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RadarOpus
Version 1.41

Manual last updated 9 June 2015

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 Table of content

List  of  Tutorial  Videos  ....................................................................................................................................  4  

Installation  ....................................................................................................................................................  7  
Introduction  to  RadarOpus  .........................................................................................................................  13  
Quick  Tour  video  .........................................................................................................................................  15  
Get  started:  Introduction  Part  1  ..................................................................................................................  15  
General  program  options:    Change  ‘Menu  language’  etc.  ..........................................................................  18  
[Mac  users]    Tips  &  a  few  hotkeys  (print,  copy  &  paste)  .............................................................................  18  
[Windows  users]  Tips  &  a  few  hotkeys    (print,  copy  &  paste)  ....................................................................  19  
The  Repertory  Window:  Introduction  Part  2  ..............................................................................................  20  
Repertory  Views  ..........................................................................................................................................  22  
Creating  a  Startup  Document  mix  ...............................................................................................................  23  
The  Symptom  Path  ......................................................................................................................................  23  
Find  symptoms  in  the  Repertory:  Hierarchical  browsing  (F2)  .....................................................................  24  
Finding  symptoms  from  the  current  symptom  (F3)  ....................................................................................  26  
Fast  Find  tutorial:  using  Backspace  .............................................................................................................  26  
Taking  symptoms  into  a  clipboard  ..............................................................................................................  27  
The  Simple  search  window:    (?)  or  (F4)  .......................................................................................................  31  
The  Simple  search  window      (Overview  Tutorial)  ........................................................................................  33  
The  Simple  search  window:    AND  –  OR  –  NOT    (Operators)  .......................................................................  33  
The  Simple  search  window:  Using  more  Search  Tabs  .................................................................................  33  
Search  in  a  (temporary)  document  selection”  (mix)  ...................................................................................  34  
Search  in  a  “Search  Area”  (a  part  of  the  repertory)  ....................................................................................  35  
Fast  Search  tutorial  .....................................................................................................................................  35  
Quick  Remedy  info:  Open  a  MM  or  Remedy  Search  ...................................................................................  36  
Remedy  Search  via  “Drag  and  Drop”  ..........................................................................................................  37  
Advanced  Search  Window  (F5):  Words,  Remedies,  Families  ......................................................................  38  
Advanced  Search  (F5):    Remedy  Comparison  .............................................................................................  39  
Search  in  a  “Search  Area”  (a  part  of  the  repertory)  ....................................................................................  40  
The  Symptom  Clipboards  (F7)      -­‐    The  Analysis  window  (F8)  ......................................................................  41  
Save  and  recall  the  analysis  (separately  from  the  Patient  file)  ...................................................................  44  
The  Analysis  (F8)  .........................................................................................................................................  45  
The  Vithoulkas  Expert  System  (VES)  ...........................................................................................................  47  
Herscu  module:  Cycles  and  Segments  ........................................................................................................  50  
Boenninghausen  Pocketbook:  Polar  analysis  ..............................................................................................  53  
Heiner  Frei  -­‐  Polarity  analysis  ......................................................................................................................  55  
Summary  of  the  Boenninghausen  Approach  ..............................................................................................  55  
Dimitriadis: Boenninghausen  Repertory                        (coming  in  1.42)  ................................................................  57  
A  Family  search  in  the  repertory  .................................................................................................................  59  
Maps  ...........................................................................................................................................................  61  
The  Remedy  Information  Window  (RIW)  ....................................................................................................  62  
Languages  and  Translation  tools  .................................................................................................................  63  
Backup  and  Restore  ....................................................................................................................................  64  
Concepts:      Veterinary  –  Roger  Morrison  –  Roberto  Petrucci  .....................................................................  65  
Bookmarks  ..................................................................................................................................................  66  
References:  Browse  in  Materia  Medica,    Journals,  etc.  ..............................................................................  67  
The  Patient  file  ............................................................................................................................................  70  
The  Quick  Search  box:  search  on  words  or  remedies:  ................................................................................  87  
 
 

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Overview
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 List  of  Tutorial  Videos  
Index  of  the  tutorial  videos  which  can  also  be  found  in  the  text  of  the  manual.  
 
Topics     Video  link  
General  &  installation    
How  to  view  these  videos:  change  size  and  quality   Video  size  &  streaming  quality  
Installation:  Import  of  Radar  10.5  cases   Import  cases    
Introduction    
A  General  Quick  Tour              VIEW  THESE  TO  GET  STARTED  QUICKLY   General  Quick  Tour  part  1  
(Find,  take,  search,  analyze,  save  the  analysis  –  patient  file)   General  Quick  Tour  part  2  
Get  started:  Introduction  part  1   Introduction  part  1  
Table  of  Contents  of  Remedies   TOC  of  Remedies  
Table  of  Contents  of  Families   TOC  of  Families  
General  program  options:  menu  language    
Tips  &  Hotkeys    
The  Repertory  window:  Introduction  part  2   Introduction  part  2  
Repertory  Views     Repertory  Views  Intro  
Two  Views  Buttons   Views  buttons  
Creating  a  startup  Document  mix   Startup  Document  mix  
The  symptom  path  (in  the  repertory)   Symptom  Path  
Find    
Find  symptoms  in  the  repertory  (Hierarchical  browsing)   Find  with  F2  and  F3  
Find  from  current  symptom   See  also  the  above  video  
Fast  Find  tutorial  using  Backspace   Fast  Find  
Take    
Taking  symptoms  into  a  clipboard   Taking  symptoms  
Take  a  symptoms  with  cross  references   Take  with  cross  references  
Search      
The  simple  search:    (part  1)   Simple  search:  part  1  
How  to  set  the  default  search  location   Default  search  location  
Take  symptoms  from  search  result:    (part  2)   Simple  search:  part  2  “Take”  
The  simple  search  (Overview  tutorial)   Simple  search:  overview  
The  simple  search:  Using  Operators   Simple  search:  operators  
The  simple  search:  Use  more  Search  Tabs   Simple  search:  using  more  tabs  
Search  in  a:  Temporary  document  selection   Search  in  a  document  selection  
Search  in  a:  Search  area   Search  in  a  search  area  
Fast  Search  tutorial   Fast  Search  
Quick  Remedy  info    
Overview  of  remedy  searches    or  open  a  MM  (part  1)  (part  2)   Overview  part  1  
Overview  part  2  
Examples  Remedy  search    (part  1)         Has  been  replaced  
Examples  Remedy  search    (part  2)   Remedy  search  part  2    
Remedy  search:  Limit  to  degree  or  rubric  size   Remedy  search  degree  or  rubric  size  
Remedy  search  via  drag  and  drop   Remedy  search  Drag  &Drop  
Advanced  Search    
Advanced  search  window:  Words,  Remedies,  Families   Advanced  search  introduction  
Advanced  search  &    Remedy  Comparison    
Remedy  comparison   Remedy  Comparison  
Remedy  comparison  &  search  area  &  open  a  second  search  tab   Remedy  Comparison  short  version  
Search  area  (version  1)   Search  area  1  
Search  area  (version  2)   Search  area  2  
Clipboards      
Symptom  clipboards        (part  1)   Symptom  clipboards  part  1  
Symptom  clipboards,  more  options      (part  2)    
Save  the  analysis  separate  (outside  of  the  patient  file)   Save  and  Recall  an  analysis  

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Save  the  analysis  in  the  patient  file  

 
Save  an  analysis  to  the  patient  file  
  
 
The  Analysis    
General  introduction  analysis  window    
Show  remedies  excluded  from  the  analysis  (eliminative,  families)   Show  excluded  remedies  from  analysis  
Analysis  Methods  (modules)    
Vithoulkas  Expert  System  (VES)    
Herscu:  Cycles  and  Segments    
Boenninghausen  Pocketbook:  Polar  analysis    (new  video  coming)  
Heiner  Frei  –  Polarity  analysis    
Summary  of  the  Boenninghausen  Approach    
Dimitriadis:  Boenninghausen  repertory    
Families  &  Maps    
Family  search  in  the  repertory   Families  search  part  1  
Families  search  part  2  
Maps:    
-­‐  Kingdoms    (Will  Taylor)   Use  Maps  Kingdoms  (Will  Taylor)  
-­‐  Periodic  table  (Jan  Scholten)   Use  Maps  Periodic  table  (Jan  Scholten)  
More  Tools    
Remedy  Information  Window    
Languages  and  translation  tools   Translation  of  MM  and  Repertory  
Backup  &  Restore    
Concepts:  Veterinary  –  Morrison  -­‐  Petrucci   Using  Concepts  
Bookmarks    
References:  Materia  Medica,  Journals,  Therapeutics    
Browse  in  Materia  Medica,  Journals,  etc.   Browse  Reference  documents  
Patient  file    
Save  an  analysis  to  the  patient  file   Save  an  analysis  to  the  patient  file  
Introduction  -­‐  The  patient  file   The  patient  file  part  1  
Consultation  text  editor    
Prescription  and  pathology  fields    
Workflow  moving  between  tabs  in  RadarOpus    
Manually  save  /  recall  an  analysis    
Follow  up  consulation    
List  of  consultations  &  saved  analyses    
Prescription  and  pathologies    
Invoices    
Invoices    
Therapy  evaluation    
Therapie  evaluation    
Patient  search    
Patient  search    
Backups  and  Restore    
Making  a  backup   Making  a  backup  
Using  a  Cloud  Drive  like  Dropbox    (this  is  not  a  reliable  method)    
Miscellaneous    
The  Quick  Search  box    
   
 
 
 

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Installation
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Update from
 
RadarClassic
 
 
 

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Installation  
Installation  RadarOpus  on  Mac  /  Windows  
Please see the separate installation instructions to install RadarOpus.

It is possible to install RadarOpus on the same computer on which an older Radar (RadarClassic) version
is installed. RadarClassic and RadarOpus will not affect each other.

After installation you can immediately import your personal information (Save clipboards or Patient file
data) from a RadarClassic or have a look around first.

Import  (Transfer)  information  from  Radar  (8,  9,  10,  10.5)  to  RadarOpus  
If you have worked with an older Radar and/ or
Winchip version, you might have personal See  video:  Import  Cases  (RadarOpus  v  1.30  of  later)    
information that you like to transfer to the new
RadarOpus. You can do this immediately after installation or at any later moment. The following
information can be transferred from Radar to RadarOpus (Note: not all import options are ready in the pre-
release version):…

• Radar Clipboards (cases) – Catalogue* (clipboards saved in the default way)

• Radar Clipboards (cases) - Single Cas files* (all clipboards saved as separate files on the HD)
• Repertory additions**
• Personal Keynotes, Freenotes, Personal EH-documents**
• Winchip patient file*** (including optionally saved clipboards in Winchip)

(*) Note: Import on Apple Mac computers

Your RadarOpus distributer will help with the conversion from the Windows Radar (8 -10.5) cases files
(catalogue or single cases) to the Mac RadarOpus version. Only saved CAS files can be imported directly to
RadarOpus-Mac. So you will need to save your old Radar Catalogue of cases as single Cas files.
If you have RadarOpus on Windows, you can also import your Radar Catalogue of cases (technically 4
files). Tip: it is possible to import a Radar catalogue of cases into a Windows-RadarOpus, then make an
Opus-backup - this Opus backup can be imported into a MAC-RadarOpus.

(**) Note: The import (transfer) of the Radar 9 or 10.x Personal Repertory additions is not yet possible.
Please keep a backup copy of all your Radar information on a secondary storage media. Read the separate
instruction: “How to make a backup of all your Radar personal information”. You can find more
information in the Radar 10.x Freenotes “The automatic backup” or see the “Repertory utilities manual”.
(***) Note: At this moment only Winchip 3.x Starter version can be converted to RadarOpus.

Import  Radar  Clipboards  

The clipboards (cases) in the old Radar program were by default stored in a so-called Catalogue (on the
hard disk 4 files). It was also possible to save the cases as individual files, so-called Cas-files. For more
information see below.

More explanation about “Catalogue” and “Cas”

The default way in the old Radar was to save the clipboards (cases) in a so-called ‘Catalogue’. The default
catalogue name is: Repert. On the hard disk such a catalogue is located in the folder c:\radar\cases and
consists of 4 files: repert.da1, repert.da2, repert.id1, repert.id2.

In Radar it was possible to save clipboards (cases) as individual files on the hard disk. They were usually
stored in the folder c:\radar\cases and then in another subfolder, for example the folder \Repert. All the
individual Cas files are located here c:\radar\cases\repert\ (with all individual files).

Be sure that you have made at least one reliable backup of all your old information in the old Radar
program. Please read the topic Automatic backup in the Freenotes. See also the instruction video Making
backups or read the chapters on making a backup in the Repertory utilities manual.

 
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 Import  Radar  Clipboards  (Catalogue  of  cases)  
From the menu Tools, select Import, then select the
following option:…

• List of analyses from another program

If in Radar you have used the default method of

saving the clipboards, then in the next window at the
option ‘Choose the program that contains your
analysis’ you need to select:…

• Radar 10.5 catalogue of cases*

(* Not directly possible on Mac: see instruction)
To import you also need to select the location
where the catalogue of cases is stored and
select the “Catalogue name”.
(You will only need to select 1 of the 4 files of
a catalogue: the xxxxx.da1 file. By default it
is named repert.da1 file).
Then click on Start import to continue.

After the import of the catalogue of old Radar

cases is ready, you can click on the button
Show my catalogues to see the imported files.

Note: If you where using several catalogues

of cases in the old Radar, you will need to
repeat the import for each single catalogue.
When you import more than one catalogue of
old cases, then a separate group (new
catalogue) for each catalogue will be created
in RadarOpus.
Read more under Recall and Save analysis in RadarOpus for further explanation.

Note: For most users just keep the option “Import rubrics in national language if present” selected.

Import  Radar  clipboards  (separate  Cas  files)  

Go from the menu Tools to Import, then
select
• List of analyses from another program

In the next window select to import:…

• Radar single cases
You also need to select the location of the
folder where the single case files are located.

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Advised settings:

Keep the import location set to:

Default folder.

See the settings as shown on the screen:

If you want the cases stored in a

separate folder in RadarOpus, then
select: Create a new folder.

Note: Stored as external files: (This is

not advised for the average user!)
If the imported single cases should not really be imported into the new RadarOpus database, they again
can be stored as external, single files (for each analysis a new separate file will be created on the hard
disk). With this method the separate files are converted to RadarOpus but remain single files on the hard
disk.

After the import is completed you can click on the button Show my folder to Recall one of the imported
cases in RadarOpus clipboards. Read more under Recall and save analyses in RadarOpus.

Import  only  One  single  old  Radar  

Case  
If you do not want to import all your old Radar cases
(clipboards) but only want to import one single case
from time to time, this is also possible.

First export all your Radar cases to single CAS files.

In your old Radar program go to File, then Export,
then Export all cases as single files (Cas files).

Inside the folder C:\Radar\Cases on your hard disk

you will find a separate folder named “Repert” which
will contain all your cases.

