In short: A repertory sheet (also called a repertorial sheet or a repertorisation/repertorization sheet) is the grid on which a repertorisation is tabulated: the selected rubrics down one axis, the candidate remedies along the other, each cell holding the remedy's grade in that rubric. Two totals close each column: the number of rubrics the remedy covers and the sum of its grades. This page gives you a blank template to print or copy, a clearly fictional filled example with every grade traced to Kent, four ways of totalling the same grid, and how to run the same six rubrics in a free online analysis.
The sheet is the tabulation stage of repertorisation, step 4 in the sequence set out in our guide to the steps of repertorisation, and its totals feed step 5, materia-medica confirmation; this page does not restate those steps. Some curricula count more steps: hpathy's "Steps to Repertorisation" series gives recording, symptom evaluation, the repertorial result and analysis an instalment each (source: hpathy.com, 20 September 2026), but the sheet is the same object in either count. The template and the worked example need no registration, and the same grid exists as the analysis sheet in Similia's free plan.
This is education for qualified homeopaths and serious students, not self-treatment advice for the public. A filled sheet is a teaching artefact ending in a shortlist for materia-medica study, never a prescription.
The blank repertory sheet template
Print this section to PDF from your browser (landscape, "fit to page"), or copy the two tables into a spreadsheet if your college asks for different columns. Use one repertory per sheet, a case code instead of a name, and no identifying details. There is no import into Similia: like the case-taking form, the sheet is a paper record beside the software.
| Case code | Date | Repertory and edition | Method (count / grade sum / eliminating / weighted) | Source checked on |
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| # | Rubric (full path as printed) | Source, page | Weight | Elim.? | Rem. 1 | Rem. 2 | Rem. 3 | Rem. 4 | Rem. 5 | Rem. 6 |
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| Shortlist for materia-medica confirmation: | ||||||||||
| Rejected rubrics, and why: |
Eight rubric rows are deliberate: five to ten characteristic rubrics is the working range, and a sheet that needs more rows usually needs fewer rubrics. Six remedy columns fit a phone; widen to twelve on paper.
What a repertory sheet is, and why it has three names
Indian sources such as the 2009 hpathy article say repertorial sheet; repertorisation sheet and repertorization sheet differ only by British and American spelling; Similia's own term for the grid is the analysis sheet. All describe the same object. Kent called filling it the scientific method: in "Use of the Repertory", printed with his Repertory, he describes taking all the symptoms and "writing out all the associated remedies with gradings, making a summary with grades marked, at the end", against an artistic method that judges which symptoms are peculiar first (Kent, Repertory of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica, public-domain text; source: homeoint.org, 20 September 2026).
The classic worked sheets are the six cases Margaret Tyler and John Weir printed under "Repertorising" in the same volume. Each rubric is written out with its page number and its remedies in three typefaces, the values are set as "Capitals = 3; Italics = 2; Ordinary = 1", and in five of the six cases each candidate ends with two figures, Ars. 8 16, Nat-m. 12 22: rubrics covered, then sum of grades. They also supply the caution every sheet needs: Natrum muriaticum suited their second case "not because it is numerically highest alone, but because it corresponds to the type of the patient", and "repertory work is never mechanical, and is only a guide to the study of Materia Medica" (source: homeoint.org, 20 September 2026).
The grid predates every program, and the idea was even patented. US patent 1,526,717, "Homeopathic sheet repertory", was filed by Enrique Jiménez Núñez of San José, Costa Rica, on 13 July 1922 and granted on 17 February 1925: one card per symptom, about 425 numbered spaces, one per remedy, the spaces of the remedies covering that symptom perforated in colours that mark their grade, and the cards for a patient's symptoms stacked so that only the remedies perforated on every card show through, an eliminating sheet done by perforation, with the colours deciding between the survivors (source: patents.google.com, 20 September 2026). A pencil grid on squared paper is the same logic, and Boger's General Analysis (1931), free on Similia, is an exposition of how to use generalist rubrics to arrive at a remedy, the short rubric list a sheet rewards.
