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But this laborious, sometimes very laborious, search for and

selection of the homoeopathic remedy most suitable in every
respect to each morbid state, is an operation which, not
withstanding all the admirable books for facilitating it, still
demands the study of the original sources themselves, and
at the same time a great amount of circumspection and
serious deliberation, which have their best reward in the
consciousness of having faithfully discharged our duty.
Samuel Hahnemann Organon of Medicine

6th Edition Footnote 108
It is important to remember that the repertory is an index

and not a materia medica. Its role is to guide the
homoeopath towards possibilities in prescribing and must
always be followed by referral to the source material.
Jeremy Sherr
Dynamics of Provings
Cara Professional  Miccant Ltd 1999

Created by David Witko, Programmed by John Stevenson
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SOFTWARE REGISTRATION 5
INTRODUCTION & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 14
CHAPTER 1 INSTALLING CARA PROFESSIONAL 19

Checking your Cara Professional package 19
Registration Form 19
Installing Cara Professional 19
Activating Cara 22
Upgrading Cara 23
Contacting Miccant 23
Removing Cara 24
TRANSFERRING CARA'S PROTECTION TO ANOTHER COMPUTER. 24
CHAPTER 2 GETTING HELP 27

Read this manual 27
Online help within Cara Professional 27
Email 27
Knowledge base on the internet 27
By telephone 28
CHAPTER 3 CUSTOMISING CARA 29

Screen Resolution 29
Cara's Properties and Settings 30
Repertory Search Results 31
Browsing Repertories 33
Repertorisation results 33
Remedy Relationships 34
Sounds 34
CHAPTER 4 QUICK REPERTORISATION 35
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CHAPTER 5 TUTORIAL 39
Lesson 1 Finding your way around Cara Professional 39
Lesson 2 Reviewing the Case 40
Lesson 3 Searching for rubrics 40
Lesson 4 Browsing 49
Lesson 5 Practising the Chapter Search 54
Lesson 6 Saving your Case 57
Lesson 7 Manipulating your case rubrics 58
Lesson 8 Reviewing your Repertorisation Strategies 60
Lesson 9 Repertorisation 61
Lesson 10 Using the Strategies 64
Lesson 11 Cara Professional’s Expert System (C.E.S.) 65
Lesson 12 More advanced repertorisation techniques 67
Lesson 13 Getting information on remedies 69
Lesson 14 Viewing Materia Medica 72
Lesson 15 Comparing Remedies 73
Lesson 16 Saving your Case (Part 2) 75
Tutorial Summary 77
CHAPTER 6 REPERTORIES AND RUBRICS 79

Searching 79
Working with Themes 81
Information 81
Seeing the remedies for a rubric 82
Annotations 83
Copying rubrics to the Windows clipboard 85
CHAPTER 7 RUBRICLISTS 87
Rubriclists and the Coolbar 87
Assigning rubrics to rubriclists 87
Viewing the contents of a rubriclist 87
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Assigning rubrics to other rubriclists 88
Giving values to rubrics on a rubriclist 88
Combining rubrics 89
Un-Combining a rubric 90
Editing rubrics 90
Creating a brand new rubric 91
Export to user defined 91
CHAPTER 8 REPERTORISATION 93
Choosing a rubriclist 93
Setting your strategies 93
Analysing the results 96
Applying Filters 97
CHAPTER 9 PATIENTS AND VISITS 99

Create a new patient record 99
Amend a patient’s existing record 99
Delete a patient from the database 100
Type in visit notes for the current patient 100
Recall a patient’s visit for review 102
CHAPTER 10 REMEDIES 103

Moving around the remedies 103
Applying a filter 104
Information 105
Multimedia Information 105
Viewing Materia Medica 105
CHAPTER 11 COMPARING REMEDIES 107

Invoking compare 107
Choosing the remedies to compare 107
Choosing the rubrics 108
Using keywords 109
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Setting the filters 109
Working with the results of a compare 110
CHAPTER 12 MATERIA MEDICAS 111

Browsing 111
About Materia Medica Searching 112
How to Search 115
CHAPTER 13 MAKING ADDITIONS INTO CARA PROFESSIONAL’S

DATABASE 127
Creating a new rubric 127
Amending a rubric you previously created in the User area 128
Deleting a rubric you previously created in the User area 128
Amending an existing rubric in the supplied repertories 128
Searching entries in the User area 128
Backing up your additions 128
CHAPTER 14 PRINTING 129

Printing Items 129
Printing Repertorisation Charts 130
CHAPTER 15 COMMONLY ASKED QUESTIONS? 133

I cannot see the Coolbar metioned in the tutorial. Why? 133
I cannot see a list of remedies in Similia after browsing a materia medica or performing a
search. Why? 133
When I try to open or save a case it puts me in the MyDocuments folder instead of Cara's Cases
folder. Why? 133
I cannot save visit notes against a patient. Why? 133
How do I change or switch off the music that plays every time I start Cara Professional? 134
Cara Professional seems to take an age to repertorise and display the chart. Why? 134
How do I repertorise using a different rubriclist? 134
How do I remove a rubric from one rubriclist and not all? 134
My rubriclists have disappeared and I can only see pictures of books in the Coolbar. How do I
get them back? 135
How can I get information out of Cara into other Windows applications? 135
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How do I increase the volume of the audio remedies? 135
How can I improve the sound quality of the audio remedies? 136
I click on the Search toolbar icon but nothing happens? 136
The remedy photographs are fuzzy and low quality 136
Why are there empty rubrics in the Complete Repertory and Murphy's Repertory? 136
How can I search for text in just one remedy in the materia medicas? 136
APPENDIX A THE REPERTORIES 137

Remedy Abbreviations 137
Combined Repertory 137
Murphy’s Repertory 138
Boericke's Pocket Repertory 139
Phatak's Repertory 139
Boger-Boenninghausen's Repertory 139
Complete Repertory 139
APPENDIX B THE MATERIA MEDICAS 147
APPENDIX C REMEDY MULTIMEDIA 149
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Introduction & acknowledgements
Welcome to Cara Professional! This program will completely change the way you
practice homoeopathy. No more working out your cases by hand making lots of
mistakes. From today you have more time to spend with your patients confident
in the knowledge that Cara Professional is on hand to help you find the remedy
your patient needs fast.
Many people contributed to the development of Cara Professional. Some helped

by direct contribution others simply by their support and encouragement.
John Stevenson deserves the most thanks as he personally designed and

programmed much of Cara Professional. Until you try and develop software such
as Cara Professional you simply cannot appreciate or comprehend the
complexities John has had to wrestle with. John shares his time between
software development, aerobics fitness (he is a trained and qualified instructor)
and looking after cats. He is very weird, thinks too much for his own good
sometimes, is very generous and is the best programmer I have ever met after
working for 25 years in the software development industry (I wouldn’t be able to
comment about his aerobics fitness training capabilities!).
Jeremy Sherr is a constant source of advice, ideas and encouragement. Jeremy

was also a major driving force behind many of the improvements in this system.
He was responsible for making us concentrate on streamlining the use of the
program to help those users who progress from the beginner stage of using Cara
Professional to full-blown experts. He also gave us even more ideas that did not
make the final ‘cut’ of Cara Professional but will eventually reach the light of
day.
When planning Cara Professional with John I had an idea. Many students of
homoeopathy around the world buy the Cara Professional system to help them
get started. Although they will have read books by famous homoeopathic
authors most will never have seen or heard them in person.
So I decided to invite 20-30 homoeopaths around the world and several of Cara
Professional’s friends to make recordings of themselves speaking about a few
remedies of their choice. I offered them no financial reward and simply asked if
they would contribute freely. In return I promised not to make any charge for
their contributions but simply to include them in Cara Professional.
I was very pleased and a little surprised when many of them agreed. Of course it
was then another matter actually getting them to do it! I learned a valuable
lesson from this process. I find it very difficult to ‘ask’ people for things and find
it even harder to chase people and remind and nag at them to do things. In
order to bring all this to fruition I had to do all of these things and I learned
firsthand the truthfulness of these sayings:-
 If you don’t ask you don’t get

 If at first you don’t succeed try, try again
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Contained in Cara Professional are the equivalent of 7 hours of homoeopathic

lectures by some of the world’s leading homoeopaths on a variety of remedies all
given freely. Several of them confided to me that doing this had proved to be
one of the hardest things they had ever done. Usually when speaking about
remedies you get the feedback and energy from talking to a group of interested
people. Talking into a microphone is much different.
None of these recordings were professionally recorded onto DAT tape or

anything as extravagant as that. They were simply recorded by each
homoeopath at their home using whatever tape recording mechanism was at
their disposal. The quality of the results vary as you might expect. Those who
used high quality recording equipment will be heard best of all. Those who only
had a simple home cassette recorder were not able to provide as good quality.
So if you hear the crackle of the microphone or rustling of papers or tape hiss or
distortion or just or have to strain a little to hear at times please nod
sympathetically and knowingly at your computer. Remember each contributor
gave freely for your benefit!
I believe the information contained in these contributions is unique and valuable

and is now captured electronically for all time. Will homoeopaths 100 years from
now be listening to Jeremy Sherr explain the old proving of Neon? Or Jan
Scholten taking the first steps with Yttrium? Would you have liked to listen to
Kent talking about remedies? Without trying to sound too grand I am sure
homoeopaths in the future will listen to these recordings with interest. Unlike
books these recordings can be preserved for all time in their original format.
I would like to honour and thank those contributors personally:-
Eileen Nauman : Generous in spirit. A truly dynamic person! When Eileen does
something, she does it!! And quick!
Jeremy Sherr : For being able to improvise. Of course improvisation only

occurs when you know your subject matter inside and out and are a true expert.
For making good soup.
Misha Norland : For having a dramatic speaking style that makes listening
easy. For such a wonderful beginning to Aurum as ‘since time immemorial’!
Ernest Roberts : For choosing remedies no-one else wanted!
Anthony Bickley : Ditto Ernest. Who else would (or could) have chosen the
Bowel Nosodes? (Maybe Murray Feldman but no matter). Actually these
remedies are very seldom understood and used and so Anthony’s contribution is
most welcome.
Jan Scholten : for helping with remedies few have used. For inspiring me
personally to think more deeply about homoeopathy. For inspiring the use of the
Periodic Table within Cara Professional.
David Mundy : For asking if he could help with more remedies! And then doing
some more at the last moment when asked. For having Castle hi-fi loudspeakers
and playing the guitar brilliantly.
Murray Feldman : Always friendly, always helpful. Great description of

Camphor! Almost the ‘last in the world’ Murray!
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Ian Townsend : For playing the sax, drinking whiskey and taking photographs
– all things I hate! For being one of the few homoeopaths I have learned from
who will tell a group of raw students that he doesn’t know the answer to a
question. He also has the knack of planting pictures in your head to help you
remember a remedy.
Kathy Parker : For taking the time to speak about remedies while she was
moving house to Edinburgh!
Miranda Castro : For having a smile and a laugh in her voice as she speaks
about the remedies. For doing a lovely impression of a Pulsatilla little girl!
Bob Fordham : For being creative in his remedy presentation of Crot h! I had
expected a few more musical inclusions from the contributors but Bob was the
only one who actually did it!
Rudi Verspoor and Patty Smith : For taking time out from their wedding to
make these recordings for you! What more could you ask?
Rajan Sankaran : For his sense of humour. When Rajan makes a joke he is so
dry he is arid! You have to listen to him very carefully over the phone to tell
when he is joking or being serious. However, listening carefully to Rajan at all
times is recommended especially when he is talking about remedies!
Robin Murphy : For making homoeopathy come alive for me. For freeing me
from my homoeopathic fears and constraints and letting me see different ways
to practice.
Tricia Griffin : When you need to know about a new remedy like Iridium –
listen to the Proving Mistress herself!
Nuala Eising : For proving some valuable remedies! The latest remedies,
Amber and Fire are very vivid and Nuala’s contribution is invaluable.
With the release of Cara Professional we are taking the first tentative steps into
the world of homoeopathic computer multimedia. If the information included in
Cara Professional is well received there will be even more remedies included. If
you can help in any way by contributing remedy photographs or clinical rubric
photographs please get in touch! And as to the future? Next step contributors –
Videos!!
The following people have helped considerably in the growth and development of
Cara Professional and I would like to record my thanks:-
Roger van Zandvoort : for being a man of principle when it would have been
easier to back down and walk away.
Robin Murphy : for inspiration and teaching. For not being afraid to challenge
the old ‘rules’ when everyone else said nothing. And then being proved right.
Jose Mirilli : for remarkable insight and for providing the tools to improve our
homoeopathic practice.
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I am always amazed how generous the friends that surround Cara Professional
are. They have supported us from the outset by contributing encouragement,
ideas and hard work. There are far too many to list individually although I would
like to mention just a few. These are Ian Townsend, Bob Fordham, Margaret
Biggs, Karin Mont, Bob Micklem, Phyl Eyre, Rebecca Preston, Jenni Tree, Vicky
Hill and David Mundy.
These people may not realise it but individually and collectively they have
helped far more than they might imagine. Help comes in many forms. Whether
helping us improve the program, being enthusiastic, volunteering to help when
needed, drinking with us at Conference or simply being friends I would like to
sincerely thank them.
Our Cara Professional agents also deserve thanks. Without their efforts there
would have been no Cara Professional. They also helped with new ideas and for
demonstrating a positive enthusiasm to show people a system that is the very
best. I am happy to mention each of them here, in no particular order :-
John Jezewski, Dianne Goodwin, Camilla Glantz, Tony Pinkus, Paul Redmond,
Torleiv Holst, Jan Dingemans, Gunnar Sjogren, Soren Sorensen, Simone
Fluckiger, Basil Ziv, Michael Dong, David Levy, Myron Schultz, Pravin Jain, Zaffar
Iqbal, Roman Buchimensky, Paul Alexander, Lubov Lourie.
Thank you all!
Finally I would like to thank you for choosing Cara Professional. If you ever have
any comments to make please call and let me know personally.
But…..what are you waiting for? You didn’t buy Cara Professional just to read the
manual did you? So get that CD whirring and start helping your patients even
more!
David Witko
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Chapter 1 Installing Cara Professional
Checking your Cara Professional package
Before attempting to install and use Cara Professional please take time out to
check you have received everything necessary.
Your Cara Professional package should contain the following:-
 Manual (the manual you are reading)
 A CD-Rom
If you did not receive any of the preceding contact your supplier immediately so
that they can rectify the situation.
Registration Form
Please take time to complete the supplied registration form contained with the
manual especially if you have purchased your Cara Professional from an agent
and not through Miccant Ltd, the authors.
We would particularly encourage purchasers of Cara Professional who reside

outside of the United Kingdom to register with us here in England. It may be a
lot of trouble to post it off - but it will ensure you receive notification of new
upgrades and support in the use of the program. If you do not register with us
you will not be entitled to receive support in your use of Cara Professional and
we will be unable to notify you of upgrades.
Installing Cara Professional
Cara Professional works with all personal computers that can run Microsoft
Windows '95 or 98.
Cara Professional’s minimum requirements in order to process correctly are:-
 80 megabytes (MB) of free hard disk space
 A video card and monitor capable of displaying a minimum of 256 colours

and preferably 16 million colours
To install the Cara Professional program onto your system:
 Start Windows as usual.

 Insert the Cara Professional CD into the drive and close the drive door.
 Click the START button
 Click RUN.
 Type "d:setup" in the box that is titled 'Open' (if your CD drive is referred to
as E: or F: then replace the D: as appropriate.)
 Click OK or press ENTER to begin installation.

If you do not know what the drive letter is for your CD-Rom drive you can find it
as follows:-

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Cancel out of the current screen. On the main Windows screen (which is called
the Desktop) find the picture of My Computer (usually situated towards the top
left corner of the screen) and double-click the mouse on this button. You will
then see a display of al the drives on your computer. Look for one that has a
little symbol before it that has a picture of a CD on it - this is your CD-Rom
drive. Note the drive letter associated with it (usually D:) and re-start
installation of Cara Professional.
What will happen during installation
Step One
Once installation has commenced you will be asked to enter the name by which
you wish Cara to be refered to on your computer. The default suggested is Cara
Professional v1.4. You may change this if desired.
Step Two
You will then be asked whereabouts on your computer you wish Cara to be
installed to. The default suggested is c:\carapro.
If you wish to change the location to which Cara will be installed simply click the
Browse button and choose another location.
Step Three
A list of installable components will be displayed. These comprise the optional
facilities that you can choose to install or not to install onto your computer's
hard disk for use with Cara.
By default all components are selected for installation. The default copies
everything from the CD to your computer's hard disk and will occupy
approximately 750Mb of hard disk space. All components will be copied even
though you may not have purchased some of them.
We strongly recommend you leave all componenets selected if you have

sufficient hard disk space available.
If you do not have sufficient hard disk space available or you simply wish to
conserve space by not copying over certain components you may de-select any
component displayed.
On the left side of the screen are the component 'headings'. By de-selecting any
of these components you completely de-select all the books associated with each
component.
On the right side the individual books are displayed that are associated with a
component. To change to a different component simply click on the name on the
left side of the screen. There may be more individual books displayed on the
right side of the screen than can be displayed at one time. In this case use the
mouse to scroll down the list of books.
You may de-select an individual book by de-selecting the check box associated
with it.
Note that any components you do not install to your computer's hard disk will be
ignored by Cara. Please ensure that any optional books you have purchased for
use with Cara are definitely installed.
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Cara cannot work with books on both the hard disk and the CD. Only those
components installed to hard disk will ever be used. If you discover that you
need a book installing simply re-run the installation process over again making
sure that the desired books are installed.
Step Four
Cara will copy over all selected components to the location you previously
specified. This operation will take several minutes.
Opportunities for conserving disk space
 De-selecting the multimedia component can conserve 250Mb of disk space.

However you will not be able to view remedy photographs or listen to the
audio lectures if this is not installed.
 If you have not purchased any of the modern materia medicas then you can
safely de-select this component. Should you purchase any optional book in
the future simply re-run Setup to install.
 Similarly if you have only purchased 1 or 2 modern books you can safely de-
select all those books you are not able to work with.
 If you have not purchased the Complete Repertory or do not wish to use any
of the Classical Repertories then you can safely de-select any or all of these
works.
 If you know for sure that you do not wish to work with certain volumes of
materia medica then you can de-select those books from installation.
As you de-select components you will observe that the disk space requirement
reduces with each you de-select.
Installation Failure
During installation if you see the message "XCOPYFILE Failed" this means that
Cara was unable to successfully copy over some required files. Installation will
be aborted and any files previously copied removed from your hard disk.
This error usually occurs for one of the following reasons:-
 Windows could not read the CD at that point
 There is a problem with your hard disk
 Your computer has run out of disk space.
 Your computer has a problem of some sort
The very first thing you should do is simply try again. After trying again and if
you continue to get this error then you should double-check your available hard
disk space. Make sure that by installing Cara Professional you are not reducing
your free hard disk space to almost nothing. You should always leave hard disk
space free after installing Cara Professional so that Windows itself has room to

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work in (refer following section for advice on how to free up some hard disk
space)
If you are sure you have enough sufficient hard disk space (and please check
carefully as this is one of the most common items for confusion) then you should
apply for a replacement CD as this is then the next most likely cause of
difficulty.
What if I don't have enough hard disk space?
During installation you may be advised that you do not have enough free hard
disk space to perform even a minimum installation.
If you do not have an additional hard disk attached to your system that you can
use then you must free up some disk space
Freeing up disk space
If you have Windows 98 let it try and free up some space for you. Click START,
PROGRAMS, ACCESSORIES, SYSTEM TOOLS, DISK CLEANUP. Here you will find
an incredibly useful little utility that you can use regularly.
If you have Windows 95 then click START, SETTINGS, CONTROL PANEL. Then
locate the icon titled Add/Remove Programs and double-click it. You will then be
presented with a list of all the programs installed on your computer. Browse the
list, decide which items you can delete and do so.
Activating Cara
Cara is protected against illegal copying and distribution by means of a

sophisticated software protection system. Until Cara is 'activated' it will not
operate at all. You must already have purchased your Cara Pro system directly
from Miccant or one of Miccant's authorised agents.
Activating Cara requires that you install Cara and then acquire a license by
contacting Miccant Ltd, the authors of Cara. You must quote the unique
Reference (Serial) Number displayed when you start Cara and you will then be
assigned a unique Activation Code.
Once activated Cara provides unlimited access to the following books:
Combined Repertory (i.e. Cara's electronic repertory)

Robin Murphy's Homeopathic Medical Repertory (2 nd edition)
Materia Medica Starter Pack
Classical Materia Medicas volume 1
Classical Repertories
and allows you to purchase additional upgrades and books.
Important Note :
You must not interfere with or try to modify Cara's software protection. If you do
it will undoubtedly prevent Cara from running.

Cara Professional
Be aware that the activation code you have been given is totally unique to you
and the specific hard disk you have installed Cara onto. This code will not
activate Cara on another machine or even hard disk.
If you need to re-install Cara onto a new computer or new hard disk please read
the section of this chapter headed 'Cara's Protection' for details. If you use the
services of a computer technician to do this for you please ensure they are
supplied with this information.
If your Cara activation is lost through deletion of Cara you will have to obtain an
additional activation code from Miccant and there may be a charge.
Upgrading Cara
Cara is an expandable system. Additional books can be added to enhance the

system. We encourage you to visit our web site for full details or to request a
brochure from your local Cara agent.
Famous contemporary works can also be added from renowned authors such as
Rajan Sankaran, Jeremy Sherr, Robin Murphy, Frans Vermeulen and Jan
Scholten.
For full details of all the optional books available for use with Cara check our web
site at: http://www.miccant.co.uk
Contacting Miccant
When contacting Miccant to register your Cara system please have the following
information available:
Your Name
Your Address
Your Phone Number
The unique Reference Number displayed on the activation screen
Confirmation of your payment
For registration you may contact us by telephone, fax or email. We particularly

recommend fax if you wish to activate your system of 9am - 5pm GMT as this
will guarantee fastest response. When faxing or sending email please do not
forget to include all of the information required to activate your Cara.
By Telephone
Within the UK:

0115 945 5289
From the Rest of the world:

Dial the international access code
Dial 44 (the code for the United Kingdom)
Dial 115 945 5289
By Fax
Within the UK:

Cara Professional
0115 914 9232
From the rest of the world:

Dial the international access code
Dial 44 (the code for the United Kingdom)
Dial 115 914 9232
By Email
Send an email to register@miccant.co.uk
Removing Cara
Go to the Control Panel and use Add/Remove programs. Do this by clicking

START, SETTINGS, CONTROL PANEL and then double-clicking on the picture
titled Add/Remove Programs.
Click the entry for Cara Professional to highlight it and then click the
Add/Remove button to start. During removal of Cara , Windows may ask if you
wish to remove certain 'shared' files. We recommend you always answer 'No'
whenever asked.
When removing Cara Windows will not delete any cases you have created. You
should always take a backup and secure these cases to floppy disk or elsewhere
prior to any re-installation (just in case!).
Removing Cara Professional in this way will not delete or lose your activation
code - this is always preserved. If you subsequently re-install Cara over the 'top'
of an existing version you will receive an advisory message at the end of
installation informing you that a prior activation code was already present.
If for whatever reason you delete the Cara folder using Windows
Explorer you will lose your activation and will need to apply to Miccant
for replacement.
Please remember - if you wish to install Cara onto another machine or

new hard disk do not remove Cara until you have safely moved the
protection. Refer next section for advise on how to do this
Transferring Cara's Protection to another computer.
Cara is protected by a sophisticated protection system. When you purchased

your copy of Cara you will have been assigned a unique Reference (Serial)
number and received from Miccant an Activation Code. This Activation Code is
totally unique to you and your computer's hard disk.
If your Cara installation is deleted the activation code will also be deleted. You
will not be able to use the activation code on a different computer or hard disk.
Transferring Cara's Protection
To prevent the loss of your activation code we have provided a special utility
program which allows you to transfer your activation. Please do the following :-

Cara Professional
1. Without removing your current Cara installation, re-install Cara using

the original CD onto your new computer or hard disk.
2. Run the newly installed Cara once and obtain a new Reference Number.
3. Click START, then RUN and type in the command c:\carapro\ccchange.exe

to start the special utility program.
4. In the field Path to Protection type in c:\carapro
5. Click 'on' the check box field labeled Move Unlock-It installed protection
6. In the field New serial number type in the Reference number that you
previously obtained from the newly installed version of Cara. Please use the
number up to the / only. Do not type in the / or the number after it.
7. At this stage the screen should look something like this:-
8. Now click on the large Update Now button.
9. A new Activation Code will be displayed for you after a short while. Write this
down and make a note of it.
10. Start up your new installation of Cara .
11. Type in the new Activation Code .
Your new Cara will now run. You can delete the previous version of Cara by
using Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel.
Using Cara on a 2nd computer
If you wish to obtain a second activation code for use of Cara on a second
computer please contact Miccant to obtain a license.
Please note : the activation code originally given to you will not work on a
different computer. You must obtain a second copy from Miccant.

Cara Professional
Loss of Protection
If you lose your Cara protection you will need to contact Miccant Ltd and there
may be a charge for replacement.
If Cara is deleted from your computer the protection will have been irrevocably
lost. Your previous activation code will not work once you have re-installed Cara.
We will make every effort to provide replacement activation codes free of charge
for cases of genuine accident. However should you make continual requests for
replacement codes indicating some kind of technical problem then a charge will
be made for replacement.
So please take great care not to delete Cara after activation.