Note: If you use several catalogues of cases, you will need to export each one of them separately.

If you installed RadarOpus on a new computer copy this folder of CAS files to it.

Recall a single case in RadarOpus

Right mouse click on a clipboard, then select Recall
analysis. Here you can select to recall a CAS file

 
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 Recall  (and  Save)  analyses  in  RadarOpus  
After you have imported the old Radar cases you can go to the Recall Analysis window via the button
Show my folders.          
See  video:  Save  and  Recall  an  analysis    
Note: New name ‘Analysis’
In RadarOpus a set of saved clipboards is called an ‘Analysis’.
The new RadarOpus clipboards can contain repertory symptoms and also symptoms taken from a
Materia Medica or proving books. You can also take any other part of the RadarOpus Library into
a clipboard. Anything taken into a clipboard can act as a link which will bring you back to the
original location you took it from.

This Recall Analysis window (and also the Save

Analysis window) can also be opened via:
• a Right mouse click on one of the clipboards.
• or via the Analysis button in the main toolbar.

Note for Mac users: see also in the chapter

Tips for Macintosh users how to set the
Function keys and the Right mouse click on a Mac.

All your old imported Radar cases can be found in

this Recall Analysis window. There are several
options in this window:

If you imported a “catalogue of cases” or “single Cas

files” they can be found in this Recall a case
window, via the option:…

• Recall an analysis from a folder

Default folder
If you imported (and created) several folders of
cases you can also find them here in this window via
the Folder selection button. The default location for the RadarOpus Analysis is called Default folder of
analyses. The by default imported set of old Radar cases (catalogue system) has the name Repert.

Save  an  Analysis    

See the chapter Save an Analysis for more
information on how to save your clipboards in
RadarOpus.

In RadarOpus the clipboards are called ‘Analysis’

There are two methods of saving an analysis
(clipboards).
ð Much like in the old Radar this is called
Save Analysis to a folder.
ð Or connected to the patient’s name in the
new Patient file.

Although RadarOpus comes with an integrated patient file with an easy way to save an analysis (a set of
clipboards) automatically together with the rest of the patient’s information, it is still possible to save an
analysis (set of clipboards) separately.
For more information read the chapters about The Symptom Clipboards and in The Patient file.

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Import  Winchip  patient  information  
from  Radar  
If you have used the Winchip patient file in Radar,
it is possible to import your patients’ catalogue into
RadarOpus*.
Be sure you have made at least one reliable backup
of the folder c:\radar\winchip\filepati\ (with the
sub folders) on a secondary storage media like an
external hard-drive or memory stick.

Go to the menu Tools, then to Convert/Import

from other programs, then WinChip 3.x

Then select via the button Browse the location of

the folder C:\Radar\Winchip**

Also select what you want to import. The average

user would probably only like to import the actual
Patient–database located in
C:\Radar\Winchip\Filepati

(*) Note: Currently only a Winchip 3.x Starter can be imported into a RadarOpus Patient file (Easy
version). The option to import to the Medium and Professional version will follow later.
Note: If you switch from a old Radar Windows version to a Mac version of RadarOpus, your catalogue
must be imported in a RadarOpus Windows version first. Then a RadarOpus backup should be made. This
RadarOpus backup you can then import into RadarOpus. Your RadarOpus representative will assist you.

(**) Note: You do not really need to select a folder with the exact name \Winchip, as long as this folder
contains the sub-folder \Filepati (and optionally also \Uti and \Pck).
If you have only made a backup of the actual patient-database folder, then you need to place it in a folder
with the name \Filepati

When the import is completed you will see a message Importation completed.
You will then find all imported patients in the Table Of Contents of Patients.

Import  personal  repertory  additions  from  Radar

The option to import this information will be available at a later stage.
Be sure you made and keep a reliable backup of folder c:\radar\log

Import  personal  keynotes,  freenotes,  EH-­‐documents

The option to import this information will be available at a later stage.
Be sure you have made a reliable backup of these files.

Important
Making  a  RadarOpus  backup  
After you have imported your information from Radar, it is wise to make a backup of the new RadarOpus
database immediately.
For more information please see the chapter Making Backups

 
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Using
RadarOpus

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Introduction
Introduction  to  RadarOpus  
The revolutionary concept of RadarOpus is that all homeopathic information is available from within one
program. You have to keep this idea in the back of your mind when you work with RadarOpus.
There is now only one central program, one central database (one homeopathic Library): as if you were
sitting at a desk with this large Library at your disposal, with the option to open any book or repertory,
search in only one book, or even search through the whole library (even the books which you have not
opened yet).
So when for example you are searching for a small remedy, you can search in ‘the repertory you have
open’ or ‘in all open books’ and if you still cannot find it, you can search ‘in the whole library’.

The second major idea behind RadarOpus is that everything is seen as ‘links’ and can be linked.
When you browse the repertory (or any other part of the library) you can select items into your symptom
clipboards and later on with a click you can jump back to the original document and location where you
found the information. Our aim to improve the quality of the repertory has begun and we are tracing back
all repertory entries to their original sources, thus (a) eliminating errors and (b) labeling all information
precisely to indicate the type and the quality/reliability of that information.
Now you can work with more precision and select only the type of information you like to work with, e.g.
use only very conservative or also very progressive information.

In the RadarOpus Library* you can have access to e.g.: (*depending on the package you have)
Repertories: this contains the following literature…
• Traditional- Repertories: Synthesis (several versions/ languages), Murphy, Boenninghausen,
etc.
• Concepts: a concept (an idea, pathology, theme) points to related repertory rubrics.
• Families: grouping of remedies based on relationships (several groupings are possible).
References:
• Materia Medica: Allen, Hering, Boericke, etc.
• Cases / Philosophy / Therapeutics
• Journals
Remedy and Author (sources) information
• Proving websites: with recent information, provings background, order info, etc.
• General background info like: Multimedia, Family-info, Wikipedia, Google images, etc.
• Author and source background info
Patient data
• Patient file (+ Analyses): administrative and consult info.
• Analyses separately saved to a Folder (saved outside of the patient file).
• ClifiCol: a central database for verification and scientific research.
Internet
• Full integration and direct access to internet (optional)
Languages and translation tools
Repertories and materia medica are optionally available in several different languages with both
professionally translated and/ or original works to choose from. Additionally any part, any repertory
rubric and any other part of materia medicae can be translated with the RadarOpus dictionary or with
the Google translation tool. The following language tools are available:

• A text translation tool: this can translate a specific selected word or sentence.
• The search translation tool: the correct translation term to search with will appear when you type
your question in your own language.

 
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 • Synthesis in different languages (professionally translated, an Opus-Dictionary translation, or a
Google translation)
• Materia medicae available in many languages: French, German, Spanish, English, Dutch

Maps, Wizards and Modules

Besides the large library of homeopathic literature, RadarOpus also has a wide range of modules and
wizards. The package you have chosen determines by default
which are available to you in the program. Just to mention a
few…
• Maps (Schemas) from several teachers and
approaches: Jan Scholten, Liz Lalor, Grant Bentley,
Anne Vervarcke, Jo Evans, Alastair Gray, Patricia
Hatherly, Roger Morrison, Jonathan Shore, Frans
Vermeulen, Ewald Stöteler, and many more.
• Boenninghausen module
• Luc De Schepper module: Concepts and Core Delusions. And many more (For more info see
the rest of this manual).

Homeopathic  quality  versus  completeness  

Because in recent years the homeopathic development has been so extensive and some homeopathic
approaches are growing so far apart, RadarOpus has set the goal to integrate all, indicating (tagging) at
the same time what type of information and how reliable it is. The user has full control over what type of
homeopathic information he wants to work with.
Everything in RadarOpus has tags indicating the ‘source’, ‘source type’, ‘author’ - you can decide what
may be shown!!

In RadarOpus quality and reliability come first. Some other repertories went into another direction of
having more and more content first. This creates the problem that soon there will be no differentiation on
quality and source origin anymore, so all rubrics will soon have all remedies. This trend has a negative
effect on individualization and quality. RadarOpus in contrast has set as target to increase reliability and
quality even more than has already been achieved with Synthesis TE 2009. The goal is now to achieve a
100% level of homeopathic perfectness by linking all repertory entries to their original sources. From the
Synthesis 2012 onwards the tools to link repertory entries to materia medicae will also be activated for
your use.

• Each new repertory addition is linked to the exact source reference and the full original
source text. All existing repertory entries must also be traceable to the original sources.
• Every sentence in the literature, that is, each repertory rubric and MM symptom, has its
own history log indicating precisely which correction has been applied and why.

Some  of  the  new  features  of  RadarOpus  (compared  to  Radar)  
Just a few of the new possibilities in RadarOpus compared to Radar:
• Back and Forward button, with a full ‘History’ option
• Bookmarks: add bookmarks anywhere in the library, group them, quick search.
• Make links between the Repertory and the MM
• Global search: search in the whole library (in all MMs, Repertories, keynotes, etc.)
• Search in personal notes, personal keynotes, personal families notes etc.
• Take an ‘Exclusive symptom (rubric)’; besides known options as combine, eliminate, underline
(symptom strength), now it is also possible to use ‘exclude’.
• Analyze using Families, search for families, and combine word search with family search.
• Show remedies excluded from the repertory, view them separately.
• Translate to your own language with a single click on a word or sentence.
• Instant continue-search: every word in the search result is searchable by clicking.
• And much more, quickly continue to learn more.

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Help  On  Line:  Videos  and  Tutorials  
This manual offers only a brief introduction. For more information see the General Help On Line and the
Context Help with extensive help and videos.

Quick  Tour  video  

See this general quick tour video and you will quickly know how to work out your first case.
It may seem short, but don’t worry because everything that is shown can be seen in detail in one of the
later specific tutorial videos.

The following topics are shown in part 1

• Find symptoms See  video:  Quick  Tour  part  1  
• Take symptoms
The following topics are shown in part 2
• Search symptoms
• Analyze See  video:  Quick  Tour  part  2  
• Remedy Information Window
• Remedy search
• Save the clipboards (analysis) stand alone or to a patient.
After you have seen this Quick Tour, you can work through the rest of this tutorial and study and view the
topics which interest you.

Get  started:  Introduction  Part  1  

See  video:  Introduction  part  1  
How to start RadarOpus
After installation you can start RadarOpus (on Mac): from the
folder Applications, then a folder RadarOpus, then the
program icon RadarOpus.
(On Windows): use the shortcut on your Desktop, or from the
Start menu, go to All programs, to the folder RadarOpus,
then click on the RadarOpus icon.

When RadarOpus starts the first time the

Welcome window will open.

Note: The next time you start RadarOpus it will

by default open with the last opened documents.

Tip: Note the link to the Getting started

video in the welcome window.

Tip: Startup book selection (Startup mix)

You can also define a certain selection of books
which you would like to have opened
automatically. This is called the startup book mix. (See
elsewhere for more info)

Be sure you check out the General Help icon and especially
the Context Sensitive Help icon, which offer a rich amount of
help text and videos.

 
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 The  Table  Of  Contents    
The first five icons in the toolbar let you display the Table Of
Contents (TOC) of:
• Repertories (Concepts, Families)
• References (MM’s, Journals, Therapeutics, etc.)
• Patients: a list of all patients in the patient file
• Remedies: a list of all remedy abbreviations
• Families: a list of all available families groupings
In fact each icon shows you just one section, one selection of
your total homeopathic library (database).

Note There are hotkeys to open (switch between) these TOC lists:

• (On Windows): Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2, Ctrl+3, Ctrl+4

• (On Mac): Cmd+1, Cmd+2, Cmd+3, Cmd+4
Note: In RadarOpus you are working with one large library of all your homeopathic information.
So when you perform any Word-search or Remedy-search (F4) in RadarOpus you always need to
specify in which part of the library you want to search; e.g. in only one open repertory, in all
opened documents, in the whole RadarOpus library (all documents).

Local  options  for  a  particular  window  

It is important to know that you can adapt the program to your
preferences with the Local Options and General Options.

In the right upper corner you can find, in all windows, a Local
Options icon where you can set your preferences for that
particular part of the program.
In the Table Of Contents of the Repertories and of the
References you can select for example the: general display
preferences, display documents of certain Languages, the
sorting order etc. Just have a look to see all the available options. The changes are automatically saved
when you close the options window.

Open  a  Repertory  (TOC  of  Remedies)  

If you select the TOC of the Repertories, you can
open one of the repertories with a single click on its
title.
A new tab will open for this repertory.

If the TOC list is too long, just type a few characters

in the search box - only titles which contain these
will remain in the list: for example type SYNT… and
only the Synthesis repertories will remain.

Documents  grouped  by  type  of  

document  in  the  same  Tab  
If you open multiple documents, e.g. two or more
repertories and several reference books (MMs),
RadarOpus will open a tab for each type of
document by default. This option is called:
Grouped by type of document.
So all repertories are grouped in one tab, all
references will be grouped under another tab. If you

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open a Patient this will be opened in a 3rd tab.
 
 
  
 

In this example there are two tabs (one for

the repertories and one for references).
The triangle in the right upper corner
indicates that there is more than one
document available in that tab.

When you click on the small

triangle in the tab you can switch
between the opened documents in that tab.
You can set the way the opened
documents will be shown: as a list or as
small preview windows.

Other  tool  bar  icons  

There are several more tool bar icons. Some
are self-explanatory and some will be discussed in this manual later on. If you get lost remember to
consult the Help On Line.

TOC  of  the  Remedies  

There is also a Table of Contents with a list of all remedy
See  video:  TOC  of  Remedies  
names. This Remedies TOC enables you to quickly open the
Remedy Information Window (RIW) of that remedy.
From the RIW you can consult keynote MM info, see the family info and other members of that family, as
well as do a remedy search in your whole Library etc.
For more information see in the chapter: Remedy Information Window

TOC  of  the  Families  

There is also a Table of Contents with a list of all family-levels. This Families TOC has two main
functions:
• It opens the associated “Families-repertory” to that
level, so you can see all other members of that See  video:  TOC  of  Families  
family.
• You can use a Right mouse click to limit or highlight your analysis to this family-level.

For more information about using Families and the use of this TOC: see the chapter about Families.

 
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 General  program  options:    Change  ‘Menu  language’  etc.  
The general program options can be adapted via the toolbar.
• [On Windows]: Tools, then Options.
• [On Mac]: via the RadarOpus menu, then
Preferences*.
(* On Mac in other languages it is sometimes located in the
menu Tools then Options.)

You will for instance find the following options:

• Language: Here you can change for example the general
language of the menu bar.

• Skin: In this tab Skin you can find the Standard styles and
a set of advanced skins.
By default the RadarOpus-Windows skin is selected in
Windows and the RadarOpus-Mac skin is selected in
Mac.

• Double or Single click: You can select if you prefer a

double or single click to activate or open certain program
options.