Anatomy of the grid
The rubric rows
Write the rubric exactly as the repertory prints it, with the full path from chapter to sub-rubric, and record the repertory, edition and page in the source column, as the case-taking form does in its source section. Grades differ between editions, so "Kent" alone is not a source and cannot be re-checked at follow-up. Order the rows characteristic before common: on a Kentian sheet, mentals, generals, then particulars.
The remedy columns
Two conventions decide which remedies get a column. The classical one is every remedy in the first rubric, which is why that rubric is chosen with such care. The other is a coverage threshold, every remedy in at least a set number of rubrics; the worked example uses four of six, giving nine columns. Headers are abbreviations; our guide to remedy abbreviations covers the conventions (Nux-v., Puls., Nat-m.).
The cells: what the grades mean
Kent used three grades. Our Kent guide sets them out: Grade 3 (bold) for a remedy confirmed through extensive clinical experience and provings; Grade 2 (italic) for good support but less extensive confirmation; Grade 1 (plain or roman) for a remedy noted in association with the symptom but with less certainty. Boger's BBCR grades remedies in five typographic degrees, as our Boenninghausen-Boger guide explains, and Murphy's Repertory uses four. So never sum grades from different scales on one sheet: one repertory per sheet, or convert explicitly and write the conversion in the header.
The totals
Two totals per column. Rubrics covered is the count of cells with any grade. Sum of grades is what the 2009 hpathy article "Steps to Repertorisation" calls the total addition process: every remedy is noted against every rubric and the marks per remedy are added at the end (source: hpathy.com, 20 September 2026). Write them together as Tyler and Weir did, 5/11 for five rubrics and eleven marks; the ratio shows whether a remedy is broad (many rubrics, low grades) or strong (fewer, higher).
Worked example: a fictional case, filled in
The conventions are those of the case-taking guide's worked record: an invented adult, case code TRAINING 002, a dated teaching exercise, no diagnosis, no dose, no outcome, and a sheet that ends in a shortlist for materia-medica confirmation, not a prescription. The six rubrics describe someone who weeps without meaning to and weeps when describing her complaints, resents being consoled, has no thirst, cannot face fat or rich food, and wants the open air.
Every grade was copied on 20 September 2026 from the public-domain text of Kent's Repertory of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica in the Médi-T web presentation on homeoint.org, whose printed edition is not stated but whose pagination matches Tyler and Weir's page citations; page numbers are as marked there. None is from memory, and grades vary between editions, so re-check each cell in the Kent you use before citing the sheet.
| # | Rubric (Kent) | Page | Weight | Elim.? | Sep. | Puls. | Nat-m. | Ars. | Hell. | Plat. | Bell. | Kali-c. | Phos. |
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| 1 | Mind; Consolation, agg. | 16 | 3 | yes | 3 | – | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | – |
| 2 | Mind; Weeping; involuntary | 93 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | – | – | 3 | 2 | – | 1 | |
| 3 | Mind; Weeping; telling of her sickness, when | 94 | 3 | 3 | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | |
| 4 | Stomach; Aversion; fats and rich food | 480 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | – | 1 | – | 1 | |
| 5 | Stomach; Thirstless | 530 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |
| 6 | Generalities; Air; open; desire for | 1343 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | – | 1 | 1 | |
| Rubrics covered | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Sum of grades | 14 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 4 | ||||
| Shortlist for materia-medica confirmation: Sep., Puls., Nat-m. | |||||||||||||
| Rejected rubric: Mind; Weeping (166 remedies, separates nothing); replaced by rows 2 and 3 |
Columns are the nine remedies in at least four of the six rubrics. Read the two totals together. Sepia is the only remedy in all six, 6/14. Pulsatilla misses one rubric but is bold in every rubric it covers, 5/15, so it leads on sum of grades. Natrum muriaticum is 5/11. The other six sit at four rubrics each and are not shortlisted. The disagreement between the totals is not a flaw; it is what the sheet is for.