Cara Professional
Chapter 2 Getting Help
There are 5 ways you can get help using Cara Professional:-
 Read this manual

 Online help within Cara Professional
 Email a question to Miccant
 Check our knowledge base on the internet
 Telephone Miccant
Read this manual
Please take time to read this manual and especially the tutorial section before
doing anything else.
Online help within Cara Professional
Help is also available on screen from within Cara Professional itself. So if you
ever get stuck or just need help and don’t have this manual to hand press the
F1 key. Cara Professional will pop-up some context sensitive help for you to
read.
Email
An alternative that you may like to consider is to send us your queries

electronically!
Our email addresses are :
sales@miccant.co.uk
support@miccant.co.uk
Sending email, especially if you are using Cara Professional out of our normal
office hours, will usually guarantee you a next day response.
Knowledge base on the internet
We also have a WWW site which contains all the latest news on Cara
Professional and also contains the latest downloads and fixes. The web site also
allows you to join our Cara Professional electronic mailing list in which you can
talk directly to the program authors and to other Cara Professional users around
the world.
Most importantly our internet site contains the expanded version of the Cara
Professional knowledge base. This contains answers to commonly asked
questions, along with tips and techniques for getting the best out of your Cara
Professional system.
Our internet address is :-
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http://www.miccant.co.uk
If you working in the evening or at the weekend and you need help it is always a
good idea to check our internet knowledge base – it may contain the answer you
are looking for!
By telephone
If you require assistance installing your Cara Professional program or if you

experience difficulty when using it you can call our Cara Professional phone line.
Our technical support line number if you are calling within the United Kingdom is
:-
0115 945 5289
If you are calling from outside the United Kingdom use:-
44 115 945 5289
This line is available to you 1pm to 5pm GMT Monday through Friday.
You may call for assistance in installing your program. Technical support of Cara
Professional after installation is only available to registered users of the system.
Please make sure your have returned your Registration Form before calling!
Before you call please make sure you have the following information to hand:-
 Your Cara Professional licence number (written on your dongle)

 Your computer's specification.
And. most importantly, try to call when your are sitting in front of your
machine (so that our technician can talk you through a solution)
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Chapter 3 Customising Cara
There are many ways to customise the appearance and behaviour of your Cara
system. However while you are learning to use Cara we recommend you
leave things just as they were when you purchased the system. The
defaults supplied are geared towards first-time computer users and should not
be changed until you feel comfortable using the system.
However even if you do not intend customising Cara at this time it might be
helpful to read the information following to give you an idea of the potential
changes you might make. Of course if you are already comfortable with using
Windows software you can jump right in and adjust things to your preference.
However please bear in mind that the Tutorial section of this manual assumes
that the settings are as supplied. Therefore if you change things before
running through the Tutorial you may cause yourself lots of unnecessary
problems.
Screen Resolution
Cara can operate in all screen resolutions. The higher the screen resolution the
more information is displayed on the screen. For example choosing a higher
resolution will mean Cara can display longer rubric lines on the screen and fit
more icons on the Toolbar.
We have found that the optimum screen resolution for use with Cara is 800 x
600. This leaves the text big enough to read comfortably and allows Cara to fit
most of what you need on the screen. If you decide to increase your screen
resolution further then you should also check that Cara's settings are as you
want them.
Different computers and monitors allow you to run in different resolutions. To

check the resolution you are currently running do the following:-
1. From the Windows desktop click the right mouse button on an empty area of
the screen.
2. Left click the Properties option that is displayed at the bottom of the little
menu
3. Left click the tab named Settings.
4. Locate the section of the screen headed Desktop area. Underneath the little
slider bar Windows tells you which resolution you are running at currently.
5. To change the resolution drag the slider bar to the right to increase the
resolution and to the left to decrease it. Once you have done this click the
OK button and Windows will apply the new screen resolution.
If you do not like the new screen resolution you can easily change it back by
repeating the above procedure.
Should you not be able to move the slider bar at all to increase the screen
resolution this means that your current combination of video card and screen
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Start up
does not support increased resolutions. If this is the case the only way to
increase screen resolution is to buy a new video card.
Cara's Properties and Settings
Clicking the File menu and choosing option Property and Settings will allow the
amendment of any of Cara's default settings.
Preferences
There are 2 distinct areas addressed by the settings on this tab. The top half
relate to how Cara starts up and displays various items. The bottom half relates
to the use of the Coolbar
Cara’s welcome screen showing photographs of the contributors can be switched

off as can the Tip of the Day facility. Disabling these will speed up access to
Cara.
Switching off the Welcome screen does not disable the introductory music that
plays when Cara starts. This can be disabled using the Windows sound schemes
(i.e. click START, SETTING, CONTROL PANEL and then double-click on Sounds).
Cara can be instructed to switch between a display of small or large Toolbar

buttons. Large is preferable on all but the lowest screen resolutions. By default
Cara is configured to always display itself maximised and to occupy the full
screen. If desired this can be amended such that Cara can be automatically
minimised on start up or to take a normal size that does not occupy the full
screen.
Coolbar
Various options can be set for the Coolbar. These cover :-
 Order of repertories
 Display options
 Font used
Order
Here you can change the order in which Cara displays the list of repertories that
have entries that match your search criteria. You may change this order to suit.
Display options
If Show button text is enabled then a short description of the meaning of each
button displayed on the Coolbar will be provided (the actual text to be displayed
underneath the rubriclist buttons can be set elsewhere)
If Letters on rubriclist buttons is enabled then letters A through E will be

displayed within the pictures of the rubriclists on the Coolbar
If Show only List A is enabled then only the first rubriclist button is displayed
on the Coolbar. Should more advanced repertorisation become desirable then
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this item should be disabled thereby allowing all 5 rubriclists to become

available.
Font used
If text is to be displayed underneath each rubriclist button then this feature
allows an appropriate text size and style to be set.
File Locations
This dialog allows the manual specification of all of Cara's file locations.
Changing an entry here automatically updates the Windows registry settings for
Cara .
Experienced users can use this facility to set up default folders for their cases,
temporary work files, and so on. Should the location of Cara's folders or files
also be changed manually using MS Explorer then this screen provides a handy
area to update the registry with this information.
If you do not understand the meaning of the Windows registry please do

not use this screen at all.
Dialogs and Menus

This screen allows several options to be set regarding Cara's appearance.
Whenever the mouse is held over a button for a few seconds a little box of
information will appear to explain the meaning of the button. These are called
‘fly-bys’. Disabling this option will suppress such fly-bys.
Using stippled chapter buttons refers to the display of buttons in the Repertory
search dialog to represent the chapters of a repertory. A stippled appearance
can be selected if desired.
Cara's menus contain small bitmap pictures as a memory-aid besides many

menu options. These can be disabled if desired.
Where Cara uses information boxes much like the example shown on the
preferences dialog the appearance will be exactly as displayed. The appearance,
font and colour used for the box can all be customised.
Rubriclists
Each rubriclist can have its own unique ‘label’ associated with it. Each can be
varied. The text appears underneath each rubriclist button if displayed in the
Coolbar.
Whenever rubrics are assigned to rubriclists Cara always adds to rubriclist A.

However Cara can be instructed to automatically add to any or all of the other 4
lists.
Cara can be instructed to prompt for confirmation each time a rubric is added to
a rubriclist or to simply perform the assignment using the specified defaults.
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The appearance of the list of rubrics displayed following a repertory search or a

remedy comparison can be amended to suit requirements. To adjust settings the
right mouse menu, option Rubric display preferences should be used.
Each rubric can have from 1 to 3 lines of information displayed. The 3 types of
lines that can be displayed are:-
 Information line
 First rubric details line
 Second rubric line
In regular use more than 1 line will prove impractical. However there are specific
circumstances when it may be desirable to use more than 1.
Information Line
The Information line is only useful if you have purchased the Pro Pack for use
with Cara.
First rubric line

This is where the main detail of a rubric is displayed. Usually it will be desirable
to display the book and chapter a rubric is taken from. However this may be
suppressed in the interests of minimising screen space taken to allow longer
rubric descriptions to be displayed across the screen. Also should only 1
repertory be used or Chapter searches prove to be the regular search method
then either or both of these may safely be suppressed.
In similar vein the number of remedies contained in each rubric may also be
suppressed.
Should chapter names be required then this can be set to either Bold, Normal,
Italic or Small size as desired.
There are also options to Embolden parent rubrics and to Indent sub-rubrics.
These options will only be of use in a very specific circumstance. This is following
a Chapter search with no keywords (when Browse mode is not required). These
options allow control of display appearance.
Second rubric line

Setting ‘on’ the Double line rubrics option instructs Cara to always display 2
lines of text on the screen for each rubric. As each rubric in Cara can be up to
100 characters in length sometimes this will not fit into the available screen
width. This option forces Cara to always display all of a rubrics description by
using the second.
This has the advantage that on screens with low resolution and limited screen
width the full rubric text will always be displayed thereby ensuring nothing is
ever dropped ‘off’ the right side of the screen.
It has the disadvantage that by using doubling the number of lines a rubric
takes to display fewer rubrics can be viewed on the screen at one time.
(however refer next section on Fonts)
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Font
The font of text appearing on the list of rubrics can be adjusted to suit. The
option Font on the right mouse menu allows the user to choose any Font, Style
and Size available. This allows for precise tuning.
Those who have difficulty reading small text can increase the font size. Those
with higher screen resolutions can choose a font that is readable and ensure that
the maximum rubric length can still fit onto 1 line for the vast majority of
rubrics.
Browsing Repertories
Various options can be set to alter the display by clicking the right mouse button
and selecting Browse view options.
Header
This block of information is always displayed at the top of each screen while in
Browse mode. Its purpose is to show at all times exactly whereabouts in the
repertory the rubrics are positioned. This is of use because individual rubric
descriptions are usually truncated making it difficult at times to determine
location.
This header block can be switched off entirely or various of its components (i.e.
current book and chapter) can be individually suppressed within it.
Rubrics
The number of remedies, thematic association and presence of annotations for
rubrics can all be switched off or on.
The display of sub-rubrics can be disabled by choosing the Truncate child

rubrics option. If this is disabled then the text of rubrics is always fully
displayed.
Remedies
The colour and source (i.e. author number) can be disabled from the Browse
display.
All the remedies can be suppressed from the browse display if required. This
may be useful if a an ‘easy to read’ list of all rubrics in a chapter are required
The colour to be used for the remedy highlight function can also be set here.
The font of text appearing can be adjusted to suit. The option Font on the right
mouse menu allows the user to choose any Font, Style and Size available. This
allows for precise tuning to suit display requirements and user preference.
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The appearance of the results screen can be adjusted to suit all requirements.
To make any changes click the right mouse button, option Change chart
viewing options.
On the General dialog the appearance of the blocks used to display remedy
grades can be set. The sample block on the right side of the screen can also be
used to adjust the actual size of the blocks displayed. The adjustment is made
by using the mouse to drag the horizontal and vertical bars until the desired size
is reached. The size will need to be adjusted whenever the font or text size is
changed. The block size should always be set to display 3 numeric characters at
all times.
The content of the blocks can also be adjusted. (i.e. grade numbers or
ungraded)
Which scores (Weighted, Rubrics covered or Rubric grades) are displayed can
also be set.
The Colour dialog allows compete control over the display of score totals,
individual grade scores and colours used for the Bar chart presentation method.
The various pull-down lists should be used to set both the foreground and
background colours to be used as required.
The 2 Group chart presentation methods can also be customised.
Font
The font of text appearing on the list of rubrics can be adjusted to suit. The
option Font on the right mouse menu allows the user to choose any Font, Style
and Size available. This allows for precise tuning.
Those who have difficulty reading small text can increase the font size. Those
with higher screen resolutions can choose a font that is readable and ensure that
the maximum rubric length can still fit onto 1 line for the vast majority of
rubrics.
Remedy Relationships
All that can customised when viewing remedy relationship information is the
appearance of the text. Clicking menu View, option Font allows the user to
choose any Font, Style and Size available.
Sounds
Cara plays various sounds whenever the following occurs:-
 Cara starts
 A successful rubric search
 A search fails
 A successful drag and drop to a rubriclist
 An error
 A warning
Sound files are supplied with the Cara system and are set up automatically for
you. These can be changed by running the Sounds application from the Windows
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Control Panel. Scroll down the list named Events until the heading Cara is found.
Then make any required sound substitutions required.
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Chapter 4 Quick Repertorisation
You purchased Cara Professional because it was supposed to be easy to use. So

in this chapter we are going to show you just how quick and easy it really is to
get started.
Find Cara Professional through the start menu :
ÿStart
 Programs
 Cara Professional
 Cara Professional
So to start up your Cara Professional system click the Start button at the bottom
left hand corner of your screen. Then move your mouse over the Programs
option (no need to click) and when the menu of programs appears find the entry
for Cara Professional and move the mouse over that. Move the mouse onto the
Cara Professional entry and click the mouse.
Cara Professional will now startup. If you have a sound card installed and
associated speakers you will hear Cara Professional’s startup music. Then you
will see the Cara Professional welcome screen which contains a photograph of
one of our contributors (a different contributor appears each time you start Cara
Professional).
Once Cara Professional has finished loading you should be looking at an empty
screen ready for you to use.
Locate the Toolbar situated towards the top of Cara Professional’s screen - the
line of pictures. Find the fifth one along, the one with the image of a blue
question mark on top of a magnifying glass and a piece of paper that looks like
this:-
This is the Repertory Search button. Click it once with the left button of your
mouse. Cara Professional will display for you the Repertory Search Dialog. Here
you tell Cara Professional what rubrics you need to find in your case. A 'dialog' is
Windows-speak for a little screen that comes on top of the main screen you are
working on.
First of all you need to know what we plan to do in this quick guide. You are
going to search for 2 rubrics and tell Cara Professional to repertorise them.
These rubrics are Aggravation during rain and Fear of being alone.
So take a look at the Repertory Search dialog. Notice how by default it is set to
'All Books'. This means that Cara Professional will automatically search all of the
repertories you have in your system using whatever word or words you type in.
Now locate the part of the screen that is headed Keywords. You can see that
there are 3 slots for you to type in words. The mouse 'cursor' is already
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positioned and flashing away in the first keyword slot waiting for you to type
something. So type in the word RAIN now.
Look across to the right side of the dialog and find the button titled SEARCH.
Click it once with the mouse to tell Cara Professional to search all repertories for
the word RAIN.
In next to no time Cara Professional has searched every repertory, every chapter
and every rubric looking for the word RAIN and shows you what it found as
follows:-
Take a moment to look at this screen. To the left side you will see a blue area -
this is called the Coolbar (it is headed "Books"). On the Coolbar you can see a
list of the repertories you have in your system. Next to each repertory is a
number. This number is the number of rubrics Cara Professional found in that
repertory that contain the word RAIN. (If you can't quite see the number
because the grey bar is obscuring it you need to move the grey bar a little more
to the centre of the screen. You do this by positioning your mouse cursor over
the grey bar. You are in the correct position when the cursor changes
appearance. Then click the mouse on the grey bar, holding the left mouse
button down and dragging the bar a little to the right, releasing the mouse when
you're happy with the position. If you have trouble with this refer to the
following chapter entitled Customising your Cara Professional).
Look at the right side of the screen and you will see lots of rubrics that all
contain the word RAIN. By default Cara Professional initially displays rubrics
from the Combined Repertory. Look down the list of rubrics and find WEATHER,
RAIN < DURING. This is the first rubric we are going to choose.
To choose this rubric firstly highlight it by clicking the mouse on it once. Then
look at the Toolbar running across the top of the screen and find the Add rubric
icon that looks like this:-
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To tell Cara Professional to remember this rubric simply click on the Add button
once.
Now you're ready to find the second rubric, Fear of being alone. So tell Cara
Professional you want to perform another search by clicking on the Repertory
Search button on the Toolbar.
Notice this time that Cara Professional remembers what you typed in previously?
This time you are going to be a little bit more adventurous!
This time we are going to tell Cara Professional which book and chapter to look
in. So towards the top left of the dialog change the setting 'All books' to the
Combined Repertory by clicking on the Combined radio button (click anywhere
on the button or the text, it doesn't matter). Once you've done this Cara
Professional will display all of the chapters available in this repertory on the right
side of the screen. Click on the very first button which represents the Mind
chapter.
Now you need to remove the word RAIN that you typed in earlier. The easiest
way is to click on the CLEAR button provided towards the right side of the
screen. So do this now. Cara Professional will remove that word and position the
mouse cursor ready for you to type in a new keyword. Type in the word ALONE.
Perform the search by clicking the SEARCH button. You will see this :-
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Find the rubric FEAR, ALONE OF, BEING. This is the rubric you are going to use.
Tell Cara Professional to remember this rubric by selecting it with the mouse and
then clicking Add rubric button on the Toolbar (just as you did before).
Now you are ready to repertorise!
To repertorise look at the Toolbar towards the right side and find the button that
looks like this:-
This is the Analyse button. Click it once to perform the analysis. After a short
while Cara Professional will display for you the most indicated remedies for the 2
rubrics selected as follows:-
What could be easier than that? You can see from the analysis results that the
remedies Elaps, Lac can, Merc and Ran-b are the top 4 remedies that cover both
rubrics. Just reflect on what you have just done. You:-
1. Searched all books for the word RAIN

2. Searched a specific book and chapter for the word ALONE
3. Told Cara Professional to work with 2 rubrics
4. Repertorised
Although we only used 2 rubrics in this Quick guide the process you have just
used is the basis of Cara Professional. Searching for rubrics, choosing the ones
you want and repertorising is the essence of the system.
Now that you can see just how easy it is to use Cara Professional you can play
with the system and discover all of additional features that lie in wait for you.
We suggest however that it will prove invaluable to take the time to build on
your newly acquired skills and practice the basics of repertorisation with Cara
Professional by working through the Tutorial section that follows.
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Chapter 5 Tutorial
In order to demonstrate how to use Cara Professional effectively, this chapter

contains lessons that will be in the form of a tutorial that takes you through the
repertorisation of a real case.
Do not be concerned if the remedy grades shown on your computer are slightly
different from those printed in this manual. It could be that you are working
with an improved version of the database that is not reflected in the manual.
We suggest you go through all of the lessons contained in this tutorial in front of
your computer and work the case presented as you go. This tutorial assumes
that your are using a mouse and guides through the use of Cara Professional
with a mouse.
Lesson 1 Finding your way around Cara Professional
Starting Cara Professional
Start up Windows in the usual way. Open up Cara Professional by clicking on the
Start button on your Windows desktop. Then hold the mouse cursor over
Program and then Cara Professional, finally clicking the mouse on the Cara
Professional icon
The main Cara Professional screen will start up. Observe the nice introductory
box you see in the middle of the screen. This helps to confirm that your system
is set to display images correctly.
The images that appear on the introductory screen are of those homoeopaths
who contributed audio files for Cara Professional’s multimedia presentation - we
are happy to thank them for their homoeopathic wisdom and generosity of spirit
in contributing.
Now before continuing consider exactly what you are trying to do when you
repertorise a case with Cara Professional.
 You need to know which rubrics you are going to use for repertorisation. So
you must have taken the case, analysed it and decided upon the key rubrics
to use.
 Using Cara Professional’s search facilities you will find each of these rubrics
in turn and tell Cara Professional to remember each for repertorisation.
 When you have identified each rubric in the case you can then repertorise
using the traditional and expert system approaches.
 At that point you will have a pretty good idea of 2 or 3 remedies that seem
most indicated in the case. You will then use Cara Professional to compare
these remedies side by side on the screen to show their differences.
 Then when you think you know which remedy to prescribe you can view
features of that remedy from materia medica or listen to audio presentations
to confirm your prescription.
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 Finally you can type in some case notes and save this case for future
reference.
Sounds easy? Let's get started then!
Lesson 2 Reviewing the Case
Consider the presenting case:-
This is a patient who suffers from intermittent paralysis of the arms and legs
which is painless. She has facial twitching and twitching in her hands and feet.
She suffers from profuse perspiration all over her body with foot perspiration
being especially offensive. The patient always sleeps on her left side and has a
strong desire to eat fish. She says she is claustrophobic and is afraid of heights.
The 9 rubrics we can identify from this case are:-
FOOD - FISH, DESIRE

FEAR - HIGH PLACE, OF
FEAR - NARROW PLACE (i.e. CLAUSTROPHOBIA)
TWITCHING – FACE
TWITCHING – EXTREMITIES
PROFUSE - PERSPIRATION
PARALYSIS - PAINLESS IN EXTREMITIES
PERSPIRATION - FOOT, OFFENSIVE
POSITION - SIDE, LEFT, ON, SLEEP
We will now work through the case finding each rubric in turn telling Cara
Professional to remember each one for repertorisation purposes.
This Tutorial will guide you through the use of all of the main features of the
program. No doubt you will find your own preferred method of searching for
rubrics once you are familiar with the program.
Lesson 3 Searching for rubrics
Cara Professional provides 3 different ways to search the database for rubrics.
These are called :-

All books search
Chapter search
Thematic search
We will only use the first 2 in this tutorial. You will need to refer to Thematic
searching elsewhere in this manual for information on how to use this advanced
searching technique.
There is also another technique for finding rubrics called Browsing. This will be
covered later in this tutorial.
As the use of the Chapter and All Books searches are very important to your use
of Cara Professional we suggest you set aside lots of time to follow through this
lesson in front of your computer.
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So now let's find the first rubric in our case, DESIRE for FISH.
Now let's start as you mean to go on. Before you perform any search think about
the rubric you are looking for. In this case desire for fish. Think of what might be
the quickest way to find the rubric. Think about whether you want to go straight
to that rubric or whether you want Cara Professional to suggest alternatives for
you. Taking a little time to think this through will help you become expert in
searching for rubrics.
All Books Search
To start with we will use the All Books search approach. This is the easiest to
use!
Look for the button that represents Searching on the row of shortcut buttons on
the Toolbar. The Toolbar is the row of buttons across the screen near the top.
The Searching button is the one with the question mark on top of the
magnifying glass and piece of paper. The button looks like this:-
Memorise this button because you use this every time you want to search for
rubrics. If you are ever unsure about the meaning of a button simply position
and hold the mouse over the button and after a couple of seconds Cara
Professional will display a prompt explaining its meaning.
Once you have clicked the Searching button you will see the following dialog:-
Tell Cara Professional you want to perform an All Books search by clicking on the
radio button towards the top left corner of the dialog (if this is the very first time
you have used Cara Professional it should already be set on)
Now look down the dialog and find the section headed Keywords. This is where
you type words in that you want Cara Professional to search for. Don't worry
about the question marks after each word slot. These will be explained later. The
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cursor is positioned ready for you to type in a search word. So oblige Cara
Professional by typing one in! Type in the word FISH. Don't worry about typing
in capital or lower case letters - it doesn't matter. Cara Professional will accept
whatever you type in. When you have typed in the word ‘fish’ click the mouse
on the SEARCH button which is located towards the right side of the dialog or
just press the ENTER key.
At this point Cara Professional will search every book and chapter and rubric in
the database looking for every occurrence of the word FISH. And in next to no
time Cara Professional has found all references to FISH and will have displayed
the following screen:-
Pretty amazing? Note that Cara Professional has searched every book for you in
a just a few seconds! Notice also that Cara Professional finds references to the
word no matter where it occurs in a rubric (i.e. the word doesn't have to be at
the beginning of the line).
Important Note
Throughout this Tutorial it is assumed you are using the standard version of
Cara Professional and you do not have the Complete Repertory. The screenshots
contained in this manual will show both of these repertories and also the other
classical repertories but the tutorial will make no reference to them.
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Search Results
Notice how the very first rubric is highlighted and ready for action? You will
come to the reason for this in a moment. At this stage do not worry about the
symbols immediately preceding the book icon - these will be explained later.
If you look to the left side of the screen you will see a column of book names in
a separate area of the screen (divided by a grey bar) and headed Books. This
separate area of the screen is displayed at all times and is referred to as the
Coolbar. (not to be confused with the Toolbar which is the row of buttons
across the screen)
After an All Books search the Coolbar always shows a list of all of the
repertories that have some rubrics that match your search criteria. Also note
that after each repertory name is a number. This is the number of rubrics the
book has that contain your search criteria.
If you cannot read the book names and number properly because the grey bar is
on top of part of them then you need to move the grey bar over a little to the
right. You do this using a Windows technique called 'dragging and dropping'. The
idea is that you position the mouse cursor over the grey bar and the cursor
shape will change. Then you click and hold down the left mouse button and drag
the grey bar over a little to the right letting go of the mouse button when
desired. Do not drag it over too far otherwise you will not be able to see all of
the rubric information on the right side of the screen!
Once you can see everything properly take a look back at the Coolbar.
The Combined Repertory book tab is the first in the list - and this is the 'active
book' - the book you are currently looking at. The rubrics displayed on the right
side of the screen are all taken from Cara Professional’s Combined Repertory.
You should be able to see book icons before each rubric and the chapter in the
repertory each rubric is found in.
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Book icons that begin with a C this means that these entries are all taken from
Cara Professional’s Combined Repertory. The second letter e.g. S indicates the
origin of the rubric, K for Kent, S for Synthetic, V for Vithoulkas and so on.
Whether you use the All Books search or Chapter search (and also the Thematic
search) the rubrics found are always displayed on this screen. So its a good idea
at this point for you to become familiar with moving around the list of matching
rubrics.
There are 2 main ways you can move around the list of rubrics on the right side
of the screen. You can use the scroll bar at the right hand side of the windows
with the mouse or you can use the keyboard. On this particular screen we think
you'll find it easier to use the keyboard so we will explain what you can do with
it.
The Vithoulkas additions are those marked with a CV in yellow. If you do not
see these this may be because your screen is set to display at a different
resolution than this tutorial assumes.
Look on your keyboard and find the keys marked PgDn, PgUp, Home and End.
Press the PgDn (Page Down) key once and see how Cara Professional
immediately jumps down a screenfull at a time (on some notebook computers
you need to press the Fn key at the same time as the Page Down key for it to
work.
Now look for the key marked End and press this. Cara Professional will
immediately jump to the very end of the list of rubrics. You will be looking at a
blank screen. Now move up the list by pressing the UpArrow key and you will
see last rubric that has the word FISH or a synonym of FISH in it. This is
ERUCTATIONS, SARDINES, AFTER. Now press the PgUp (Page Up) key once.
At the bottom of the screen there are some rubrics that have words from the
same family of word as FISH e.g. FISHY, SARDINES, SALMON. Cara Professional
will find these for you but always displays them after those rubrics that exactly
match the search word(s) you type in.
Notice also that there are now rubric entries from the Dynamis school on this
screen. These have the icon CD before them.
Press the HOME key. This takes you back to the top of the list of rubrics.
Changing Books
Once again look at the books listed in the Coolbar. You should see Boericke,
Phatak, Murphy and Boenninghausen's repertories displayed.
If you have purchased the Complete Repertory this will be available to you at
this point. Switching books is as easy as clicking the mouse on one of book
names in the Coolbar.
Try this now by clicking on the Phatak tab. This is what you will see:-
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Try switching books once again by clicking on Boericke. It's easy isn't it?
Switch books back to the Combined Repertory and move on.
Seeing the Remedies for a Rubric
By now you will have got used to seeing a number before each rubric displayed.
This is the number of remedies in each rubric. If you want to see the remedy
entries for a rubric there are a couple of ways you can do this.
One easy way is to select a rubric you want to see the remedies for is by clicking
on it with the mouse. Then locate and click the picture of the remedy bottle in
the Toolbar that looks like this:-
Another easy way is to highlight the rubric in question by clicking the RIGHT
mouse (yes the right) button. As you do this Cara Professional will display a
small menu of available options as follows:-
The very first is View Remedies. Left clicking on this will show you the remedies
in the selected rubric.
Let's practice this by looking at the remedies contained in the rubric that we are
looking for in our case, namely FOOD - FISH DESIRE. Click the mouse once on
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this rubric which is near the middle of the display and the big highlight bar will
be positioned on it. Now click on the button in the Toolbar to see the remedies.
Select this button :-
and Cara Professional will display the rubric's remedies. When you have finished
looking at the remedy entries click the CLOSE button.
Now you've become a little familiar with how to move around the results of a
search let's return and do another All Books search.
As before just click on the Searching shortcut button. Forgotten which button
this is? It is the button with the blue question mark on it in the Tolbar across the
top of the screen.
Searching All Books with 2 Words
You should always try to use only 1 word in the All Books search in normal use.
It will always be quicker when you search using 1 word than if you type in 2.
Sometimes however you will want to use more than one word. So this time let's
try to find the rubric we want, namely Desire for Fish using more than 1 word.
Notice how the word FISH is still displayed in the first keyword slot? This is
because the setting Remember words is set 'on' as the default (this is situated
towards the bottom of the dialog). Find this setting in the dialog to confirm it is
indeed set on. If you do not want Cara Professional to remember the settings of
a previous search simply switch this setting 'off'.
Now click the mouse onto the slot for the second word (or press the TAB key
twice) and type in the word DESIRE. Start the search.
This time notice how you have restricted the search results to just 5 rubrics that
exactly fit the rubric you are looking for. You may have noticed however that
Cara Professional took quite some time longer to find these rubrics than it did
when you used only 1 word. Searching is always much slower with 2 words than
with 1. Although speed of searching depends primarily on the speed of computer
you are using this principle is the same irrespective of computer speed.
A point worth noting is that you cannot search using the chapter a rubric is in as
a search word. Thus if you were looking for a Nasal Discharge you should not
use the words NOSE and DISCHARGE as search words. The chapter is not part of
the rubric description and therefore nothing would be found.
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Telling Cara Professional to remember a rubric
Now at this point you're going to learn how to tell Cara Professional to add the
rubric FOOD-FISH DESIRE into our case for subsequent repertorisation.
First of all you need to highlight the rubric you want. Can you remember how to
do this? You need to click the mouse once on the rubric in question. Take a good
look at the screen before you try to do this however.
You don't actually need to highlight the rubric as the rubric we want Cara
Professional to remember is the first on the screen and is already highlighted.
Now you want to click on the shortcut button that means Add. The Add button is
the one with picture of a clipboard with a tick in it that looks like this:-
When you click on this button Cara Professional displays a little window asking
you how it should proceed. If you look at the contents of the window you will see
Cara Professional has already got some defaults prepared. If you were to click
the Add button (don't do this yet!) Cara Professional will remember this rubric
by adding the rubric onto a work area known as a Rubric List.
Cara Professional provides 5 Rubric lists onto which you can add rubrics. By
default Cara Professional will always add a rubric to Rubriclist A. When you add a
rubric in this way you can also assign a Weighting or Underlining factor to the
current rubric. To the right of the little window you can see that Cara
Professional defaults this 'Grade' to 1 (which is neutral).
The Desire for fish is very marked in our case and was quite freely expressed by
the patient. What you need to do now is to change Cara Professional’s default
grade from 1 to 3 by clicking on the grade 3 'radio button'. Try this now. You do
not have to click on the circle of a radio button to select it. Clicking anywhere
within the text of the line in question will cause it to become selected.
For the time being ignore the other settings in the little window (namely
Eliminative and Causative) and just click on the Add button. Cara Professional
will now remember this rubric by adding it to Rubriclist A.
Having found and remembered our first case rubric we need to move on and
process the rest of the case. The next 2 rubrics are both Fears found in the
Mentals section of the database. We will show you how to use the Chapter
search to quickly locate and remember these 2 rubrics.
The Chapter search method is most useful when you know which book and
chapter you want to look in and more or less which rubric(s) you're after. You
will know that our next 2 case rubrics, Fear of Heights and Fear of Narrow Places
are contained in the Mentals chapter so you can with confidence proceed.
So select the Search Dialog once again - by now you should remember which
button this is!
Once it is displayed change the All books setting to a specific repertory by