• You can also find some options for the Tag tree, the
Printer and the Patient file (Winchip)

[Mac  users]    Tips  &  a  few  hotkeys  (print,  copy  &  paste)  
Switch the Function keys (F1, F2, etc.)
By default the function keys on a Mac keyboard are assigned the special Mac functions. To use the F1, F2,
F3 etc. as function keys, you need to hold down the Fn key and press the Function keys.
You can switch this around so that you can directly press the keys to use the function keys F1, F2, F3 etc.
without having to hold down the Fn key. But then you will need to hold down the Fn key to use the Mac
functions. This can be set via your Apple menu icon, then select Preferences, then search for this option
in the Keyboard section.

Right mouse click (Secondary click) on the Trackpad

Go to your Apple menu, then to Preferences to check the settings for the Track pad, so that you are sure
that you can use the Secondary click (= right mouse click) easily. One of the easy settings to use is a
Double Finger tap on the track pad for the secondary (right) mouse click.

Making Screenshots
In RadarOpus there is a button in the main toolbar to make a screenshot of a particular window
or the whole screen. But Mac also has general hotkeys to make screenshots of only a particular
section of the screen or the whole screen.

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Hotkey on Mac Function

Shift+Cmd+4 Allows to select a specific area of the screen
Shift+Cmd+3 Takes a screen shot of the entire screen
“Camera button” From the camera icon in RadarOpus you can make a full
screen copy or a copy of the current window.

Copy and paste symptoms from the Repertory, the Clipboard or from a Reference window.
It is possible to copy and paste a symptom (with or without the remedies) anywhere in the Repertory. You
can also do this in a symptom Clipboard or in any Reference document.

Hotkey on Mac Function

Cmd+C • In the repertory: copies the symptom text + the remedies.
• In the clipboards/ analysis: idem
Shift+Cmd+C • In the repertory: copies the symptom text only
• In the clipboards/ analysis: idem
Cmd+A • In the clipboards/ analysis: first select all symptoms in a
clipboard with Cmd+A. Then you can use Shift+Cmd+C
to copy the symptom text only, or Cmd+C to copy the
symptoms with the remedies.
Cmd+V • This Pastes the copied info to e.g. a Word document.

[Windows  users]  Tips  &  a  few  hotkeys    (print,  copy  &  paste)  
Hotkey on Windows Function
PrintScr • The keyboard key makes a screen shot of the entire
screen (although nothing appears to happen). Then
switch to Word and press Ctrl+V to paste the screen shot
in Word.
Tip: you can past first into Paint and select only a particular
section of the screen shot.
“Camera button” • From the camera icon in RadarOpus you can make a full
screen copy or a copy of the current window.

Copy and paste symptoms from the Repertory, the Clipboard or a Reference window.
It is possible to copy and paste a symptom (with or without the remedies) anywhere in the Repertory.
You can also do this in a symptom Clipboard or in any Reference document.

Hotkey on Windows Function

Ctrl+C • In the repertory: copies the symptom text + the remedies.
• In the clipboards/ analysis: idem
Shift+Ctrl+C • In the repertory: copies the symptom text only
• In the clipboards/ analysis: idem
Ctrl+A • In the clipboards/ analysis: first select all symptoms in a
clipboard with Ctrl+A. Then you can use Shift+Ctrl+C to
copy the symptom text only, or Ctrl+C to copy the
symptoms with the remedies.
Ctrl+V • This Pastes the copied info to e.g. a Word document.

 
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 The  Repertory  Window:  Introduction  Part  2  
See  video:  Introduction  part  2  
Display  options:  2  columns  
Cross-references can be shown as arrow icons only
(collapsed). To see the cross-references you need to hover your
mouse a moment above the icon to open a (tooltip) window
with the list of cross-references.
Click on one of the cross-references to jump to that rubric.

If you like to show all cross-references fully (expanded or

collapsed), you can change this via the Local Options menu.

More Local Options:

Just have a look at this Local Options window of the
repertory window to see all the options that can be set
to your preferences. For example:…
• One or two columns display
• Expand / collapse cross-references
• Expand / collapse concepts
• Show the symptom tags
Etc.

Spacebar  Toggle  
The Spacebar has a special function in a repertory
window.
Press on it three times and it will switch between three
different displays: It will show:…
• Only the number of remedies
• Plus the remedy abbreviations
• Remedy abbreviations plus the source
references

 
Show  remedies,  show  source  references  
How to use the three buttons at the
right upper corner of the repertory:
turn on/ off the remedies, the source
references (authors), and also the
tags (labels)

LOOK OUT: The Tags button will

also hide the “Referring rubrics”,
these are the empty synonym rubrics.

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About  Tags  
Any symptom in the repertory or in the
materia medica can have one or more
Tags connected to it.

These are the possible Tags:

• Bookmarks,
• Note files,
• Cross-References,
• Synonym rubric links,
• Concepts link, etc.

With the main Tags button, you can select to show the tags on/ off.
With the sub-button you can select from a list which type of tags should be shown.

Please also note in the Local Options

if tags should show all information
(expanded) or if they should be closed.

For example for the cross-references

you can decide to show all of them
(expanded) or to keep them collapsed
as an icon only.

Warning:
The empty referring rubrics (synonyms) point to the appropriate synonym rubrics that have remedies in
them.
Watch out: these referring rubrics will be hidden if you click on the main button to hide all the tags
(links). The rubric(s) to which a referring rubric points is also considered a tag (‘link’)

More explanation about tags can be found elsewhere.

 
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 Repertory  Views  
With Repertory Views you can select which sources (a source is
an author and a document) you want see in your repertory. See  video:  Repertory  Views  intro    

The main views, which are listed from more sources to

fewer sources, are (from above downwards):
• Full Synthesis (which contains remedies which are
copied from sub-rubrics to the main rubric, if
appropriate). This contains all sources, including
e.g. Jan Scholten- non-proving sources, dream and
meditation sources.
• Full Synthesis (not with these remedies copied
from sub-rubrics to the main rubric)
• Millennium (which contain many of the new
remedies, this views is considered progressive)
• Quantum (which contains only the more traditional
remedies, but still moderns sources like Desk Top
Guide by Roger Morrison are included)
• Modern till 1987 (Schmidt) (this view contains all sources up till Pierre Schmidt)
• Pioneers till 1843 (Hahnemann) (this view contains all sources until the death of Hahnemann)
• Kent Repertory (revised) (This view is the starting point of the above views and contains the
original Kent Repertory, slightly modified and corrected. The Food and Drink symptoms (Desires
and Aversions) for example are all located in the chapter Generalities.

Note:  The  functionality  of  the  repertory  views  will  be  extended  greatly  in  future  live  updates.  
e.g.  you  will  for  example  be  able  to  apply  a  view  based  on  a  family  selection  
 
The  two  View-­‐option  buttons  
There are two Views-option buttons. One shows/ hides the
number of remedies which are excluded from a view. The See  video:  Views  buttons    
second button can show/ hide rubrics which do not have any
remedies in that view.

Show/ hide remedies excluded from a

View
Applying a Repertory-View is like
applying a filter. Because you search by
or choose a certain criteria (e.g. the type
of sources of additions), some remedies
will fall outside of that view. This is
indicated with a number at the end of
the rubric. When you hover your mouse
over this number, you will see which
remedies are outside your view.

Show/ hide rubrics which do not have

any remedies in a view
When you apply a Repertory View, it is also possible that that there are no more remedies left in a rubric.
You then see the number 0 as rubric size. (+ you can see the number of remedies which fall outside of
that View)
It is also possible to hide all rubrics which do not have any remedies in a particular View.

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Creating  a  Startup  Document  mix  

It is possible to define one or more document-selections
(document mix) and then define one of them as Startup mix. See  video:  Startup  Document  mix  
When RadarOpus starts it will automatically open these
documents for you. A great advantage is that you can
quickly do a search in your preferred books and documents.
In your preferred documents you can include not only a
repertory and some materia medica books, but also a
concept-document or other type of documents.

• First use the selection boxes to select documents.

This can be from Repertories and from the
References Table Of Contents.
• Secondly you go to the menu File, then Save
selection as a document mix.
• The third step is that you go to File, then use Select
a default document mix.

Tip: via the local options you can show the selection boxes.

The  Symptom  Path  

At the top you can see the Symptom path of the current
symptom or rubric. The symptom path shows you the current See  video:    Symptom  Path  
symptom which the hand indicator is pointing to.

In version 1.31 and higher: by default a click on the

symptom path opens the Search from Current Find
window, (previous versions only navigated a level
upwards in the repertory).
Click on the Symptom Path to open the (F3)
‘Find from current location’

By default the program is set that when you click

on the Path in the upper part of the document, the
‘Find from current location’ (F3) window will
open.

It is possible to change this, so that a click on the

symptom path only navigates one or more levels
upwards (it goes to the level you click).

You can change how a click on the

symptom path reacts via the local options
button in the Repertory window and select ON or OFF: Open F3 when clicking on the path.
See the video for more information.

Tip: This symptom path also works similarly in a Reference-document. A click on it will open the
content (the chapters) available in that reference-document.

 
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 Find
Find  symptoms  in  the  Repertory:  Hierarchical  browsing  (F2)  
One of the most frequently used functions is ‘Finding’
symptoms. When you look up symptoms in the repertory, if you See  video:  Find  with    F2    and    F3  
know where they are, you will use this function which is called
the Hierarchical search.

In the hierarchical search you first select the Chapter you want to
open, then the Next level (e.g. main rubric), then again a Next
level (sub-rubric).

You can start to ‘Find’ in several ways:…

• Just start to type the first characters of the chapter on the
keyboard.
• Via the keyboard function key: F2
• With the Local Find button in the toolbar of the document
window
• From the Main toolbar, open the Search sub-button, then
select Find a rubric

Find:  Just  start  to  type  on  the  keyboard  

You can just start to type any character of a chapter on
the keyboard and the CHAPTER icons window will
open.

In the repertory window Synthesis:

Start typing MI <enter> and you will select the
chapter MIND

Tip: Stay in the same chapter

The Find window also has a local options menu. Here you can
select “to stay in the same chapter when you start to type”.
When you start to type a character, it will then open the Main-
Rubric (symptom) level of the chapter you are currently in. This
might be interesting for ex-Mac Repertory users.
 
Find:  Use  the  F2  function  key  
Just press the F2 to open the chapters window.

Note: The Hierarchical Find (F2) works in a

similar way when you are in a Reference
document. For example in Kent Lectures on
Homeopathic Materia Medica, it opens the
Table of Content of this book and shows the
available chapters: ‘Preface’ and ‘Remedies’.
The structure may vary per document.

Note: The key F3 will open the Find window

from the current location the hand indicator is
pointing to.

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Find:  use  the  local  Find  button  in  
the  toolbar  of  the  document  
window  
In each document window in the left upper
corner there is a ‘Local Find button’.
It will open the Chapters window.
In a repertory it will show the icons of all
chapters. In a materia medica it will show the
chapters of that document.
 
 
 
Find:  from  the  main  toolbar  Search  
button  
From the Search sub-button menu you can also
find the hierarchical find (F2) function.

 
Tip:  Often  the  quickest  way  is  to  just  start  
typing  on  the  keyboard  …  
The only limitation with the hierarchical search
method is that you need to know the exact
structure of that document, e.g. in a repertory you
need to know exactly where you can find the
symptom (rubric) you are looking for.

If you do not know exactly where to look, then

you can use the Word-search option from the
Quick Search box or you can press the (?)
[question mark key] or the (F4) key to open the
simple search window.
See more explanation about Search elsewhere.

Tip:  Take  a  symptom  from  the  Find  

window  
It is possible to take a symptom into a clipboard
while staying in the Find window. You can
use:…
• Drag and drop.

• The Keyboard: + <enter> or F6

• The local Take button.

See more explanation about Take elsewhere.

You can also use for example the = button to
take a symptom into a clipboard at once.

 
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 Finding  symptoms  from  the  current  symptom  (F3)  
It is possible to start your search from the location you are currently at.
For example if you are in the repertory at: “see  previous  video  also”    
General, Food and drinks, Milk, agg.,

Then pressing the function key F3 will open the

Find window with the current symptom already
selected.

A click on the symptom path opens the Find

window by default, starting from the
symptom level you clicked on.

You can change the settings of the program, so

that a click on the symptom path navigates only
one or more levels upwards.
This needs to be set via the Local options first!!
Then you can then navigate one or more levels
upwards by:…
• Clicking on the level you want to go to.
• On the keyboard press backspace one or
more times.
• On the keyboard press the Arrow left
key one or more times.
To change the way a click on the symptom path functions, read more in the chapter: The Symptom Path

Fast  Find  tutorial:  using  Backspace  

See this ‘fast find’ tutorial video with an overview how you can use the See  video:    Fast  Find  
Backspace key on the keyboard to open the Find window and very
quickly find several symptoms

Difficulty  finding  your  symptom?  

If you do not know exactly where the symptom is located in
the Repertory, then you can “Search on Words” using the
Quick Search box or the Search window (press the ? or the
F4 key).

The following hotkeys are used:

• Ctrl+F5 (Win) Goes to the Quick search box at the top (On Mac: “will be implemented later”)
• ? (or) F4 Opens to the Simple search window
• F5 Opens to the Advanced search window

Read more elsewhere.

First we will continue with explaining the Take function.

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Take
Taking  symptoms  into  a  clipboard  
Above you have learned how to look up symptoms, if you know where they are located in the repertory,
with the Find (F2) and Find from current (F3) functions.
When you have reached the symptom (rubric) you want to use, See  video:  Taking  symptoms  
you can then take such a symptom into a symptom clipboard in
several ways:…
• By using drag and drop
• With the keyboard by pressing the: “+” <enter> Or: +1 <enter>, +2 <enter> etc.
• With the keyboard by pressing: “=” key
• With the Local Take button
• With the Main Take button

Take  with  Drag  and  Drop  

You can simply drag a symptom to one of the symptom
clipboards to take it.

Note: By using drag and drop the symptom strength

(underlining) of a symptom will be 1.

Tip: Working with more clipboards

Normally you can take all symptoms of your case into one clipboard (the first clipboard).
You can also use several clipboards, for example if you want to divide them into categories: You
can for example use clipboard No 1 for the acute symptoms (e.g. acute bladder infection), while
clipboard No 2 you can use to add all the chronic symptoms.

With other methods like the Boenninghausen module or with the Ewald Stöteler -
Disease Classification of Hahnemann, several clipboards are used (e.g. 8
clipboards according to the flower leaves).

Note: When you save your clipboards, all clipboards are automatically saved as one set. Even if you
use only one or only two clipboards, the whole set of clipboards will be saved.
In RadarOpus a set of clipboards is referred to as an ‘Analysis’: e.g. Save or recall the Analysis.

Take  with  the  keyboard  using  the     +    key      

On the keyboard you can press the + key to
open the Quick Take window.

If you do not type any specific option and just

press + <enter> that symptom will be taken
with a default value 1, and it will be placed into
clipboard No 1.

