| Synthesis has been the most favored repertories of the modern
era ever since it first appeared on the horizon. The repertory
which started its journey as an updated Kent’s repertory has
now become so much more. Synthesis now includes information on nearly
all new medicines, clinical information from a variety of established
sources, data from works of Hahnemann, Boenninghausen, Boger, Phatak
and many others.
The best part is that Synthesis 9.1 now comes with a utility CD
which adds to the beauty of the book. While retaining the quality
of the book, the print size has been reduced slightly to make the
book handier. The book follows the same schema as used in earlier
version but with some useful restructuring of rubrics that we will
describe later. Most of the details that follows have been taken
from the book itself.
What’s New in Synthesis 9.1
- All the information from the Introduction and the Mind sections
of all the remedies in Boericke's Materia Medica (br1) has been
integrated (14,717 additions).
- New clinical information from André Saine (Canada) has
been added to Synthesis 9 (more than 3,200 additions).
- More than 10,600 additions have been made on the basis of the
popular book "Clinical Observation of Children's Remedies"
by Farokh Master (India).
- The major new remedies in Synthesis 9.0 are: Argemone pleicantha
(Todd Rowe, USA); Bitis arietans (Craig Wright, South Africa);
Brosimum gaudicahaude (Mateus marim, Brazil), Chironex fleckeri
- box jellyfish (Alastair Gray, Australia), Bungarus fasciatus
(Master, India), Coca cola (Rajan Sankaran, India), Cypraea eglantina
(Anne Schadde, Germany), Desoxyribonucleicum acidum - DNA (Phillip
Robbins), Dioxinum (Philip Robbins, Australia), Ficus macrophylla
(Alastair Gray, Australia), Gardenia jasminoides (Regina Vale,
Brazil), Hippocampus kuda - seahorse (Susan Sonz et al., USA),
Lapis lazuli (Anne Schadde, Germany), Lavendula angustifolia (Clayton
Collyer and Jackie Davis, UK), Melaleuca alternifolia - tea tree
(Alastair Gray, Australia), Musca domestica - house fly (Susan
Sonz and Robert Stewart, USA), Neptunium muriaticum (Didier Lustig
and Jacques Ray, France), Ozone (Anne Schadde, Germany), Pertussis
vaccine (Prakash Vakil, India), Phascolarctos cinereus - Australian
Koala secrettion (Philip Robbins, Australia), Pycnoporus sanguineus
- a South-African fungus (Catherine Morris, South Africa), Saccharum
album (Salvador Gamarra, Brazil) and Tempestas - storm (Mary English,
UK).
- Remedies described in Julian's "Materia Medica of the
Nosodes" (jl2), have been integrated such as: Colibacillinum,
Diphthero-tetano-typho-paratyphoidinum, Diphtherotoxinum, Eberthinum,
Enterococcinum, Flavus, Gonotoxinum, Malaria nosode, Malandrinum,
Morbillinum, Oscillococcinum, Osteo-arthriticum, Ourlianum, Parathyreoidinum,
Pertussinum, Pneumococcinum, Serum anti colibacillinum, Streptococcinum,
Toxoplasma gondii, Tuberculinum avis, Tuberculinum denys, Tuberculinum
marmoreck, Tuberculinum residuum Koch, Vaccin atténué
bilié, Vaccininum, Yersinium, etc.
- The information on magnets introduced by Bönninghausen,
but kept out of the Repertory by Kent, has been added back in
- Magnetis polus arcticus, Magnetis polus australis, and Magnetis
poli ambo.
- There are also remedies whose information has increased substantially.
197 remedies contain more than 50% extra information as compared
to Synthesis 8.1V. Most remedy information has been expanded on
the basis of additional author references. The most important
remedies where this has occurred are: Adrenalinum, Aqua marina,
Azadirachta indica, Bacillinum, Cassia sophera, Cina, Diosma lincaris,
Gettysburg aqua, Heloderma, Manganum aceticum, Metylenum coeruleum,
Natrium salicylicum, Ornithogalum umbellatum, Piper nigrum, Proteus,
Rosmarinus officinalis (Bernard Long and P Cayrel), Strophantus
sarmentosus (Stephenson), Strychninum phosphoricum, Sulfonalum,
Ulmus campestris, Vanadium metallicum, Viola tricolor, and Xanthium
spinosum.