clicking on the Combined Repertory. (At the risk of boring you with overkill -
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you will only see buttons for Murphy's Repertory or the Complete Repertory if
you have purchased them)
Once you have clicked on the Combined Repertory Cara Professional will display
a pictorial list of all of the chapters within the Combined Repertory on the right
side of the Dialog. Like them? If you do not or you find them a little confusing to
start with you can instruct Cara Professional to overlay each with a brief textual
description of each chapter. Do this by clicking on the check box entitled 'Show
button text' situated towards the bottom of the dialog. This check box acts as a
switch or toggle that you can turn on or off by repeatedly clicking.
Each time you choose a specific book to work with you also have to select a
chapter of that book to search. As you want to use Mentals click the mouse on
the very first chapter icon. Observe that the chapter name under the heading
Chapter Name changes to Mentals. If it doesn't you clicked the wrong icon! Keep
trying until Mentals is displayed.
Now you need to type in the words to search the Mentals chapter of the
Combined Repertory. Cara Professional is still displaying the words you used
previously. To remove these quickly click on the Clear button. Type in the word
Fear.
Next click the Search button and Cara Professional will perform a search for all
of the rubrics concerned with Fear in the Mentals and after a second or two will
display them for you as follows:-
Notice how the very first rubric Cara Professional displays for you is AILMENTS
FROM FEAR? It found this rubric because it has the word fear somewhere within
it. Also note that the Coolbar area is different to how it looked after you
performed an All Books search. This is because you are working with a specific
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book and chapter and so Cara Professional does not need to offer you a choice of
books.
The Chapter search can perform a very fast search and you should always use it
if you know the location of the rubric you are looking for. Now at this stage you
need to consider exactly how Chapter search finds the rubrics. Basically Chapter
search looks in 1 chapter looking for all rubrics that contain the word(s) you
type in (in this case Fear). Look down the list of rubrics and towards the
bottom of the screen you will start to see rubrics that begin with FEAR (you may
need to scroll down the screen a little depending on your screen resolution)
As all of the Fears are displayed on the screen you now need to find the 2 case
rubrics you are interested in. Let's look for Fear, High Places. Of. Cara
Professional contains a further valuable facility we haven't shown you yet. From
the matching rubrics you are looking at click the Find button on the Toolbar that
has the magnifying glass over the piece of paper... the one that looks like this:-
Now type the word HIGH. Don't select anything else. Now click the OK button.
See what happens? The display now jumps to the first rubric Cara Professional
finds that has the word you just typed in contained somewhere within it. Cara
Professional has searched through the list of rubrics you are currently viewing.
This is different to the All Books or Chapter searches as this Find facility only
searches the list of rubrics you are already looking at.
If you type in a word that doesn't exist in the list of matched rubrics nothing will
happen. At present we are looking at the rubric Fear, Fall upon him, High Walls
and Buildings. As this is not the rubric we require you need to tell Cara
Professional to repeat the last search. You can repeat a search of the matching
rubrics by pressing the SHIFT and F3 keys together. Do this now.
See how Cara Professional jumps to the next rubric that has the word HIGH in it
and displays it at the top of the screen? Now you should be looking at the rubric
we are interested in, Fear, High Places, Of. You need to tell Cara Professional to
remember this rubric. The question is, can you remember how to tell Cara
Professional to remember the rubric?
Hint : Click on the short cut button that has a tick on a clipboard.
We are now ready to locate the next rubric, Fear Narrow Place, In
Claustrophobia. Use exactly the same method as you just used to find the
previous rubric i.e. use the Find button.
Type in as few letters as you need to identify what you are looking for. In this
instance NARR will suffice. Doing this will reduce the number of typing mistakes
you make.
Once you have done this the rubric you are interested in is right at the top of
the screen - tell Cara Professional to remember this rubric now (take Cara
Professional’s defaults for the time being). Now press the HOME key. Note that
this takes you right to the beginning of the list of fears so that you can peruse or
even select other rubrics.
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Congratulations! You now have 3 of your case rubrics remembered.

Unsure of whether you've done it correctly? Then click once on the rubriclist
button marked A in the Coolbar (i.e. the left side of the screen) and you will see
all 3 of your case rubrics displayed.
You could of course have chosen to perform an All Books search for the word
CLAUSTROPHOBIA to find the 3rd rubric in the case. Alternatively you could also
have typed this word into the Chapter search. However you will find that if you
can group rubrics together in this way you will be able to find them very quickly.
Another point to note is that if you perform a Chapter search without typing in
any key words then Cara Professional will display the contents of the entire
chapter in Browse mode for you! Browse mode is a special display that shows
you the appearance of the printed book on the screen. You may prefer to work in
this familiar way - but in actual use it will prove slower to search for rubrics in
Browse mode. Browse will be explained in the next lesson of this tutorial.
Finally please note that the Chapter search also allows you to exclude certain
words from a search. This is not covered in this tutorial. Please refer to other
sections of this manual for more information. Now let's move on to the rest of
the case!
Lesson 4 Browsing
Browsing allows you to look at the repertory on screen as it appears in the

printed book. You may prefer to work in this format. Browse mode can also be
used to search for rubrics while you are browsing a chapter. There is one major
restriction if you decide to use Browse to search – you can only ever search
using one word within Browse.
Usually you will choose Browse when you have several rubrics to use in a
chapter and you are familiar with the layout of the repertory you are using. So
in our tutorial case lets learn to use Browse to find 3 rubrics in our case. To
choose Browse call up the Search Dialog as usual. Browse mode is automatically
performed by Cara Professional if the following criteria are met:-
 You have identified a book and chapter to work with

 You have the setting Automatic Browse Mode clicked on in this Dialog
 You do not type in any keywords
The next rubric you are going to find is Twitching of the face. So first of all you
need to select the Face chapter of the Combined Repertory. Practice finding the
picture that represents the face by clicking the mouse onto an icon. If you are
still having trouble deciding which icon represents which chapter then do not
forget that you can always switch on the button text if you prefer. So let us
continue.
Make sure the ‘Automatic browse mode’ switch is set ‘on’ i.e. it has a little x
inside of the check box before it. (if it doesn’t for some reason click it to set it
on). You should always leave this switch set on in normal use. Now clear out any
words being displayed (click the CLEAR button for speed) and click the SEARCH
button to continue. Cara Professional will now initiate browse mode of the Face
chapter of the Combined Repertory. You should see the following:-
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Like it? Before finding the case rubric we are looking for take a little time to
familiarise you with Browse.
To move around the chapter you can scroll down or up a screenfull (pagefull) at
a time. You cannot scroll up or down individual rubrics. Try pressing the key
PageDown (or PgDn) on your keyboard. Notice towards the top of the rubrics
Cara Professional displays a heading block for you. This contains the chapter
identifier and also the rubric which is displayed at the very top of the screen.
This is useful so you know exactly where you are. Often the indentation of
rubrics in the repertory might mean you would be unsure of exactly where you
were – with this header block you know exactly where you are at the top of each
page.
Notice how the remedies are displayed as they appear in the printed book –
except Cara Professional adds colour to the grades to make them stand out. You
can customise the display of the Browse mode extensively. One of the most
common changes you will make is to adjust the font of text used on the screen.
Please refer to the Customising section of the manual for information on how to
do this.
Practice moving down the chapter a few more times. Try using the mouse to do
this. You can click on the mouse scroll bar on the extreme right of the screen.
This differs from the usual mouse scroll bar you have seen before in that it only
has the top and bottom of the scroll bar and not the middle. This is to indicate to
you that you can only move up or down a screen-full at a time. To move down
with the mouse click on the downwards triangle/arrow on the mouse scroll bar.
Practice this a few times and then go up as well using the opposite scroll bar (or
use the key PageUp whichever you prefer).
Once you have practised this please go right back to the very beginning of the
chapter. Cara Professional provides a special mouse button for this. It is
positioned over the up triangle on the mouse scroll bar. Click this key (called the
HOME key) and Cara Professional will return you to the top of the chapter.
Now you are ready to find Twitching and we can use a really neat feature of Cara
Professional to help you do this. Whenever you are in Browse mode and want to
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search for something simply type in a few letters on the keyboard and Cara
Professional will automatically sense you want to search.
So now type in the letter T. See what happens? You didn’t have to press
anything else for Cara Professional to realise that you want to move around the
chapter. Notice that Cara Professional more correctly refers to this facility as
‘Jump to rubric’ – this is because whatever you type here will cause Cara
Professional to jump to the first word in the chapter that begins with what you
type in. This facility does not perform a search of every rubric of the chapter
looking for a word – it only jumps to the first word it finds that begins with what
you type in – hence it is referred to as a ‘jump’ facility (you can perform a full
chapter search by clicking on the Find button in the Toolbar exactly as
previously described for the Chapter search).
So now type in a few more letters to identify the rubric we are looking for. Type
in WIT also to make the jump word TWIT. Then click the OK button and after a
few moments Cara Professional will jump to that position in the chapter. Easy?
Now you need to tell Cara Professional to remember the rubric Twitching.
Remember you need to select the rubric by highlighting it and then clicking the
‘Add rubric to case’ button on the Toolbar. So bearing in mind that the browse
screen looks different to the previous search results screen how do you think
you should select the rubric Twitching? Yes, it is exactly the same process, so
click on the rubric name to highlight it. Make sure you click on the rubric name,
not on a remedy name.
If you have done it correctly it should look like this:-
with the hand and finger indicating which rubric is selected. You have to have
the mouse held over the rubric name to select it. Make sure you choose the right
rubric before proceeding. When you have selected the rubric Twitching add it
into the current case.
Time to move onto the next case rubric, Twitching of the hands and feet, in the
Extremities chapter!
Call up the Search Dialog once again and this time only change the chapter from
Face to Extremities and then click the SEARCH button. Type in exactly the same
jump word as before (i.e. TWIT) and Cara Professional will take you directly to
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that rubric also. Add it into our case. That was easy wasn’t it? Now you need to
learn a few more things about Browsing.
There is a restriction in Browse that once you have jumped to a rubric you
cannot page back beyond that point using the PgUp and mouse scroll bar. Try
moving back before Twitching now. It will not work. Please remember this rule
when using Browse.
If you need to move backward through a chapter then you either need to go
back to the beginning (use the mouse HOME key for easy return) or you can
type in a letter or two to jump to a new position in the chapter.
Try this now. Pretend that you wanted to jump backwards in the chapter to the
start of the rubrics that being with the letter I, then simply type the letter I and
jump there. See that you can type in just one letter and jump there? Its that
easy. You can jump around the chapter by typing in single letters as many times
as you want. Only bear in mind that you cannot page back using the key or
scroll bar.
At this point you should be looking at the rubric Incoordination at the top of the
screen. Now you are going to learn another nice feature of Browse. Move the
mouse around the screen without clicking a button. Notice that as you pass over
a remedy name the mouse cursor changes to the picture of a hand and finger?
This indicates that if you click on the remedy Cara Professional will display
information that remedy for you.
So position the mouse over the remedy IRID in the very first rubric,
Incoordination. Note that this remedy has the number 22 as a superscript after
it? This is an author number. It indicates which author made or suggested this
remedy as an addition to the rubric. Still holding the mouse over the remedy
IRID click the left mouse button. Cara Professional displays for you a little box as
below:-
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Here you can see the full Latin name of the remedy and also the Common name
(if stored in Cara Professional’s database of remedies). This is really useful
when you come across a remedy abbreviation you are not familiar with during
repertorisation.
It also confirms the name of the author who made this addition to the repertory.
In this case the remedy Iridium is credited to author number 222 Jeremy Sherr
as it was first published in his book Dynamic Provings Volume 1. The use of
author numbers is widespread throughout the Complete Repertory (if you have
purchased this book) and to a lesser extent in the Combined Repertory.
There are additional buttons you can select to get further information. Do not
press any of these now! As a taster for you this is what each does:-
View Displays materia medica information about the current

remedy
Authors Displays the names of authors who have made additions to

the repertory
Remedies Gives you further information about the current remedy

(including any multimedia information)
Relationships Displays the relationships for the current remedy.
You will use some of these facilities later on in this tutorial. Although the
temptation for you to explore and play will be strong at this point, reluctantly,
you should now click the CLOSE button.
Now you need to find and add the rubric Profuse perspiration into our tutorial
case. Try to find this on your own using the Browse facility (Hint - the process is
identical to the one you used to find the previous rubric i.e. change only the
chapter to Perspiration, and jump using a couple of letters for instance PR).
Time for a recap!
At this stage of this tutorial you have found 6 of the 9 rubrics in the case and
learned the basic 3 techniques for finding rubrics in Cara Professional’s
database.
Lets review when you would use each:-
All Books Search

Use this when you want Cara Professional to word search all books at the same
time to find all references to a word (or words). This is the easiest to use by far
– but may also be the slowest in computer response terms (however still quicker
than you could find manually of course!)
When using All Books make sure you choose your keywords carefully and never
ever use words like PAIN or TIME or HEAT or COLD.
Chapter Search
When you are pretty sure which book and chapter your rubric is in but you want
to browse through a few rubrics use Chapter Search.
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Browse
If you want to select several rubrics from one chapter (often the Mentals) and
know the structure of the repertory you are using. Remember that when
searching within Browse mode you can only search using single words.
There is a fourth search method, Thematic searching, available – please refer

elsewhere in this manual for details.
Now you are ready to find the last 3 rubrics in the case!
Lesson 5 Practising the Chapter Search
You are now going to practise the Chapter search some more. Before you do
anything else however we want you to learn an important principle.
Take a look at the Coolbar for a moment. Notice that Cara Professional has
added a new icon that looks like this:-
This is the Browse icon. The Coolbar is also displaying an icon representing
Search that looks like this-
Here is the important principle that you should commit to memory:-
Whenever the Coolbar displays an icon it is remembering what you last

did in that section.
So the Coolbar is still remembering your last search even though you have been
using Browse for the last 3 rubrics. Test this out for yourself. Click on the Search
icon in the Coolbar now. See? Now click on the Browse icon.
This is an incredibly useful facility. It means you can be browsing a chapter and
go off to perform a search on the entire repertory and still come back to where
you were browsing without losing your place.
In fact it is even better than that! Cara Professional will also remember your last
repertorisation and your last remedy relationships view as well as the 2 search
modes! More on these later as we will return to this topic.
What you need to remember at this stage is that the Coolbar allows you to
return to a previous action. The Toolbar (across the top of the screen) initiates
new actions. Try to remember this distinction and you will reduce confusion to a
minimum.
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Now you need to initiate a new search. The question is can you remember how
to get back to Chapter Search? If you can't, here's a new way to invoke it -
press the F2 key! That was easy wasn't it?
The next rubric you are going to find is painless paralysis of the extremities. And
this time we want you to use two keywords to find it. So make sure the
Extremities chapter is selected for use. You can clear out any previous values or
words quickly by clicking on the CLEAR button.
All you need do now is type in the letters/words Paral and Painl into two
separate boxes in the the list of key words boxes down the left side. You should
know how to do this by now. Remember you do not have to type in full words -
just enough letters for Cara Professional to work out what you are trying to find.
To move between keyword slots you can either click the mouse into the second
slot or you can press the TAB key twice. Start the Chapter search by clicking the
SEARCH button.
This time you have used 2 words in the Chapter search. When you do this Cara
Professional finds all rubrics that have both keywords somewhere in the rubric.
Now let's introduce you to a different way of remembering rubrics. Position the
mouse over the desired rubric i.e. the second one you are currently looking at,
and click the right (yes – right) mouse button. Cara Professional will display a
little menu for you as follows:-
As you can see this menu contains a list of the options you will use most
frequently when working with rubrics. The second option is Take rubric and
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clicking (left mouse button as usual this time) this option will also add this rubric
into the current case.
Try and remember the use of this right mouse button. It works
throughout Cara Professional and the options presented will be in
context of what you are currently viewing. Using the right mouse button
will be familiar to you if you are already using other Windows ‘95
programs. If you ever get stuck for ideas on a screen try the right mouse
button – it might just help you.
Now take a moment to use the Coolbar to check the progress of our tutorial
case. Look at the Coolbar. You will see it always has an icon (that looks like a
clipboard with letter A displayed on it) representing the current case as a
'Clipboards' or 'Rubriclists'. There are actually 5 of these rubriclists that you can
use when you get a little more confident in your use of Cara Professional.
In the Coolbar simply click the Rubriclist button once on clipboard A to review
the case so far and you will see the following:-
This should confirm to you all of the rubrics you have selected for inclusion in
the current case. Do not concern yourself with the meaning of all the new
symbols that have appeared on the right side of the screen. You will learn how
to use this a little later on when repertorising the case.
Now switch back to the previous search results you were just viewing. Forgotten
how to do this? Think……..Coolbar……think….Search button.
Time to move on and find the last 2 rubrics in the case!
Let’s find the rubric Offensive perspiration of the foot. Return to the Search
dialog. The last search you performed was in the extremities section so you do
not need to select a book and chapter. Click the CLEAR button to quickly remove
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the previous keywords. This time you are going to use 3 words to find this
rubric.
Type in :-
Per
Foot
Off
as the 3 keywords. Note you only have to type in a few letters not an entire
word for Cara Professional to work with. Minimising the amount you type in will
minimise the number of mistakes you will make.
Click the SEARCH button to perform the search and Cara Professional will really
narrow the results down again for you. The rubric we want is the very first one
displayed so add it into our case.
Now for the very last rubric! Without any prompting this time search and find
the rubric Position, Side, Left, on in the Sleep chapter. We recommend you use a
Chapter Search using 2 keywords to find this rubric but feel free to find it
anyway you prefer. When you've found it - remember it by adding it into the
current case.
Having found all of the rubrics in the case you are now ready to move on and
find the simillimum. That is why you really bought Cara Professional isn't it?
Lesson 6 Saving your Case
Now you are going to learn something very, very important. You are going to
learn how to save your cases on your computer's hard disk for use in the future.
Just suppose the doorbell rings while you are trying to repertorise. Also suppose
(although this is quite unlikely!) you might even be getting a little tired of
running through this tutorial right now!
The question is how do you save the case you are currently working on and
come back to it later?
Its easy! To save the tutorial case you are working on click the Save Case
shortcut button in the Toolbar. It looks like this:-
Click this button and you will see the following screen:-
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The first thing you should do is tell Cara Professional which directory on your
computer's hard disk you want to store your cases in. A good idea would be to
create a directory to store your cases. As supplied as default with Cara
Professional a directory called CASES has been automatically created for you on
your computer’s hard disk and this is what our screen displays show in this
manual.
However you can save cases to any hard disk and folder that Windows
knows about.
For now double click the mouse onto the folder named CASES to open it up
ready for you to save the current case. To save this tutorial case for future recall
type in the name you want to remember the case by. You do this by typing a
name for the case in the File Name slot. The name you use can be of any length
you desire and we strongly recommend the case name should always have a 3
letter suffix of WCC (which is why Cara Professional displays this by default).
Now type in the case name you want, for this tutorial we suggest you use
Tutorial.WCC. Do this now and click on SAVE when you are happy.
Saving in this way does not actually remove the current case from Cara
Professional’s working memory it saves it permanently to your hard disk - the
current case is still in Cara Professional’s memory.
To show you how to retrieve the case you have just saved on your computer's
hard disk let's first of all clear it out of Cara Professional’s memory. Click the
New Case shortcut button that looks like this:-
Click this once to clear out the tutorial case and prove to yourself that the case
really has been cleared from Cara Professional’s memory by clicking onto the
Rubriclist icon in the Coolbar. No rubrics will be displayed.
Now to recall the case you just stored click on the Open Case shortcut button
that looks like this:-
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You should see your case Tutorial.WCC displayed in the list of cases. To re-load
this case click the mouse onto this case and then click the OPEN button and you
will be returned directly to Cara Professional’s main screen. Click on the
Rubriclist button in the Coolbar and you will see the tutorial case just as it was
when you saved it.
Now you know how to save your cases and re-open them let's continue with the
rest of the tutorial.
You should be aware that Cara Professional allows you to record patient records
and associate consultations with each patient. This will be explained later in this
tutorial.
Lesson 7 Manipulating your case rubrics
Apart from the very first rubric in the case you were not asked to change the
grade or underline of any rubric you remembered. Therefore apart from the
rubric DESIRES FISH all the other rubrics should have 1 underline or weighting.
Let's check this and then prepare the case for repertorisation by assigning any
other remaining underlines. To view all of the rubrics you remembered click on
the Rubriclist button in the Coolbar and this screen will be displayed:-
Observe to the right of each rubric’s information under the column Attributes is
the grade of each rubric is listed. Note that the terms weight, underline and
grade are synonymous. Only DESIRE FISH should have 3 underlines marked so
far.
Although we have not previously told you this, the only other rubric in this case
that needs underlining 3 times is PERSPIRATION PROFUSE. You can change the
grade or weight of any rubric quite easily. Click the mouse anywhere along the
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rubric's Source column on the screen. You will see that Cara Professional
highlights it for you.
Then click the little picture to the right of the screen that looks like a weight and
is labelled 3. Clicking this changes the grade of a rubric to 3. Simple isn't it?
Now let's do the 2 underline rubrics. In this case ALL of the other rubrics in this
case need underlining 2 times with the exception of POSITION, SIDE LEFT ON
which is underlined once.
So avoiding that rubric and of course the ones you have already set to 3 quickly
go down the list clicking on each rubric in turn to highlight it and then clicking
the weight 2 picture.
Once you have done this you should see this:-
To avoid confusion with the Windows Clipboard Cara Professional uses the term
Rubriclist to refer to its 5 internal 'clipboards'. Remember that although you are
using only 1 rubriclist at present Cara Professional provides 5 Rubriclists (you
can switch these all on once you are confident in your use of the system.
Whenever you click on the first Rubriclist button (marked as A) in the Coolbar
you will always be shown all of the case rubrics - this initial list is also referred
to as the Master Rubric List and is called Rubriclist A. You will see this is always
set for each rubric to the right of the rubric's weight. (the little clipboard icons).
There are quite a few other things you can do from this master rubric list - in
fact you have probably been staring greedily at all of the buttons you can select!
However for now we will not be using those.
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You are now ready to repertorise the case! Any ideas which remedy is indicated?
You are about to find out.
Lesson 8 Reviewing your Repertorisation Strategies
You could at this point repertorise by clicking the Repertorise button in the
Toolbar. As this is a tutorial however we want you to be introduced to all the
important features of the program so that you gain an understanding of their
purpose and also learn how to use them if you need to.
So now click on the Strategies short cut button. Its the one that looks like a
Chessboard.
This screen is where you tell Cara Professional which remedies you want to
repertorise with, which repertorisation strategies you want to apply and what
order you want the remedies to be displayed in.
As you can see, by default, Cara Professional assumes you want to perform a
Totality repertorisation, applying no weighting criteria, presenting the results in
the style of a repertorisation chart, ranking the remedies by the number of
Rubrics Covered in each.
Looking at the Criteria at the bottom left of this screen you will observe that
each can be set off or on independently of each other. This is so that each can
be used in conjunction with any of the other strategies. You could therefore
switch on both Rubric Underlining and Stress Small Remedies when repertorising
and Cara Professional will take care of this for you. Impressed? You will be when
you start to use them!
If you think about these default settings they are designed to give you a
'neutral' classical repertorisation that uses everything in your case. It is always a
good idea to repertorise in this way in every case before you start experimenting
with all of the options you can use.
A very important point to remember is that by default Cara Professional will

repertorise all of the rubrics on the master Rubriclist A. As this is what we want
the first time you repertorise there is nothing further to do at present. So that's
what you should do now. Without changing any of the settings click OK to close
this screen down
You use the Strategies button whenever you want to vary the type of
repertorisation to be performed. Whenever you make a change Cara Professional
will remember the new settings until you return to this screen and change them
once again.
Time to move on and repertorise!
Lesson 9 Repertorisation
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Click on the Repertorise button - the one that looks like an Exclamation Mark as
follows:-
and you will see the following:-
You asked Cara Professional to repertorise using the defaults. The Totality
method is the default. This means that Cara Professional will add up all of the
remedy grades in each of the case rubrics and arrive at a score that reflects the
case overall i.e. the Totality. We will come back to the other methods
subsequently. Totality will be displayed at the bottom of the screen to confirm
this is so.
Take a little time to absorb the contents of this screen. Get familiar with it. You
are going to use this a lot!
The case rubrics are listed down the left and the most indicated remedies are
strung across the top to the right. You have 'spreadsheet-like' cells in the middle
and at the intersection of a remedy and a rubric you can see the grade the
remedy occurred in.
Look at the bottom of the screen. Displayed here is confirmation of exactly