A quick way to apply extra symptom strength

(underlining) to the symptoms you take can be
done by typing:…
+2 <enter> or +3 <enter>

 
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 Extra  Take  Options  (open  the  Option)  
See the local Option icon in the Quick Take window in the right upper corner - when you open it there
will be extra options available: take as Eliminative symptom, Combine/group symptoms, etc. (see below
for more information). Note: You can also press the F6 function key

Take  with  the  Local  Take  button  

A Local Take button is available at the top of each
repertory window (this is also available in Reference
documents).

The Main Take button takes the current symptom with

intensity 1.
By default it will be placed in clipboard No 1.

The Sub-button menu of the Take icon offers more

options like for example ‘take with an extra intensity’.

Tip: Take from a materia medica document

You can also Take a symptom from anywhere in a materia medica document into a clipboard. In a
materia medica document a symptom is of course connected to only one remedy.
It might be useful to combine such individual symptoms taken from the materia medica into a
group. Read more under ‘Combine symptoms’.

Tip: Take any Reference text as links into a clipboard

You can take text from any other reference document, even if no remedy is connected to that text.
Such “sentences” are then best added in a separate clipboard. Such a clipboard can be used as
‘links’ to the locations in these documents where you found this interesting section.

Here you can see the real power of RadarOpus: The Whole Homeopathic Library can be
interlinked.

Take  via  the  Main  Menu  Take  option  

In the main menubar you can also find a Take menu.
Here you can select to take with intensities 1 to 4.

You can open the additional Take with options menu

(F6).

The Take Options window offers a variety of extra take

options….

Take  with  extra  options  (F6)  

When you use the F6 key it will show the Quick Take
window with the extra options opened:…
• Take with an Intensity
• Take as an Eliminative symptom
• Take as an Excluding symptom
• Take only remedies with certain Degrees
• Group symptoms together
• Take also Cross-references, Sub-rubrics

Tip: For some of the take options special quick keyboard

combinations are available. See below.

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More  ‘Hotkeys’  to  Take  a  symptom  
Below are a few other keyboard commands. You can learn about more keyboard commands in the Help on
line. You can take symptoms with the keyboard also as eliminative or causative (for VES).

Here a few examples:

Keys Function
Intensity 1
+1>1 Takes the symptom with intensity 1, into clipboard 1
+1 (this can be done also with “+ <enter>”, or +1 <enter> or
pressing one on the “=” key)
+1>2 Takes the symptom with intensity 1, into clipboard 2
+1>3 Takes the symptom with intensity 1, into clipboard 3
+1>4 Takes the symptom with intensity 1, into clipboard 4
Intensity 2
+2>1 Takes the symptom with intensity 2, into clipboard 1
+2 (this can be done also with just “+2 <enter>”)
+2>2 Takes the symptom with intensity 2, into clipboard 2
+2>3 Takes the symptom with intensity 2, into clipboard 3
+2>4 Takes the symptom with intensity 2, into clipboard 4
Etc. (Taking with other intensities works in the same way)
Eliminative
+1! Takes the symptom with intensity 1 as eliminative symptom
+! (you do not need to type the 1. So you can also type +!)
+2! Takes the symptom with intensity 2 as eliminative symptom
Group
+1a Takes the symptom and will place it in a group “a” together
+a with all other symptoms taken with the same character “a”.
For a second group you can use “b” etc.
(you do not need to type the 1. So you can also type +a)
With subrubrics
+1/s Takes the symptom and also all its sub-rubrics (as a group)
+/s (you do not need to type the 1. So you can also type +/s)
With cross ref
+1/x Takes the symptom including the cross-reference rubrics (as
+/x separate symptoms)
(you do not need to type the 1. So you can also type +/x)

For more keyboard commands, see the Help On Line.

Change  the  ‘Default’  clipboard  

If you take symptoms with the keyboard “+”<enter>
or with the “=” key, the symptoms will be placed in
the default clipboard which is clipboard number 1.

Use Alt+Click on a different clipboard to make

that clipboard the default.

When you take symptoms afterwards, they will be

placed in this indicated “default” clipboard.

 
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 Take  a  symptom  with  one  or  more  Cross-­‐Reference(s)  
It is possible to take a symptom and automatically also
include one or more of the mentioned cross-reference See  video:    Take  with  cross  references  
rubrics.

First use Ctrl+Click (Windows) or Cmd+Click (Mac)

to select one or more cross references

When you then take the rubric, it will automatically

also take the selected cross-references.
All symptoms will be taken as a group.

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Search
The  Simple  search  window:    (?)  or  (F4)  
When you are in the repertory you can also press on the
keyboard the ? key or the function key F4 to open the Simple See  video:  Simple  search  part  1  
search window.
You can also click on the Main Search button to open the simple search window (or click on the sub-
button for more options).

You can open the Search window in several ways:..

• With a click on the main Search button.
• With the Sub-button menu, then select Search (F4)
or Advanced search (F5)..
• Directly with the Keyboard F4 function key.

The  Search  Window  Toolbar  

• You can switch between the Simple search window and the Advanced search
window with the two buttons.

• Then check the correct search location (which documents

you want to search in).
The three most used search locations are: The current document only, All documents, In the
Search Area.

Tip: Tutorial how to set the Default Search Location

This tutorial you should certainly view, because it shows you See  video:  Default  search  area  
how to set the default search location to “search in the current
document only” (which is most often only the repertory).

• By default the search is performed in “All open documents” (this can be set by the user).
- Search in the current document or Search in all documents are the most frequently used
- If you set the default search location to Search in the current document only, then you will
always first search in the repertory, if you open the search from the repertory window

The language flag indicates in which language documents you want to search: e.g. only in
English documents, or in French or in the German ones.
The drop down menu of the Language flag also has a Translation Tool available.

 
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 Search  example:  ‘Ball  Head’  (with  the  Simple  search  window)  
Let’s say you want to find all symptoms in the repertory with the words ‘ball’ and ‘head’. You should do
the following steps:

• Open the Simple search window by using: ? or F4, Or click on the Search button in the
main toolbar.
Tip: Once you are in the search window, you can switch between the Simple search and the Advanced
search again: with F4 and F5 or a click on one of the two icons.

• For the search location button select for example:

Search in the current document or in All Open
documents.

• Then just start to type on the keyboard BALL <enter>, then

type HEAD <enter>.

• If you press <enter> again, you will start the search (or click on the Search button).

In the Table of Content (TOC) you could see only one document
mentioned (the repertory Synthesis) – this depends on the search
location you selected. The number of hits is shown in front of the
title.

Take  symptoms  from  the  search  result   See  video:  Simple  search  part  2    “Take”  
From the search result list you can take symptoms into
a clipboard in several ways:…
• You can Take symptoms from the
search result list with Drag and
Drop
• With the F6 function key (not
active yet, this will follow later)
• With the Take option from the
main toolbar

Take  multiple  symptoms  

You can take more than one symptom at the same time
by first selecting them with the checkboxes.
If you then use Drag and Drop to take one of the
selected symptoms, you will take all at once. You can

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also use the Take menu (the F6 key will come later).
 
 
  
 
Tip: Local Options
The Local Options window offers many possible
settings to adapt the layout of the search result to your
preferences.

Go to a document (the repertory)

With a Double click on one of the symptoms in the
search result list you will go to that symptom in the
repertory.
 

The  Simple  search  window      (Overview  Tutorial)  

Watch this tutorial video with a quick overview over See  video:  Simple  search  overview  (part  1)  
the following searches:
• One or two words search (In current document)
• How to keep previous search result (Click on the Search tab again)
• Remedy search
• Remedy search in a certain degree or rubric size (Right mouse click on a remedy name)
• Family search
• Family search with maximum rubric size
• Word + Remedy search
 
The  Simple  search  window:    AND  –  OR  –  NOT    (Operators)  
This  tutorial  video  shows  how  to  use  the  Operators:  
AND,  OR,  NOT.   See  video:  Simple  search  using  Operators  

Key  
Function    
&  
=  AND   By  using  these  operators  you  can  make  combinations  of:    Words    /  Remedies  /  
Families      with  using  AND,  OR,  NOT  between  them.  
|  
=  OR  
 
!  
=  NOT  
 
Some  examples  of  combinations:  
Word  1  AND  Word  2  AND  Remedy  1  
Word  1  AND  Word  2  NOT  Remedy  1  
Word  1  AND  Word  2  OR  Word  3  
Word  1  AND  Word  2  NOT  Remedy  1  
 
 
 
The  Simple  search  window:  Using  more  Search  Tabs  
 
If  you  did  a  search  and  want  to  do  a   See  video:  Simple  Search:  using  Search  Tabs  
second  search,  it  is  possible  to  keep  the  
previous  search  result  so  you  can  compare  them.  
The  tutorial  video  will  show  you  how  to  work  with  multiple  search  tabs  and  also  some  of  the  other  
functions  of  the  simple  search  function.  

 
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Opening  a  second  or  third  
search  tab  allows  you  to  
compare  search  results:  
 
• With  (slightly)  different  
search  words  or  
• In  a  different  set  of  
documents.  
 
This  enables  you  to  compare  
a  search  done  in  the  
repertory  Synthesis  to  the  
same  search  done  in  all  the  Reference  documents  or  in  your  Whole  Homeopathic  Library.  

Search  in  a  (temporary)  document  selection”  (mix)  

You can search not only in one of the standard
See  video:    Search  in  a  specific  document  selection  
search locations like “Current document”,
“Open documents”, “All documents” etc., you can also indicate exactly which combination of documents
to search in. In RadarOpus this is called a Document mix.

• Step 1: Select the documents you want to search in the Table of Contents of Repertories or
References.
• Step 2: From the Search location drop down menu in the Search window (F4) use the item called The
current document mix.

Tip: Save Document

selections (mix)
If you want to use a
certain document
selection more often,
then you should save it
under a “Document mix”
name.

Via the menu File you can save the selected documents under
a name.
In the Search window you can then select to search in one of
your saved Document mixes.

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Search  in  a  “Search  Area”  (a  part  of  the  repertory)  

Often you like to search only in a certain limited area in the
repertory. For example you want to find all symptoms of a See  video:    Search  in  a  Search  Area  
remedy in a specific chapter or main rubric.

• Step 1: You can drag and drop specific areas from the
repertory to the Search Area button in the main toolbar.
• Step 2: In the search window (F4) select the options to
search in a specific search area.

You can use this “Search area” both in the Simple search
(F4) and the Advanced search (F5)
 
 
Fast  Search  tutorial  
See  this  very  short  tutorial  video  with  a  summary  how  to  use  the  “?”  
key  on  the  keyboard,    to  do  a  Word,  Remedy  or  Families  search.   See  video:    Fast  Search  
 

 
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 Remedy Info
Remedy Search
Quick  Remedy  info:  Open  a  MM  or  Remedy  Search  
This Quick Tour video will give an overview
See  video:    Quick  Overview  of  Remedy  searches  and  
of many Remedy searches and how you can
how  to  Open  Remedy  MM:    
open a MM to read about a remedy. It is
very quick!! Overview  Part  1                      Overview  Part2  

Overview Part 1 shows:

• Double click on a remedy abbreviation: Opens reedy information window.
• Drag and Drop a remedy to the TOC
Overview Part 2 shows:
• (A summary of all shown in Part 1)

Example  Remedy-­‐search  with  the  ‘Simple  search’  window  (?)  or  (F4)  
You can press on the keyboard the ? or the F4 See  video:  Remedy  Search  part  2      “Simple  search”  
key to open the simple search window.

Then start to type the remedy name and from the auto
complete box select the item indicated with (Remedy).

Press <enter> to start the search.

Remedy  search:  Limit  to  the  “Degree”  or  “Rubric  size”  

It is also possible to limit your remedy search to
a certain degree in the Repertory, or to a certain See  video:    Remedy  search  Degree  &  Rubric  size  
maximum rubric size.

Step 1: First type the remedy you want to search

for.
Select from the auto-complete list the item with
the indication (Remedy).

Step 2: Right mouse click on the remedy name

and the Remedy search options window will
open.

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From this window you can select the following:
• The degrees of the remedy in the repertory, e.g. you can search for only degrees 3 and 4.
• The Minimum Rubric size (other options possible also).
• The Maximum number of other remedies also allowed with the same degree (other options are
also).

Remedy  Search  via  “Drag  and  Drop”    

Elsewhere it has already been explained how to search for a remedy from the Quick search box or the
Simple search window (?) or (F4). Here are a few other ways to do a remedy search:..

Drag  and  Drop  Remedy  search  in  

See  video:  Remedy  Search  1    “Drag  and  Drop”  
the  Repertory    
In a similar way you can do a quick repertory search for a remedy. Just Drag and Drop a remedy
abbreviation to the TOC of repertories.

You can drag it to the header ‘Repertories’ or to

one specific title.
It will show you:…
• All symptoms in all repertories, or
• All symptoms in the Synthesis
repertory only

More information about a Remedy search in the

repertory will be given elsewhere.

Drag  and  Drop  Remedy  search  in  a  Materia  Medica    

A unique feature in RadarOpus is that you can
consult the materia medicae inside the same
program.
If you switch to the TOC of materia medicae, you
can then use Drag and Drop to quickly search
for a remedy in for example:…
• All materia medica books, or
• Only one specific book

You can drag a remedy abbreviation from the

repertory window to the left to the TOC list and
drop it on a specific MM title or drop it on the header ‘Materia Medica’.
More information about a remedy search in the materia medica will be given elsewhere.
 
 

 
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 Advanced Search
Remedy Comparison
Advanced  Search  Window  (F5):  Words,  Remedies,  Families  
Introduction
With the advanced search window (F5) you can do the same searches as you can do with the simple
search window (F4 or ‘?’) but in a different, more guided way.
• It allows more easy use of “Proximity”. Proximity is the “distance between your search words”.
• You also can do easily a Remedy Comparison. (this is explained in a separate chapter below).

Select your default startup: Simple or Advanced search

With a click on the search icon in the main toolbar can open the Simple search, or the Advanced search
window.
Via the local options
button in the search
window you can set your
preference.

Tutorial video
See this tutorial video for a introduction how to use the advanced search window. You can do several type
of searches, search for:…
• Words See  video:  Advanced  search  introduction  
• Remedies
• Families
(or a combination of them)

Attention
In the advanced search window enter only one word per field, so if you
need to search for two or more words, you need to enter from top
downwards only one word per box.

In the example below a search is done for all symptoms with “injure” and “head” if at least one of the
“solanaceae” remedies is present.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Advanced  Search  (F5):    Remedy  Comparison    
To compare two or more remedies in the repertory you need to switch from the Simple Search window
(F4) to the Advanced search window. Or you can open the Advanced search window directly from the
main toolbar or with the F5 function key.

This instruction video shows you how to do a single remedy See  video:  Remedy  Comparison  
search and how to compare 2 or more remedies.

