Knowledge Nucleus for a True Practitioner of Healing Art (Synthesis and Radar Opus) Part 1

It was Dr Kent, who published a repertory with a structure and a hierarchical logic that would stand the test of time. However, the repertory must evolve through clinical experience, proving, diligent practice, with cautious improvements and additions.For decades, no repertory succeeded in taking up this challenge of careful progress. In 1987, the Synthesis project began. Under the supervision of Dr Frederik Schroyens, this collaboration of homeopaths from around the world has succeeded in significantly expanding and improving upon Kent’s great Repertory, without a compromise in quality. Combined with the powerful homeopathic software program known as RADAR, it has equipped today’s practitioners with the powerful database tools necessary for finding the correct remedy for their patients. Synthesis is not only the latest in a long list of repertories; but it also consolidates one of the most ingenious homeopathic projects of this century. Synthesis is a sound repertorial database from which to make additions. The objective was to do it without compromising the accuracy of the information and the efficacy of the results. Synthesis is the basis for RADAR for more than 25 years now. Teachers, practitioners, students all over the world are using Synthesis for RADAR in their daily work because they are:

However good a book might be, it can never meet the objectives of being easily indexed, highly cross-referenced, and quickly updateable. By utilising the power of the computer it becomes possible to meet these objectives. Yet, great skill and knowledge must be incorporated into the software program for the user to achieve quick and accurate results. To function on a higher level, the program must begin to think like the person, with the ability to easily cross-reference data with a distinct level of intelligence. Although Synthesis as a book is outstanding, the real power and heart of Synthesis rests in its ability to be tailored to the needs and discretion of the individual Homeopath. It is in the computerised version of Synthesis that this work meets this objective, and then exceeds it. To unleash the total power of Synthesis, a highly flexible database has been coupled with a very powerful, yet efficient search engine. To further tailor it to the needs of the individual, flexibility has been designed into the program to enable it to be edited by the user. RADAR is an easy to use and powerful tool at the same time – special modules add functionality for a variety of homeopathic techniques.

A concept is an idea or notion that corresponds to some class of entities and that consists of the characteristic or essential features of the class. In RADAR OPUS also, the concepts have been added to generalise the idea related to a particular theme. Here the Concepts are used to find the most accurate symptoms in the repertory. It is an aid to find and use less known repertory symptoms related to well known concepts. The available concepts in RADAR OPUS are:

It is the most useful tool to translate the language of the patient into the repertorial rubrics. A patient may not provide the most accurate words to describe how he or she is feeling, which makes the diagnosis very difficult for a homeopath. Now, we can find the rubric that truly matches our patient’s condition or be directed toward rubrics we never knew existed. With Concepts, finding any symptom in the repertory is as easy as a few simple mouse clicks. The Concepts Module for RADAR OPUS stretches through the entire Synthesis Repertory, considerably simplifying the search for symptoms by using the words and expressions of the patient as a point of departure. In addition, we can build up our own Concepts, or add to already existing ones.

Likewise Concepts, RADAR OPUS also has Families of Remedies, which is as follows:

The Boenninghausen Analysis Module is a momentous development, eagerly awaited by homeopaths around the globe. Master practitioners like Close, Boger and Roberts used Boenninghausen’s method – and now anyone can apply this same method to any repertory data they have in their RADAR package. The genius of Boenninghausen’s approach offers us an expanded analysis that can be a valuable alternative to a Kentian approach – especially in cases that present only limited mental symptoms. With this module, easy-to-use wizards will step us through a Boenninghausen case analysis, using the specific repertories we choose.

Synthesis 9.1 integrates all the information from the following repertories. With the Boenninghausen Analysis Module we now have an analysis application that takes maximum advantage of all the Boenninghausen’s repertory data:

The Boenninghausen method is equally useful in both acute and chronic cases. He described symptoms by location, sensation, modalities and concomitant symptoms – the classic four dimensions of Hering’s symptom-totality. This also facilitated a way to overcome the limitations of Materia Medica. Sensations, modalities and concomitants associated with the local symptom in a proving or verified in the clinic, could be generalized to the symptom totality. The strength of this approach becomes especially obvious in those challenging cases which are difficult to solve using other methods-those cases where there is a paucity of mental symptoms, when mental symptoms have no value or when incomplete symptoms predominate.

With the Boenninghausen Analysis Module we can:

Imagine stepping into a huge Homeopathic library, and being able to find any symptom, or get an answer to any question we have in seconds. With the birth of Encyclopedia Homeopathica (EH), the promise of homeopathic materia medica software programs has been realised. With dazzling speed, EH searches through hundreds of thousands of pages of Materia Medica, Therapeutics, Journals, Homeopathic Philosophy and cured cases. It’s easy, powerful search engine lets us work with an entire Homeopathic Library. EH reduces the time we need to search in books to a minimum and increases our success to the maximum.