which settings you are repertorising with. Currently Totality is displayed along
with the Sigma symbol which denotes remedies are ranked by rubrics covered.
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Underneath each remedy are 3 lines of scores, namely Weighted, Rubrics

covered and Rubric grades. The last 2 are self explanatory.
The Weighted score is displayed here so that if you performed an analysis using
any of the strategies (or the expert system) the effect of this would be displayed
in this score. As you are not using any strategies at the moment the Weighted
Score is the same as the Grades Score.
By default Cara Professional displays the remedies in order of how many rubrics
in the case each covers. See how Sulphur is at the top of the display? Looking
down the rubrics it only misses on DESIRE FISH. It covers 8 out of the 9 case
rubrics in total – check this by looking at the line labelled Rubrics covered.
Sulphur is in fact the only remedy that covers 8. The next 3 remedies, Nat-m,
Phos and Puls have all covered 7 of the rubrics.
Is this significant in this case? Or do you think this is another example of how
Sulphur always seems to come to the top of the every case you repertorise with?
You have to decide. Quickly browse the other remedies in the list to see if
anything catches your eye.
To show you how ranking remedies can affect the display significantly you are
now going to tell Cara Professional to change things a little. Click on the
Strategies button in the Toolbar (i.e. the one that looks like a chessboard). In
the Ranking method area click on the button labelled Rubric grades. This tells
Cara Professional that when you repertorise you want the remedies to be ranked
not by the number of rubrics they are in but by how high each remedy’s grades
are. Click OK to make your settings. Then repertorise once again by clicking on
the Exclamation Mark button in the Toolbar.
You can see that Lycopodium has jumped to the top of the list of remedies with
Pulsatilla close behind. Sulphur is relegated to third position with Nat Mur and
Silica not too far behind.
The Weighted score is now being shown on the screen for you - Lycopodium's
'score' of grades in this case is 15 while Pulsatilla's is 13. You can see
Lycopodium only covered 5 of the case rubrics. Pulsatilla covered 7 rubrics, 2
more than Lycopodium and looking down the list a little further Sulphur covered
8 of the case rubrics.
However, you can see that Lycopodium occurs in 5 of the rubrics in the top
grade and this is why it is at the top. You can see exactly which rubrics it occurs
in and those it misses. Pulsatilla occurs in more rubrics but in lower grades.
Now ask yourself - which is more important? The score a remedy has or the
number of rubrics it covers? There is no right or wrong answer to this question.
You have to use your experience to evaluate the case and decide for yourself.
What you should also notice is that there are very few 'small' remedies that
seem indicated. That is often the case when you initially repertorise.
Whatever you set as the Ranking method will be used every time you
subsequently repertorise.
Now look at the right and bottom of the remedy scores. There are 2 scroll bars
available to you. These allow you to scroll the screen display around as there is
more information available to you than can fit on 1 screen. If you use the
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bottom scroll bar and click the mouse to the right the remedies will scroll one at
a time and more remedies will appear. You can see every remedy that occurs
somewhere in the case in this way.
Actually you may find it quicker and easier to use the keyboard's right arrow key
to do this - its less 'fiddly' and works a little quicker.
If you have more rubrics in a case than can fit on 1 screen then you could also
use the right scroll button. This has the effect of scrolling the rubrics down and
up whilst leaving the remedies as they are.
Just before finishing this lesson reflect on the case.
You have performed a Totality repertorisation and Sulphur has come through
strongly covering the most rubrics. However there are other seemingly well
indicated remedies vying for your attention, namely Pulsatilla and Natrum Mur
not forgetting Lycopodium which occurs in less rubrics but with higher intensity.
Disappointingly no smaller remedies seem to be well indicated.
Lesson 10 Using the Strategies
What you are now going to do is learn how to use Cara Professional’s strategies
to provide you with more ideas about which remedies are really indicated in the
case.
So display the Strategies screen by selecting the Chessboard shortcut button.
Now switch ‘on’ the Rubric underlining strategy by clicking on its check box. Also
change the Analysis option to Weighted. Notice that Cara Professional has
automatically changed the Ranking method to Weighted as this is the only
sensible ranking to apply. It tells Cara Professional to order the remedies
according to how well they fit the criteria.
As you have finished with the Strategies screen for the time being close it down
by clicking on the OK button. Display the Repertorise screen by clicking on the
Repertorise shortcut button in the Toolbar (i.e. the Exclamation mark ! ).
What do you see? Lycopodium's still at the top - the other remedies are still
roughly the same - so unfortunately this criteria has not really helped us a great
deal.
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Reactivate the Strategies screen. Click off Rubric underlining and click on
Emphasise S,R&P (Strange, Rare and Peculiar). Click OK and go back and
Repertorise (you should be able to remember how to do this by now). This type
of weighting will stress those remedies occurring in any SRP rubrics in our case.
See the results this time:-
Note that the remedy Succ-ac (Succinum acidum) has shot to the top of the list
of remedies because it occurs in one of our small SRP rubrics and it is also a
weekly represented remedy in the repertory. See also how the remedy Fire is in
second position for the same reason (Fire is a newly proven remedy from Nuala
Eising that is included in the Combined Repertory). Lycopodium is no longer at
the top (as its occurrences were in the larger rubrics).
Our friends Sulphur and Pulsatilla are near the top but notice how Argent Nit has
jumped into fifth position. Succ-ac, Fire and Arg Nit? Well that's something else
for you to think about.
Now go back to the Strategies screen once again. Switch off Emphasise SRP and
switch on Stress Small Remedies. Close this screen and Repertorise.
Look at the results of emphasising small remedies. Hyoscyamus and Opium have
come to the top in our case - something else to consider. Do they have any
relation to this case? None of the other remedies do not seem to have a great
deal of similarity to this case so maybe this hasn't been too helpful to you. You
may be thinking…Hyoscyamus and Opium aren’t exactly small remedies, why
are they here? It will be useful for you to know that this criteria does not omit
any remedies from the repertorisation (note that Arg nit appears in third
position) it simply boosts up remedies according to their frequency of occurrence
in the repertory. Polycrests are therefore proportionally downrated.
Looking at the rubrics displayed it may interest you to note that Arg Nit is still
present even though Cara Professional was emphasising smaller remedies. This
is again worth stressing. When you choose this option it doesn't only display
small remedies. It boosts them up but still repertorises using all of the remedies.
Usually it has the effect of showing you which of the smaller have some degree
of indication in the case.
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So take a little time for reflection. The remedies that should be whirring through
your mind are Lycopodium, Pulsatilla, Natrum Mur, Argent Nit, Sulphur and
possibly Succ ac, Fire, Hyoscyamis and Opium. How do you decide between
them? Traditionally this is as far as some computer programs have gone - at this
point having given you some excellent remedies to consider they hand over to
you.
Cara Professional goes a couple of stages further than this however. Read on!
Lesson 11 Cara Professional’s Expert System (C.E.S.)
The main benefit of using the repertorisation strategies is that they provide you
with new ideas for indicated remedies. If you only had access to the traditional
repertory analysis you would now only be thinking of Lycopodium, Pulsatilla,
Natrum Mur and Sulphur.
However one of the main difficulties with all of these strategies is deciding which
one is right to use. Of course you may be thinking how happy you are just to
have some ideas for different remedies to consider! Cara Professional now offers
you the Expert System approach. This aims to re-consider your case applying all
of the different strategies at once in careful balance and harmony. You can use
this in each and every case you repertorise. So let's try using it with the current
case.
You invoke the expert system by calling up the Strategies Dialog (use the
Toolbar button or press the F5 short cut key)
Simply change the analysis option to Expert leaving the Ranking method set to
Weighted and switching off any selected criteria. At this point previously you
have been told to click the OK button and then click the repertorise button.
However you may have noticed that there is a button marked ANALYSIS on this
Dialog. This also performs a repertorisation for you – so click it now to rework
the case using the expert system mode.
See the following results?
As you can see the Expert System is quite clear that Arg Nit is the indicated
remedy. It also displays Succ ac and Sulphur prominently behind Arg Nit.
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Sulphur is placed in third position and Arg nit first even though Arg Nit does not
occur in any of the case rubrics in the highest grade and despite the fact that it
only occurs in 5 of the case rubrics. Notice that it misses on the rubric DESIRE
for FISH which was marked with 3 underlines. And the expert system still ranks
Arg Nit in first position!
Now you will recall that Arg Nit has figured a couple of times in the different
repertorisations we ran. The Expert System has however elevated it into first
position after consideration of all of the factors involved. In the traditional
'neutral' or 'flat' repertorisation Arg Nit was nowhere to be found.
Just reflect on the significance of this approach. You can use the Expert System
on each and every case you see as a kind of second opinion. Whenever the
Expert System suggests a remedy that was not in first position in a normal
repertorisation give it very serious consideration.
It will probably come as no surprise to you to find out that Argent Nit was
actually the curative remedy in this case. This case was presented by George
Vithoulkas at Edipsos in 1988 and the selection of rubrics and underlining come
from George himself.
The settings used in the expert system were chosen after careful repertorisation
of many cured cases. You can view the various settings by clicking on the tab
marked Expert settings from the Strategies Dialog. (refer elsewhere in this
manual for further details of these and how you can customise them)
Lesson 12 More advanced repertorisation techniques
So far you have learned how to use a few of the repertorisation strategies and
get good results. There are others not covered in this tutorial, namely Incidence,
Eliminating, Families, Classifications and Miasmatic. Once you are familiar with
the basics of repertorisation you should read elsewhere in this manual for
information in these other methods.
However there are several techniques you should become familiar with which
will extend the range of your repertorisation abilities. To see these in action you
need to be looking at the results of a repertorisation. Currently you should still
be viewing the results of the expert system analysis showing Arg nit as the most
indicated remedy.
Once you have repertorised a case Cara Professional provides various techniques
for you to apply. To see a list of them click the right mouse button whilst
viewing the repertorisation chart. Ignore for a moment the first two options –
these will be covered in the next tutorial lesson.
There are 5 ‘filters’ that you can apply to any case, namely:-
 Families
 Classes
 Elements
 Size
 Miasms
But before you use them a word of explanation. In order to support the use of
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remedies have been categorised however – some remedies in the repertory are
still not well known.
Families
Families represent groups of related remedies for example the Aurums or the
Calcareas. Lets see how this works in practice. Click the Families option and you
will be presented with a list of all of the remedy families in Cara Professional.
Choose the Acidums by clicking on that entry and then click the OK button. Cara
Professional reworks the case showing only the acid remedies!
Try this once again by clicking the right mouse button to get the menu back on
screen, choose Families and this time choose the Metals and press OK. Easy??
You will use the Families filter whenever you decide that a patient needs a
certain type of remedy, maybe a previous Metal prescription has only partially
worked, and you want to consider indicated alternatives in the same family.
Classes
Now consider Classes. This is more complicated than Families. Each remedy has
been classified in a 3 level hierarchy. An example would be the remedy Abies
canadensis. This is classified at the top level as a Plant remedy. It is further sub
classified as a Gynosperm and even further sub classified as a Pinaceae. Another
example would be the remedy Thuja which is also a Plant and also a Gynosperm.
However its lowest classification relates it to the family Cupressaceae.
Click on the Classes filter on the right mouse menu to see a list of the top level
classifications. Observe that they range from Minerals and Elements through to
Waters. Where there is a little + symbol this means you can expand the display
to see the sub-classification. Click on the + symbol before the Plants class. You
can now see the next sub class. Click the + symbol before the Gynosperms to
see an expansion of classes at the lowest level.
Now the point of using Classes is that they allow you to rework the case looking
only for remedies belonging to certain classes. And they allow you to choose
which level of classification to repertorise at. If you chose Plant as the level it
would not be of much use to you because there are so many plant remedies.
However choosing Gynopserm is a more manageable class to use. To choose
which class to use simply click on the textual description of whichever class you
wish to use. To see this work click and highlight Gynosperms and then click OK.
See how the case is re-presented and only 3 Gynosperm remedies are contained
in the current case?
Try this again. Bring up the right mouse menu and click Classes. This time you
are going to use Waters (i.e. remedies prepared from mineral waters). Expand
the Waters class by clicking on the + symbol. Note how the sub class is again
simply Waters. This is because there is no way (yet) to further classify these
water remedies. Several of the classes are like this. So when looking for Water
remedies it is simplest to choose the very top level of classification. Do this now
by highlighting the to level of Waters and clicking OK.
Classes will prove a very useful technique to use when you are looking for
similar remedies e.g. you have decided that a Snake remedy is called for in a
patient but Lachesis has failed.
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Elements
Choosing this filter presents you with a view of the periodic table for you to use.
Bring this display up now by clicking on Elements.
All of the elements coloured white have homoeopathic remedies derived from
them. Those coloured elements have no known homeopathic remedies derived
from them.
This periodic table display allows you to re-present the case using only remedies
associated with various elements. This view is heavily derived from Jan
Scholten’s work in this area and especially his book Homoeopathy and the
Elements.
You can use the periodic table in one of three ways:-
 Choose an individual element

 Choose a row of elements (a ‘Series’ as Jan Scholten calls it)
 Choose a column of elements (a ‘Stage’ as Jan Scholten calls it)
Time to try out a few!
Lets use the second row or series (actually Jan calls it the Carbon series). To
select an entire series click on the button to the extreme left of the first element
of the series. When you do this all of the elements in the series will be
highlighted. Now click the OK button and Cara Professional will repertorise the
current case for you showing only those remedies derived from the elements in
that series in order of indication.
Now try a stage analysis. Return to the right mouse menu, choose Elements and
this time choose column or stage 10 (headed by Carbon) -an entire Stage can be
selected by clicking the mouse on one of the arrows along the top of the periodic
table . So select the entire stage 10 by clicking on the arrow button at the top of
the Carbon element (C) . All the elements in the stage will be highlighted. Click
the Ok button to see the remedies.
Finally try selecting just one element for repertorisation. Return to the Elements
filter and choose the element Nitrogen. To choose an individual element simply
click on its button. As you do Cara Professional displays an information line at
the bottom of the screen confirming the element name. Rework the case
showing only those Nitrogen derived remedies in the current case. If you have
done this correctly you will see our indicated remedy Arg nit as the first remedy.
If you practice in a way sympathetic to Jan’s approach you will find this facility
invaluable. It is beyond the scope of Cara Professional’s manual to explain the
principles behind using the Series and Stages to analyse a case. For this you are
referred to Jan’s book Homoeopathy and the Elements (also available as an
optional work with Cara Professional)
Size
This simply allows you to Remove Polycrests from the display or to only Show
Small Remedies in the current case. Sometimes you just have to get rid of that
polycrest smokescreen in a case and get directly at those small remedies
waiting to be used.
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Miasms
Choosing this filter allows you to work only with remedies that correspond to a
miasms you select.
Finally a note of caution. Occasionally you may choose a filter that has no
representation in your case. In this circumstance Cara Professional will display
no remedies at all. To get back to the full Cara Professional results simply
choose Remove all filters form the right mouse menu.
Before moving on to the next lesson remove any filters currently applied and get
back to the expert system display of all indicated remedies. (right click the
mouse and select Remove all filters)
Lesson 13 Getting information on remedies
Once you have analysed and examined your case according to the way you
practice you will have narrowed the choice of remedy down to a few. At that
point you will need information on this list of remedies in order to help you make
a final decision.
The first thing Cara Professional can provide for you are the remedy
relationships for any remedy. In our current case we will now examine these
for the remedy Opium which is displayed on the current screen following our
expert analysis.
Position the mouse over the remedy Opium and click the right mouse button.
The remedy Opium will be highlighted/.selected and you will see the (by now)
familiar display of remedy filters but now the second option Remedy
Relationships is available for use. Left click the mouse on Remedy relationships
and Cara Professional will display for you information on Opium. This information
is compiled from Gibson-Miller and Ghiegas. Not all remedies have relationship
information available.
To return to the analysis chart display use the Coolbar and click on the
button/icon that represents the Chart. It looks like this:-
You may have noticed when you clicked onto Opium that the very first option
View Remedy was also available. This option is your entry into Cara
Professional’s database of remedies including access to materia medica and also
multimedia information on selected remedies. So now you are going to learn
how to access this store of knowledge!
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Right click on Opium once again and left click the View Remedy option and you
will see the following:-
The left side of the screen is Cara Professional’s alphabetical list of every remedy
in the database (approximately 2300 remedies). The list is positioned at Opium
as this is the remedy currently selected. To the right side of the screen you can
summarised information on Opium. Cara Professional lists the full Latin name of
the remedy as well as its abbreviation and, where recorded, the common name
of the remedy.
Underneath this are a series of switches that denote which miasms the remedy
is associated with. In this case Opium is only associated with the Psoric miasm –
denoted by the lighter blue shade on the switch.
The Size of the remedy in terms of its frequency of occurrence in the repertory
is shown, in this case Opium is classed as a Frequent remedy.
The remedy’s Classifications are shown underneath this and, where appropriate
the Families it belongs to.
At the bottom right portion of this screen are any multimedia entries for the
selected remedy. You should be able to see a picture of Opium in a little box (if
you can’t your computer display is not set correctly – refer to the Customising
section of this manual). Next to the ‘thumbnail’ picture is an icon that looks like
a loudspeaker. When ever this is ‘lit’ this means there is either a remedy image
available to view or an audio file for the remedy.
Click the mouse on the loudspeaker icon and you will be rewarded with a larger
photograph of Opium. The quality of the display can vary enormously from
computer to computer, on the screen resolution in use and on the number of
colours your graphics card is currently displaying. The remedy images provided
in Cara Professional are all scaled down to 256 colours to ensure they work with
the widest numbers of computers. Thus they are not the best photographic
quality that can be displayed. In future years when screen specifications are
improved further and the standard in use is 16million colours then we will be
able to show truly photo realistic remedy images – until that day arrives we will
have to get by with 256 colour images.
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When you are finished looking at this click the CLOSE button to return to the
main display. Click the CANCEL button to return to the main analysis chart
display. This time select remedy Bar-c (you may have to scroll along the page
using the mouse) by right clicking on it and then select View remedy.
Notice this time there is no photograph available for this remedy. However the
loudspeaker is lit up. This indicates there is an audio clip available for this
remedy. Click the loudspeaker icon. On the resulting screen click the ‘play’
button (the very first button that looks like an arrow or triangle) and you will
hear one of our contributors, David Mundy, discussing this remedy. If you
cannot hear anything and the progress indicator is moving across the screen
then your volume is too low or your sound system is not set up correctly.
Volume is adjusted using the standard Windows 95 Volume Control application.
Cara Professional contains photographs and audio clips on over 100 remedies.
All are accessed through this screen. Once you are looking at this screen you
can choose other remedies. To chose another remedy you need to either scroll
down the list on the left side of the screen or type in an different abbreviation
where it is labelled Find remedy.
Practice doing this by clicking the mouse into the Find remedy slot. Then remove
the entry for Bar-c by pressing the backspace key repeatedly. Now type in the
letters AD and the display will jump to that position in the database. You should
now be looking at the remedy Adamas or Diamond at the top of the list of
remedies. This remedy is newly proven by the Dynamis School and you should
be able to see a photograph of a diamond to denote this remedy. Click on the
loudspeaker button and play the associated audio clip. What better way to learn
about a remedy than by listening to the proving author explaining the essence of
the remedy (in this case Jeremy Sherr, renowned homoeopath, one of our
contributors and generally nice guy)
Try scrolling up and down the list of remedies yourself for as few minutes. See if
you can find remedies with photographs and audio clips and play them back.
Have fun!
Now you are going to move on to work with materia medicas!
Lesson 14 Viewing Materia Medica
While viewing remedy information you can see a button labelled VIEW.
Whenever you are looking at a remedy clicking this button takes you directly
into the materia medica side of Cara Professional. When you have decided
which remedy to prescribe you may find it useful to take a quick look at the
materia medica of the remedy.
To illustrate how this might work in practice close down the Remedy information
screen for a moment and return to the analysis chart display. If you were on the
verge of deciding to prescribe Arg nit for the current case you may wish to
review materia medica entries for the remedy before making a final decision.
So click on Arg nit to highlight it, then right click the mouse on it and then
select View remedy. Then click on the VIEW button. Cara Professional will take a
few moments to load the materia medica screen. Depending on how you have
installed your Cara Professional system and how many materia medicas you are
working with it can take Cara Professional a little while to open up your materia
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medicas. If you have left the materia medicas on CD it can take a little while to
start up the program. Once done however you will be shown a list of all of the
materia medicas in your system that have an entry for Arg nit.
Down the left side of the screen there is another area which resembles Cara
Professional’s Coolbar. Unlike Cara Professional’s usual Coolbar this always
contains a list of each materia medica that has an entry for the current remedy
i.e. Arg nit.
The very first book, Boericke, will be automatically opened for you to the
selected remedy and the text of the remedy will be displayed on the right side of
the screen. Use the mouse scroll bar on the extreme right side of the screen to
move up and down the remedy text.
To see what a different book has to say about a remedy you simply double-click
the appropriate book icon in the left area (note – you have to double click the
mouse on the desired materia medica icon) and that book will ‘open up’. Then
simply double click again on a remedy name to view the text from that book on
the right aside of the screen. (Note – this is different to Cara Professional’s
Coolbar. In the materia medicas you have to double-click to do things in Cara
you only single-click)
In this tutorial this is as far as we will use materia medicas. However you are
strongly urged to read the chapter on materia medicas later in this manual for a
full explanation on how to search the materia medicas for words and how to
create rubrics from materia medica for repertorisation purposes.
To leave the materia medicas click the Windows 95 X for exit button at the top
right of the screen and you will be returned back to the remedy information
screen.
Lesson 15 Comparing Remedies
Even though the C.E.S. and Cara Professional’s other repertorisation methods
will give you some good ideas about which remedy is indicated you should not
slavishly follow the remedy recommendations.
They can only be as good as the rubrics you choose, the repertory you use and
the underlines you assign.
It is always a good idea when you have narrowed the choice of remedy down to
compare them. Often you will be looking for the things that will help you
differentiate between remedies. Let's now illustrate this by comparing the
leading remedies in the current case. If you are still looking at the Remedy
information screen close down by clicking the CANCEL button.
Before comparing remedies you need to decide which you want to compare.
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So far, Cara Professional has given you ideas about Lycopodium, Pulsatilla,
Natrum Mur, Argent Nit, Sulphur and possibly Succ ac, Hyos and Opium. The
expert system has suggested Argent Nit.
In order to compare remedies you need to tell Cara Professional which ones you
want to compare. You can do this by double-clicking the mouse onto each
desired remedy name on the screen.
Try this first of all with Arg N. If you have done this successfully you will see a
little red flag symbol appear at the top of the remedy name - this indicates that
this remedy has been selected for comparison purposes.
Now do the same with Sulph and Op. At this point 3 remedies on the screen
should all have a little red symbol above them. Look down the list and try to
select Hyos. Finally select Cocc. Cara Professional allows you to select up to 10
remedies in this way. If you have done this successfully the remedies will now
look like this:-
To enter the Compare process you need to click the Compare icon on the
Toolbar. It looks like this:-
The Compare dialog will now be displayed as follows:-
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Take a little time out to look over this screen. Its quite a busy screen with lots of
things you can do on it. To the right of the screen you will see the list where you
select the remedies you want to use. On top of the list of remedies you will see a
number in brackets showing that you have already chosen 5 remedies for
comparison.
Cara Professional lets you use any repertory and any chapter to compare
remedies in. To change the current Book and/or Chapters simply click the book
button. Then make your chapter choices. You can choose to compare in all
chapters of the selected book. Recognising that you will mostly wish to compare
the mental rubrics of remedies Cara Professional provides an option for you to
select just that chapter. Finally by choosing the Specific chapters option you can
use the list of chapters underneath to select as many or as few as you like in
any combination.
A few words of advice are appropriate at this point. If you use All chapters as
your setting make sure you have a fast computer first of all!! Remedy
comparisons can take quite some time if you choose to scan an entire repertory.
In this tutorial we will use the Combined Repertory and only the Mind chapter
for our comparison. So make these settings now. Now locate the area where you
can type in keywords, click the mouse into the first position and type in the word
FEAR.
Now look towards the centre of the screen and you will see a section labelled
Filters. By default Cara Professional will extract all remedy grades which is why
grade 2 and 3 boxes are switched ‘on’ . Switch ‘off’ grades 1 and 2 by clicking in
the check boxes provided as we only want work with the highest grade of
remedy occurrence.
Now click on the Differential radio button. This tells Cara Professional you only
want to see the differences between your 5 remedies.
So a quick recap. The settings you have chosen tell Cara Professional to do the
following:-
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Search the Mentals chapter of the Combined Repertory looking for all grade 3
(highest) occurrences of the 5 remedies but only display rubrics that
differentiate between the remedies i.e. only show rubrics that have 1 of the
remedies in them.
Perform the comparison by clicking the Compare button. As Cara Professional

extracts information for you a progress bar will move across the bottom of the
screen.
Once finished you will see that above each rubric is the remedy name of the
remedy extracted from that rubric. As you requested a differential comparison
only 1 remedy should be above each rubric. Always read this screen by looking
at the remedy and immediately below it the rubric it relates to.
You can see that in the whole of the Mentals chapter that there are very few
rubrics that match your comparison criteria. Note how Arg Nit is the only one of
those 5 remedies that has FEAR - LATE, OF BEING in the highest grade (you
may have to scroll down the page using you rmouse). Note also how Hyos is the
only remedy present in the highest grade in Fear, People of.
Let's try a different comparison. Bring up the Comparison Dialog by clicking the
appropriate button on the Toolbar or press the F3 shortcut key.
This time change the keyword FEAR to DELUSION and re-run exactly the same
comparison. After a little time you will see that Arg Nit has DELUSION -
DESPISED IS. And if you had noted that your patient indeed felt that way
because of her problems this would be a strong confirmation of the choice of
remedy.
You can use this Compare remedies facility using any remedy and any rubrics in
the entire database! Please read other sections of this manual or the online help
provided for a full explanation of all the facilities available when comparing
remedies.
Lesson 16 Saving your Case (Part 2)
Although you already know how to save a repertorisation on your computer's

hard disk there is something else you may wish to know. In this final tutorial
lesson you are going to learn how to create a new patient in the database and to
record some visit notes for this patient.
First of all you need to tell Cara Professional you want to record some visit
notes. So click the button on the Toolbar that looks like this:-
and you will see:-
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Click the little icon immediately following the patient name slot and Cara
Professional will display a screen containing all of your existing patient records.
Of course at present you do not have any so this screen should be empty. Now
click the little icon that is lit up towards the top of the screen and Cara
Professional will present you an empty patient record to complete.
Here you simply type in the fields of data that you wish to record. Click on the
record tabs to type in Address, Contact, Notes and any Miscellaneous details.
Take a few minutes out to type in any patient details you wish. You will find it
advantageous to adopt a fixed style for input of your patient names. You could
use any of the following styles:-
Stevenson, John
John Stevenson
J Stevenson
Stevenson J
and so on. Of these the first is preferable as this will allow you to search for
patients more easily when you need to. Click OK when you have typed in your
patient details and Cara Professional will create a new record in the database for
you.
Now whenever this patient returns you can amend this information if the details
change or, more importantly, you can record each visit they make. Now you
should be back looking at the visit notes card and the patient name should be
displayed at the top of this screen.
All you need do for this tutorial is type in the following:-
Prescribed : “Arg nit”