This tutorial video is a short version explaining the Remedy Comparison, and it combines it with using
"Search Area", and adding a "New Search Tab"

Steps to do a remedy comparison:

• Press F4 to open the Search window
• Select the Advanced search
• First from the auto-complete list select a
remedy in a box. Then press <enter> once to
open a next box below it.
• Select a second remedy in Box 2, and again
press <enter> once to open a next box.
• Start the search by again pressing <enter>
just once or click on the search button.

Search method
Via the button Remedies at the top, you can
select one of three search methods.
See the video for more information.

A short summary video

This tutorial video is a short version explaining the Remedy
Comparison, and it combines it with using "Search Area", and See  video:  Remedy  Comparison  Short  
adding a "New Search Tab"

Search area
You can also perform a search through certain sections of the repertory only.
First drag one or more 'Chapters' or 'Main rubrics' to the search area button in the main toolbar.
Then when you open the Advanced search window, you can select to do the search in the 'Search area'.

Adding a second search tab

After you have done a search it is possible to keep this search result, and open a second search tab to do a
new search. In this way you can easily compare results.

 
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 Search  in  a  “Search  Area”  (a  part  of  the  repertory)  
This topic “search area” has been mentioned already before.
But because it can be used in combination with the advanced search (word search, or remedy search) it is
repeated here again.

Often you like to search only in a certain limited area in the See  video:    Search  in  a  Search  Area    (1)  
repertory. For example you want to find all symptoms of a
remedy in a specific chapter or main rubric.

• Step 1: You can drag and drop specific areas from the
repertory to the Search Area button in the main toolbar.
• Step 2: In the search window (F4) select the options to
search in a specific search area.

You can use this “Search area” both in the Simple search (F4)
and the Advanced search (F5)
 

After  you  have  dragged  one  or  more  repertory  sections  (main  
rubrics  or  chapters)  to  the  search  area  button,  you  can  perform  
your  search  through  “the  current  search  area”.  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
See  it  again  
If  you  like  to  see  the  same  topic  “Search  area”  explained  again,  
See  video:    Search  in  a  Search  Area    (2)  
here  another  short  tutorial  video.  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Clipboards & Analysis

 
The  Symptom  Clipboards  (F7)      -­‐    The  Analysis  window  (F8)  
If  you  found  a  symptom  (rubric)  which  you  want  to  use  for  the  case,  you  can  take  it  in  one  of  the  
clipboards.  See  the  chapter  about  Taking  symptoms  for  more  information.  
 
After you have taken several symptoms in one or
more clipboards you can open the Analysis window
in several ways:…
• With the Analysis button in the main
toolbar (it will use all clipboards)
• With the function key F7: only shows
symptoms
• With the function key F8: shows symptoms
plus the remedy score
• By clicking on one of the clipboards (it will use only that clipboard).

Using  Symptom  Clipboards  (Video  Part  1)  

In this instruction video the following functions are discussed:
See  video:    Symptom  clipboards  part  1  
• Using One or More clipboards
If you click on a clipboard it will only analyze using the symptoms in that particular clipboard. If several
clipboards have been used to take symptoms on, then you can use Ctrl+Click (Win) or Cmd+Click (Mac)
on the other clipboard icons to select more than one clipboard. By clicking on the Main Toolbar Analysis
icon, all clipboards that contain symptoms will be used.

• Move symptoms within the same clipboard

First you click on a symptom in the clipboard to select it, then you can move it in several ways:
- With a Right mouse click and from the context menus use the Move options Up / Down.
- With Drag and Drop.

• Sorting symptoms
You can automatically sort the symptoms which are
in a clipboard via the Right mouse click on one of
the symptoms, then select Sort. Most often is used:
Sort according to Homeopathic order and Sort
according to Intensity.

• Change intensity of symptoms

It is also possible to change the intensity of
symptoms afterwards (after they have been taken
into a clipboard). You can do that via the Right
mouse menu or with the keyboard.
With the keyboard you first select a symptoms with a single click, then on the keyboard press the 1, 2, 3,
or 4 key.

• Select several symptoms and apply a change to them in one action.

If you first select more than one symptom by using the Ctrl+ Click (Win) or Cmd+Click (Mac), then you
can apply a change to all selected symptoms in one action.

 
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 • Moving Symptoms from one clipboard to another clipboard
You can move a symptom from one clipboard to another clipboard. First click on a symptom to select it,
then you can drag it to another clipboard on the left.
 
Using  Symptom  Clipboards  (Video  Part  2)   See  video:                                coming  
More functions and options regarding the clipboards:

• Combine (group) symptoms (rubrics)

You can for example use combine (group)
symptoms if you have several smaller repertory
rubrics all expressing the same symptom. You can
avoid overemphasizing these separate symptoms
by grouping them into one group.

- First select the symptoms you want to

combine or group.
- Then Right mouse click on one of the
selected symptoms and select
Combine/group rubrics.

When you create a group, the original symptoms

remain in the clipboard but they are calculated as
one symptom (rubric). You do this by giving them
all the same letter, for example: “a”.

If you really combine symptoms into one new symptom, then only one new rubric will be created – this
will then contain all remedies of the original symptoms.

Note: if symptoms are grouped or combined, the highest degree will be used for remedies which occur in
more than one symptom.

• Use an Eliminative or Exclusive symptom

To make a symptom Eliminative means that only
remedies which are in that symptom will remain
in the analysis.

To make a symptom Exclusive is the opposite.

Then all remedies which are in that symptom are
removed from the analysis.

Right mouse click on the symptom, then from the

menu select Change Qualification.

• The Analysis method

There are several methods of analyzing. Most
often when you analyze by hand you use the
method “Sum of symptoms (sort degrees)”.

With this method you first count in how many

symptoms a remedy is present. If remedies have
the same number of symptoms, then the program
looks how high the total number of degrees is.
If remedies then still have the same score they are
placed alphabetically.

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• Remedy Information Window

Double click on a remedy to open the remedy
information window of that remedy.
You can read more in the chapter about the
Remedy Information Window (RIW).

• Find the position of a remedy

You can use the Remedy box to find the position of a remedy in the analysis. The auto complete box will
only contain remedies present in the analysis.
Mind that you have selected the correct Repertory View selected which you want to use.

• Copy & Paste symptoms to Word or an Email

You can select all symptoms in a clipboard with Ctrl+A [Windows] or Cmd+A [Mac].
Then you can use two methods to copy these symptoms
Step 1:
- Ctrl+C [Windows] or Cmd+C [Mac] which copies both the symptom text and the
remedies.
- Ctrl+Shift+C [Windows] or Cmd+Shift+C [Mac] which only copies the symptom text.
Step 2:
- Switch to your Word or Email program and use Ctrl+V [Windows] or Cmd+V [Mac] to
paste the symptoms into the other application.

• Default clipboard
When you take symptoms in a clipboard via the
keyboard (with “+ <enter>” or with “=”) they go
into clipboard No 1 by default. Sometimes
however you may want symptoms to go into
another clipboard.
If you change the Default clipboard with
Alt+Click (or via the right mouse click menu)
then the symptoms will go into that clipboard.

Of course you can also easily add them to the

preferred clipboard by using drag and drop. The
only disadvantage is that with drag and drop you
cannot apply “symptom strength” instantly.
There are also hotkeys to take the symptoms directly into a different clipboard. See the chapter Take for
more information.

• Have a look around to see other possibilities.

Do a Right mouse click on a clipboard to see all options
in that menu.

Also do a Right mouse click on a symptom in a

clipboard to see all the options in that menu.

• Save the Clipboards (Analyses)

There are two ways to save the clipboard (Analysis).
ð You can save them connected to a patient (consultation) in the patient file.
ð Or you can save the clipboards as separate file (not connected to the patient file. This is called:
“Save to a folder”.
Read more on how to save and recall the clipboards in the next chapter.

 
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 Save  and  recall  the  analysis  (separately  from  the  Patient  file)  
You can Save and Recall an Analysis (the symptom clipboards) in two ways.
• Separately (outside the patient file) (Like Radar 10.5)
• Connected to a Patient (In the patient file)

1. Save separately (outside of the patient file) See  video:  Save  the  analyses  separately  
There are two main approaches: you can save the analysis
together with a patient when you work
with the patient file or you can save an
analysis separately (this is called: Save to
a Folder).

You can save an analysis (the whole set of

clipboards) in several ways:…
• A Right mouse click on one of the
clipboards
• Via the sub-button of the Analysis
button
• With the keyboard [Windows] Ctrl+S
or [Mac] Cmd+S.

In the Save analysis window select the

option to save the Analysis to a folder
(not connected to a patient file).

Note: This is similar to the function in

Radar 10.5 which was called “Save the
case”.

Give the analysis a Name, then click on

the button Save

Note: you can also enter a short

Description.
By default all are stored in the Default
folder.

To Recall an analysis can be done in a similar way to the Recall analysis window. Right mouse click on
one of the clipboards, then Recall analysis.

2. Save the analysis to a Patient (in the Patient File)

Here is the link to the tutorial video how to save an analysis do this.
See  video:  Save  analyses  to  the  patient  file  

For more information see the chapter of “The Patient File”

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The  Analysis  (F8)  

A click on a clipboard or pressing F8 shows the symptoms plus the remedies score (the analysis).

Tools
In the left upper corner you can find icons with
which you can select Display options, Analysis
method, Families selection window and (families)
Maps.

Methods
You can also select the analysis method via the
‘method button’ at the bottom of the analysis
window.

The most common used method is:

Sum of Symptoms (Sort degrees)
This means that the score of the remedies is first
calculated using the remedies which have the most
symptoms. In case some remedies have the same
score, the number of degrees is taken into
consideration next.

Find the position of a remedy

With the remedy search box you can find the
position of a remedy in the analysis.
Only remedies that are present in the analysis are
shown in the selection box.

Tip: Quick Remedy search from the Analysis

window

In the analysis window a double click on a remedy

opens the Remedy Information window (RIW).
Here you can find all sorts of information about this
remedy.

From this RIW you can also do a Search on this

Remedy in the repertory or in the other search
locations (Open documents, All documents etc.).
For more information see also the chapter Remedy
Information Window.

Family information: ‘Limit To’ or ‘Highlight’ a Family

You can show all family members of a certain remedy you see in
your analysis in the following way:…

 
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 Step one: Double click on a remedy to open the
remedy information window.

Step two: In the Remedy Information Window

select the button Families.

If the remedy is a Plant you can see where that

remedy is located in the three main classification
systems.
The APG2 classification system is the most
modern.

In the lower right corner there are two buttons,

one to limit the analysis, the other to highlight that
family in the analysis.

Select a family via the Maps

You can also select a family level from one of the
Maps to limit or highlight the analysis on.

For more information about Families also see the

chapter: The Remedy Information Window RIW

Repertory View
In the analysis window you can also select one of the Repertory Views.
Read more about using Repertory Views in the chapter on “Repertory Views”.

Local Options
Have a look at the Local Options window, to see all possible settings for the analysis window.

Show  remedies  excluded  from  the  analysis  (eliminative,  families)  

If you apply a limitation to the analysis, for example if you make a rubric eliminative or limit to a family,
the remedies which are then excluded are then remove (hidden) from the analysis.

See  video:  Show  excluded  remedies  from  the  analysis  

There is also a great feature to

have the remedies which are
excluded from the analysis still
visible in gray.

This feature to show excluded remedies in gray can be set via the local options button.
Select: Show in their position

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Analysis Methods
VES
Vithoulkas Expert System
The  Vithoulkas  Expert  System  (VES)
With version 1.34 the Vithoulkas Expert has become available in RadarOpus.
The VES is a unique way to help you to repertorise a case, it will compensate the ‘pitfalls’ (limitations) of
the repertory and give you suggestions for case taking and remedy differentiation.

Click on the local Help icon to read the

instructions on how to use the VES.

Start the VES analysis from the analysis

strategy drop down menu or directly with
the Hotkey (or from the main toolbar
Analysis icon).

By default the VES uses the special

Vithoulkas repertory view to obtain
optimal results.

The VES window will open in a separate

Tab, enabling you to switch between
windows to compare results.
If you need to make changes to the
underlining you need to do this in the default Analysis/Clipboards window.

Guidelines on how to use the VES (read the help on line)

Contrary to the normal way of doing an analysis (repertorisation), where you should be very cautious as to
which rubrics you should take into a clipboard, the VES has the following guidelines:
• The VES will require a minimum of 4 symptoms to be taken.
• You can take rubrics varying in size from small, medium to large. Although you should try not
to take too many very large rubrics (especially if you have only a limited number of symptoms in
the clipboards), the VES will take the rubric size and its relative value into account.
• You need to apply symptom underlining (intensity/ strength). Use it to indicate the strength of the
symptoms in the patient, not to indicate how important you find the symptom (or if you find it a
SRP symptom).
• The VES does not use “Eliminative” symptoms (if you do use this, the VES will ignore it).
• The VES uses “Causality”. You can apply this to one or more symptoms (Coming soon)
• Be sure to read more in the local help on line!!

 
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 About: Causality (Causative rubric)
For the VES you should also indicate a symptom as Causative if this is appropriate.

To take a symptom as causative, you can

use the sub menu of the local take icon,
then select “Take with Options” (F6) to
open the window with all the Take
Options.
Then select: Causative rubric.

Using the F6 key to open the Take Option

window will work much faster.

This Causative option (currently) only has

an effect in the VES and not in any of the
other default analysis methods.

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Analysis Methods
Paul Herscu
Cycles and Segments

Read more about Cycles and Segments at the NESH website.

There are many useful resources available at this page, here are a few:
• Read  a  good  basic  over-­‐view  of  the  Cycles  &  Segments  approach  
• A  Case  of  Severe  Vertigo:  A  Cycles  and  Segments  Approach  
• Oppositional  Defiant  Disorder:  A  Case  of  Platinum  metallicum  
 
Cases  from  the  New  England  Journal  of  Homeopathy:  
• A  Case  of  Childhood  Depression  by  Robert  Kaladish,  MD  
• Difficult  Cases  –  Frustrating  Ordeals  or  Learning  Experiences?  by  Frank  Gruber  MD  
Seizures  and  Romance  Novels  by  Frank  Gruber  
• Difficulties  In  Repertorizing:    Why  We  Need  A  New  Perspective  -­‐  by  Paul  Herscu  

 
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 Herscu  module:  Cycles  and  Segments  
 
The Philosophy of Paul Herscu his
method is a radical new way to think
about your patients and the materia
medica.

Paul Herscu offers us a different way to

look at Homeopathy.

These insights do not contradict other

methods, but the Cycles and Segments
approach just simplifies and clarifies
your case taking and case analysis.
The result will be that you can
significantly increase your accurateness
in prescribing.

More information how to use the program will follow in next version of this manual.

Here are some of the radical ideas:…

• You need to understand the patient. It is not enough to simply write down a list of all symptoms of
your patient, and then repertorise. You need to understand what symptoms he has and what
relationships exist between the symptoms. It is important to understand your case as a whole. This is
needed to get order in your case.