The shortlist goes to the materia medica, and the free readers on Similia carry the confirming and contradicting lines. Boericke's Sepia "weeps when telling symptoms" and "loathes fat" (Boericke, Kent's Lectures). Boericke's Pulsatilla "weeps easily", "likes sympathy", is "averse to fat food", has a "dry mouth, without thirst" and "seeks the open air" (Boericke, Kent's Lectures). Boericke's Natrum muriaticum has "consolation aggravates" and "wants to be alone to cry", but also "unquenchable thirst" (Boericke, Kent's Lectures), which is why its grade 1 in Thirstless matters more than its total suggests. The sheet stops here; which of the three, if any, fits the fictional person is a materia-medica judgement, and this exercise records none.
Four ways to total a repertory sheet
The same six rows, four readings, each with a literature behind it; filling a sheet by hand shows that they rank the columns differently.
1. Rubrics covered (the count)
Which remedy appears in the most rubrics. Quick, blind to strength, and the reading under which polychrests win by default, because a remedy sitting in most large rubrics at grade 1 covers everything. Worked example: Sepia 6, then Pulsatilla and Natrum muriaticum at 5.
2. Sum of grades (total marks)
The total addition process. It rewards strength: a remedy bold in three rubrics (3/9) outscores one plain in five (5/5). Worked example: Pulsatilla 15, Sepia 14, Natrum muriaticum 11. Always show both totals side by side; a sheet that prints only one hides the disagreement you need to see.
3. Eliminating rubric first
The eliminating rubric is chosen at the start because you are confident every plausible remedy must appear in it, typically a strong general or a striking mental symptom; only the remedies in it keep their columns. The 2012 homeobook article "Methods and techniques of Repertorisation" calls this the elimination or artistic method, against the aggregation or scientific method that totals everything (source: homeobook.com, 20 September 2026). Tyler and Weir's version is Gibson Miller's list of predominantly hot and cold remedies, used to strike out the chilly remedies for a hot patient before a single rubric is copied; a strongly marked general modality, in the Boenninghausen manner, serves the same purpose.
Worked example: with row 1 ticked as eliminating, Pulsatilla and Phosphorus lose their columns because neither appears in Consolation agg., and the order becomes Sepia 6/14, Natrum muriaticum 5/11, then Arsenicum, Helleborus and Platina at 4/8; the leader on sum of grades has gone. Tyler and Weir's warning belongs on every such sheet: a prescriber ruled out Sulphur by using "better for open air" as the eliminating rubric when the patient's symptom was "desire for open air", and Sulphur, with every other big symptom of the case in capitals, was the remedy that cured. A carelessly chosen eliminating rubric removes the simillimum; the hpathy article adds that a rubric with only a few remedies should never be used for elimination.
4. Weighted generals
Multiply each row's grades by a weight before adding: mentals above generals, generals above particulars, the Kentian hierarchy in our repertorisation guide, or Boger's generals-first totality. The worked example weights by chapter, 3 (Mind), 2 (Generalities) and 1 (Stomach): Sepia 33, Pulsatilla 30, Natrum muriaticum 25, Platina 20. Weights are a judgement, not a fact of the repertory: Tyler and Weir point out that thirst is a general of the patient even though the repertory files it under Stomach, so a second student could reasonably weight row 5 at 2, which narrows Sepia's lead over Pulsatilla to two. Write the weights on the sheet so a reader can disagree with them.
| Reading | First | Second | Third |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rubrics covered | Sep. 6 | Puls. 5 | Nat-m. 5 |
| Sum of grades | Puls. 15 | Sep. 14 | Nat-m. 11 |
| Eliminating rubric (row 1) | Sep. 6/14 | Nat-m. 5/11 | Ars., Hell., Plat. 4/8 |
| Weighted 3/2/1 | Sep. 33 | Puls. 30 | Nat-m. 25 |
In Similia the four map onto Number of Rubrics, Sum of Degrees, Elimination and rubric weights, described below.
Common mistakes when filling a sheet
These are sheet-specific; the general errors of repertorisation belong to the repertorisation guide.
- More than ten rubrics. Every extra common rubric hands the polychrests another cell. Tyler and Weir describe a sheet sent to them with all the drugs written out in forty-nine rubrics, and warn that such sheets usually end with half a dozen remedies close together at the top.