Potency: “1m”
Visit date: Click on the little icon to the left of this field to accept today’s date
To Do: “Send invoice”
And in the free format area in the bottom half of the screen type in whatever
information pops into your head! When done click the OK button.
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At this stage it is important for you to realise that the visit notes have not
actually been saved to your computer’s hard disk yet – only the new patient
record has. You still need to save the visit to hard disk exactly as explained in
the previous lesson on saving.
You should therefore click the icon of the floppy disk on the Toolbar. Of course
as you have previously saved the case you are working on, Cara Professional will
now simply ask if you wish to overwrite what you saved before.
Tutorial Summary
Many topics available in Cara Professional have not been covered in this tutorial.
There has been no time to explore the Annotations facility within Cara
Professional. Make sure you read the User Guide to find out how you can start
using this exciting facility right away! Make sure you also read up on all the
different repertorisation methods you can employ - you have not yet used all the
options available to you! Make sure you also read up on how you can get
Remedy Relationship information and on how to make your own additions into
Cara Professional!
You have now completed the tutorial - truly a whirlwind tour of Cara
Professional! You should practice on your own for a while now to get familiar
with all of the screens and keys and buttons you will be using in the coming
years.
Although you have worked through the main features of the program be advised
that we did not cover a large part of the program - many features remain
unexplored. However you have worked through all of the facilities you need in
order to repertorise your cases and you can feel confident in your ability to
repertorise.
If you need more information on parts of the program you are referred to
subsequent chapters of this manual.
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Chapter 6 Repertories and rubrics
Searching
Cara Professional lets you search the repertories in 4 different ways. Each search
is initiated using one search dialog. To invoke the search dialog click the button
in the Toolbar that looks like this:-
or press the F2 shortcut key.
Before performing a search you can remove any previous search criteria by
clicking the CLEAR button.
Search the repertories for words
Using this option allows you to search the entire database of repertories that you
have installed simultaneously for words. You do not need to understand the
content or structure of a repertory to use this facility.
At the simplest level this involves :-
 Clicking the All books radio button under the heading Books.
 Typing in the word you wish to search for in the Keywords section
 Clicking the SEARCH button
Various options are available to you when searching all repertories.
You may instruct Cara Professional to use synonyms of words when it is

searching. Then if you typed in the word ABODE to search for, Cara Professional
will automatically find rubrics that contain this word and its synonyms. In this
example Cara Professional would find all rubrics that had the word HOME in
them. To ensure Cara Professional always uses synonyms when you search all
repertories click the Use Synonyms box on at all times.
As you are typing in words to search for you can click the question mark symbol.
When you do this Cara Professional will display a list of all words contained in
the word indexes that begin with the keyword you have just typed in. If you see
a word you wish to search for you can click on it and click the TAKE button to
save you further typing.
Take care when choosing words to use for searching. As you are searching every
repertory and every chapter and every rubric within each chapter some words
have many thousands of entries associated with them. Examples of such words
are PAIN, TIME. LEFT, and WARM. The result of choosing such words to search
with will be extended delays waiting for Cara Professional to locate all entries
and a list of results that will be unmanageable. Try to use only 1 search word if
at all possible as this will give you the fastest response.
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Search a specific repertory and chapter
If you know where your desired rubrics are located choose this option.
Using this involves:-
 Clicking the radio button of the book you wish to use

 Clicking on the icon of the chapter you wish to use
 Typing in keywords
 Clicking the SEARCH button
Murphy’s Repertory and the Complete Repertory will only be available to you if
you have purchased these as optional extras to your Cara Professional system.
As you click on a book an appropriate set of chapter icons will appear for the
book selected. If you experience difficulty understanding which icons represent
which chapters switch on the option named Show button text. This will overlay
a small textual abbreviation of each chapter and will stay in effect until you
switch it off.
As you click on a chapter to select it Cara Professional will display the name of
the chapter under the heading Current chapter. If you mistakenly choose the
wrong chapter simply choose another before proceeding.
This search method allows you to type in up to 3 keywords. This allows you to
be specific about your search criteria and go straight to your desired rubrics. The
order you type the keywords in is not important. Cara Professional will search
every rubric in the selected chapter for al the keywords you type in irrespective
of the order and display all rubrics that match.
You can obtain a list of main rubric headings in the selected chapter by clicking
on the question mark after each keyword slot. If you haven’t typed in any letters
Cara Professional play an alphabetical list of all major rubric headings for you to
peruse and use. If you have typed in a letter or two Cara Professional will show
you those rubric headings that begin with the letters you typed.
Cara Professional also allows you to specify a word to exclude from the search
results. This is useful when you want to restrict the number of rubrics returned
from a search.
To start the search click the SEARCH button.
Browse a repertory chapter
If you want to open up a repertory and chapter and browse through the rubrics
and remedies you should :-
 Click the radio button of the book you wish to use

 Click on the icon of the chapter you wish to use
 Click on the option Automatic browse mode
 Click the SEARCH button
Do not type in any keywords or Cara Professional will interpret this as a request
to perform a search and will not open the selected chapter for browsing.
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Search the repertory for a theme
If you want Cara Professional to find rubrics that may match a theme you see
running through a case then you should :-
 Click on the themes pull-down icon to get a display of theme words

 Type in a few letters to identify the theme you are interested in
 Select it by clicking the mouse on it
 Click the OK button to accept the theme
 Click the SEARCH button
Once you select a theme Cara Professional ignores all other settings (even if you
type things in) and will only use the selected theme word to search.
Thematic searching uses only the Mental and Dream rubrics from the Combined
Repertory and ignores all other repertories and chapters.
Working with Themes

The use of a thematic approach has been incorporated into Cara Professional
with the co-operation with Dr Jose Mirilli who has pioneered the use of this
approach as a more accurate and meaningful way of finding the indicated
remedy.
A compete set of over 300 themes is provided in Cara Professional. We have

associated rubrics in the Combined Repertory with the themes they relate to
according to the work of Dr Mirilli. To use this facility all you need do is perform
a Thematic Search as previously explained.
For the theory behind this approach you are referred to Dr Mirilli’s publications
on the subject.
Cara Professional further allows you to edit the list of theme words supplied and
associate other rubrics to these themes. This allows you to create your own
‘groups’ of rubrics for searching purposes. An example might be if you wished to
create new themes to represent the miasms and then associate those rubrics
you think most expressive of those miasms. Then a search within Cara
Professional for the new theme of ‘Sycotic’ would rapidly yield you a list of those
rubrics.
You are free to create whatever new themes you desire and to associate
whichever rubrics you wish.
To create new themes or edit existing ones click the Edit menu, option Add or
Edit Themes. To associate a rubric with a theme word, locate the rubric using
any of Cara Professional’s search methods and then right click the rubric
choosing option Edit Themes.
Information
Cara Professional contains information on rubrics and the words that make up
the rubrics. Whenever you are viewing rubrics as a result of any search method
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To see any additional information highlight the desired rubric and then click the
button the Toolbar that looks like this:-
If there is a photograph associated with a rubric then it will be displayed on the

left side of the dialog. If a definition or explanation of the words used in the
rubric is available these are displayed on the right side of the dialog.
To browse through a list of the internal word dictionary within Cara Professional
click the Dictionary button. Then to see a list of all of the words use the pull
down list box towards the top right of this dialog as shown below:-
Cara Professional allows you to edit any existing entry supplementing

information and even to create new words in the dictionary.
Seeing the remedies for a rubric
Whenever you are looking at rubrics following a search you can highlight the
rubric and see all of the remedies associated with it (if you are Browsing you can
always see the remedies) by clicking the remedy bottle button on the Toolbar.
Here is an example:-
Cara Professional presents the remedies alphabetically showing the grade of the
remedy in the current rubric, the author who made this addition to the repertory
(primarily for use with the Complete and Combined Repertories).
The list of remedies may be ordered and filtered. To order by any of the columns
present click on the column header. To filter by grade of remedy (i.e. show only
the grade 3 remedies) click off any of the 3 grade buttons to the top of the
dialog.
In a long list of remedies you can also type in a few letters to locate a specific
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Highlighting a remedy in the list will cause Cara Professional to display further
information about the remedy on the right side of the screen. Where available
you will be given the full Latin name of the remedy and its common name.
Miasmatic affiliation is shown as is the Size, Classification and Families this
remedy belongs to.
Additionally if any multimedia information is available for a remedy the

loudspeaker button will be lit and available for you to use and a thumbnail
photograph may be displayed (as in the above example)
The VIEW button will take you directly to materia medica for the selected
remedy.
Annotations
You can annotate any rubric in any repertory with a textual note. Annotations
are permanently recorded in Cara Professional’s database.
Annotations can be used to retain any important information on rubrics or the

remedies within the rubrics that you wish.
An example might be the compilation of therapeutic indicators for remedies in

important rubrics.
Another excellent use of annotations is when you intend making changes to

rubrics and recording them in the User area. You can record an annotation
against the originating rubric used so that you will be reminded a user addition
has been made previously.
Creating or amending annotations
Whenever you are viewing rubrics, either in Browse or Search mode, simply
highlight the desired rubric and click the annotation button in the Toolbar that
looks like this:-
Cara Professional will overlay a small ‘post-it’ style note onto the screen. If an
annotation does not exist an empty annotation note will be displayed ready for
you to type in your annotation. If an annotation already exists then the note will
be displayed with the text displayed exactly as you typed it.
When keying annotations each must be given a title by clicking into the space
provided at the top of the annotation. The main body of the annotation is where
you type in large amounts free format text to be saved in your Cara Professional
system forever.
To permanently save or update an annotation click the  icon. Whenever you

return to this rubric again in future repertorisations Cara Professional will
indicate for you that an annotation is present by displaying a post-it style note
next to the rubric.
In Browse mode this looks like this:-

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In Search mode you will only see this if you have customised your system to
show the Information Line (refer Customisation chapter).
Deleting an unwanted annotation
If you decide to delete an annotation you made previously locate it and display it
on screen. Click on the red X icon next to the green tick to permanently remove
it from your system.
Searching annotations
When you have made a lot of annotations into your Cara Professional system
you can use the Annotations Search facility to look for specific notes you made.
To use this facility click the Search menu, option Annotations Search.
A list of all your annotations will be displayed. You can browse down the list
looking for annotations you are interested in. The title you gave to each
annotation is displayed ( a good reason for giving meaningful titles to your
annotations).
You can also search all of your annotations for specific words or phrases or
expressions. Simply type these into the slot labelled Look for. Whenever you do
this and click the magnifying button next to it Cara Professional will search every
entry and display for you a list of matching annotations. Cara Professional does
not search the titles of each annotation but the content making this a very
powerful facility.
So if you want to search for all the annotations you made recently after
attending a Robin Murphy seminar on therapeutic remedy differentials but can’t
remember exactly what you recorded Cara Professional can search for you. And
if you made sure you typed in the word Murphy into the text of each annotation
Cara Professional will successfully retrieve each and every annotation made with
his name in it.
And once you have found the annotations you are looking for you can select one
by clicking on it with the mouse. Then when you click the DISPLAY button Cara
Professional will open and search the repertory to the exact rubric the
annotation is recorded against and display it for you.
This incredibly useful facility can therefore be used as a shortcut to rubrics using
free format text rather than the more structured use of keywords or theme
words.
Customising your annotations
Whenever an annotation is being displayed you can change several visual factors
relating to it.
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 Set the screen position annotations are to be displayed at

 Print the annotation
 Set the colour of the annotation background
To do any of these click the icon of the yellow post-it note at the top left corner
of the annotation.
Copying rubrics to the Windows clipboard
Whenever you are viewing the results of a repertory search or a comparison

extract you may copy one or more rubrics to the Windows clipboard. You may
want to use the information in a presentation or a lecture assignment for
illustrative purposes.
Simply select rubrics by clicking on them. To select several rubrics press and
hold down the CTRL key as you click rubrics. To select the entire list of rubrics
following a repertory search click the menu Edit, option Select All.
To copy a rubric or selected group of rubrics to the clipboard click menu Edit,
options Copy or Copy All.
Important Note
This facility is designed to work efficiently only with small groups of rubrics.
Even on faster computers selecting any more than a small group will take a
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Chapter 7 Rubriclists
Rubriclist is Cara Professional’s term for the 5 work areas that you can assign
rubrics to for manipulation and repertorisation.
Following a Repertory Search, Repertory Browse or Remedy Comparison you can

assign any rubrics displayed to rubriclists. The maximum number of rubrics that
a rubriclist can hold is 250.
Rubriclists and the Coolbar
By default Cara Professional only displays one rubriclist in the Coolbar. This is to
make the system easier to use on initial loading. While only one rubriclist is
being displayed repertorisation is limited to only that rubriclist.
However all 5 rubriclists can be displayed in the Coolbar by customising Cara

Professional. Please refer to the appropriate chapter of this manual for
information on this.
Assigning rubrics to rubriclists
The 4 ways to assign a rubric to a rubriclist are:-
 Clicking the appropriate Toolbar button after selecting a rubric

 Double-clicking a rubric
 Clicking the right mouse button followed by Take Rubric
 Dragging and dropping a rubric directly onto a rubriclist
Whenever a rubric is assigned to a rubriclist Cara Professional will prompt with a

dialog requesting additional settings for the rubric, for example, the weighting to
be used, which rubriclists to assign it to, and whether the rubric is to be marked
as Eliminative or Causative. As these settings can also be made by manipulating
the rubriclist directory Cara Professional allows you to disable this continual
prompt. Refer to the Customisation chapter for information on this. While this
prompt is extremely useful when beginning to use the system disabling it will
considerably speed up the process of working with rubrics.
Whichever method is used to assign a rubric to a rubriclist a weighting or grade

for the rubric can be made by holding down a numeric key, 1, 2 or 3 at the same
time as the assignment is being made. This shortcut further aids an experienced
user in streamlining their use of the system..
Viewing the contents of a rubriclist
The only way to view the rubrics assigned to a rubriclist is by clicking on that
rubriclists button in the Coolbar.
Following an All Books repertory search the rubriclist buttons in the Coolbar will
be replaced by buttons for each repertory. To return to the usual Coolbar display
click the column header titled Books.
Switching between different rubriclists is achieved by clicking the corresponding

rubriclist button in the Coolbar.
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Assigning rubrics to other rubriclists

Rubrics must be selected by clicking on the Source column of the rubric before
any operation can occur.
Rubrics can be assigned to other rubriclists in one of two ways:-
 Selecting a rubric and dragging and dropping it to another rubriclist

 Selecting a rubric and clicking a corresponding button to the right of the
rubric of the desired rubriclist
Dragging and dropping rubrics between rubriclists requires that all rubriclists are
displayed in the Coolbar.
Giving values to rubrics on a rubriclist

When viewing rubriclists an additional toolbar appears to the right of the
screen :-
This side toolbar allows to see additional settings for each rubric and to
manipulate those settings.
Moving rubrics around
The position of rubrics on a rubriclist can only be changed while viewing

rubriclist A.
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To change position of rubrics on a rubriclist select the desired rubric and then
click either of the Uparrow or Downarrow buttons on the side toolbar as
appropriate.
Removing rubrics
Select the rubric to be removed from the current case and click the X button in
the side toolbar.
Removing a rubric from any rubriclist also removes it from all rubriclists.
Setting Rubric Weighting
Each rubric can be allocated a weighting from 1 to 3. The weight or grade of

each rubric is shown on each rubric line.
Such weightings are used in several repertorisation strategies, especially the

Expert method, to analyse your case. Weighting a rubric with a 3 will
proportionally emphasise all of the remedies within that rubric during
repertorisation.
Changing a rubrics grade is achieved by selecting the desired rubric and clicking
on the appropriate weight button in the side toolbar.
Each rubric can also be marked as Eliminative or Causative. Eliminative means

that the rubric can be used as an eliminating rubric in the repertorisation
method of the same name.
Causative has a special meaning. It means that in the current case this rubric is
expressive of the etiological cause of the patient’s conditions e.g. a severe Grief
led to all the troubles. Marking a rubric as Causative has a special significance to
the Expert repertorisation method only – it is not used anywhere else. Any
rubric marked as Causative will be significantly stressed during Expert method
repertorisation.
Note :-
All buttons on the side toolbar concerned with rubric grades and settings
operate as ‘toggles’,. Clicking them switches the setting between ‘on’ or
‘off’. A setting is ‘on’ when it appears depressed on the screen.
Combining rubrics
Combining is a valuable repertory technique. Combining allows you to merge
together all of the remedies for a set of rubrics into one ‘super-rubric’ for
repertorisation purposes.
Combining 2 or more rubrics is achieved by placing all of them onto a separate

rubriclist of their own and then clicking the Combine button in the side toolbar.
It looks like this:-
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Cara Professional then displays the combine dialog. As every rubric in Cara
Professional’s database requires a chapter name to be associated with it Cara
Professional defaults this to the User defined chapter. This chapter may be
amended to any other by using the scrollable list of chapters displayed.
Cara Professional suggests a name for the rubric to be created by concatenating

the names of the combing rubrics. If more than 2 rubrics are being combined a
new, meaningful name should be typed in by the user. The name should also
provide some indication of the sources of the combined rubric if at all possible.
The desired attributes for the soon-to-be-combined rubric can be set on the left
side of the combined dialog.
The object of combining is to create a new rubric that contains remedies drawn
from all of the rubrics being combined. Cara Professional offers 3 approaches
when combining:-
 Inclusive : use every remedy from every rubric

 Exclusive : use only those remedies that occur in all of the rubrics
being combined
 Selective : use only remedies with the same grade as specified
If Selective is chosen then appropriate remedy grades must also be set.
Cara Professional also provides a PREVIEW button as an option when combining.

This option can be used to review the projected contents of the combined rubric
prior to a final combine being made. Once the COMBINE button is used a new
rubric will be created according to all the criteria specified and all of the rubrics
used to create this new rubric will be removed from the current case.
Combined rubrics can themselves be used to create further combination rubrics.

Once a rubric is combined it can be used to in repertorisation just like any other
rubric. Combined rubrics can also be manually edited and even saved to the
User area for future use (see following sections)
Un-Combining a rubric
Any rubric that has been combined can be uncombined. The process of
uncombining can be used for 2 purposes:-
 To view the rubric actually comprising the combined rubric (an ‘audit trail’)
 To restore the original rubrics in the case and to remove the combined rubric
The button for Uncombining is on the side toolbar and looks like this:-
Editing rubrics
Any case rubric displayed on the current rubriclist can be edited. Editing in this
context means adjusting the name of a rubric or its associated remedies and
their grades.
To edit a rubric select it and then click this button on the side toolbar:-
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and Cara Professional will display the Edit dialog. The use of this is exactly the
same as described in the chapter on ’Making your own additions’ elsewhere in
this manual with one exception.
The exception is that a Chapter name must be associated with the rubric. If it is
intended to subsequently export an edited rubric to the User area a chapter
name of ‘User defined’ is recommended.
Rubrics may be edited simply for the purpose of use in this current case i.e.
their contents will be lost once the current case is closed. Alternatively rubrics
may be edited not only for the purpose of use in the current case but with the
express intention of saving the edited rubric in the User area for future use.
Another common use of editing rubrics is following an export from the materia
medicas section of Cara Professional. An export from materia medicas creates
a new rubric on the current case rubriclist(s). The remedies associated with this
new rubric will all have a grade of 1. Editing can be used to assign different
grades to these remedies.
Creating a brand new rubric
Cara Professional allows you to create a brand new rubric of your invention i.e. a
rubric not based or derived from an existing rubric in the database. Such new
rubrics of your invention can be used simply for the duration of the current case
or they can be created for the purpose of exporting into the User area.
The button to achieve this in the side toolbar is:-
Export to user defined

This option on the side toolbar:-
allows you to copy every rubric on the currently open rubriclist into the user
defined area.
Rubrics can be exported in their original state (i.e. as found in the repertory) or
following editing (refer back to previous section). The current case rubrics are
unaffected following export to the User area.
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Chapter 8 Repertorisation
The process of repertorisation comprise the following:-
 Choosing a rubriclist to analyse

 Setting your strategies
 Analysing the results
 Applying Filters
Choosing a rubriclist
The active rubriclist is always repertorised. The active rubriclist is defined at that
rubriclist which is currently displayed on the screen. If no rubriclist is being
displayed on the screen then Cara Professional will always sue rubriclist A as the
default for repertorisation.
To make rubriclist active involves clicking its button in the Coolbar.
If only one rubriclist is currently available in the Coolbar then this is always used
for repertorisation.
A case may be repertorised and re-repertorised switching between rubriclists by

simply clicking on the desired rubriclist in the Coolbar and then repertorising.
Setting your strategies
All strategies are set in the strategies dialog invoked by clicking the following
button in the Toolbar:-
Cara Professional uses whatever strategies are set and in force whenever you
repertorise.
Strategies & Ranking methods
Cara Professional allows the following strategies to be set :-
 Totality
 Weighted
 Expert
 Eliminating
 Incidence
 Families
 Classes
 Miasmatic
And will order (or rank) the results by one of the following:-
 By weighted score
 By number of rubrics covered
 By the total of rubric grades each remedy has
 Alphabetically by remedy name
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Totality Weighted
Expert Eliminating Incidence
This strategy adds up all of the occurrences of every remedy in each case rubric.
No remedies or rubrics are omitted or emphasised. This is often referred to as a
‘flat’ or ‘neutral’ analysis. A count is made of the total number of rubrics each
remedy has covered and in what grades.
If Totality is selected Cara Professional automatically selects the ranking method

as ‘Rubrics covered’ as this is the most logical sequence. An alternative
sequence would be ‘Rubric grades’ which orders the remedies by the total of all
of their grades.
This uses what ever Criteria are applied (see subsequent sections) to repertorise
the case and to boost remedy grade scores.
If Weighted is selected Cara Professional automatically selects the ranking

method as ‘Weighted score’ as this is the most logical sequence. No other
sequence should be selected.
This applies ALL of the Criteria automatically using pre-set values that have
been determined by testing and proving against cured cases. These pre-set
values can be inspected and even amended by clicking the Expert settings tab.
If Expert is selected Cara Professional automatically selects the ranking method

as ‘Weighted score’ as this is the only sequence that will display correctly for the
Expert method.
This repertorises and only uses remedies that occur in those rubrics marked on
the rubriclist as Eliminating. If a remedy does not occur in all of the Eliminating
rubrics it is ignored.
This method is sometimes referred to as ‘Crossing’.
If Eliminating is selected Cara Professional automatically selects the ranking

method as ‘By rubrics covered’ as this is the most logical sequence. An
alternative sequence would be ‘Rubric grades’ which orders the remedies by the
total of all of their grades.
This method adds up the total of a remedies grades and multiplies it by the
number of rubrics the remedy has covered in the case to arrive at a score.
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Families
Classes Miasmatic Rubric underlining
No criteria are applied.
If Incidence is selected Cara Professional automatically selects the ranking

method as ‘Weighted score’ as this is the only logical sequence.
This analyses the entire case and reports the main families of remedies running
through the case. No ranking method can be applied for this analysis method.
This analyses the entire case and reports the main classifications of remedies
running through the case. No ranking method can be applied for this analysis
method.
This analyses the entire case and reports the occurrence of the 3 main miasms
running through the case. No ranking method can be applied for this analysis
method.
Criteria
Cara Professional provides 4 criteria that can be applied when repertorising.
These are:-
 Rubric underlining
 Stress significance
 Emphasise Strange, Rare & Peculiar rubrics
 Stress small remedies
These criteria are intended for use primarily with the Weighted strategy
although they could be usefully used with the Eliminating strategy also.
Criteria can be used in conjunction and in any combination with each other.
If rubrics have been assigned weightings or grades in the rubriclist these are
used to proportionally increase the score of all the remedies present in those
rubrics.
Stress significance
This criteria boosts the score of remedies that have a significant presence in
certain rubrics. For example if a remedy is the only remedy present in grade 3
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Stress Small Remedies
Emphasise S.R. & P.
and all other remedies are grade1 this is deemed a significant occurrence and
the remedy’s score is boosted accordingly.
This criteria looks for rubrics in your case that have less than 6, 10 or 15
remedies in them and boosts the scores of those remedies proportionally.
This checks the results and boost remedy scores according to how well or poorly
represented they are in the repertory. Thus a remedy like Succ ac which is
poorly represented in the repertory will receive a boost in it score whereas a
polycrest like Sulphur will receive no boost at all.
Presentation Methods
The results of the Totality, Weighted, Expert, Eliminating, Expert and Incidence
repertorisation methods can be viewed as a Repertory Grid Chart or as a simple
Bar Chart and this may be selected in the Strategies dialog.
The Families, Classes and Miasmatic methods can only be represented by the
Group chart.
Analysing the results
Repertorising is initiated by one of two means:
 Clicking the Analyse button in the Toolbar will immediately cause Cara
Professional to repertorise using the currently open rubriclist (or rubriclist A
if none is being viewed) using whatever strategies are currently set.
 Clicking the ANALYSE button in the Strategies dialog
If you use one repertorisation method primarily you should set it once in the
Strategies dialog and then use the Analyse button on the Toolbar for quickest
repertorisation.
If you like to change your strategies in each case experimenting with the results
then you will find it easier to use the second method
The mouse scroll bar or keyboard can be used to move around this chart.
Additional remedies can be viewed by scrolling the display to the right. More
rubrics can be viewed by scrolling the display down. A special mouse button
called HOME is available. This quickly returns the chart display back to the first
rubric and the first remedy. The HOME key on the keyboard performs the same
function.
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The analysis chart has 3 zones on the screen, namely:-
 Rubrics
 Source
 Remedies
The first two appear as headed columns. The first time Cara Professional is used
to repertorise these columns may not be positioned for optimal viewing.
Furthermore, should the font and viewing method be changed using Cara
Professional’s customisation features, the chart display may require adjustment.
Each of the display zones can be resized on the screen. Therefore longer rubric
descriptions can be enabled by widening the Rubric column. More remedies can
be viewed by reducing the size of either the Rubric or Source zones.
To resize a zone position the mouse at its right edge (the mouse cursor will
change shape) and then click and hold down the left mouse button as you drag
the bar to either the right or left as desired (dragging and dropping).
Cara Professional remembers whatever settings you make for the zones re-uses
them for subsequent repertorisations.
Sort
While a repertorisation chart is being displayed Cara Professional allows you to
vary the Ranking Method used. A new sort sequence (or Ranking Method as it is
called on the Strategies dialog) can be set by clicking the Sort option on the
right mouse menu and choosing the desired sequence.
Find
A specific remedy can be located by name to check its repertorisation
performance by clicking the Find remedy option on the right mouse menu or by
clicking the Find button on the Toolbar. A few letters must be typed in and Cara
Professional will jump to the next remedy in the chart that matches the typed
letters.
Applying Filters
There are 5 ‘filters’ that you can apply to any case, namely:-
 Families
 Classes
 Elements
 Size
 Miasms
Filters can be invoked by clicking the right mouse button anywhere on the
repertorisation chart screen.
Families
Families are groups of related remedies for example the Aurums or the
Calcareas. Choosing a family causes Cara Professional to re-work the current
case showing ONLY remedies from the selected family in the results.
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Classes
Clicking on the Classes filter on the right mouse menu presents a displays of the
top level classifications ranging from Minerals and Elements to Waters.
The + symbol indicates there is a further sub-classification of the class.
To apply this filter select the required class or sub-class by clicking on its name
with the mouse and only those remedies belonging to the selected class will b
eused for repertorisation.
Elements
Choosing this filter presents you with a view of the periodic table for you to use.
All of the elements coloured white have homoeopathic remedies derived from
them. Those coloured elements have no known homeopathic remedies derived
from them.
This periodic table display allows the re-working of a case using only remedies
associated with various elements. This view is heavily derived from Jan
Scholten’s work in this area and especially his book Homoeopathy and the
Elements.
From the periodic table the following can be selected:-
 An individual element
 A row of elements (a ‘Series’ as Jan Scholten calls it)
 A column of elements (a ‘Stage’ as Jan Scholten calls it)
Size
This allows the removal of certain remedies from the current repertorisation.
Remove Polycrests does as its name implies as does Show Small Remedies.
Miasms
Choosing this filter allows you to see only remedies that correspond to a miasm
you select.
Important Note about using filters
Whever you use a filter Cara Professional continues to use that filter setting until
you change it. Therefore if, for example, you set a filter to show only Natrum
remedies, every time you repertorise Cara will apply this filter and only show
you Natrum remedies.
So after setting and using a filter remember to quickly remove it by clicking the
right mouse button and click option 'Remove all filters'.
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Chapter 9 Patients and Visits
In Cara Professional you can :-
 Create a new patient record