• To analyse your case, and to select what symptoms to use various different methods and theories exist.
How useful some are (e.g. Hahnemann’s guidelines, Kent’s instructions, André Saine’s method or
Vithoulkas way to evaluate symptoms), still it is a difficult process, and often leads to great discussion
and confusion which symptoms to use, especially with inexperienced homeopaths.
The method of Paul in fact combines all methods: the essence, the keynotes, the physical generals, the
mental and the pathology.

• According to Paul Herscu, if you study your patients, it is ALWAYS possible to see a logic, a
relationship behind the “individual symptoms”. Several symptoms can be joined together because
they express the same idea, the same quality (a segment).

• The next step is that between these groups of symptoms a relationship can be detected. One symptom
(or group of symptoms) will lead to another symptom(s) and this leads again to another symptom(s),
until you will meet up with the first symptom (and have created a cycle of events).

• If you find a strong symptom in a case (and if it is really a characteristic issue of this patient) certainly
you will be able to find one or more other symptoms that express the same idea (the same quality)
somewhere else in the body. It is a certainty that every classical homeopath sees in his patients.
If you find for example a certain strong emotional symptom,… it is for sure that you will find on the
physical level elsewhere in the body one or more symptoms expressing the same quality. Also the
other way around. If you find a strong physical symptom, for sure you will find it in the mental sphere
also.

For example Thuja: Split hair, split nails, split urine,…. You will find mentally: delusions being
double, the split personality etc.
This theme of “duality” in Thuja is just ONE of the segments you can find in Thuja. In Thuja you first

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will find a “weakness”… a weakness that easily allows invasion. Easily invasion of foreign influences
  
 
e.g. vaccination, germs, remarks of others etc.,.. this enters the body, and from this is created the sense
of duality. So we have here already TWO of the segments of the remedy Thuja.

• You will be able to organize ALL the symptoms of your case into maximum 4, 5 or 6 groups of
related symptoms. (related rubrics do not have to be in the same part of the body. It can be: mental,
emotional, general or local symptoms, that express the same idea). You will not be able to find more
than 6 “ideas” or groups of related symptoms in a case. Any symptom you will find, you will be able
to fit into one of these existing ideas. So maximum 4-6 ideas will cover every symptom of your case.
• You then need to find out the relationship, the sequence between these groups, these ideas.

• If you start the case from the main complaint of the patients (to start from any symptom is possible,
because it is a circle), you will most often be able to find more symptoms that express the same idea,
that have the same quality to it. E.g. If you have an emptiness in the stomach, and if it is a major
symptom, you MUST have it elsewhere also (one or more symptoms that have the same idea, the
same quality).
This is in fact the experience of all great classical homeopaths, Hahnemann, Hering, Allen, Kent.
They saw it, and expressed is often partially. E.g. if you see the essences of Vithoulkas, he often uses
one or more of these basic “ideas” of a remedy.

• Here we come to the point of the Materia Medica.

If you take ANY remedy, you will be able to notice that any strong symptom you find in one part of
the person, you will also find it elsewhere. So if you have a certain strong mental symptom, for sure
you will find elsewhere symptoms that will express the same idea. So take any remedy from Allen’s
materia medica and read through the mind section,…. Then check the rest of the body (usually you
can take any part) and you will see the same issues.

• The method to organize your case into “groups” of symptoms, and to arrange them logically into a
“cycle of events”, and then analyzing them with his module, will offer you a list of remedies that are
present in ALL ideas/segments (or in as much segments as possible).

o It helps you to understand your case more easily.

o It will quickly reduce the huge number of remedies to a smaller group of possible options.
o In his method polychrests and smaller remedies have an equal chance to show up.
o You are now able to select several rubrics from the repertory that cover partially the symptom
of the patient into one segment. In this way you are sure you will enter ALL remedies that
might be listed in one of the smaller/incomplete rubrics.

E.g.: A patient comes in that is very abrupt,… you might not be able to decide if it is “Answers
abruptly, answers hastily, answers rash:. By taking them all, you will be sure you have also included
the remedy for this person. So with this method you are able to select several similar rubrics, that have
a kind of relationship and all partially cover the symptom of your patient).
E.g.: So in a certain case, this patient laughed a lot, and on inappropriate times. So you are now able to
select the rubrics that partially cover this case, without overemphasizing them (as you might risk in a
normal analysis). E.g. in this case we could use, laughing causeless (which he did), laughing between
convulsions (which he did), laughing immoderately (which he did) and laughing over serious matters
(which he also did).

Some  hints,  remarks  

• You can use the program, in an interactive way, or in a free way. The Free way will most probably be
best to use as soon as you get used to the program.
• You can start by asking the main complaint of the patient, or just begin with the symptoms he comes
with. Then you can ask for all symptoms of this patient that has the same quality, the same idea to it.
E.g. if he has profuse discharge from his nose,… are there any other symptoms of “discharge”
elsewhere?
So you can work by “filling in” all symptoms of the first segment. But if you prefer you can go with

 
the flow of the case, and create a next segment and enter here his next symptom.
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 At first you need not to worry if you have the right logic between the segments. You can just create
new segments, for symptoms that have a different “quality/idea”. In a later stage the program offers
you the possibility to rearrange the segments in the correct order.

• You also do not need to worry too much in the beginning that you might enter symptoms in the wrong
segment. The program offers you the possibility to quickly drag and drop symptoms between the
segments, if you think they belong elsewhere.

• Of course it is best for the understanding of the case, of your patient, if you are able to organize the
segments in a logical sequence of events. One symptom (or group of symptoms) that leads to next
segment. But as long as you are able to organize all symptoms in certain clearly related
groups/segments, you will be sure you have covered your case, even if they are not in the right order.

• Also you need not worry too much where you must start the cycle. So with which segment should you
start?? Because it is a cycle, it is not a problem. And as said previously, you will be able to reorganize
the sequence of segments later on if you think you have it wrong.

• If you have enough rubrics that covers a certain segment, you can stop adding new symptoms-
rubrics,... if you know that they will only cover the same remedies that you are sure that are already
covered with the rubrics you have. But if you still have small, unusual rubrics that cover the same
idea, be sure to include them.

More information how to use the program will follow in next version of this manual.

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Analysis Methods
Boenninghausen
Repertories
Polar Analysis

There are many aspects about the contributions and teachings of Clemens von Boenninghausen to the
homeopathic world. RadarOpus comes with all of Boenninghausens repertories (his German and English
books). And RadarOpus also offer the most accurate English re-translation of the Pocketbook by George
Dimitriadis called: The Boenninghausen repertory.

Boenninghausen  Pocketbook:  Polar  analysis  

RadarOpus comes with an up to date and very reliable
Therapeutic Pocket Book, edited by Peter Vint and other See  video:  Boenninghausen  Polarities  
well knows German homeopaths.

• The Pocketbook repertory is available in English (optionally also in other languages)

• The Pocketbook has an additional function to take add automatically the Polar rubrics (Polar
rubrics), and to calculate the “Polar difference”.

In the Therapeutic Pocket Book

from Boenninghausen many
rubrics have ‘Polar rubrics’
connected to them.

In the analysis window you can add the polar rubrics and polar difference with a click on the Polarities
button.

 
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 The following lines are present in the analysis window:
ð The sum of symptoms (secondary sorted on sum of degrees)
ð The sum of the positive polar symptoms*
ð The sum of the negative polar symptoms
ð The Polar difference

(*) By default only the degrees of the rubrics that have opposite negative polar rubrics are
calculated. This can be changed via the local options in the analysis window.

The Polar difference is calculated as follows:

- From the sum of degrees of the patient symptoms are deducted the sum of the polar rubrics.
- The higher the Polar difference the better this is for the remedy. The lower the value (or even a
negative value) means there are contra indications for that remedy.

(*) By default only the

degrees of the rubrics that
have opposite negative
polar rubrics are
calculated. This can be
changed via the local
options in the analysis
window.

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Heiner  Frei  -­‐  Polarity  analysis  
Archibel has agreed with Dr Heiner Frei to prepare a special version of the Pocketbook repertory which is
100% identical to the pocketbook he uses, including the rubric numbering system, which corresponds to
the patient questioners.
Users who have purchased the RadarOpus recently, will receive a offer to upgrade to the Heiner Frei
version as soon as is comes available.
More information about the Heiner Frei module will follow later.

Summary  of  the  Boenninghausen  Approach  

Complete symptom
Boenninghausen discussed in detail ”How to describe a symptom fully”, also called a complete symptom.
Later this was condensed and became known as the four aspects of Hering:
• Modalities
• Concomitant (some teachers consider adding this a ‘full case’)
• Sensation
• Location

The construction of the Pocketbook

The Boenninghausen “Pocket Book” repertory was constructed very different compared to his previous
repertory called the “Systematisch-Alphabetisches Repertorium”.

The Pocketbook repertory contains mostly very generalized rubrics. This in contrast to the previous
‘Kent-based/Anatomical based’ repertory, which contained mainly precise chapters and rubrics.
In reality the difference is not so exact as often thought. The Pocketbook did have localized rubrics, and
Kent repertory did have generalized rubrics.

The idea behind the pocketbook repertory as that symptom descriptions in a certain area, would apply to
other areas of the same remedy (patient) as well. Therefore when looking of symptoms (especially and
descriptions) from your patient, you should look them up in the generalized rubrics first.

Boenninghausen included in Synthesis

The unique feature of the Synthesis repertory is, that in Synthesis 2009 already almost all of
Boenninghausen’s repertories and rubrics have been included. This has been done in such a way that one
can easily see the origin. If a rubric was very generalized, it was added as a separate rubric. Only if the
information as very exact, it was added to an existing rubric if it existed, or a new rubric was added.

Example of a few
generalized
Boenninghausen
rubrics:

The chapter Teeth,

starts with a few
rubrics from
Boenninghausen

 
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 If you turn the display of author references on, and then double click on an author reference, and you
will see the exact source.

Boenninghausen Analysis Schema

In short here a schema how to analyze a case if you want to do a Boenninghausen analysis (based on
information coming from Luc De Schepper):
You should go over the case, and fill out the schema below with as many symptoms as you can find, then
you look them up in the repertory, and take them into a clipboard.

VB Method: Schema (From: Luc De Schepper)

Chief Complaint (I)

Modalities (I): Main Modality 1

Main Modality 2
Main Modality 3

Concomitant Symptoms (I)

Modality 1 of the Concomitant Symptom
Modality 2 of the Concomitant Symptom
Modality 3 of the Concomitant Symptom

CC (I): Sensations

CC (I): Generals (dreams)

CC (I): Location

CC (I): Pathology

CC (I): Mental Emotional Changes

There are possibly more Chief Complaints, which you can also work out, called: “CC - II” en “CC - III”.

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Dimitriadis: Boenninghausen  Repertory                        (coming  in  1.42)  

The Boenninghausen Repertory

Therapeutic Pocketbook Method (Second Edition)
George Dimitriadis, Editor

 
The most accurate English re-translation of Bönninghausen's Therapeutisches
Taschenbuch, carefully corrected with reference to his original manuscript.

Available in RadarOpus
For the first time available to the Homeopathic community as electronic version in RadarOpus
(coming in version 1.42 and higher). Now you can use this unique edition of the Pocket Book
repertory to work out your most complex cases. (Note that in this edition the polar rubrics are not indicated
with links, and automatic polar analysis is not available with this repertory)

Besides the repertory in the RadarOpus repertory section, in the section of References, you can
also find a document with an extensive description of the development of this unique edition, all
footnotes and all rubric explanations1. Also a practical chapter with case examples how to use this
book and the Boenninghausen method.
                                                                                                                       
1

 
The rubric explanations (the meaning of the rubrics) will be added in the next RadarOpus version 1.42
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 The amount of time, thoroughness and desire for accuracy which went into the creation
of this new version of the Boenninghausen Repertory (Pocket Book) is really amazing.
Your cases analyzed according to the Boenninghausen method using this repertory will
bring you the highest result possible for your patients.

If you consider to purchase this repertory, but you like to read more, you could first the following
articles by George Dimitriadis:

• The Boennighausen Repertory. The reasons behind the new English translation and re-
formation of Boenninghausen’s Therapeutic Tashenbuch.
• The First Repertory. Boenninghausen’s model for our profession.
• An introduction to The Boenninghausen Repertory. Therapeutic Pocket Book method.
• A guide to Homeopathic Diagnosis using the Boenninghausen Repertory, 2nd ed.

Summary of features:
The  most  accurate  and  compact  repertory  fully  representing  the  125  medicines  contained  within.  
• Every entry checked against Bönninghausen's own TT manuscript and corrections
made only after careful reference to source provings.
• Accurate rendering and re-translation of all rubrics from the original German.
• Contains only material from Bönninghausen's original TT thereby maintaining the
integrity of the method as was originally intended.
• Removal of all duplicate and synonymous rubrics.
 
The  only  repertory  with  clarification  of  rubrics  meanings.  

• Each rubric referenced to its original German TT counterpart

• Expanded section of explanatory endnotes (first introduced in TBR1) clarifying the
precise meaning of the rubric
• Many more rubrics now referenced to the source provings with full rendering of the entire
symptom as found in the materia medica

The  only  repertory  with  consistent  and  meaningful  grading  system.  

• Thorough rechecking of grades from the original TT manuscript

• Accurate representation of the original TT allows the consideration of Bönninghausen's
own clinical experience in the analysis

The advantages using RadarOpus with the Bönninghausen Repertory

You  can  use  all  the  advantages  of  RadarOpus  with  this  repertory:  A  quick  Find  and  powerful  Word  search  
function.  The  use  of  several  symptom  clipboards.  You  can  store  you  Boenninghausen  analysis  efficiently  
in  the  same  patient  file  together  with  all  other  details  of  the  case.  The  Advanced  patient  file  search  also  
allows  you  to  trace  back  quickly  all  cases  where  you  have  used  a  certain.  
If  you  have  the  book  edition  and  the  electronic  edition,  you  can  use  ‘the  rubric  ID  numbers’  to  quickly  
select  the  rubrics  in  the  software  and  repertorise.    

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Families
&
Maps
A  Family  search  in  the  repertory  
Families is everything that has to do with “groups of remedies” or “relationships of remedies”.
These groups can be based on many different criteria.

Family-information can be consulted via the:

• Maps
• Remedy Information Window (RIW) (a double click on a remedy abbreviation)
• Table of Contents of Families

It is possible to search for a “family of remedies” in the repertory. You can search for all symptoms
(rubrics) in the repertory which contain a family member of a certain remedy.

You can do such a family search from: the Quick Search box (Ctrl+F5), or from the Simple search
window (?) or (F4), or from the Advanced (guided) search window (F5).

• ? Opens the Simple search window

• F4 Opens the Simple search window
• F5 Opens the Advanced (guided) search window

Search  for  a  “Family”  in  the  repertory  

The video shows you how to search for a family in the
repertory. You can search for all symptoms (rubrics) which See  video:  Families  search  part  1  
have at least one remedy belonging to a certain family.
You can do such a search both from the Simple search window and from the Advanced (guided) search
window.