- Summing two scales on one sheet. Kent's three grades and the BBCR's five do not add.
- A rubric that separates nothing. Kent's Weeping holds 166 remedies and Thirst 211; Thirstless holds 87 and Weeping, telling of her sickness, four. Check the size before you copy.
- No source or edition. Grades move between editions, and a sheet that says "Kent" cannot be checked. Record the edition, the page and the date.
- Grades from memory. The sheet exists to stop you doing this; every cell above was copied from the page in its source column.
- Reading the top total as the prescription. Tyler and Weir ruled Pulsatilla out of their second case whatever its numbers, because of the marked aggravation from consolation. The sheet produces a shortlist; the materia medica decides.
- Discarding a rejected rubric instead of recording it. The case-taking form keeps rejected alternatives and why they did not fit; the sheet has a line for the same reason.
- An undated sheet. At follow-up you compare the same rubrics against the same edition, and without a date you cannot tell which edition that was.
The same sheet as a digital grid
Similia's analysis sheet is the working list of rubrics used to calculate remedy results, as the guide to adding and organising rubrics puts it: each rubric is added with its full path, its weight can be adjusted, and the results update as the list changes. The four paper readings map onto the sort modes, named as in the interface:
- Number of Rubrics is rubrics covered: it "ranks remedies by how many of the selected rubrics they appear in", regardless of strength.
- Sum of Degrees is sum of grades: it "ranks remedies by the total of their degrees (1–4) across all selected rubrics", with coverage breaking ties.
- Elimination mode is the eliminating rubric: selected rubrics filter non-matching remedies out of the grid (in the changelog since 21 January 2026).
- Rubric weights are the weighted reading, set per rubric.
Three further readings have no paper equivalent. Balanced combines "symptom strength, breadth of coverage, a small lift for highly specific rubrics, and a small lift for less-common remedies"; Small remedies "boosts remedies that appear in fewer rubrics across the whole repertory, so they are not drowned out by polychrests"; Small rubrics "boosts remedies that appear in highly specific (small) rubrics". Display settings cover cell shape, grade numbers and a Standard or Compact template, and Export Analysis as PNG produces a sheet a student can hand in; the export currently works only in Chrome.
On the plans: Free includes seven classical repertories (Kent, Boericke, Boger's Boenninghausen repertory, Knerr's repertory of Hering's Guiding Symptoms, Boger's Synoptic Key, and the Sensations As If repertories by Ward and Roberts) with AI semantic repertory search, 21 classic materia medica books, and basic case management capped at three new cases and three analyses a month; the repertorisation tools, weighting and elimination included, are on the free plan's list. Pro adds unlimited cases and analyses and the AI toolkit: Notes-to-Rubric, AI case analysis, live audio transcription and photo analysis. Notes-to-Rubric (Pro) is not needed here: the six rubrics are typed in by hand.
To run the example: create a clearly fictional case (it uses one of the month's three allowances); add the six Kent rubrics by their full path, checking each grade against the sheet; then switch between Number of Rubrics and Sum of Degrees and compare with the paper totals. If a cell differs, the edition differs, which is what the source column is for.
Is there a repertory sheet PDF, and which format does your college want?
Yes: the blank template above prints to PDF from any browser with no registration, and if your college prescribes its own columns, copy it into a document and add them, keeping the two totals and the source column whatever the layout. Formats do differ: the 2009 hpathy article describes a repertorial sheet with the medicines listed alphabetically and columns for the marks against each rubric (source: hpathy.com, 20 September 2026), a different layout from the one above, and the student uploads on document-sharing sites are notes of unknown provenance and are not linked here.
Conclusion
A repertory sheet teaches one thing no sort order can: breadth and strength are different questions, and the answer to a case is rarely the top of either column. Fill a few by hand, with page numbers, before trusting any default ranking; then run the same six rubrics in Similia's free analysis sheet and watch the order change between Number of Rubrics and Sum of Degrees. The disagreement is the lesson, and the pillar guide to the homeopathic repertory is the place to go next.