 Amend a patient’s existing record
 Delete a patient from the database
 Type in visit notes for the current patient
 Associate visit notes to a patient
 Recall a patient’s visit for review or amendment
You can opt not to create and maintain patient records through Cara Professional
and choose simply to type in brief visit notes for a patient.
Whichever you choose notes and records are always initiated via the Visit Record
card which is invoked within Cara Professional by this button on the Toolbar:-
Here you type in all the notes relating to a patient's visit. Once you have done
this you can save these notes in one of two ways, namely:-
1. By simply saving repertorisations and visits to your computer's hard disk

2. By creating a patient database and storing visit notes against your patients.
To simply save repertorisations and visit notes you just have to perform a Save
operation to your computer's hard disk - as explained in the Tutorial.
To maintain a patient database you must always create a patient record card
and then tell Cara to save visit details against the patient's record card as
explained following.
Create a new patient record
Click on the icon immediately after the patient name field in the Visit record
card. You will be presented with the Select patient Dialog. Here you will see a
list of all the patients in your database down the left side of the screen.
To create a new patient click the very first icon towards the top left of this
Dialog (i.e. the first of the 3 available icons in this area).
You will then be presented with an empty set of record cards for the new
patient. These are presented to you as a series of 5 tabs. Simply complete each
screen as appropriate filling in as much detail as you wish. Click on a tab to
move to the next section. Click the OK button to save this new patient into your
database
Amend a patient’s existing record
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Locate the patient you wish to amend by scrolling the mouse or by typing in a
few letters into the box provided, letting Cara Professional search the database
for you.
When you have located the patient you wish to amend simply highlight the
patient by clicking the mouse on the patient’s name and then click the second
icon in the row of 3 available towards the top of the current Dialog.
Please note that once you have selected a patient in the database you will be
shown a list of their visits on the right side of the screen. This is for
information only.
You cannot amend or delete or in any way affect the contents of a visit record
from this screen. You cannot select a new visit record card to work on from this
screen (if you wish to do this you must close this section down and click the File
menu, option Open Visit from Patient name)
Once you have selected a patient and clicked the amend icon you will then be
presented with a set of record cards for the patient. These are presented to you
as a series of 5 tabs. Simply amend each screen as appropriate. Click on a tab to
move to the next section. Click the OK button to save this amendments into
your database
Delete a patient from the database
Locate the patient you wish to amend by scrolling the mouse or by typing in a
few letters into the box provided, letting Cara Professional search the database
for you.
When you have located the patient you wish to amend simply highlight the
patient by clicking the mouse on the patient’s name and then click the third icon
in the row of 3 available towards the top of the current Dialog.
Cara Professional will ask you to confirm that the deletion should proceed. If you
confirm the patient will be deleted from the database.
Please note that once you have selected a patient in the database you will be
shown a list of their visits on the right side of the screen. This is for
information only.
You cannot amend or delete or in any way affect the contents of a visit record
from this screen. You cannot select a new visit record card to work on from this
screen (if you wish to do this you must close this section down and click the File
menu, option Open Visit from Patient name)
Type in visit notes for the current patient
Irrespective of whether you have chosen to associate visit notes to a patient in

the database you can complete all fields of information on the visit record card.
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It is important to stress that in order to type and record visit notes you do not
have to create a patient record in the database. Only create patients if you wish
to build up such a database.
The fields named Prescribed and Potency are free format text fields. We
recommend you adhere a standard as to their use as future versions of Cara
Professional will allow you to search your patient records. Use remedy
abbreviations in the Prescribed section (do not mix abbreviations, full names and
common names). Use a consistent potency measure also.
The Todo Field is also a free format text field. This field is also shown elsewhere
in Cara Professional when looking through the database of patients as an ‘aide-
memoire’ to you.
The Visit Date field as the name implies is where you record the data of the visit
or consultation. Clicking the icon to the left of this field will insert today’s date in
the field for you. Alternatively you may type in any date you wish into this field.
You may also type in a free form Patient Name even if you do not wish to
maintain patient record sin the database. Simply type in a name into the free
format field provided.
The bottom half of the screen is provide for you to type in free form text as your
visit notes. Icons are provided above this area to assist you.
The meaning of each icon is as follows (from left to right):-
Undo Cut Copy Paste
These are all as you would expect from any Windows application.
Bold Italic Underlined
These allow you to mark selected text with these attributes for greater
readability.
Save settings
This icon saves the font and text size you are using currently as the defaults.
Next time you record visit notes these default settings will be applied.
Font
This allows you to select the font and size and colour of the text.
Pull-down and Info
These will be greyed out and unavailable unless you have previously associated
a patient in the database with this visit.
If they are available they allow you to pull-down a list of all the fields in the
patient’s record card. Then if you a select one of the fields and click the Info icon
Cara Professional will insert this fields into your visit card automatically. The
purpose of this is to allow you to construct a detailed visit record that include
data from the patient’s details rather than having to refer to the patient’s record
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card all the time (may be useful if intend distributing or printing the visit to
other parties)
Date
Will insert the current date into the visit record for you. When selected a list of
available formats is offered to you.
Stock Texts
Choosing this option displays a list of currently available ‘boilerplate’ text for you
to insert into the patient record. Several are provided as default for you to use.
Simply select one and it will be inserted into your visit card at the cursor
position.
You may add your own text or amend those provided by clicking on the
appropriate option on the menu provided. These will be stored and made
available for your future use.
Save
You must always save your visit (i.e. your type notes and repertorisation) to
your computer's hard disk using the Save icon on the Toolbar. This was
explained in the tutorial. Do this once you have typed in your visit notes.
Consider adopting a consistent file naming standard whenever you save a visit.
Examples could be:-
Stevenson.J. 240898
J Stevenson. 240898
240898.Stevenson.John
depending on whether you wish to order your visits by surname or date order.
Recall a patient’s visit for review
If you are maintaining patient records and visits in Cara Professional there is a
special screen provided for you to find the patient and visit you are interested in.
To invoke this screen click the File menu followed by the option Open Visit from
Patient Name. On the screen displayed you will see a list of all of your patients
down the left side. You may search this list by typing in search criteria at the top
of the list to filter down the list of patients.
Once you find the patient you want click on it once and a list of all of that
patient’s visits will be displayed on the right side of the screen. Choose one of
the visits by highlighting it and clicking the OK button. This will have the effect
of loading the case rubrics you used in the previous visit into the Rubriclists and
also recalls any Visit Notes you recorded.
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Chapter 10 Remedies
You can request information on remedies in a variety of ways:-
 When viewing remedies in a rubric found in a search

 When viewing remedies in browse mode
 When viewing remedies in a repertorisation chart
 By clicking the Remedies menu, option Remedy Viewer
You cannot change or amend in any way information about the remedies
contained in Cara Professional’s database. You cannot enter new remedies.
However you invoke this function you will always be presented with the following
dialog:-
If you entered this facility from the menu then a remedy will not have been
selected and so you will be positioned alphabetically at the start of the remedy
list. Otherwise this screen will always be positioned alphabetically at the selected
remedy.
Each remedy in Cara Professional’s database is listed on the left side of the
dialog. Before each remedy is a little symbol which denotes the major
classification of each remedy. To view a key of these symbols click the icon of a
golden key towards the top of the dialog.
Moving around the remedies
You can use the mouse scroll bar to move around the list of remedies in Cara
Professional’s database. The list of remedies is in strict alphabetical sequence
using the remedy abbreviation.
To locate a specific remedy type in a few identifying letters in the Find remedy
slot available. The list of remedies will jump to the first remedy that matches
what you type in. The more letters you type the more specific you can be.
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Applying a filter
You can apply a ‘filter’ to the list of remedies displayed. This is useful if you want
to peruse a list of related remedies, for example the Acid remedies. To set a
filter click the icon representing a filter located immediately to the right of the
Find remedy slot.
You will see this dialog:-
In this dialog you can set a filter by remedy Family, Classification, Miasm or
Size. Setting a Family of Classification filter also involves the selection of the
desired family or class.
Additionally a filter can be applied by remedy abbreviation, full name and

common name. This involves clicking the appropriate radio button and then
typing in the filter letters.
A good example of using this might be if you wanted to research and locate all
remedies that were Daisies. The Common name radio button would therefore
be selected and an appropriate filter word typed in. Whatever you type in as a
filter name will be matched exactly by Cara Professional. So if you typed in the
word ‘daisy’ would only find Bellis Perennis (whose common name is exactly
daisy). However prefixing any filter word with an asterisk (*) instructs Cara
Professional to search for your word in any part of the remedy’s name. Typing in
‘*daisy’ would then also find Chrysan which is the Oxeye Daisy.
Important notes:-
 Filters are applied in combination with each other. Therefore if you used
“’daisy’ as a common name filter and also had Families acids set on Cara
Professional will not be able to find any remedies for you as it applies both
criteria. Use the RESET button provided if you get confused and want to
restore original values to the filter.
 Filters remain in effect until you set them off. So if you had previously used
the filter Families acids these will always be displayed in the Remedies
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viewer until you set the filter values off. An easy one to switch filters off is to
the use the button immediately to the right of the filter selection button on
the viewer dialog.
Information
Whenever you select a remedy on the left side of the dialog Cara Professional
will display all of the information about it on the right side. When available Cara
Professional will show you the full Latin name of the remedy as well as its
Common name.
The Miasms associated with each remedy are also shown as is the Size of the
remedy (i.e. its frequency of occurrence in the repertory ranging from Tiny to
Polycrest)
The sub classifications of each remedy are also shown (there are 2 sub-classes
allowed) and the families a remedy is associated with are also displayed.
Multimedia Information
Towards the bottom of the screen an optional thumbnail photograph of a remedy

may be displayed. This thumbnail can be expanded into a larger photograph for
easier viewing by clicking on the loudspeaker button which lights up when
multimedia information is present for a remedy.
This is the loudspeaker button:-
If the loudspeaker button is lit up and available but no photograph is being

displayed this indicates that only an audio file is present for the current remedy.
To listen to the audio file click on the loudspeaker button and then the play
button.
Viewing Materia Medica
Clicking the VIEW button with a remedy selected causes Cara Professional to
open all of the materia medicas in your system that have a reference to the
remedy (refer chapter on materia medicas for further details)
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Chapter 11 Comparing Remedies
Cara Professional’s comparison function allows you to :-
 View all occurrences of up to 10 remedies throughout the repertories

 See the differences between up to 10 remedies
 See the similarities between up to 10 remedies
Great flexibility is provided over the process.
You can perform a comparison :-
 Across an entire repertory

 For selected chapters of a repertory
 For a single chapter of a repertory
 For specific rubrics in the chapter of a repertory
You may also apply the following filters to the comparison results :-
 By size of rubric
 By grade of remedy
Invoking compare
There are 2 ways to perform a compare The first is by clicking the Toolbar
button that looks like this:-
The second is clicking the COMPARE button contained in Cara Professional’s

Repertory Search dialog.
Choosing the remedies to compare
There are 2 ways to choose the remedies to use for a comparison:-
 By selecting them while looking at a repertorisation chart

 By manually locating and choosing them in the Compare dialog
Selection on a repertory chart
Whenever you are looking at the results of a repertorisation you can select a
remedy by double-clicking the mouse onto the remedy name. This will attach a
red flag symbol to the remedy. Up to 10 remedies can be selected in this way.
If you select a remedy by mistake simply double-click on it again to remove the

selection.
Alternatively you can use the shortcut facility Cara Professional provides. Click
the right mouse button anywhere in the repertorisation chart and select option
Tags and then Tag Top 10. Cara Professional will automatically select (or Tag)
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the first 10 remedies on the screen you are looking at. If, after selecting in this
way, you change your mind simply go back to the Tags option and choose
Untag.
Once you have selected the remedies to use clicking on the Compare toolbar
button automatically loads the comparison process with your selected remedies.
Manually choosing remedies
Within the Compare dialog you can amend the list of remedies to be compared.
To the right of the dialog there is a list in which you select the remedies you
want to use. On top of the list of remedies, after the Using remedies label you
will a see number in brackets indicating the number of remedies already chosen
for comparison.
Cara Professional always remembers the previous remedies you used on your
last compare and retains them. To remove all previous remedies and start over
click the X button provided.
Selected remedies are shown in the list of remedies with an X in their check box.
You select an individual remedy by clicking ‘on’ this marker.

You de-select an individual remedy by clicking ‘off’ this marker.
The list of remedies available for comparison purposes is strictly alphabetical.

You can use the mouse scroll bar provided to move down the list. To locate a
specific remedy you wish to use type in its abbreviation into the slot provided
labelled Using remedies.
To quickly jump through the list of remedies already chosen click the ? button
provided. Each time you click this button Cara Professional will hump to the next
selected remedy.
Choosing the rubrics
Select a repertory simply by clicking the book button towards the top left of the
dialog.
Choose to compare using all chapters of the selected repertory by clicking the
box marked All chapters.
To only compare the mental rubrics of the selected repertory click the box
marked Mind chapter.
Clicking the box marked Specific chapters allows you to use the list box
underneath to click and select any combination of chapters that you wish to use.
Note :
If you use All chapters as your setting make sure you have a fast
computer!! Remedy comparisons can take quite some time if you choose
to scan an entire repertory.
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Using keywords
Type in up to 3 keywords to restrict the range of rubrics searched. Whatever

words you type in are used. Only rubrics that contain all of the keywords will be
considered for comparison purposes.
An Exclude word may also be used to accompany any keywords. An Exclude

word may also be used by itself with no keywords input to exclude large groups
of rubrics from a comparison.
Setting the filters
Type of extraction
The Differential radio button will cause Cara Professional to show you the
differences between the chosen remedies. Cara Professional will extract those
rubrics that contain only ONE of your chosen remedies.
The Similarities radio button will cause Cara Professional to extract those rubrics
that contain ALL of the chosen remedies.
The Full radio button will extract every rubric that has ANY of the chosen
remedies in it.
Grades to be used
Click the check boxes for the 3 remedy grades on or off to instruct Cara
Professional which remedy occurrences to use. Clicking a grade ‘off’ means Cara
Professional will ignore any remedy occurrences with that grade.
Size of rubrics to be used
To set the size of rubric used for comparison purposes click one of the buttons
provided or drag the slider bar.
The 3 buttons provided are:-
and function as the following, respectively :
 Use only rubrics with 1 remedy in them (looking for unique occurrences)
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 Use only rubrics with a few remedies in them (looking for Strange Rare &
Peculiars)
 Use rubrics with less than 100 remedies in them
Alternatively the slider bar can be used for the same effect. The range of the
slider bar is from 1 remedy (the top) to 650 remedies (the bottom) which is the
largest number of remedies associated with any rubric (see Generals,
Weakness). Adjust the slider bar up or down as desired.
Working with the results of a compare
The results of a compare are shown in a similar format to the results of a

repertory search except that an information line is shown over each rubric
extracted showing the remedies associated with the rubric as follows:-
Above each rubric found are the remedy names extracted from that rubric. If
you performed a differential comparison only 1 remedy will be shown above each
rubric. If you performed a similar comparison all remedy names are shown
above each rubric.
Remedy names are shown in coloured boxes with the remedy name type style
indicating the grade the remedy occurs in, Capitals for grade 3, Italics for grade
2 and so on.
The rubrics extracted following a compares are available for use just as if you
had performed a repertory search. You may use the Toolbar icons, the right
mouse button and even assign them to rubriclists.
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Chapter 12 Materia Medicas
The materia medicas section of Cara Professional can be entered in 3 ways:-
 While viewing remedy information for a specific remedy

 From Cara Professional’s main Toolbar
 From the Windows 95 Start, Programs, Cara Professional start up menu
If you enter materia medicas by clicking the VIEW button whilst looking at
remedy information Cara Professional will open all of the materia medicas that
contain an entry for your selected remedy for you to read.
Otherwise clicking this button on Cara Professional’s Toolbar:-
will cause Cara Professional to temporarily suspend repertorisation and switch

into materia medicas.
Whichever means you use to enter materia medicas you have access to the full
range of facilities including:-
 Browsing any materia medica

 Searching all of the materia medicas
 Annotating
 Bookmarking
 Exporting back to a repertorisation
 Copying information to the Windows clipboard
Browsing
Sometimes you just want to open up a book and have a good read. Cara
Professional lets you do this. To browse a book you need to tell Cara Professional
which book you want to browse.
Use the icon on the toolbar that looks like this:-
If you click this icon the following dialog will appear:-
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All you need do is highlight one of your books by clicking on it and then click the
OK button. Cara Professional will then display all of the remedies (or chapters) in
the Coolbar.
Simply double-click whichever remedy you are interested in reading and the full
text of this remedy will be displayed in the right window.
About Materia Medica Searching

Cara Professional can search every materia medica in your library in a matter of seconds.
Every book, every chapter, every page, every line and every word. Simultaneously!
Cara provides2 searching methods, Easy and Advanced Search. Easy allows you to type in
a word or two to search whereas Advanced allows you much greater control over how you
search.
Setting your materia medica search preferences
In order to make changes to the way Cara Professional searches materia medica
you must invoke the appropriate menu command. This is found within the
materia medica screen in the File menu, option Preferences, sub-option ‘Set
Search Preferences’.
Alternatively this facility can be invoked by clicking the appropriate button in

either of the Easy or Advanced search screens.
The preferences screen looks like this:-
Using this screen you can :-
 Place new books in your electronic library

 Set the order in which Cara Professional should search them
 Control how Cara Professional finds words
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Search Order
Installing new books in your Cara library
Whenever you purchase a new book to include in Cara Professional you MUST
use this facility to tell Cara Professional which books to search.
On the left side of the preferences screen there is a list of books that are
‘installed’ onto your computer but not being searched. Simply click on the book
and click the ADD button and it will be copied into the right side list labelled
‘Search Order’.
If you have purchased a few books you can use the button labelled ADD ALL
which will quickly copy them ‘en-masse’ into the right side, ready for searching.
This facility may also be used to remove books from the searching list. You may
wish to do this if you simply do not want a book to appear when searching. As
an example you may find after a while that you do not want the expressions
from Phatak’s Materia Medica appearing whenever you search - in this case you
could simply click on it in the right window and use the button labelled REMOVE
to extract it from the search list.
Please note that books are always available for browsing. The above
affects only searching. So in the previous example you would be able to
browse Concordant and read from it but it would be excluded from
searching.
Searching Options
Whether you plan to use the Easy or Advanced search methods you can control
how Cara Professional finds entries that match whatever words you type in.
Each time you plan to run a search you should keep in mind the following:-
 In which order do I want my books searching?

 Do I want to interrupt a search if it takes too long?
 How close do my words need to be to each other to be found?
Each of these considerations is now covered in greater detail.
Cara Professional has a default order it searches the materia medicas in. The
very first book searched is always The Organon. This is because this is the only
book Cara Professional knows for sure will be in your electronic library. If
however you mostly use 1 particular book e.g. Lotus Materia Medica or Clarke’s
Dictionary you can instruct Cara Professional to always search this book first.
The advantage of changing Cara Professional’s search order is that following a

search the book that is automatically ‘opened up’ is the very first book in the
search list. So, if you want Lotus to be opened up firstly every time make this
book is always the first book Cara Professional searches. Note that this does not
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Changing the search order
affect the order of the materia medicas shown on screen but simply ‘opens up’
the first search book ready for you to use.
Another advantage is that you can put at the back of the search list the books
you use infrequently. Then if your search is taking a little too long you can
interrupt it. Interrupting a search will leave all the books on the screen that
have already been searched.
The left window contains a list of the books you have in your library of materia
medicas but have not yet placed in Cara Professional’s search list. (this means
they will never be searched). The right window contains the books you want
Cara Professional to search. The order the books are shown in the right window
indicates the order Cara Professional will search them in. (i.e. top = first)
To adjust the settings simply click on the book you want to adjust and use the
UP or DOWN buttons provided.
Interrupting a search
Sometimes a search may take a little while to run. Especially so if you use words
with a large number of entries in them (e.g. PAIN and HEAD). Also if your
computer is an older model that doesn’t run too speedily you may find waiting
for some searches a little frustrating. Cara Professional provides a mechanism
for interrupting a search. Setting on the box marked ‘Enable Stop search dialog’
instructs Cara Professional to display a little box while it is searching.
This box allows you to terminate a search should you find it is taking too long.
When you use this Cara Professional will preserve on the screen the results of
the search up to the point you interrupted it. However, using this box, while a
good idea, slows down Cara Professional’s searching a little.
Proximity
The Proximity settings to the right of the dialogue are very significant. They
provide instruction to Cara Professional and control how Cara Professional finds
search results for you. By default Cara Professional will find words that are
contained within a paragraph of text.
A paragraph of text is understood by Cara Professional to mean any text

that is followed by a blank line.
A line of text is understood to be just that, even if the line is part of a larger
paragraph. In several of the books in Cara Professional’s library often the terms
of paragraph and line mean the same thing as you will find that in the symptom
sections each symptom is separated by a blank line and is therefore both a
paragraph and a line.
Each proximity setting is now explained:-
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Paragraph
By default the Proximity is set to ‘paragraph’ which instructs Cara Professional to

find expressions that have all of your search words in the same paragraph of
text.
Line
Choosing a proximity setting of Line finds expressions that have your search
words in exactly the same line.
Same Section
The proximity setting of ‘Same Section’ searches for your words within the same
area or section of the book i.e. part of the body. Choosing this setting will force
Cara Professional to find your search words so long as they are within each
section even if they are not even within the same paragraph.
Same Chapter
The proximity setting of ‘Same Chapter’ finds your words no matter where they
are so long as they are contained somewhere within the same remedy or
chapter (depending on the type of book being searched).
How to Search
Cara Professional provides 2 different ways to search your library of books.
These are called :-
¨ Easy search
¨ Advanced search
Easy Search lets you type in a word or two and search the library while
Advanced search allows you to search using many words, restrict your searches
to certain books and even to exclude words from a search!
Easy Searching
This is best invoked by using the icon that represents Easy Search on the
toolbar buttons. Its the one with the letters ABC at the top (think of the
association - you know - as easy as .....)
It looks like this:-
and the Easy Search screen looks like this:-
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Searching with 2 Words
The cursor will be positioned ready for you to type in a search word. All you
need do is type a word and click the OK button. Don't worry about typing in
capital or lower case letters - it doesn't matter. Cara Professional will accept
whatever you type in.
Following your instruction to search, Cara Professional will search every book in
your library looking for every occurrence of the word you typed in. This is an
example of the result of an Easy Search:
Down the left side of the screen you can see a ‘tree’ of books and remedies (a
Coolbar). Only 1 book is every opened at 1 time and in this example you can
see the list of remedies that have something to do with APHASIA.
Boericke’s materia medica is currently open (note the little picture of the open
book before the word Boericke?) and the remedy Bothrops Lanciolatus is
currently being displayed in the right window. This is denoted for you by the
little triangle before the remedy name being displayed and also by highlighting
the remedy name and the triangle in purple.
In the right side of the window you can see the text of a remedy in the open
book (i.e. Bothrops). The text in this example is not the full text of the remedy
but simply those paragraphs and/or lines that have some relevance to the
search word APHASIA. Wherever the search word appears it is highlighted by
being capitalized (and in red on a color screen!)
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Synonyms and Plurals More pros and cons of synonyms
This is achieved simply by typing in 2 words into the Easy Search screen and
clicking OK. When you type in 2 words in this way Cara Professional will look for
matches that have both words in them i.e. both the first word AND the second
word in them. In techno-speak this is an AND search.
As a default the Easy Search will try and find all of the synonyms and cross-
references to the word(s) you type in. This is denoted by a cross in to the
‘Include synonyms’ box. To illustrate the use of this, consider what would
happen if you used the easy search to find all references to the word APHASIA
(as in the previous screen shot)
If you left synonyms switched ‘on’ then Cara Professional would consult its list of
cross-references and would find that the word SPEECHLESS is a valid cross-
reference for APHASIA. Then as it searched it would automatically find every
reference to the words APHASIA and SPEECHLESS and display them for
you!
If you switch synonyms ‘off’ then in the current example only exact matches
to the word APHASIA will be displayed.
Using synonyms slows down Cara Professional’s search times (as it has to do
more work). For fastest searches when you know exactly what you are looking
for set Synonyms ‘off’
When Cara Professional searches it tries to find an exact word match to what
you type in. It will not find plurals or words that begin with what you type in. To
force Cara Professional to do this you must have synonym’s switched ‘on’.
Advanced Searching
As the name implies Advanced Searching allows you to run searches that are far
more complex than with the Easy Search. However the use of synonyms is
equally valid here. The best way to invoke the Advanced search is to click on the
icon in the toolbar that looks like a lightning-bolt on top of a magnifying glass :-
You can type in sophisticated search criteria for Cara Professional to search with.
AND Searching
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There are 6 lines in which to type words. If you wanted to search using 3 words,
to find for example, all references to migraine over the right eye, you would type
in the words RIGHT EYE MIGRAINE into 3 separate lines as follows:-
This instructs Cara Professional to search for and find all references to RIGHT
AND EYE AND MIGRAINE (the AND search).
Following is the result of this search with Lotus Materia Medica open at the
remedy Scutellaria.
OR Searching
If you type several words into each line and separate them by pressing the
spacebar or by typing a comma between each then Cara Professional treats
these words as OR words i.e. expressions containing one or the other word will
be found. (called an OR search)
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NOT Searching Searching specific books
So using the previous example if you typed:-
RIGHT LEFT
into the first line, Cara Professional would find all migraines around the eye on
either the right OR left side.
You may also type in words that you want to exclude from a search. There is a
line provided for you to do this halfway down the screen labelled Exclude words.
Referring to the previous example once again you could type in HOT into the
Exclude line and Cara Professional would find all the right or left sided migraines
near the eye so long as there wasn’t also a reference to ‘hot’ the expression. In
the current example this would have the affect of removing the remedy Zizia
from the search results.
By default whenever you search Cara Professional will search every materia
medica in your electronic library. However you may restrict your searches to
certain books by clicking on the list box labelled ‘Search where’ provided
towards the bottom of the screen.
If you click in this you will find several options from Single Source (i.e. search
only 1 book) through to All Sources (i.e. search all of the books in my library).
Then select the option you wish to use. If you choose ‘Single Source’ you will be
prompted to denote the specific book you wish to search.
Annotations
Annotations are notes that you can type in and record against a remedy in
materia medica. Cara Professional lets you type in a vast amount of information
for future reference! These annotations work in a very similar manner to
annotations you can make in the repertories.
This information could be your own observations about a remedy or some notes
you took at a recent homeopathic lecture. Previously you may have scribbled
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Marking text to be annotated Adding an annotation Browsing your annotations
such notes in the margins of your books or alternatively all of this valuable
information you have recorded in piles of paper filed away in your records. Now
you can type them into Cara Professional and they are recorded on your
computer for all time - ready for you to read at the click of a button!
Annotations are recorded against a single line of remedy text. Each line of
remedy text can be annotated individually. Each single annotation can be up to
2000 characters in length.. As each line of remedy text in any book can be
annotated in this way the potential for making your own annotations is
enormous!
Before you can record an annotation you must inform Cara Professional where to
record the annotation. You should be viewing remedy text in the right window
pane. Then you should mark the line of remedy text you want to annotate. You
mark text in this way by clicking the mouse immediately to the left of the line in
question. When you do this Cara Professional will display a ‘pin’ next to the text.
Once you have marked the text in this way you should click the toolbar icon that
looks like this:-
This icon instructs Cara Professional to record an annotation.
To record an annotation you need to type in a ‘key word’ or phrase to identify

