Complete Repertory online — editions and access

Roger van Zandvoort's Complete Repertory is the most actively revised of the large synthetic repertories, which is why working with it online is a question about editions and access rather than about text: the book changes every year, and where you read it determines which edition you get and what you can do with it.

A source-coded synthetic edition

The Complete grew, like Schroyens's Synthesis, from the Kentian skeleton by adding source-coded material from the wider literature — Boenninghausen, Boger, Hering, Bönninghausen's Therapeutic Pocket Book, and a century of journal and clinical additions — each rubric carrying author and source coding so the practitioner can see where a remedy's appearance in a rubric originates. That provenance discipline is the Complete's defining feature: it is a large repertory that remains auditable, with author filters that let a practitioner restrict an analysis to sources they trust.

The second defining feature is currency. Where Kent's text froze at its print editions, the Complete is published as annually revised editions; the current release is Complete Repertory 2026. Corrections and additions that once waited decades for a reprint now ship as a dated edition, which is an advantage for accuracy and a discipline for citation — name the edition year when you cite a Complete rubric.

The access routes compared

The Complete is a copyrighted, annually licensed work, so a legitimate online Complete is a licensed current edition rather than a scan. The decision is not whether to pay but which toolchain to pay into: the same 2026 text behaves very differently inside a platform with source-coded filters and live analysis than inside a flat PDF.

Working the Complete online: provenance and search

What a serious platform adds to the Complete is the ability to use its source coding rather than merely possess it. The Complete, Saine, and Suggesta repertories carry source and author filtering, with presets for common author groups — so a practitioner can restrict a repertorization to, say, Boenninghausen-derived rubrics and read the analysis as one school rather than as an undifferentiated synthesis. That is the Complete's central promise made operational.

The second addition is meaning-based retrieval. The Complete's strength — its size — is also its retrieval problem: a vast rubric set is hard to navigate by memory. Semantic search lets a practitioner type a symptom in natural language and surface relevant rubrics rather than recall the exact synthetic wording. You can search the Complete by symptom on the current edition this way. Translated source layers extend the same workflow: a Complete German Repertory and a Complete Turkish Repertory are available as add-ons for accounts with Complete access, so a non-English practitioner can search the same edition in a translated rubric set.

The third addition is grade and remedy filtering, which a repertory the size of the Complete almost requires. A grade filter restricts rubrics to remedies of a chosen intensity; remedy, kingdom, and family filters narrow a long rubric to the part of the case in hand. On the Complete, where a single broad rubric can carry hundreds of remedies across all grades, those filters turn an unwieldy list into a working differential without discarding the provenance the edition records. Filtering is a convenience, not a thumb on the scale: the practitioner still selects the rubrics, and the analysis still answers only to the symptoms chosen.

The Complete's annual revision and source coding can lend its output an air of finality it does not claim. A more recent edition is more current, not more correct in any absolute sense, and two practitioners filtering the same 2026 edition by different author presets will reach different shortlists. The edition's value is that it makes those differences inspectable rather than hidden.

What the Complete indexes

The Complete indexes the homeopathic tradition's practitioner literature. Annual revision improves the index's internal accuracy and provenance. The source coding makes the Complete unusually transparent about where its rubric data originates — each remedy's grade in a rubric traces back to a named author or text, which is a discipline that practitioners working within a particular school (Kentian, Boenninghausean, Boger) can use to weight an analysis accordingly.

Which route fits which user

• Practitioners who repertorize by school: a platform exposing the Complete's source and author filters, so the synthetic edition can be read selectively rather than as a single undifferentiated list.
• Multilingual practices: the current Complete with the relevant translation add-on, searched in the practitioner's own language.
• Clinics standardising on a current edition: Complete Repertory 2026 inside a platform that also carries the public-domain baselines for cross-checking.
• Citation-conscious students and researchers: the dated current edition, never an undated scan, so the edition year is unambiguous.

Verdict

A legitimate Complete Repertory online is the current licensed edition with its source coding usable, not a frozen PDF. Choose the platform by how well it exposes the Complete's provenance and search, and keep the materia-medica confirmation step where the method requires it.

References

Kent, J. T. (1897) Repertory of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica, Lancaster: Examiner Printing House.

Kent, J. T. (1900) Lectures on Homoeopathic Philosophy, Chicago: Ehrhart & Karl.

Hering, C. (1879–1891) The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica, Philadelphia: Estate of Constantine Hering.

Boenninghausen, C. von (1846) Therapeutisches Taschenbuch, Münster.

Schroyens, F. (ed.) (1987 onward) Synthesis: Repertorium Homeopathicum Syntheticum, Homeopathic Book Publishers.

van Zandvoort, R. (ed.) (1994 onward) Complete Repertory, IRHIS, current edition Complete Repertory 2026.

Zeus Soft (2026) RadarOpus documentation, https://www.radaropus.com/.

Complete Dynamics (2026) product editions, https://www.completedynamics.com/.

Similia (2026) Help Centre, https://similia.crisp.help/en/, on Complete Repertory 2026 access, source/author filtering, semantic search, and German/Turkish translation add-ons.