Synthesis 9.1 comes with following additional new information
as compared to Synthesis 9.0.
- The major new remedies in Synthesis 9.1 (not yet present in
Synthesis 9.0) are: Ancistrodon piscivorus (Michael Thompson,
Ireland); Bellis perennis spagyricus (Louise Deacon and Alan Ribot-Smith,
England); Bothrops atrox (Michael Thompson); Chlamydia trachomatis
(Richard Boocock et al., England); Heroinum (Janet Snowdon, England);
Loxosceles laeta (Michael Bonnet, England); Lignum naufragium
helvetiae (Mary English, England); Oxyuranus scuttellatus. Taipan
snake (Paul Masci and Philip Kendall, USA); Petroleum raffinatum
(Nandita Shah, India); Spectrum (Gill Dransfield, England); Taosca
aqua (Anne Irwin, Ireland); Thallium (Jeremy Sherr, England) and
Threskiornis aethiopica. The Holy Ibis (Elisabeth Schulz, Germany).
- 161 remedies contain more than 50% extra information as compared
to Synthesis 9.0. The most important remedies are: Aesculus glabra,
Bothrops lanceolatus, Calcarea hypophosphorosa, Dulcamara*, Ferrum
aceticum, Glycerinum, Guaco, Indolum, Kalium sulphuricum*, Lappa
arctium, Latrodectus mactans, Mentholum, Mercurius praecipitatus
rubera, Myrtus communis, Naphthalinum, Pilocarpinum, Plumbum aceticum,
Polygonum hydropiperoides, Quassia amara, Radium bromatum, Ruta*,
Sanguinarinum nitricum, Solidago, Spongia*, Stellaria media, Strophanthus
hispidus, Triticum vulgare*, Vanilla aromatica*, Xerophyllum asphodeloides
and Zincum valerianicum. (The remedies marked with an "*"
also contain extended proving information from Peter Friedrich,
Germany.)
The CD
The most important innovation of the printed version 9.1 is that
information normally reserved for the software users, has been made
available with the book. It is presented on a CD and compiled into
two additional volumes.
The "Textbook of Repertory Language"
contains the following elements:
- The rules of Repertory Language Formatting as before, but updated.
- Explanation of the integration of the work of Bönninghausen,
Boger, and the separate repertory information.
- Interesting explanations of key symptoms (symptom notes).
- Index of important changes and corrections as before but updated.
- Also included is extensive information about families, relationships
of remedies, and where to get new remedies.
The second additional volume is called "Companion
to Synthesis". It contains all the information that
may be helpful to find symptoms in Synthesis:
- An alphabetical listing of all Concepts, with the main remedies
per concept and the related symptoms per concept.
- The chapters of some often used concepts so that related information
is in the same place.
- Index of words with page numbers of rubrics in Synthesis as
before but updated.
- The Companion to Synthesis, which assists you in finding information
in Synthesis more easily by listing rubrics with similar meanings
or themes also includes a video where Frederik Schroyens and Will
Taylor discuss restructuring Synthesis 9.1 and an empty repertorization
grid to repertorize your cases.
More comprehensive information about these additional volumes
can be found on the CD itself. In addition, the CD contains a demo
version of the Radar 9 software.
CHANGES IN STREAMLINING AND RESTRUCTURING
The change to Synthesis 9.1 addresses a problem well known to deft
repertory users: much information is hidden in the subrubrics of
the pain descriptions. Let's clarify this with an example.
A patient tells you his pain in the eye is definitely better from
rubbing the eye. Synthesis 9.0 offers 7 remedies with this modality
in the rubric EYE - PAIN - rubbing - amel.
The meaningful bit of information here is rubbing
amel. The experienced repertory user knows that the EYE
- PAIN section contains other symptoms which include this
same modality.
These symptoms are hidden as sub-rubrics of the pain descriptions,
as follows:
EYE - PAIN - burning - rubbing - amel.