the annotation. This can be any text you like but should be meaningful. When
you come to search for annotations in the future Cara Professional will search
against whatever you type in here for an annotation.
It is a good idea to make your key word or phrase include a disease condition or
remedy name or even lecture name so that you can find it easily in the future.
In this screen you also type in the main body of the annotation. This can be any
text up to a maximum of 2000 characters of information.
When both pieces of information have been typed click the OK button. Cara
Professional will return to the display of remedy text and will mark the line of
text permanently with a yellow ‘post-it’ note in the left margin.
Whenever you return to this remedy in the future the post-it note will
appear to remind you of your annotation.
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Viewing and amending an existing annotation
To browse your complete list of annotations you must use the menu option
Annotations, and chose sub-option Browse annotations (note - there is no
toolbar icon for this option)
All of your annotations you have made will be listed in alphabetical order. The
list could therefore be very long. When you see the annotation you are
interested in simply click the mouse onto it and click the GOTO button. Cara
Professional will instantly open up that remedy in the right window pane and
position the text with your annotation at the top of the screen. To read the text
of the annotation click on the Annotation icon on the toolbar.
As your list of annotations could grow very large over time Cara Professional
allows you to search through all of your annotations by typing a keyword or part
of word into the box labelled ‘Show only containing’. Should you type a keyword
here then when the REFINE button is clicked Cara Professional will restrict the
display of annotations to those that match the keyword or phrase you typed in.
Switching ‘on’ the check box entitled ‘Match Case’ will cause Cara Professional to
display only those annotations that match your phrase and in the same case
(i.e. either lower or upper or a mixture but exactly as you typed it)
Very Important Note
When you ‘go to’ an annotation Cara Professional overwrites whatever was
previously displayed in the right window pane with the remedy that has your
annotation. The left window (i.e. Coolbar) will be unaffected however and will
still contain the previous search results. This facility allows you to quickly
examine an annotation but to preserve your current search activity in the left
pane.
The Status Bar at the bottom of the screen will display the name of the remedy
that contains the annotation you are browsing (so you do not get too confused)
Whenever you browse remedy text and see a yellow ‘post-it’ note next to the
text this means you previously recorded an annotation. To view an existing
annotation insert a ‘pin’ into the post-it note by clicking the mouse onto it. Then
click the Annotations button in the toolbar. Once you have read the annotation
you click on the CLOSE button to return to Cara Professional’s main display.
However you can also amend or add more information into the annotation. To do
this simply position the cursor by clicking the mouse anywhere in the text. Then
you can continue typing. You can amend the detail of the annotation or even
the keyword or phrase if you so wish. When you have finished adjusting the
annotation it is important that you click on the UPDATE button before clicking
the CLOSE button. If you do not do this your changes will be discarded.
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Marking text to have a bookmark placed against it Add a new bookmark
You may also decide to remove annotation from your Cara Professional system
in this screen. Simply click on the DELETE button and Cara Professional will
immediately delete it for you.
Bookmarks
You can mark any line of remedy text as a bookmark. This means that Cara
Professional will place a marker at that point and allow you to type in a comment
to identify the bookmark. Bookmarks can be grouped together into sets of
bookmarks and each set can be saved permanently onto your computer’s hard
disk for future recall. Each bookmark set can be commented in detail and this
information is also recorded along with the bookmark placements.
A good example of the potential use of bookmarks is to consider the preparation

of lecture notes to give a class or meeting. You could search for information on
Diabetes using Cara Professional and find really good examples of remedies that
have been used in the treatment of this condition. A bookmark could be placed
against each remedy you want to discuss in your lecture and you could type in
your ‘speech’ into the area provided for the bookmark set. Then when presenting
your lecture you can have Cara Professional available and at hand and simply
load up this particular set of bookmarks and read your information! If you had a
laptop and a computer projection panel you could even hook up Cara
Professional and project the remedies onto the screen to visually illustrate your
presentation!
As with annotations, before you can place a bookmark you must inform Cara
Professional whereto place the bookmark. You should be viewing remedy text in
the right window pane. Then you should mark the line of remedy text you want
to place a bookmark on. You mark text in this way by clicking the mouse
immediately to the left of the line in question. When you do this Cara
Professional will display a ‘pin’ next to the text.
Once you have marked the text in this way you should click the toolbar icon that
looks like this:-
This icon instructs Cara Professional that you wish to place a bookmark.
When adding a new bookmark all that needs to be typed is a short description of
the bookmark you are placing against the current remedy. We suggest that you
include the current remedy name and/or book somewhere in this description.
This is because whatever you type here will be displayed in the left
window when you use this bookmark in the future. Make the description
as meaningful as possible.
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Saving a bookmark set
Once you have typed in the description click the OK button to return to Cara
Professional’s main display. You can then proceed to place your next bookmark.
As you place bookmarks they are being remembered by Cara Professional and
are being grouped together in to a ‘set’. When you have finished placing all of
your individual bookmarks you should save them onto your computer’s hard
disk.
This is the screen you see when you choose the menu option Bookmarks, sub-
option Save current bookmarks
In this screen you record full information about a set of bookmarks. Firstly a
brief description of the entire set of bookmarks needs to be type. Whatever you
type in here will be displayed in the left window pane should you subsequently
access these bookmarks. We suggest you make this description as meaningful
as you can.
Secondly a detailed explanation or comment about this set should be typed.

Referring back to the example of preparing lecture notes this is the point at
which you could type in your lecture ‘prompts’ here.
Thirdly a ‘bookmark group’ should be attached to the current set. This will help
you classify your bookmarks more easily. Cara Professional provides a list of 10
groups for you to choose from.
Finally after recording all of this information in order to save a set of bookmarks
to your computer’s hard disk you press the OK button.
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Closing a bookmark set Browsing your complete list of bookmarks
Saving a set of bookmarks to your computer’s hard disk does NOT clear out the
current set from Cara Professional’s memory.
You may continue to make bookmarks and they will be incorporated into
the set you may have just saved to your computer’s hard disk.
To inform Cara Professional you wish to create a brand new set of bookmarks
you must use the menu option Bookmarks, sub-option ‘Close current
bookmarks’.
Choose this option whenever you want to finish working with a set of
bookmarks. Once you open an existing set or create and save a new set Cara
Professional will continue adding in any new remedy bookmarks you make into
the current set.
This option instructs Cara Professional to forget all about the previous set your
were working with.
This option allows you to see a list of all of the bookmarks you have made and
saved onto your computer’s hard disk. Following is an example of such a list:-
When you see a bookmark you wish to work with highlight it by clicking the
appropriate line with your mouse. You may read the full description of this
bookmark by clicking on the DESCRIPTION button
To work with a set of bookmarks highlight the desired one by clicking on it and
then also click the LOAD button. When you do this Cara Professional will discard
whatever you were previously viewing and will load the bookmark set into the
left window.
You can ‘open’ the set of bookmarks just as if it were a book by double-clicking
on it. If you do this a ‘tree’ of all of the bookmarks in the current set will be
displayed and the very first remedy in the set will be displayed in the right
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Amending bookmark group descriptions
window. The line on which you placed the bookmark will be displayed at the very
top of the right window (of course you can browse the remedy display up and
down)
This option allows you to view and amend the list of the classifications (i.e.
groups) Cara Professional allows you to attach to bookmark sets. You can
change the text of any group by clicking the mouse into the description and over
typing. Before you do this please note that Cara Professional provides 3 unused
groups for you to customise.
Exporting to a repertorisation
Following a materia medica search Cara Professional lets you send the results of
the search back into the current case for use as a rubric. In other words you can
create a new rubric from materia medica.
This facility is provided because there is still a lot of information contained in the
materia medicas that is not contained in the repertories. So if you have a
specific condition you are looking for that you do not find in the repertories you
may find it by searching the materia medicas. And then having found a list of
remedies in the materia medicas send it back into your case!
Following a materia medica search initiate this facility by clicking the Edit menu,
option Export results. Cara Professional will display a dialog into which you can
type a descriptive name for your new ‘rubric’. You can also specify if you wish
the rubric to be sent to any additional rubriclists in addition to rubriclist A.
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Once you complete this screen click the EXPORT button on the new rubric will
appear on the rubriclist. Every remedy that occurred in your materia medica
search will be copied over into this new rubric. The grade of each remedy is set
to 1 by Cara Professional by default. This rubric is then available alongside other
case rubrics for repertorisation.
Once the new rubric in on a case rubriclist it can be manipulated and changed
and even saved just like any other rubric. Please refer to the chapters in this
manual on Rubriclists and Making additions for further information.
Copying text to the Windows clipboard
There will be occasions when you need to use a portion of text taken from the
materia medicas into other applications you may be using ( a word-processor for
example).
Cara Professional lets you mark several paragraphs of text and copy them to the
clipboard. A paragraph or line of text can be marked by clicking the mouse
anywhere on it. Marking multiple paragraphs or lines can be done by pressing
and holding down the CTRL key as you click on the desired text.
Once you have marked the text choose the Edit menu, option Copy and Cara
Professional will place the information on the Windows clipboard. You can them
start up your other application and paste the contents of the clipboard into it.
Please note there is a restriction on the amount of text you can copy out
of the materia medicas onto the clipboard.
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Chapter 13 Making additions into Cara Professional’s

database
Cara Professional allows you to amend the database by adding new rubrics or
amending existing rubrics and their associated remedies. All changes you make
are stored in a separate book, called the User area.
You cannot add brand new remedies into Cara Professional’s database of remedy
names nor can you amend information associated with existing remedies, for
example changing a Classification or Family for a remedy.
You cannot amend a rubric contained in one of Cara Professional’s supplied

repertories although you can copy any rubric into the special user area and
amend it there.
Rubrics entered into the User area are not separated into chapters. All rubrics in
the user area are stored alphabetically.
Creating a new rubric
To create a brand new rubric in the User area at any time click the menu
Rubrics, option New user defined rubric.
Cara Professional provides a dialog for you to create a new rubric. You must type
in a name or description for the new rubric. This will be what is displayed when
you subsequently encounter this rubric in a search or a browse of the User area.
Note: If you create a new rubric with exactly the same name as an existing one,
the new one will overwrite the existing one.
You must identify all of the remedies and their grades in the new rubric. A
complete list of all of the remedies in Cara Professional’s database is provided.
You can scroll down this list or, more likely, type in an abbreviation into the slot
provided to jump directly to a remedy. As you type letters Cara Professional will
jump to the first remedy that matches what you type in.
When you locate a remedy you wish to add into this new rubric simply highlight
it with the mouse and click on one of the grade buttons to the left of the dialog.
Cara Professional will confirm the remedy is recorded by prefixing the remedy in
the list with the chosen grade.
If you make a mistake and wish to remove a remedy chosen in error highlight
the remedy and click on the X icon to the left of the remedy names.
Cara Professional also provides 2 buttons that provide you with ways of seeing
which remedies you have marked for inclusion in the new rubric. The first, at the
top of the list of buttons on the left side of the dialog, jumps you down each
remedy selected in turn. The second, the LAST of the list of buttons on the left
side of the dialog, shows you a list of all the remedies currently selected for the
new rubric.
When you have finished selecting remedies for the new rubric you can
permanently record this new rubric in the user area by clicking the OK button.
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Amending a rubric you previously created in the User area
Whenever you are browsing the User area or following a repertory search of the
User area you may amend a rubric you created previously.
Highlight the desired rubric and click the menu Rubrics, option Edit user-defined
rubric. Cara Professional will then display exactly the same dialog you used to
originally create the rubric. You cam amend the name of the rubric and adjust
any of the remedies within the rubric.
Deleting a rubric you previously created in the User area
Whenever you are browsing the User area or following a repertory search of the
User area you may delete a rubric you created previously.
Highlight the desired rubric and click the menu Rubrics, option Delete user-
defined rubric and the rubric will be permanently removed form your user area.
Amending an existing rubric in the supplied repertories

Following a repertory search or when browsing rubrics you can amend any
rubric. Amending a rubric contained in a pre-supplied repertory involves:-
 Assigning it to a rubriclist
 Editing it
 Saving it to your User area
It is often a good idea to record an annotation against any rubric used as the
basis of an amended rubric in the user area.
Please refer to the chapter in this manual relating to Rubriclists for details of
how to Edit a rubric and Save it to the user area.
Searching entries in the User area
Any rubrics you add into your User area are available for searching. You can
choose to browse or search the User area just like any other book and chapter.
You can even use the All Books search method. If you do use the All Books
method Cara Professional will automatically search your User area at the same
time as the other repertories. So if you have made a lot of additions into your
User area whenever you perform an All Books search take time to check your
User area.
Backing up your additions
If you make additions into your user-area you should always takea regular
backup in case your computer fails. The file names you should backup are
contained in the \Data\ directory of Cara Professional are are named:-
SYM00038.SYM
SDL00038.SDL
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Chapter 14 Printing
Cara Professional can print a variety of charts and reports. These include:-
 Individual or groups of rubrics from the repertory

 Results of a remedy comparison
 Rubriclists
 Lists of patients in the database
 Current visit notes
 Repertorisation chart
Printing Items
With the exception of the repertorisation chart printout, printing is best achieved
by clicking the File menu, option Print Item. Cara Professional maintains a list of
all possible prints that can be chosen.
Within this dialog a specific item can be established as the default print item by
selecting the item and clicking the DEFAULT button. Once a default is
established then the printer button in the Toolbar can be used to quickly the
default. If no default is established then Cara Professional will always print the
current case visit notes as the default.
The repertorisation chart printout is a special case and will be explained

subsequently.
Printing rubrics
Following a repertory search, browse or remedy comparison any of the rubrics
being viewed can be printed, either singly, or as a selected group.
The rubrics to be printed should be selected in the usual way by highlighting

them with the mouse. If several rubrics are to be printed then the CTRL key
should be depressed and held down as each rubric is selected. Multiple rubric
selections are not available during a browse however.
Printing rubriclists
All or 1 rubric list can be printed while they are being viewed on the screen.
Printing a remedy comparison

The results of any remedy comparison can be printed. An entry will appear in
the Print Item list immediately following a comparison.
Please note that this item remains available for printing only until a subsequent
repertory search or remedy comparison is performed at which point it is lost.
Patient Lists
Cara Professional offers 2 simple prints of patient details. The first is simply a
list of every patient in the database. The second is a detailed printout of all of
the patient along with all information recorded in their personal records.
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This information does not include each patient’s visit notes. These must be
printed separately – see next section.
Visit Notes
Once visit notes have been typed they may be printed as a Print Item.
Registration Form
Although a registration form is provided with a copy of this manual you may
prefer not to remove it from the supplied manual. In this circumstance Cara
Professional lets you print out a copy of the form at any time.
Printing Repertorisation Charts
Printing the results of an analysis is a complicated matter. There can be many

rubrics and remedies in a case ordered in lots of different ways and using many
methods and filters. The output may require printing of many sheets of paper.
Cara Professional provides special print methods to cater for all of these. These
become available only while viewing the repertorisation chart.
When you are reviewing a repertorisation chart the menu File will contain 2
additional options:-
 Print
 Print preview
Considerations before printing

Cara Professional will attempt to print exactly what you have displayed on the
current repertorisation chart so they screen appearance should be made to
reflect the desired printout.
The same font size used on the screen will be used on the printout.
Cara Professional will use the default paper orientation the printer is set up for
and also any other settings established as defaults. If the chart is to be printed
in Landscape (to fit more remedies on) when the default is Portrait then this
must be changed. Cara Professional provides a menu option to do this. Use
menu File, option Print set up to enter the usual Windows 95 printer set up.
Print preview
This useful facility is available on the menu File, option Print preview and it
allows the projected printout to be viewed on screen before it is actually printed.
Cara Professional will format and display as many pages as needed to print the
chart.
Printing
When the chart has been set up as required the menu File, option Print should
be selected. Cara Professional will present the standard Print menu appropriate
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to the printer. The page numbers to be printed should be selected here,

especially important if only one or two pages are required.
If all pages are chosen then Cara Professional will print pages until the entire
repertorisation is printed out (including every remedy in the case) in the format
specified. To check which pages are required the Print preview facility should be
used.
Cara Professional will also prompt for a title to be inserted into the printout.
Cara Professional prints only in black and white even if you have a color printer
attached (but see next section).
Printing high quality color repertorisation charts

Cara Professional provides a method of obtaining high quality, color printouts of
your repertorisations.
This involves saving the chart as a 'file' on your computer's hard disk, starting
up your word processor, and then inserting this 'file' into a document.
You are then free to utilize the full power of your word-processor to add your
own comments to a case and to re-size the chart to suit your requirements (e.g.
portrait, landscape, transparency, color and so on).
These are the steps to follow :-
1. Repertorise in the usual way and make the display appear how you wish it to
be printed (very important)
2. Click Edit and then click Export Chart to Enhanced Metafile
3. You will then be asked to save the chart as a file. By default Cara suggests
you save the file with the name of CARACHART.EMF into the CASES
directory. You may change this or simply accept the suggestion by clicking
SAVE.
4. Cara will then display a small screen in which you can select which remedies
are to appear in the chart. The very first remedy is selected already and is
highlighted for you. Decide how many remedies will fit on a page of your
printer (usually 6-10 in portrait mode). Hold down the CTRL key and then
repeatedly click the mouse on each remedy that you want to appear in the
chart (you may need to scroll down the list to find the last remedy you
desire). Cara will highlight all of the remedies you have selected.
You cannot select more remedies than are currently displayed in the
chart on Cara's screen. So take care to adjust Cara's screen before you use
this facility. If necessary adjust the screen so more remedies are being
displayed by dragging the header bar to the right of the column titled Source
towards the left side of the scren. Once you can see all the remedies you
want to export then start the process.
5. Click the OK button and the file will be saved.
6. Start up your word processor (you do not need to exit Cara to do this) as
normal
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7. Insert the chart as a 'picture' into your document. The procedure for this will
vary depending on which word-processor you use. Using Word 97 as an
example you would click Insert, then Picture, then From file. You will then
need to change the folder Word is looking at to the folder in which you just
saved the chart (the \CASES\ directory if you took the default). Find the file
CARACHART.EMF , click to highlight it and finally click the Insert button.
Now you will have a beautiful color chart to annotate and print out.
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Chapter 15 Commonly asked questions?
In this chapter we have included some of the commonly asked questions (and
answers!) about Cara Professional. You should always check in here first before
telephoning our offices for help.
Should you be unable to find an answer here then you might find it on our
internet site (if you have an internet connection). New questions and answers
our being added to our online knowledge base all the time so check there also.
Cara Professional makes this easy for you by providing a direct internet
connection from within the program. To invoke this click the Help menu, option
Miccant on the Internet.
I cannot see the Coolbar metioned in the tutorial. Why?
Usually this is because the grey divider bar is fully over to the left side of the
screen. To correct this position your mouse over the grey bar at the extreme left
side of the screen and then click and hold the left mouse button down and drag
the bar to the right. When the bar is approximately one quarter over release the
mouse and the coolbar will appear.
I cannot see a list of remedies in Similia after browsing a

materia medica or performing a search. Why?
Usually this is because the grey divider bar is fully over to the left side of the
screen. Position your mouse over the grey bar at the extreme left side of the
screen and then click and hold the left mouse button down and drag the bar to
the right. When it is approximately one quarter over release the mouse and the
remedies will appear.
When I try to open or save a case it puts me in the

MyDocuments folder instead of Cara's Cases folder.
Why?
This often happens if you have Microsoft Office (or similar Microsoft software)
installed. Don't fight it - go with (Microsoft's) flow. Simply create a new Cases
folder for yourself under MyDocuments - then everyone is happy and whenever
you tru to access cases they will be in the most convenient location.
I cannot save visit notes against a patient. Why?
In order to store a repertorisation and visit notes in the patient database you
have to tell Cara which patient to attach the visit to. You cannot do this by
simply typing in a patient's name at the top of the visit record card. You have to
click the button to the right of the Patient name box in the visit record. This
takes you directly into the patient's database. Here you can tell Cara exactly
which patient in your database this visit is for by clicking on the patient with
your mouse and then clicking the OK button.
If this is a new patient who does not exist in your patient database you must
create a record card for them first. Simply click the the button provided to enter
details. After you have identified (and/or created) a patient record card in your
database you must also always remember to save the visit itself onto your
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computer's hard disk - the easiest way to do this is to click the Save (floppy
disk) picture on the toolbar.
How do I change or switch off the music that plays every

time I start Cara Professional?
Using the Control Panel dialog (from Start, Settings) choose Sounds and a list of
all the sound events are listed.
Cara Professional has it’s own section and you can remove, change or add
sounds here including the start-up sound (and the successful drop sound)
Cara Professional seems to take an age to repertorise and

display the chart. Why?
The calculation of a repertorisation is CPU intensive. Fast Pentium computers are

required for best response. If you have a 486 computer or a slower Pentium i.e.
less than 133Mhz, then you may not be able to do anything about this other
than to upgrade your CPU chip. Fortunately, Pentium chips are upgradable to
faster speeds without replacing your computer! However it is a technically skilled
job and you should refer to your computer dealer.
However there is one thing you should check. Run the Control Panel and double-
click the icon named System. Then click Performance tab and Windows will give
you information about your system. If you see any messages to the effect
'Compatibility mode paging reduces overall system performance' then your
system is not set up correctly for fastest performance. Please refer to your
computer dealer for help in resolving this.
While looking at the Performance information check the amount of RAM you
have on your system. Cara Professional requires a minimum of 16Mb to run
effectively. Less than this will introduce delays in processing. Adding more RAM
will speed up Cara Professional (and your entire Windows 95 system) and can be
performed by your computer dealer.
How do I repertorise using a different rubriclist?
If you have assigned rubrics to rubriclists other than A and wish to repertorise
using only that rubriclist this is what you do:-
In the Coolbar click on the button of the rubriclist you wish to use, B, C, D or E.
The rubrics you assigned to that rubriclist will be displayed. Then simply
repertorise by clicking the appropriate button on the Toolbar.
So if you do open a specific rubriclist Cara Professional repertorises using that. If

you do not open a specific rubriclist Cara Professional uses rubriclist A.
How do I remove a rubric from one rubriclist and not all?
While viewing a rubriclist simply highlight the rubric in question and use the
little incons to the extreme right side of the screen. These icons are th eones
thst look little 'weights'. They have the letters A to E on them and operate as
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'push buttoons'. If a particular rubriclist button is pushed in then the rubric is

present in that rubriclist. To set if off simply click the mouse on the icon.
Do not click the X icon! This completly deletes the rubric from the current case
i.e. from all rubriclists.
My rubriclists have disappeared and I can only see pictures

of books in the Coolbar. How do I get them back?
This is because you have performed an All Books search and Cara Professional is
showing you the list of repertories that have matched your search criteria in the
Coolbar. While it is showing these books it cannot display the rubriclists.
When you have finished looking at the different repertories search results click
the mouse onto the top of the Coolbar where it says Books and Cara
Professional will revert to the display of rubriclists . If you subsequently need to
come back to the list of repertories for the All Books search simply click the Book
header again.
How can I get information out of Cara into other Windows

applications?
Whenever you are viewing the results of a repertory search you can mark
rubrics on the screen by clicking the mouse. To select several rubrics at the
same time you can hold down the CTRL key as you click a rubric. You can even
select the entire list of rubrics by clicking the Edit menu, option Select All. Once
the desired rubrics are selected click the Edit menu and choose option Copy All.
All of your selected rubrics will be copied to the Windows clipboard 'formatted'
ready you to Paste the data in. When Browsing you can only mark 1 rubric at a
time in this manner.
Materia Medica copying is a very contentious issue. Authors are naturally very
protective of their work and do not like the idea of users being able to copy large
amounts of their work to give to their friends. In Cara Pro you can copy a small
amount of text to the Windows clipboard in one operation. It is achieved by
clicking a paragraph of text while holding down the CTRL key. In this way
several paragraphs can be selected. Then choose menu Edit, option Copy to
place the selected text on the Windows clipboard.
Should you wish to copy out larger amounts of text simply keep repeating the
above operation.
How do I increase the volume of the audio remedies?
If you are having difficulty hearing the remedies use the Volume Control
application that comes with your Windows system. This is found under Start,
Programs, Applications, Multimedia, option Volume Control.
If you have a laptop computer then the speaker provided may be of very poor
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How can I improve the sound quality of the audio remedies?
This may be an issue if you are using a laptop computer with in-built sound
capabilities. Improvement may be obtained by using a set external speakers
connected to the laptop. However the quality can only ever be as good as the
quality of sound system within the computer. In lots of laptop computers the
sound quality provided is poor and little can be done about this.
I click on the Search toolbar icon but nothing happens?
This means something did not install correctly during installation of Cara
Professional,. Did you see any error messages displayed during installation. If so
make a note and call technical support.
The remedy photographs are fuzzy and low quality
The video card in your computer may not support the required minimum of 256
colours. If so the only solution is to upgrade your video card.
Why are there empty rubrics in the Complete Repertory and

Murphy's Repertory?
In the printed book version of the Complete there are many cross-references to
other rubrics. You can easily identify these rubrics because they nearly always
contain a cross reference to another rubric in brackets after the rubric
description.
In Murphy's repertory some rubrics hveno remedies in them. These are usually
headings in the printed book which are simply carried through into Cara. Simply
ignore them.
The presence of these empty rubrics does not mean your system has not been
installed properly. Simply ignore them.
How can I search for text in just one remedy in the materia
medicas?
Sometimes you may want to look for a word in a specific remedy without having
to perform a huge word search across all the books.
To do this simply Browse your list of materia medicas and open the book you
wish to use. Then find the remedy you are interested in by scrollng down the list
of remedies on the left side and double-clicking on the remedy name.
Click the right mouse button on the right side of the screen and then click on
Find. This screen allows you to type in the word you wish to search for in the
selected remedy. Right clicking and choosing Find Next allows you to quikcly
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Appendix A The Repertories
Cara Professional is supplied with 5 repertories as standard. These are:-
 Combined Repertory
 Murphy's Repertory
 Boericke's Repertory
 Phatak's Repertory
 Boger-Boenninghausen's Repertory
There is another repertory available as an option. This is :-
 Complete Repertory
Please note that Murphy and Complete Repertories supplied with Cara
Professional are derived from electronic material supplied by the authors. They
will NOT necessarily be the same as they appear in the printed book. Please
refer to individual repertory explanations for any differences.
Remedy Abbreviations
In the printed book versions each repertory uses its own list of remedy
abbreviations.
In Cara Professional however we have adopted the set of abbreviations used in

the Complete Repertory as the best thought out, most consistent and most
comprehensive set of abbreviations. Throughout Cara Professional remedy
abbreviations are consistent across all of the repertories.
This is a tremendous advantage and makes it possible for you to confidently

repertorise using rubrics taken from any repertory in the sure knowledge that
Cara Professional is ensuring the results are consistent.
Be aware, however, this means that the abbreviations you see in Cara
Professional will often be very different from those printed in a book. We think
the benefit this brings far outweighs the minor inconvenience of the occasional
difference between the two.
Combined Repertory
This work is unique to Cara Professional. It only exists in electronic form.

