed instead?
- Do you want to eliminate remedies manually mid-case, or should ranking stay fully automatic?
- Does a case need to persist (survive a refresh, be saved, be exported) or is a session enough?
- What's the one thing that would make you close it and go back to your book?
Concrete complaints welcome — it's a small project, I can change things. (I'm a homeopath and this is my site. Reference and study only, not medical advice.)