EYE - PAIN - foreign body; as from a - rubbing amel.
EYE - PAIN - pressing, pressure, etc. - rubbing - amel.
EYE - PAIN - sand, as from - rubbing - amel.
These four rubrics all contain remedies whose pain in the eye is
improved with rubbing. The relevance is that, if we combine these
rubrics, we now look at 13 remedies instead of 7! Considering these
additional remedies may increase the likelihood of choosing the
correct remedy.
How has this issue been addressed in Synthesis 9.1?
In the past, for all the symptoms of the pain sections, the description
of pain was always on level 3 eye - pain -
burning - morning. In Synthesis 9.1 pain descriptions have
been moved to the last level of the symptom. The above symptoms
therefore become:
EYE - PAIN - rubbing - amel. - burning
EYE - PAIN - rubbing - amel. - foreign body; as from a
EYE - PAIN - rubbing - amel. - pressing pain
EYE - PAIN - rubbing - amel. - sand; as from
As a consequence, the rubrics containing the same modality are
now positioned next to each other, on the same page or screen. In
Synthesis 9.0 they were pages apart, pages that were seldom turned.
This hidden information is now easily visible and usable.
This restructuring increases the number of remedy choices for thousands
of modalities, sides, times, extensions, and localizations. These
hidden symptoms and their remedies were hardly ever looked at before.
Now it has become very easy to consider this information when necessary.
In addition, the remedies of these symptoms expressing the same
side, time, modality, extension, or localization have been copied
to the common super-rubric. Reverting to the example above, this
means that EYE - PAIN - rubbing - amel.
has 13 remedies in Synthesis 9.1 (instead of 7 in Synthesis 9.0).
In order to achieve this drastic change, it had to be preceded
by another step: a thorough streamlining of all symptoms. Here is
the explanation why:
The modality cold air agg. is expressed in several ways at different
places in the Repertory. For
example, in Synthesis 9.0:
HEAD - PAIN - cutting - cold - air agg.
HEAD - PAIN - tearing - air - cold; from
If we restructure this information, these rubrics would become:
HEAD - PAIN - cold - air agg. - cutting
HEAD - PAIN - air - cold; from - tearing
This would result in a cluttered pattern of rubrics with identical
meanings, expressed in different ways. Therefore, we have streamlined
the modality cold air agg. throughout
the Repertory into cold - air - agg.
before undertaking the restructuring.
In Synthesis 9.1 the above rubrics have become:
HEAD - PAIN - cold - air - agg. - cutting
HEAD - PAIN - cold - air - agg. - tearing
As a consequence of this streamlining and restructuring process,
some familiar rubrics have undergone some changes.
First of all, the symptom level expressing the description of pain
has been moved. There is only one thing to remember in order to
find the new symptom location: move the "description of pain"
to the last level of the symptom and you will find the symptom in
Synthesis 9.1.
This applies only to pain symptoms that contain a "description
of pain" (e.g. burning, cramping, tearing, etc.). Some examples:
| Synthesis 9.0 |
Synthesis 9.1 |
| HEAD - PAIN - stitching - evening |
HEAD - PAIN - evening - stitching |
| HEAD - PAIN - stitching - coughing, when |
HEAD - PAIN - coughing, when - stitching |
| HEAD - PAIN - stitching - Forehead - extending to - Occiput |
HEAD - PAIN - Forehead - extending to - Occiput . stitching |
| HEAD - PAIN - stitching - Temples |
HEAD - PAIN - Temples - stitching |
Second, the streamlining may have moved a familiar rubric to a
different place altogether, besides considering the first explanation
above. You look for a symptom modified with air
- cold, and in Synthesis 9.1 you will find it under cold
- air, not under the letter "a"(ir), but under
"c"(old).
It may take some time to adjust to the new streamlined modalities
and locations. The advantage is that this streamlining is now consistent
throughout the repertory.
Synthesis 9.1 adds more armor to the homeopathic
tool-kit and makes available lot of ‘integrated’ information
that will prove useful to every homeopath. |
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