Originally this work was based on the Final General Repertory edition of Kent.
One slight difference to the standard Kent schema adopted in the Combined is
that within a rubric heading the rubrics are ordered alphabetically.
The Combined was then enhanced by including all of the additions listed in the
Synthetic Repertory in the Mind, Generals, Sleep, Dreams, Male and Female
chapters.
All of the additions suggested by George Vithoulkas were also included as were
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More recently the following newly proven remedies have been added into the
Combined:-
Hydrogen, Chocolate, Scorpion, Adamas (Diamond), Neon, Iridium, Germanium,
Briassica (rape seed oil) and Helianthuus (Eagle’s blood) based on the provings
performed by the Dynamis School.
Marble, Limestone, Granite and Fire from Nuala Eising.
Tungsten from Anne Bond and the Northwest College in Manchester, England.
Additions to the repertory have been marked by author number for the modern
provings listed above.
Here is an illustrative rubric for comparative purposes:-
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Combined Synthetic - Mentals
ABRUPT, ROUGH (13)

calc, halia-leu, hep, lyc, nat-m, nit-ac, nux-v, plat, PULS, rauw, sil, sulph, tarent
Note the inclusion of Halia-leu (i.e. Eagle’s Blood)
If you are aware of any further contemporary provings that warrant inclusion in
the Combined Repertory or you have proving data that would be of interest to
other Cara Professional users please let us know!
Murphy’s Repertory
The 2nd edition of this work is available with Cara Professional. This repertory is
unique and popular because it replaces the usual Kentian schema with a strictly
alphabetical one.
The chapters range from Abdomen and go through to Wrist. All rubrics within
the chapter are similarly alphabetically arranged. New chapters are introduced
such as Diseases, Constitutions, Emergency to help make the location of those
associated rubrics easier.
Another difference with this work is the adoption of many modern medical word
instead of the original language retained in Kent. So in this repertory you will
find rubrics for Influenza, Mononucleosis and so on.
Additions to the repertory are not marked by the use of author numbers. The
author Robin Murphy has also elevated the grading of remedies in certain rubrics
to reflect his own view of the important and significance occurrences.
Although still a controversial work in certain homoeopathic circles Robin’s work

is very popular and well liked by thousands of homoeopaths the world over.
Here is an illustrative rubric for comparative purposes:-

Murphy - Mind
ABRUPT (14)
CALC, cham, HEP, lyc, med, nat-m, nit-ac, nux-v, plat, PULS, rauw, sil, SULPH, tarent

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Note the elevation of Calc, Hep and Sulph to grade 3.
Computer vs Book Considerations
By and large this work in Cara Professional should reflect the printed book
edition 2 of the repertory as supplied to Miccant by Robin Murphy in September
1996.
There may be minor differences in certain small remedies as this repertory is, at
times, not consistent within itself in the use of remedy abbreviations. Thus,
some small remedies, may appear in different chapters of this repertory with
different abbreviations. We have endeavoured to correct these within Cara
Professional but cannot guarantee that all have been found. Please let us know if
you find any inconsistencies.
Boericke's Pocket Repertory
Derived from Boericke's Pocket Book of Materia Medica and Repertory
Phatak's Repertory
Derived from Phatak's Repertory
Boger-Boenninghausen's Repertory
Cara's integration of this repertory is based on the book by C M Boger entitled

Boenninghausen's Characterisitcs of Materia Medica & Repertory, 1905.
Several changes have been made in order to incorprate this work into Cara's
way of working. These differences are:-
1. The Sleep and Dreams chapters have been incorporated into the Mind
chapter
2. All remedies marked as grade 4 or higher are represented in Cara as grade 3
3. Rubrics within chapter have been re-ordered alphabetcially. In the printed
book rubrics were organised into 'section'. However in order to support easy
display on Cara's screens (especially the Browse screen) all rubrics are now
in strict alphabetical sequence.
Complete Repertory
This is the most comprehensive repertory available today in both printed and
electronic form. Originally derived from Kent it has grown by both the
incorporation of both newly proven remedies and the research and extension of
older remedies.
Inheriting the work begun by Dr Kunzli, Roger van Zandvoort and his team have
created a wonderful repertory work. The Complete retains the schema of Kent by
and large although recent changes have been made, notably the incorporation of

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Dreams in the Mind chapter and the separation of Head Pain and Extremity Pain
into their own chapters.
All additions to the repertory are marked by author number (of course in Cara
Professional you can also easily see the author names!) even where the addition
can be traced back to the original proving or entry.
The volume of rubrics and remedies in this work make it the definitive repertory
to have on you computer. The sheer size and content make it ideally suited for
computer work.
Here is a comparative example that illustrates the scope of the work an a

common well used rubric:-

Complete Repertory - Mentals
ABRUPT (19)
aur-m162, calc122, cham 58, germ 222, hecla234, hep30, lil-t58, luna 228, lyc30, med137, nat-m122, nit-
ac30, nux-v30, plat122, PULS30, rauw119, sil30, sulph 30, tarent
Rubric cross-references
In the printed book version of the Complete there are many cross-references to
other rurbics. In Cara these cross-references do not appear. However the
original rubric is preserved fro conformity to the printed book version. Simply
ignore these entries.
Computer vs Book Considerations
This repertory within Cara Professional is version 4.5 of the Complete Repertory.
This version is more recent than the printed book versions which were based
on version 4.3 of the computerised version. Also bear in mind that there are 2
flavours of the printed book edition of the Mind chapter in the Complete ( the
single Mind volume printed several years ago compared to the Mind chapter
contained in the 1 volume repertory book more recently printed)
There is an important difference between this latest computer version and the
latest printed version. Traditionally remedies can appear in sub-rubrics and not
in the main rubric heading. This has always struck us as inconsistent and is one
of homoeopathy’s historical legacies from Kent. Some has sought to justify this.
While perhaps accepting that in printed book form there may be reasons for this
they do not apply when using the book in electronic form.
Consequently in version 4.5 of the Complete Repertory all remedies that

occur in sub-rubrics only have been automatically included in the main
rubric. This means that whenever repertorising you can use the main
rubric heading in the confident knowledge that Cara Professional is also
automatically including all of the remedies in the sub-rubrics.
Congratulations to Roger van Zandvoort for this brave and long-overdue

improvement to our repertory!

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Corrections Made in the Complete

This information was combined with many corrections and additions found in:
Homeopathic journals.
Pierre Schmidt’s and H. Chand’s Final General Repertory.
J. Künzli’s Repertorium Generale.
Sivaraman's Additions and corrections to Kent’s Repertory.
CCRH’s corrections to Boenninghausen’s Repertory (there is material in Kent
that comes from this repertory).
In addition to these we extensively verified and corrected remedy
abbreviations that have been confusing. Example: am-br. instead of ambr. or
cocc. instead of coc-c. or vice versa.
Textual changes to Kent’s Repertory

We carefully examined the format of each rubric and corrected inconsistencies.
The most important word in a rubric was moved to the beginning of that
rubric. Example: during urination became urination, during.
The rubrics were re-alphabetized.
The hierarchy of the rubrics was restructured to follow the format: General,
sides (left, right) times, agg. and amel., modalities and concordances, extending
to, localizations and sensations (pain).
Rubrics that have subrubrics were clarified. Example: stooping agg.: amel.
became stooping: amel.: agg.:
Older terminology was replaced when clearly needed by more modern
terminology following the American English spelling. Example: miscarriage is
included in abortion.
We corrected the language of rubrics to more precisely match its materia
medica source.
We replaced the inconsistent use of several words with the same meaning by
a single word throughout. Example: micturition became urination
We then examined the remedy abbreviations.

Different abbreviations for one and the same remedy were put together.
Example: M-art. was put under M-p-a.
The remedies in each rubric were re-alphabetized according to the alphabetic
order of the abbreviations instead of the alphabetic order of the full names of
the remedies.
Reorganizing rubrics
There have been some important changes to some of the main rubrics in the
Mind section. The Dreams have been put in the Mind section. After speaking to
many homeopaths the general idea has formed that the Dreams are a
substantial part of the Mind section. The Dreams represent emotional
impressions and mental strain.
The location of the main rubrics and their subrubrics for Speech in the Mind
and Mouth section of the repertory has changed. The original reason that Kent
put Speech in the Mind and another part of Speech in the Mouth section was
that he wanted to make a difference for those subrubrics of Speech that had a
mental-emotional aetiology, as distinct from those rubrics of Speech that were
more physiological in their aetiology. Nevertheless many rubrics have been
confused or were open to misinterpretation. What we have done is
reexamine the meaning of the rubrics and then put them either in the new
chapter for Speech and Voice, or we have put them under other main rubrics,
mainly Talk, talking, talks when the aetiology was a more emotional-mental one.

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Example: Mind; Speech; embarrassed (Kent page 81) became Mind; Talk,
talking, talks; embarrassed.
Example: Mind; Speech; incoherent (Kent page 81) became Speech & Voice;
Speech; incoherent.
The main rubric Speech under Speech & Voice includes all those rubrics that are
more connected to the motor control of speech.
The bodily anxieties and apprehensions have been included in the Mind
section under Anxiety. The reason for this is that, although felt in a specific part
of the body, it is still an expression of emotional value and therefore should be
included in the Mind section. Of course we also preserved those rubrics in the
specific body part section. Example: Stomach; Anxiety in was included in Mind;
Anxiety; Stomach, in.
The separate rubrics Talk; Talking and Talks have been combined into one
rubric named Talk, talking, talks since they were inconsistent in their meaning
and therefore confusing.
The subrubrics dealing with animals and body or body parts under the main
rubrics Delusions, Dreams and Fear have been collected together in larger
subrubrics. Example: Fear; dogs, of (Kent page 44) became Fear; animals; dogs,
of
In Delusions many subrubrics with the same meaning were found and their
remedies were transferred to the most likely place to find that information. We
have put cross-references where the rubric had been to indicate to where it has
been moved.
All of these moves can be traced by using the search mechanism to find all
ocurrences of any word and its synonyms.
In all chapters the Discolorations and Eruptions have been re-organized so

that all of their subrubrics now have the same hierarchical layout. Their layout is
defined as follows: The general rubric, followed by the time modalities, the
general modalities and the locations, then followed by the specific colors or
specific type of eruptions with their specific locations as subrubrics.
In Kent's Repertory you would sometimes find the locations first with the types
as their subrubrics in one section and the above hierarchy in another section.
In the Skin section all the pains have been put under Pain, with the usual
hierarchy as knows from for example the Extremity pains or the Ear-pains.
All the pains, except for the Head Pain section and the Extremity Pain section,
have been reorganized hierarchically. They all start with General, followed by
the time modalities, the general modalities and causations, the "extending to"
rubrics followed by the pain types, including "wandering", "radiating" and
"pulsating/throbbing".
Additions
We made additions from various sources, using information about the reliability
of authors, and using the book reviews for those sources from old homeopathic

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journals as a guideline for quality.
As a general rule we tried to make additions from the oldest author available for
that addition. We also took the grade of the additions and the existing
information into account, in order not to destroy the valid information in Kent’s
Repertory . The original source is credited with their additions. In most cases
there are extensive materia medicas available to confirm and check information.
The older authors have written more about their discoveries than their later
colleagues!
This is why some of the additions in this new repertory come from very different
sources than expected. For reasons of reliability we did not include information
that cannot be confirmed or checked in writing. When information that you
would like to see in this repertory comes available in writing, it will be included.
New Rubrics
New rubrics were created when there were no existing rubrics that covered their
Materia Medica meaning in Kent’s Repertory. We studied the meaning of the
rubric using the information in the materia medica and the information in
contemporary dictionaries, from the time that the information became available.
Also, the rubric to be added should have real homeopathic value i.e. the new
information should be information that helps the consulting homeopaths find the
right remedy.
Cross-references
These were created to help locate as many close alternatives to a specific rubric
as possible. Most of the similar, but still somewhat different rubrics have been
included as cross-references for many rubrics. This gives us better choices for
our patients.
References
Much extra new information has been included, such as rubrics to guide you to
the right place in the repertory to find the correct location of the rubric you
need. This information mostly consists of synonym wordings and/or modern
terminology for a specific rubric.
Remedy Degrees
Remedy degrees have been chosen using specific guidelines for the grades
indicated in the materia medica. Here are a few examples:
Hahnemann's Materia Medica Pura and Chronic Diseases bold text: often seen in
provings/patients second degree, italics normal print: infrequently seen in
provings/patients first degree, plain text text between brackets: not relevant
enough to use
Stapf's Archiv and Additions to the Materia Medica Pura

extended text second degree, italics normal text first degree, plain type
Noack and Trinks Handbuch der Homöopathischen Arzneimittellehre

extended text second degree, italics normal text first degree, plain type

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Jahr's New Manual of Homoeopathic Practice

normal text first degree, plain type italic text second degree, italics
bothy can include: pathogenic symptoms from provings that have been cured int
he patient and pathogenic and clinical symptoms in normal and italic text.
Hering's Guiding Symptoms, Analytical Repertory of the symptoms of the Mind

and Knerr's Repertory to the Guiding Symptoms no sign or I: occasionally
confirmed proving-symptom first degree, plain type II: more frequently
confirmed proving-symptom first degree, plain type I: symptoms verified by
cures second degree, italics II: symptoms repeatedly verified by cures third
degree, bold type + approved characteristic fourth degree, bold underline
Q, the Greek letter theta indicates a specific pathological or physiological state
during which a specific symptom was cured by the remedy. We included those
remedies when there was more than one entry for that situation and/or when
these entries were not in plain type. These remedies have a certain value not
restricted to that specific situation and therefore should be mentioned.
Toxicological symptoms were included. p symptoms have been included, they
stand for symptoms observed on the sick. The Knerr repertory omits the Q and
the p symptoms.
T. F. Allen's Encyclopaedia of Pure Materia Medica

normal text: not verified symptoms first degree, plain type
* normal text: verified symptoms first degree, plain type italic text: more
frequent in provings second degree, italics
* italic text: more frequent in provings , verified in cures, second degree, italics
bold text: frequent in provings third degree, BOLD
* bold text: frequent in provings and verified in cures third degree, BOLD
H. C. Allen's Materia Medica of the Nosodes

He probably used a combination of information from Jahr and Hering:
| or no sign: proving symptom, not or only occasionally confirmed
first degree, plain type
||: more frequently confirmed proving-symptom second degree, italics
italics: more frequently confirmed proving symptom? second degree, italics
| italics: symptoms verified by cures ? second degree, italics
|||: frequently confirmed proving-symptom? third degree, BOLD
Q, the Greek letter “theta” indicates a specific pathological or physiological state
during which a specific symptom was cured by the remedy. (see Lac vaccinum
defloratum)
W. Boerice's Materia Medica, O. Boericke's Repertory

normal text: first degree, plain type
italic text: second degree, italics
J. H. Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

normal text: first degree, plain type
Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica, Lesser Writing's, Minor

Writings
plain text: first degree, plain type
UPPER CASE text: third degree, BOLD
Degrees were verified comparing this materia medica to other medica and to the
entries for specific remedies made in the Final General Repertory.

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Boger's Boenninghausen Repertory, Boenninghausen's Therapeutic Pocket Book,

and Systematisch Alphabetisches Repertorium der Antipsorischen Nicht
Antipsorischen Arzneien
The same division was taken from Boenninghausen by Hering.
text between bracets: (conditional)
plain text: first degree, plain text
italic text: first degree, plain text
Bold, Capitalized text: second degree, italics
UPPER CASE text/ BOLD UPPER CASE text: third degree, BOLD
P. Schmidt's additions together with the approved characteristics of Hering's

Guiding Symptoms are the only additions amongst which you will sometimes
find additions made in the fourth degree, BOLD underlined. These additions
stand for confirmed proving symptoms repeatedly verified in practice.
HOW TO LOOK AT THE LAYOUT OF THE COMPLETE REPERTORY

References and cross-references
References are connected to rubrics that have no remedies and point to the
rubrics to look at that contain remedies. References start with a ‘ sign, followed
by a sign for every next reference. Cross references are connected to rubrics
that have remedies and will follow behind the remedies of that rubric pointing
you to rubrics with related meanings. Cross references always start with a
sign. If first references are those that can be found in the same main rubric or
subrubric, depending on the location of the rubric these references are referring
to, than these first references are written in lower case italics.
Example: micturition --> urination. Meaning: look at urination at the same

hierarchy level.
Is the reference pointing to a main rubric than the first character of that rubric
as a reference is displaid in uppercase italic and the other characters in
lowercase italic.
Example: talking, from --> Talk, talking, talks; agg.
Is the reference indicating another section of the Repertory than that Section's
name in the reference is displaid in Uppercase italic.
Example: GENERALITIES; Weather; cloudy; agg.
The ; sign indicates that there is a hierarchy in the reference for easier
searching. Example: Exertion; mental; agg.
A "-" in a reference, always used behind a ";" indicates that one higher level
rubric has several subrubrics that the reference is referring to.
Example: Fear; bad news, hearing – horrible things – sad stories, which stands
for Fear; bad news or Fear; horrible things or Fear; sad stories. All references to
the same layer are always found in alphabetical order. References that point to
several other sections always will be in order of appearance in the repertory,
following the Head to toe scedule.
Author identification numbers

We have based the author identification numbers (ID's) on chronology, based on
the dates that the listed authors first published their work. This is a change from
the system used in the pre-3.1 computer versions of the Complete Repertory,

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the Synthetic Repertory and the Repertorium Generale. The new system enable
you to have an idea about the time the addition has been made and by whom.
Author numbers are displayed as subscript numbers behind the remedy

abbreviation.
The last three numbers of an author number are used to specify the authors
place in the chronological system we used that starts with the 1 for Hahnemann
S. as being the oldest homeopath to, at this point in the development of the
Complete Repertory, 239 Riefer M. as the last person added to the list and
therefore the most recent author that we took additions or new remedy names
from.
Since we started with a rather complete list of authors when we were going to
give everyone a suitable i.d. number, most i.d. numbers fall into the 3 digit
catagory. Nevertheless and of course some authors have been added later in the
process. These authors got 4 digit numbers where the first digit only indicates
the first, second, third or even fourth time of renumbering.
Therefore:
1 Hahnemann S.
2 Stapf E.
1002 Hartmann F. (from the same time as Stapf, but added in the first re-
numbering session).
2002 Jörg J.C.G. (from the same time as Stapf, but added in the second re-
numbering session).
100 Blackwood A.L.
1100 Shedd P.W. (from the same time as Blackwood, but added in the first re-
numbering session).
Enhancing main rubrics

In the Complete Repertory main rubrics always include all the remedies found in
their subrubrics. This move has been discussed with many collegues and most of
them welcomed it. From the viewpoint that a repertory is first of all an index to
the materia medica that policy can easily be defended. All remedies in
subrubrics not in the main rubric have been added in plain type. When the
remedy was already in the main rubric by a later author (often Kent) than the
author for that remedy in the subrubric the remedy in the main rubric got the
author number for the author in the subrubric. The degree of that remedy in the
main rubric was kept as was.
Depending on the way one repertorizes this can be very useful and in cases
where patients cannot be specific enough about their symptoms it is more than
welcome to have a complete collection of all possible remedies in the main
rubric.
The enhancement should not make homeopaths use main rubrics only.
Homeopathically it is still the best to go to the most specific (sub) rubric in order
to find the similimum, if possible.

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Appendix B The Materia Medicas
Cara Professional is supplied with a fine array of materia medicas for you to use.
65 volumes of materia medica are supplied as standard with Cara Professional.
These are:-
Hahnemann, The Organon 6 th edition, Chronic Diseases, Materia Medica Pura

Lippe, Redline Symptoms of Materia Medica
Anshutz, New, Old and Forgotten Remedies
Clarke, Dictionary, Prescriber, Collected Writings (20 works)
Boericke, Pocket Materia Medica
Phatak, Materia Medica
Boenninghausen, Lesser Writings
Close, Genius of Homeopathy
Kent, Lectures on Materia Medica, Lesser Writings
Allen T, Keynotes, Encyclopædia of Pure Materia Medica
Allen H, Materia Medica of the Nosodes
Lilienthal Therapeutics
Hughes Cyclopedia
Cowperthwate Textbook
Burnett Collected Writings (21 works)
Farrington's Clinical MM, Lesser Writings & Therapeutic Pointers
Roberts, Sensations as if.
All of which will be familiar to homoeopaths.
Also available as options are:-
Frans Vermeulen
Synoptic 1, Synoptic 2 and Concordant (2 nd edition)
Robin Murphy
Lotus Materia Medica, Reversed Repertory
Jan Scholten
Homoeopathy and the Elements, Homoeopathy and Minerals
Govindarajan Sankaran
The Soul of Remedies, Provings, Spirit, Substance
Dr P Sankaran
The Elements of Homeopathy
Jeremy Sherr
Dynamic Provings Volume 1, The Dynamics of Provings
Cornelia Richardson-Boedler
Psychic Causes of Illness
Rudi Verspoor and Patty Smith

Homeopathy Renewed
Jose Mirrilli
Thematic Materia Medica
Appendix B Materia medicas 149

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Appendix C Remedy multimedia

The following remedies have multimedia audio recordings contained with in Cara
Professional. This list is provided should you wish to study them:-
Aconite Eileen Nauman Adamas Jeremy Sherr

Aethusa David Mundy Agaricus David Mundy
Alumina phos David Mundy Amm carb David Mundy
Anhalonium Rajan Sankaran Apis Eileen Nauman
Ars alb Miranda Castro Arum t David Mundy
Aurum Misha Norland Bac 10 Anthony Bickley
Baryta carb David Mundy BCG Rudi Verspoor
Belladonna Misha Norland Bellis perennis Eileen Nauman
Boron Jan Scholten Brassica Jeremy Sherr
Bufo David Mundy Calc ars Bob Fordham
Calc carb Misha Norland Calc phos Ernest Roberts
Calc sil Bob Fordham Calc sulph Murray Feldman
Camphor Murray Feldman Cann-s David Mundy
Carbo veg Eileen Nauman Carbo sulph David Mundy
Carc Misha Norland Carduus mar Robin Murphy
Chocolate Jeremy Sherr Cicuta Nuala Eising
Cimicifuga Ian Townsend Cina Rajan Sankaran
Coffea Rajan Sankaran Cortisonum Rudi Verspoor
Crocus sat Ian Townsend Crot h Bob Fordham
Cundurango Robin Murphy Cuprum Robin Murphy
Cyclamen Murray Feldman Digitalis Eileen Nauman
Dros David Mundy Dulc David Mundy
Dys-co Anthony Bickley Elaps Eileen Nauman
Gaertner Anthony Bickley Germanium Jeremy Sherr
Granite Nuala Eising Haliaetus leuc Jeremy Sherr
Hyos Kathy Parker Hydrogen Jeremy Sherr
Hypericum Eileen Nauman Iridium Tricia Griffin
Kali Ars Ian Townsend Kali Bich David Mundy
Kerosene Ian Townsend Lac can Misha Norland
Lac humanum Rajan Sankaran Lach Misha Norland
Laurocerasus Eileen Nauman Ledum Patty Smith
Limestone Nuala Eising Lithium Jan Scholten
Lyss Misha Norland
Marble Nuala Eising Med Misha Norland
Merc Misha Norland Merc dulc David Mundy
Mez Ernest Roberts Morgan Anthony Bickley
Morgan-Gaert Anthony Bickley Natrum carb Miranda Castro
Natrum mur Miranda Castro Natrum sulph Patty Smith
Naja David Mundy Neon Jeremy Sherr
Nitrogenium Jan Scholten Oxygenium Jan Scholten
Palladium Ernest Roberts Paris quad Ernest Roberts
Penicillinum Rudi Verspoor Phos Miranda Castro
Phos ac Ian Townsend Pic ac Ian Townsend
Proteus Anthony Bickley Psor Misha Norland
Puls Miranda Castro Ruta grav Rudi Verspoor
Samb nigra Eileen Nauman Sanic Kathy Parker
Scorpion Jeremy Sherr Sepia Miranda Castro
Sil Miranda Castro Stannum Murray Feldman
Staph Ernest Roberts Stront carb Rajan Sankaran
Sulph Miranda Castro Sycotic co Anthony Bickley
Symphytum Eileen Nauman Thuja Misha Norland
Vaccinotocc Patty Smith Yttrium Jan Scholten
Appendix C Multimedia entries 151

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INTRODUCTION & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 14

CHAPTER 1 INSTALLING CARA PROFESSIONAL 19

Installing Cara Professional 19

TRANSFERRING CARA'S PROTECTION TO ANOTHER COMPUTER. 24

CHAPTER 2 GETTING HELP 27

Online help within Cara Professional 27

Knowledge base on the internet 27

CHAPTER 3 CUSTOMISING CARA 29

Cara's Properties and Settings 30

Repertory Search Results 31

CHAPTER 4 QUICK REPERTORISATION 35

Lesson 2 Reviewing the Case 40

Lesson 3 Searching for rubrics 40

Lesson 5 Practising the Chapter Search 54

Lesson 6 Saving your Case 57

Lesson 7 Manipulating your case rubrics 58

Lesson 8 Reviewing your Repertorisation Strategies 60

Lesson 10 Using the Strategies 64

Lesson 11 Cara Professional’s Expert System (C.E.S.) 65

Lesson 12 More advanced repertorisation techniques 67

Lesson 13 Getting information on remedies 69

Lesson 14 Viewing Materia Medica 72

Lesson 15 Comparing Remedies 73

Lesson 16 Saving your Case (Part 2) 75

CHAPTER 6 REPERTORIES AND RUBRICS 79

Working with Themes 81

Seeing the remedies for a rubric 82

Copying rubrics to the Windows clipboard 85

Assigning rubrics to rubriclists 87

Viewing the contents of a rubriclist 87

Assigning rubrics to other rubriclists 88

Giving values to rubrics on a rubriclist 88

Creating a brand new rubric 91

Export to user defined 91

Setting your strategies 93

Analysing the results 96

CHAPTER 9 PATIENTS AND VISITS 99

Amend a patient’s existing record 99

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