• Start from the Synthesis repertory window,

then:
• Press F4 to open the simple search window.
• Start to type the name of the family and select
from the auto-complete list an item indicated
with (family)
• Start the search by pressing <enter> or by a
click on the search button.

Note that you select the correct location

(document) to search in: Search in the current
document will search in the Synthesis only.

 
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 Family  search  options  (maximum  rubric  size  etc.)  
You can also specify the following extra search criteria:…

- The minimum number of remedies of a family

- A minimum percentage of remedies from a
family
- A maximum rubric size
Other options and combinations are also
possible.

• Right mouse click on the family name in the

simple search box and it opens a window with
extra search option.

Search  for  a  “Family”  and  a  “Word”  

You can combine a family search in combination with a
See  video:  Families  search  part  2  
word search. You can also combine it with a “search area” in
case you want to search only in a particular section of the repertory.

In this example a family

“Solanaceae” is combined with
the word “pregnancy”.

It will find all symptoms in the

repertory of Pregnancy if at least
one of the Solanaceae remedies is
present in that symptom (rubric).

• You can also select Search options with a Right mouse click on the family name in the search box. For
example limit the search to rubrics not larger than 50 remedies.
• Or you can limit the search to a specific search area. You can drag and drop a chapter or a main rubric
to the search area box. Then select “Search in the current search area”

Advanced  Search  
The advanced search window can also be used to search for a family in the repertory.
• Use the fields for Families.
• Open the Options to enter additional search options (Minimum rubric size, Minimum number of
remedies from a family, etc)

See also elsewhere under Advanced search for more explanation and a tutorial video.

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Maps  
The button Maps offers a great variety of homeopathic
maps or schemas of different teachers and approaches.

Maps can give access to specific information and

allows you to limit or highlight a certain remedy-
group (a family) in your analysis window.

For example the Maps of Liz Lalor help to analyze

your case by offering information about Delusion
rubrics and helping to find the correct rubrics for your
case.

Will  Taylor:  Highlight  or  Limit  to  a  Family  

Maps and families are very related topics. Most of the
Maps have to do with ‘Groups’ of remedies. See  video:  Use  Maps  (Kingdoms  Will  Taylor)  

For example the Map of the Families Main Groups

offers a graphical way to select the family group you
like to Highlight or Limit your analysis to.

Navigate to the family group you need.

- Right mouse click on it and select Highlight
or Limit the analysis
- When you have reached a last level it will
automatically execute the option you have
selected at the top.

Learn more about using Maps in the Help on Line or

see the chapter Families.

Jan  Scholten:  Highlight  or  Limit  to  a  Stage  or  Series  

The video shows you how you can use the Maps to
See  video:  Use  Maps  (Jan  Scholten)  
select one or more family-levels in the Periodic table to
limit or highlight the analysis to.

In the periodic table you can select a ‘family/group’ to

highlight or limit your analysis to.

You can also select several items via the Right mouse
click or with the keyboard Ctrl+Click (Windows) or
Cmd+Click (MAC).

 
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The Remedy Information Window
Language & Translation
Backup & Restore
The  Remedy  Information  Window  (RIW)  
The Remedy Information window (RIW) is a quick
and great source of information about a remedy. See  video:              coming  
Anywhere in RadarOpus you can double click on a
remedy abbreviation to open the Remedy Information
Window (RIW):…
• For example in the Analysis window you can click on
any of the remedies to see information about that
remedy.
• You can also double click on a remedy abbreviation
anywhere in the repertory window.

• Or you can use the Table Of Contents of the

Remedies to open the RIW of any remedy which you
might not see listed in the repertory or the analysis
window at that moment. This TOC offers a list of all
the Remedy abbreviations. A click on that remedy will
open the Remedy Information Window of that
remedy. From this RIW you can again do a quick
search for that remedy in the repertory or in any other part of your RadarOpus Library. See more in
the chapter about the Remedy Information Window.

Quickly see all family members of a remedy

As an example I like to point to the icon of the Families-tree. If you
click on it you will see exactly to which family level it belongs to
and also see all other members of that family. If it is a plant remedy
you will see the three main classification systems. APG2 is the
latest one based on DNA research.
You can Limit or Highlight the analysis on the selected family
level.

Note  this interesting group of the ‘Related Remedies”

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Available  info  in  the  remedy  information  window  

In this RIW you can find information about:…
• Keynote MM
• Passport info
• Families info
• Multimedia

And if you are connected to the internet:…

• Wikipedia info
• Google search info
• Google images
• Provings website(s) info,
Etc.

Tip: for New remedies be sure to look at the Provings.com website.

A Quick Remedy Search from the RIW
From the RIW you can quickly continue to search for more
information about that remedy in any other part or in the
whole RadarOpus Library with the ‘Search for this remedy
in’ button.

You can search for this remedy in the whole repertory, all
repertories, or e.g. in all materia medica books you have in
your library.
There are several other ways to do a remedy search: e.g. via
the Simple search or the Advanced search.
For information about a remedy search see elsewhere.

Languages  and  Translation  tools    

 
Repertory  in  different  languages   See  video:  Translation  of  MM  and  Repertory  
In all documents a Language icon is located at the
top.

• If there is an official translation of a

document, e.g. the Synthesis, available then
you can use the option ‘Show this document
in’ to change the language.
• You can use the option ‘Show additional
language’ to add a second or third language.

• You can also use the Google translation function to have a ‘rough’ translation added. Of course there
will be some errors, but often it will give a helpful first translation when you need it quickly. Even if
the translation is not perfect, if will often give you a good idea about its meaning.
Note: These translation tools can be used both in a repertory and in a materia medica document.

Select  a  specific  word  or  sentence  to  translate  (ALT  +  ‘select  text’)  
It is possible to select only one word or a sentence for translation.

 
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 First select a word or sentence by holding down
the Alt - key on the keyboard and then drag
over the word or sentence to select it.

After you have selected a word or sentence then

Right mouse click on it and select: Translate
the selected text. In the next step you can select
the language to translate to.

A special “text selection” button will be added in

one of the next live updates.

Text  Selection  Button  (To  be  added  later)

Coming in a future live update.

You can also select a single specific word or

sentence to be translated:

• Activate the Select modus first. It is then

possible to use the mouse to select a
word.
• Or select a word immediately with the
combination Alt and Dragging over it
(without first activating the select
modus).
 
Backup  and  Restore  
It is important that you make regular backups of your patient
information stored in the RadarOpus patient file. The simplest See  video:  Backup  and  Restore  
way to do this is to use the general RadarOpus backup
feature and to include all options.

Make a Backup
Go to Tools, Database management then select
Backup

Then: Select the recommended setting

“Let RadarOpus choose for me”

Then click on Next to continue.

You will be prompted to select a location to store the

backup file.
A secure location would be an external storage media
like an external hard disk or a memory stick.

It is always best to keep a few backup copies. From

time to time you can delete the older ones.

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About the Backup Names
The name of the RadarOpus backup folder will contain
the Year_Month_Day_Time when it was made.

Restore a backup
You can choose to restore only one or all backup items.
Warning: if you restore a backup of the patient-file or of the separately save analysis, all existing
information in your program will be overwritten. This is not a “ merge” function.
Such a merge function will come in a future version.

Interchangeable Mac - Windows

A RadarOpus backup made on a MAC can be restored to a Windows version only if both programs are
using the same program version.

Using  a  Cloud  Folder  (Drive)  like  Dropbox  

You can use a program like Dropbox to exchange files between See  video:                “removed”  
different computers you are using.

Attention: A CloudDrive program is not suitable to exchange in a reliable way a full RadarOpus
Backup between different computers! First of all, our experience is that is it only reliable with smaller
single files (uploading can take a long time). The Opus backup is a folder with many large files.
And although the such “synchronization programs” (Skydrive/One Drive, Google Drive, DropBox)
suggest more or less that it is secure way to store your files, it is in fact a very ‘volatile’ method. If by
mistake you delete a file from the shared folder on one of the computers, within a few seconds it will be
deleted on all other devices you have synchronized with it!

A clouddrive is also not a reliable method to make a extra backup on for any of your other files. You must
always store your backup on an external storage media to work safely.

Concepts:      Veterinary  –  Roger  Morrison  –  Roberto  Petrucci  

The Concepts are used to help you find the correct symptoms See  video:  Using  Concepts  
in the repertory. This tutorial video gives a short introduction
on how to use concepts.

In the tutorial video these concepts are mentioned:

• Marc Bär - Veterinary concepts
• Roger Morrison - Desktop Companion
• Roberto Petrucci – Children concepts
More information about concepts will follow.

 
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 Bookmarks  
In the Repertory
You can add to any rubric in the repertory a bookmark with a right mouse click on the rubric. Then select
add bookmark.
To delete or rename a bookmark, right mouse click and select from the menu.

In Reference documents
You can add in the same way also a bookmark to any reference document you wish.

List of Bookmarks
From the main toolbar you can open a overview with all the bookmarks you have placed.

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References
Materia Medica / Journals /
Therapeutics
References:  Browse  in  Materia  Medica,    Journals,  etc.  
Because RadarOpus has everything combined in one
program, you can easily consult any of the books in See  video:  Browse  in  Reference  documents  
the Reference Table Of Contents list. You can just
look up a remedy in one of the books you like to consult or you can use the Search (F4) function to search
specifically in only one or all of the Reference books.

Open  a  Materia  Medica  book  to  look  up  a  Remedy  

In the TOC go to the title you are interested in. There are several ways to navigate to the remedy you like:
(I) You can open the sub-levels and then go to the remedy name you are interested in. Click on the remedy
name and it will open on the right. (II) You can also open this document first and then use the local find
button to go to the remedy you want. (III) You can also use drag and drop: drag the remedy abbreviation
you are looking for from the repertory and drop it on the book title you want.

Ad I: With a single click on the triangle in

front of a book title, the table of contents of
that title will open.

Then with a click on that triangle the next

level of the chapter opens.
If you click once on the Remedy name it will open in the document window on the right.

Ad II: You can open the document and use the Local Find (Chapters) icon
to look up the remedy you want.
This works exactly the same as in a repertory document.

A list with the chapters open.

Depending on the structure of the document
one can see all sublevels immediately (for
example all remedies), or maybe you need to
select first a materia medica section.

 
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 Ad III: You can drag and drop a remedy
abbreviation from the repertory to the TOC of
References to quickly look up a certain
remedy:

• You can drag and drop to a specific

book title.
• Or you can drag and drop to the main
section ‘Materia Medica’ to search in
all MM books*.

*Note: Temporarily the Hahnemann MM books and Allen Encyclopedia are listed under the section
Provings.

Tip:  Remedy  Information  Window  

You can also double click on a remedy abbreviation to open the Remedy Information Window
(RIW), from this RIW you can search this remedy in your Library, e.g. in “All open documents”
or in “All your documents”. For more information see elsewhere

Browsing  &  using  the  Symptom  Path  

You can browse quickly through any
Reference document with

• The Find icon which opens all chapters,

then sub levels.

• Once you are browsing in the document,

you can click also in the “Symptom path”
or “Document path” to navigate upwards.

Taking  symptoms  from  Reference  (MM)  books  

RadarOpus revolutionizes the way you can work while analyzing a case because you are now working in
one large homeopathic library.

You can Take symptoms from any Materia

Medica document and add them to the same
(or a different) symptom clipboard, much as
you do for repertory symptoms.

Note: If you take a symptom from a Materia

Medica, then of course there is only one
remedy connected to that symptom.
When you analyze you should be aware that it
is like taking a rubric from the repertory with
only one remedy in it. So you might want to
use functions like combining several of such related single-remedy symptoms.

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Taking  “Symptoms”  from  any  part  of  your  library  as  a  Reference  
When you study a case, you can also browse through e.g. Journals or Therapeutic documents. You might
come across a case which is interesting for your own patient and you may want to remember it for later
reference - this is easy to do.

In RadarOpus you can also simply

drag and drop such “symptoms”
(sentences) to one of your
clipboards and it will act as a Link
(a kind of bookmark) to that
location.

You could for example always use

the last clipboard as a ‘reference
clipboard’ to add all such links to.

When you save the Analysis (clipboards) these links will also be saved. When you recall such an analysis
later on, you can use this special reference clipboard to jump to all the interesting locations that you found
for this case in the library.

 
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 Patient File
The  Patient  file    
 
Import  old  Winchip  3.x  patient  information  
How to import your Radar–Winchip 3.x patient catalogue, see the Chapter Installation.  
 
Two  ways  to  save  the  Analysis  
There  are  two  methods  to  save  the  Analysis  in  RadarOpus:  
• You  can  save  the  Analysis  separately  (Outside  of  the  patient  file)  
• Or  you  can  save  the  Analysis  connected  to  a  patient  (In  the  patient  file)  
This  will  be  explained  below.  
 
Save  /  Recall  an  analysis  seperately  (outside  of  the  patient  file)  
If  you  do  not  want  to  use  the  patient  file,  you  can  Save  and  Recall  an  Analysis  (the  symptom  clipboards)  
in  a  quick  and  easy  way  outside  of  the  patient  file.  This  is  called  "Save  current  analysis  to  a  folder".  
 
Right  mouse  click  on  a  clipboard.  
Then  select:  Save  analysis  
 
Or  use  keyboard  shortcut:  
-­‐  On  Windows:  Ctrl+S  
-­‐  On  Mac:  Cmd+S  
 
 
 
 
Then  select:  Save  current  analysis  
to  a  folder.\  
 
Enter  a  name  for  this  analysis,  
then  click  the  Save  button.  
 
You  can  also  enter  a  short  
description.  
 
By  default  the  analysis  are  all  
saved  in  the  Default  folder.  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Please  see  also  the  Chapter  Clipboards  &  Analysis,  for  more  information.  
 

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Save  /  Recall  an  analysis  to  the  patient  file      
Make  sure  to  view  this  tutorial  video  “How  to  save  
the  analysis  to  the  patient  file”     See  video:  Save  an  analyses  to  the  patient  file  
 
Introduction  
The patient file is fully integrated in RadarOpus. Three versions See  video:  Patientfile  part  1  
are available: Light, Easy & Professional (see the Help On Line
for an overview of the different functions).
The patient file allows you to keep track of the administrative data, the full consultation text, your
diagnosis and other medical details, therapy evaluation and much more.
You are not obliged to use all the fields, but you can use the patient file exactly as it suits you! You can
even hide the groups of fields which you are not interested in.
The RadarOpus patient file (Winchip) is a great tool to store your patients’ information. Version 1.41 and
higher also comes with an advanced patient research function (only in the professional version) which
will help you to gain insight into your practice.

Create  a  new  patient  

With the Patient button you can open the list of
existing patients in the TOC.

Step 1:
With the sub-button you can select Create a new
patient. Or use the keyboard Ctrl+N (Windows) or
Cmd+N (Mac).

