Healix Natural Solutions
Intermediate~12 hours12 lessons

Reading the Kent Repertory in Practice

The repertory is the bridge between case-taking and materia medica — this is how to use it

Twelve lessons on how to use a repertory as a working tool. You will learn what a repertory is and how Kent organized his, how to choose rubrics from a case, how to repertorize without over-rating common symptoms, how to compare the remedies that come up, and how to make a final selection — the skill set that turns a case into a defensible prescription.

Taught by Deidre Starner, Master Herbalist

What you'll learn

  • Navigate the Kent Repertory by section, rubric, and grade with confidence
  • Select rubrics from a case that are both specific and characteristic — not common to many remedies
  • Run a repertorization, hand or software, and produce a short list of candidate remedies
  • Compare top candidate remedies using materia medica differentiation
  • Make a defensible final remedy choice and document the reasoning

Course outline

  1. 1

    What a Repertory Is and What It Is Not

    35 minFree preview
  2. 2

    Navigating Kent's Structure — Sections, Subsections, and Rubric Hierarchy

    45 minFree preview
  3. 3

    Selecting Rubrics from a Case — Specificity and Characteristic Symptoms

    55 min
  4. 4

    Running a Repertorization — Hand and Software

    50 min
  5. 5

    Comparing Remedies via Materia Medica

    50 min
  6. 6

    Common Rubrics Worth Memorizing

    55 min
  7. 7

    Repertorizing a Case in Real Time

    60 min
  8. 8

    Common Errors and Recovery

    45 min
  9. 9

    Chronic-Leaning Acutes — When the Acute Is Really Chronic

    45 min
  10. 10

    Pediatric Acute Cases — Adjusting Case-Taking and Prescription

    45 min
  11. 11

    Writing Cases for Colleagues — The Communication Discipline

    35 min
  12. 12

    Capstone — Five Cases to Professional Standard

    75 min