Kent’s Repertory is the reference work most modern repertories were built on, and because its copyright expired it is one of the few major repertories that can be searched freely online. This edition puts the complete public-domain text behind a plain-text search — with a case builder that collects rubrics and ranks remedies across them.
Homeopathic Repertory
Search 64,151 rubrics across 633 remedies. Built on the public-domain Kent's Repertory.
Kent's Repertory is a historical work first published in 1897 and last revised in 1916. It is offered here for study and reference, not as medical advice. Consult a qualified practitioner for treatment.
What Kent’s Repertory Is
Kent’s Repertory of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica was first published in 1897 and last revised by James Tyler Kent in 1916. It was assembled from the repertories that came before it and became the backbone of practical prescribing — the work later repertories were measured against.
The book runs head to foot across 37 chapters: Mind, Vertigo, Head, Eye, Ear, Nose, Face, Mouth, Teeth, Throat, Stomach, Abdomen, Rectum, Stool, Bladder, Kidneys, Respiration, Cough, Chest, Back, Extremities, Sleep, Dreams, Chill, Fever, Perspiration, Skin, Generalities and the rest. Symptoms are nested inside each chapter, so a rubric such as Pain, burning, ilio-cæcal region, cramping sits several levels deep under its parent.
The difficulty is scale, not complexity. A full text runs to roughly 64,000 rubrics. Nobody holds that in memory, which is why repertorising is a skill of elimination — finding the few rubrics that describe one patient, and discarding everything else.
How to Use It: The Five-Step Method
1. Take the case in the patient’s own words first
Write down what they actually say before translating anything into rubric language. Translate too early and you begin hearing the symptoms that fit a remedy you already have in mind. The translation is a separate pass, done afterwards.
2. Work general before particular
Kent is ordered head to foot, which tempts you to start at the top of the body. The order that actually differentiates a case is different:
- The mind and general disposition
- Modalities — what makes the complaint better or worse
- Concomitants — what appears alongside it
- The local complaint, last
A rubric for headache returns an enormous list. A headache with a specific modality and a specific mental state returns a handful. The local symptom is the easiest to match and the least useful for narrowing.
3. Weigh by grade, not by count
Kent indicates relative importance by typeface, in three grades. A remedy listed in the highest grade under one narrow rubric will usually outrank a remedy in the lowest grade scattered across five broad ones. Adding up raw appearances produces the most generic remedy in the materia medica.
4. Eliminate with the generals
Generals are an elimination tool, not a confirmation tool. Anything that contradicts a clear general — a strong modality, a thermal reaction, a mental state — comes out of the case even if it scored well.
5. Then open the materia medica
The repertory tells you where to look, not what the remedy is. If three remedies all fit the totality, you have three things to study rather than a prescription. If none of them fits the patient as a whole, the case needs re-taking, not a fourth remedy.
The Three Grades
Kent prints remedy names in three typefaces, and that typography is the grading system:
- Bold — the remedy is strongly and repeatedly associated with that rubric
- Italic — a moderate association
- Plain — the remedy appears in the rubric, with less weight
The grades are why one narrow bold rubric can matter more than several broad plain ones, and why a remedy that appears in five rubrics in plain type is not automatically the answer.
What This Online Edition Covers
- 64,151 rubrics across 633 remedies
- The complete Kent text, chapter by chapter
- Plain-text search across the whole repertory, or browse a single chapter
- Remedy counts on every rubric, so you can see how narrow it is before using it
- A case builder: collect rubrics, review the totality, then rank remedies across them
No login, no email, no paywall.
How to Repertorise a Case in the Browser
Find rubrics
Search in repertory language, not patient language. A patient says they are anxious at night and cannot sleep; the repertory says anxiety, evening. Results come back grouped by chapter, so you can see where each rubric sits in Kent’s structure. Use the chapter filter when you already know the symptom is a general.
Read the rubric before you use it
Each result shows the rubric text, how many remedies sit under it, and its weight. A rubric covering 250 or more remedies tells you very little — the narrow ones are what narrow a case. Follow the (See …) cross-references too: they are Kent’s own pointers to the fuller rubric, and the two are often not interchangeable.
Add to case
Use Add to case on the rubrics that survive the step above. The counter on the My case tab tracks your running total, so you always know how many rubrics you have collected.
Review the totality
Open My case and read the list top to bottom before ranking anything. Ask whether this is the patient or whether it is you becoming attached to a remedy. Three clean rubrics beat twelve so-so ones, and removing what does not belong is part of taking the case properly.
Read the shortlist
The Remedies tab ranks remedies across your case. Treat that ranking as a shortlist to study in the materia medica rather than as an answer.
A Note on Limitations
Kent’s Repertory is a historical text. It is not the only repertory and not the most recent; later works added remedies and rubrics Kent never had. It stays useful because it is complete, internally consistent and free to reproduce — which is why this edition is built on it rather than on a modern repertory still in copyright.
If you want a remedy overview rather than rubric-by-rubric study, the Homeopathic Remedy Finder groups 200 commonly used remedies by constitution and miasm, with potency filters.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Kent’s Repertory free to use online?
Yes. The text is in the public domain, and this edition is free to search with no account and no paywall.
How many rubrics are in Kent’s Repertory?
This edition contains 64,151 rubrics across 633 remedies.
What do the three grades mean?
Kent prints remedy names in bold, italic or plain type. Bold marks the strongest association with that rubric, italic a moderate one, and plain the weakest.
Can I repertorise a whole case in the browser?
Yes. Add rubrics to My case, review them as a totality, then use the Remedies tab to rank remedies across the case.
Do I need to sign up or give an email address?
No. There is no login and no email capture.
Is this medical advice?
No. Kent’s Repertory is offered here for study and reference. Consult a qualified practitioner for treatment.