Step 2:
A window appears where you can select to go to
the Administrative window first or to go
immediately to the Consultation window. You can
also select if it is a Human or Veterinary case.
(Also coming is a ‘Case Study’)

Tip: Acute Consultation

If you are in a hurry (with an acute telephone
consultation) where you do not have the time to
first fill in all the administrative details, you can
immediately go to the consultation window and
start to type the information you hear.
For the patient first and last name the current time and date will be used. Then later you can change it to
the correct first and last name of the patient.

Tip: If you no longer want to see the question window asking you where you would like to go first, then
select the option ‘Don’t ask anymore’. You can turn this selection window on again via the general
RadarOpus settings – see Winchip
(Windows: Tools – Options)(Mac:
RadarOpus -Preferences).

Step 3:
When you select the Administrative
window first, there will be only 2
mandatory fields: First Name, Last Name

(In previous versions also: Birth date and

Sex where mandatory.)
 
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 Tip: Use the TAB key on the keyboard, to jump through the first few fields.
Shift+Tab goes back one field.

Step 4:
When you are ready filling in the (two
mandatory) fields you can click on the
Save icon.

Click on the Tab Consultations to switch to the consult window, and a "new consultation" will be created
automatically, with the current date and time.

Note: Automatic Save

It is not really necessary to click on the Save icon because the Administrative window will be saved
automatically when you click on the Consultation tab.

Step 5:
In the Consultation Tab you find several icons which open different sections.

From left to right the following buttons are listed:

• Save To save the current consultation tab and the analysis.
• New consultation To add a new consultation.
• Consultation text The consultation text editor window.
• List of consult dates + analysis An overview of consultation dates with saved analyses.
• Therapy evaluation To note the reaction to you prescription / therapy.

If I write the consultation on paper, how should I then to use the patient file?
If you like to keep on writing write the consultations on paper, it is still useful to use the patient file in the
following way:

• In the administrative window, note down the patient name and address details
• Go to the Consultation window, where you can only press the Save button, to save
• If you take symptoms from the repertory in a clipboard, you can switch to the Patient Tab,
and press Save. The analysis will be saved to that consultation.
• Use the prescription tab, to note the remedy and potency you prescribed.
• At the follow up consultation, you note down the general evaluation in the Evaluation
window.

Even with this limited use of the patient file, it will still allows you to do research and get very useful
insight in your practice: Which remedies you prescribe most frequently, which repertory symptoms you
use most often, what percentage of cured patients you have etc.

You can adapt the use of the patient file exactly to how you work.

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Consultation  text  editor  
After you filled in the patient
name and address details, you
click on the Tab Consultation.

From top downwards you see:

- Main Toolbar
- Consult summary details
- Text editor toolbar
- the text field

Consult summary details

This area has the following information:
- The age of the patient (given
in: years, months and days).
- The consultation date and
time.    
-­‐  The  Place field is to note
where the consultation takes
place.
- In the Type of consultation field you can indicate e.g. acute, chronic, follow up.

- The field General evaluation

will only be displayed after a
second consultation has been
created.

Show/Hide consult summary

fields
Click on More info, or Less
info to open or close the
consultation summary fields

Browsing through consultations

After several consultations have been created for a
patient, you can browse through them with the
Arrow left and Arrow right buttons.

The split screen will show the last consultation at the

lower part.

You can resize the previous / current window

sections.

 
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 A single click on the header “Consultation No.” will
open or close that consultation.

How to use the text editor: using the TAB or ENTER key

When you type the symptoms of

your patient you can use the:

- TAB key on the keyboard to add

a new line.

- ENTER key on the keyboard to

add a new field.

The text editor toolbar

At the top of the text editor you find many functions to add information to the lines (symptoms) of the text
editor:
A: Text layout: font style, bold/italics/underlined, font size, alignment.
B: Insert/Append/Delete a line (row)
C: Important symptom, family anamneses, past medical history, physiological anamnesis, add an
attachment (image, video, pdf, word, etc).
D: Indicate symptom intensity 2, 3, 4. By default a sentense (line) has an intensity 1. (To remove
an intensity again, click again on the intensity button.)
E: To indicate a sentence as a "remark by the homeopath" (hom-note)

Default font size: You change to a different default font size via the General RadarOpus settings:

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On Mac: via the menu RadarOpus, then Preferences
Show all sentences with a similar quality (tag)
You can easily show a summary of all sentences with a particular Tag (label).
All the information which you can add to sentences in the 2nd and 3rd column are called tags.
You can see a summary of all sentences with a certain tag in two ways:
- Click on a tag to open a separate window, with all symptoms with that tag.
- Right mouse click on a sentence to open a context menu.

Example: click on the intensity 2, to show a window with only sentences with an intensity 2.

A right mouse click on a sentence, opens a contextual menu with several options:
- Tag a current sentence with a certain quality (family history, past medical history, etc.)
- Show a window with all sentences tagged with a certain quality
- Limit the text editor to show only symptoms with a certain quality

 
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 Word search in the consultation text
The contextual menu also has an option to do a 'word search', in the current consultation only, or in all
consultations of that patient.

Sort symptoms according to decreasing intensity (4, 3, 2, 1)

The contextual menu also has an option to do sort all sentences according to degreasing intensity.

Add other tags & personal defined tags

A click on the triangle icon in the 3rd column opens a picklist with tags.
It is possible to limit, or show a list of all symptoms with any of the tags added in the 3rd column.

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Prescription  and  Pathologies  fields:  

This Prescription and Pathology fields are located at the bottom of the window. The Professional version
will have more Tabs: Biological and clinical tests, Vaccinations, Certifications.

- Move the mouse to the bottom, to open the Prescription and Pathology fields.
Note there are also hot keys: Ctrl+L (on Windows), and Cmd+L (on Mac).
- Click on the Pin icon, to keep the Prescription and Pathology fields open.
- Function key F9 opens the Picklist.
- Function key F10 inserts the Default value (only if you have assigned one to that field)

With the checkbox "Show all consultation" you can switch between showing only the prescription fields
of the current consultation or to show the prescriptions for all consultations.

With the function Search in the patient

file, you can do advanced patient
research, show statistics, and export any
query result.

See more in the chapter Patient search

elsewhere in this manual.

 
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 Workflow  moving  between  Tabs  in  RadarOpus  
The patient file works seamlessly with the rest of the RadarOpus program. You can switch between the
different tabs quickly: The patient tab, the repertory, the analysis or any other tab.
In this example there are three tabs: the patient file, the repertory and the analysis window.

Tak
ing symptoms from the repertory
After you switch to the Repertory window you can start to find and take symptoms for this patient into the
clipboard(s) as you would do if you did not have a patient open. You can switch back to the patient file
again to type more text of the consultation.

Save the Analysis and the Patient file

When you have a patient file open, the program will automatically save both the current consultation
information and the analysis (symptom clipboards) with just one click on the Save button in the
Consultation window.

So when you are working with the patient file you can switch back and forth between the tab of the patient
file and the tab of the repertory. If you have taken symptoms for this patient into the clipboard(s), go back
to the patient tab and click on the Save button to save both (the consultation window and the analysis).
The analysis is saved inside the patient file connected to the current consultation date.

If you continue to work on the same analysis and save the patient file again, you will be asked if you want
to overwrite the existing analysis or to save as a new one. See also below: Recall, Edit and Save an
analysis.

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Manually  Save  /  Recall  an  Analysis  to  the  patient  file      
As explained already above, the analysis (the clipboards) are saved automatically when you save the
patient file.
However it is also possible to save manually an analysis (clipboards) to a patient file, even when the
patient file is not open. while using a right mouse click on one of the symptom clipboards.
Right click on one of the symptom clipboards to open the “Save Analysis” window. Or use the keyboard
combination Ctrl+S (Windows) or Cmd+S (Mac).
From this window you have several ways to save the analysis (the clipboards):

• You can save the analysis to an existing patient file: You need to select a consultation date.
If no consultation date selected, a new one
can be created automatically.

• You can create a new patient and

consultation and save the analysis to it.

• You can also save the analysis outside of

the patient file. This is called: Save
Analysis to a Folder.

• You can also Export it in a different

format (see more explanation elsewhere).

*Note: If there is a Patient open, the

current patient name and consultation date
will be selected. You can also save it to a
different patient and consultation date.
 
 

Follow  up  consultation    

How to Create a Second Consultation

Step 1:
When the patient returns for a follow up
consultation you can start by selecting the
patient from the List of patients to open it.
With a single click on the patient name, that
patient file will open.

Tip: If you have a long list of patients type

part of the patient name in the search box. It
will search in the all three fields: First name,
Last name, and Birth date.

Automatically open the last Analysis

The program will ask if you would like to open the last saved analysis
of this patient automatically. If you select yes, the symptoms of that
analysis will be loaded in the clipboard(s).

Note: After recalling an analysis, and saving the patient file again, it
will be saved to the current new consultation.

 
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 Step 2:
Then go to the Consultation
tab.

Step 3:
Then click on the button Add a new
consultation.
 
 
 
 
 

Compare a New consultation with a Previous

consultation
When you create a second or third consultation
for a patient, you can easily compare this new
consultation window with one of the previous
consultation windows.

The upper part shows a previous consultation,

the lower part shows the current (last)
consultation.

Browse through consultations

The consultations will be numbered “No.”
Use the Arrow left and Arrow right buttons to
move through the list of consultations

Open / Close consultation text

You can close/ open the previous consultation
text area or the last consultation text with a single
click on the header.

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List  of  consultations  &  saved  Analyses  

The list of consultations gives an overview of all consultation dates, with the prescribed remedy, the
repertory symptoms in the saved analysis, etc.:
- Hold the mouse in the column Analyses, to see which repertory symptoms used in the analysis.
- Recall an analysis: Single click on the analysis to recall it in the clipboards.
- Delete an analysis: Right click in the column Analysis.

 
Prescriptions  and  Pathologies  
The fields for the Prescription and Pathologies are located at the lower part of the screen.
The Professional version has more fields for: Biological and clinical tests, Vaccinations, Certifications.

- The prescription tab allows you to note the remedy you have given, the potency, the type of dilution
scale, the posology, the Laboratory (Pharmacy).
- You can click on the small Pin icon to keep these fields open. (Right lower corner)
- You can resize the window.
- You can select to show only the field for the current (last) consultation or of all consultations.

Tip: There is a hotkey to show/hide the prescription-pathology fields: Ctrl+L (on Windows), and
Cmd+L (on Mac).

 
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 Show only the fields of: the current consultation or all consultations
In the table you can select to show only the current consultation or all consultations.

Add a prescription to a previous consultation

In case you forgot to enter the prescription during the interview, or if you want to add a second
prescription line to a previous consultation, you need to do the following:

Step 1: Click on the Filter icon to show

prescriptions of all consultations.

Step 2: Click on the (arrow down

icon) to open the pick list with consultation
dates. Then select the date of a previous
consultation date, and enter the
prescription.
It will be sorted automatically correctly in
the list again.

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Invoices
From the Administration Tab, you can click on the button Invoices (financial information):

• You can copy the name and address information of the patient from the Administrative
window with a click on the Copy Name& Address button.
• Click on the Add an invoice button, to create an invoice.

Create an invoice
The invoice will contain as header also the Name, Address, Bank account details of the homeopath. This
information should be set only once, via the menu Tools, then User account

Tip: You can use the Patient search function, to search for all unpaid invoices.

 
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 Therapy Evaluation
When the patient visits for a follow up, you can record the effect of your treatment in a more general way,
or also in a very detailed way.
If you enter for all your patients such therapy evaluation information, you will be able to get reliable
statistics via the Patient Search functions.

Click on the button Prescription Evaluation to open a special window with the following options:

• At the left it shows a list of Consultation dates.

• Click on Evaluate: For each consultation date you can enter one, or more evaluations.
• General evaluation: This is field you should always fill in.
• Pathology: You can also add an evaluation per pathology you entered per consultation.
• Analysis symptom: You can also add a evaluation per repertory symptom you used.

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Patient Search
The Light version of the patient file already allows you to do basic searches in your patient file.
With the Professional version you have a powerful research tool, with a wide range of research
possibilities.

From the menu bar Search, go to Search in the patient

file

To do a search, you need to decide the following things:

• In which main category you want to search
• In which fields should be shown in the search result list
• You can enter a criteria in one of the fields, or leave it empty
• Search in your Human or Veterinary cases
• Then click on the Start Search button, to see the result

If you leave all fields empty, you will get a search result with a table containing all the fields you selected.

 
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 Frequency
If you select to show Frequency, it will be applied to all the selected fields in your list.
• If you have only one field Precription, and enter the condition Ars., then you will see how often
you prescribed this remedy.
• If you use two fields e.g. Prescription with the condition Ars., and the field Potency, then you will
see how often presribed this remedy with the same potency.
For example:...
10 times Ars. 200
4 times Ars. 30

• In this example below, we searched for all Prescriptions with the remedy Ars., but there are also
the fields Potency, Scale, Posology. This means that all fields must have a similar entry to be
counted as "the same".
You see in the screen below, that the result is not only one number how often Ars. was given in
total.
- But you see only 2 times the exact same result: "Ars. + 200 + CH + Chalazion" was found.
- Then also 2 times: "Ars. + 200 + CH + Diabetes insipidus"
- and 1 time: "Ars. + 30 + K + Diabetes insipidus"

Other icons toolbar icons

With the other toolbar icons you can do the following:

- Delete all fields (the whole query)
- Save to disc for future use the query
- Recall from disc a query
- Export the search result to an Excel file

More info about the patient research possibilities in a next version of this manual.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Miscellaneous
The  Quick  Search  box:  search  on  words  or  remedies:    
Search  for  a  word  
If you do not know where exactly something is located in the See  video:    Quick  Search  Box  
repertory, you can search on one or more words.
You can click in the Quick search box and start to type your
search. With the keyboard combination Ctrl+F5 (Windows) the
cursor moves to the Quick search box.

By default the program will search not only in the current

document, but also in all other open documents.
Tip: You can change the default search location in the Local
Options of the repertory window.

When typing a few characters in the Quick search box

the auto-complete box opens to guide you.

In this example we select the word Injure by selecting

it from the list and pressing <enter>.

You can type a second word if you want e.g. Head and
also select it from the auto-complete box with <enter>.
Press <enter> again to start the search.

The search result window will open with a list of all symptoms found in Synthesis.

You can Take symptoms directly from the search

result window with:
• Drag and Drop to a symptom clipboard
• The keyboard + key
• The F6 function key*
(* This will be activated in a next live update)

Search  for  a  Remedy  or  Family  

You can also use the Quick search box to search for a
remedy or a family of remedies.
See the tutorial video for more information.

Search  for  a  remedy  

Click in the Quick Search box and start to type the
remedy abbreviation or the full remedy name:…
Ctrl+F5 (Windows) (on Mac: coming soon)
• From the auto complete box select the item
that is indicated with (Remedy).
• Press <enter> to start the search.

You can also use the (?) or (F4) to open the simple
search window to do a similar remedy search. See elsewhere for explanation of the advanced search
window (F5).

 
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