Comparing Remedies (Remedy Comparison Chart)

The Remedy Comparison Chart lets you compare remedies by looking at how their rubrics are spread across the sections of a repertory (Mind, Head, Stomach, and so on). It is a study tool for seeing where each remedy's strength lies, side by side.

Where do I find it?

The chart lives in the Tools area:

• Click Tools in the top navigation and choose Remedy comparison chart. On a medium-width screen, Tools is inside More. On a phone, open the menu.
• Or open the Tools card on the home dashboard, or the Tools hub, and pick the chart from there.
• From a case analysis, use Compare in the repertorization grid (see "Comparing remedies from a case analysis" below).

The Tools hub also holds Scholten Tables (the Periodic Table and the Plants Table), Provings Lab and My notes.

How do I use it?

1. Open the Remedy comparison chart. It starts on Remedies. The Families and Repertory buttons at the top of the page switch to comparing whole families or exploring a whole repertory (both described below).
2. Choose the repertory you want to compare in.
3. Add remedies in the Add a remedy to compare... box. You can compare up to 10 remedies at once; a counter shows how many you have added.
4. Read the result in whichever view suits you.

There are six views:

• Chart: the visual comparison.
• Table: the same data as numbers.
• Distribution insights: a plain-language reading of what the chart shows, with an "In plain language" summary and a "Detailed analysis" section you can expand.
• Shared rubrics: with at least two remedies, click Analyze rubrics to list the rubrics the remedies share, the rubrics only one of them has, and the well-populated rubrics a remedy is missing from.
• Rubric words: study the selected remedies through the explicit words and phrases in their linked rubric paths.
• Similar remedy distributions: finds other remedies whose section pattern resembles your remedy. Click Find similar remedies; each result shows a similarity percentage and can be added straight into the comparison.

On a phone, the view tabs show icons only.

In the Chart view you can also:

• Switch the chart between Section distribution, Highlights (wording and rubric paths that stand out for each remedy) and Word evidence (the chart recalculated from only the rubric paths that match your Rubric words search).
• Click a section of the chart to open a panel with the rubric evidence behind it.
• In Highlights, click a term to open it in Rubric words, or click the book icon beside it to search the repertory for that word.

Choosing which sections to show

Use Sections to choose which chapters appear in the chart and table. Generalities, illness, age and analysis chapters are hidden by default, because they describe the case or re-index other chapters rather than showing where a symptom appears. For Complete, the hidden chapters include its psychological themes, Rx & Associations and anatomical index. Show all brings every section back, and Reset to defaults hides them again. The Sections button shows how many sections are shown out of the total, for example 12/14.

The Rubric words view

Instead of comparing sections, this view asks where a particular idea actually appears in the rubric wording.

Enter up to five alternatives separated by commas — for example anxiety, anxious, apprehension. Every word within one alternative must appear in the same rubric path. Then click Find rubric evidence.

For each selected remedy, the results show how many of its linked rubrics match, section by section, with the matching rubric paths.

Comparing remedies from a case analysis

You can send remedies straight from a repertorization to the chart:

1. Open the case analysis and go to the repertorization grid.
2. To compare particular remedies, click the small highlighter icon on each remedy's column header. Click it again to remove the highlight. Once two or more columns are highlighted, their number shows on the Compare button.
3. Click Compare in the grid toolbar and choose:
4. • Compare highlighted (n): the columns you highlighted (at least two).
   • Compare top 5 or Compare top 10: the leading remedies of the current sort and filters. With fewer remedies in the grid, the item shows how many it will compare (for example Compare top 3). Both need at least two remedies in the grid.

The chart opens in the repertory that supplied most of the sheet's rubrics. If the sheet mixes repertories, the Compare menu says which one is used, for example "Comparison uses Kent (7 of 9 rubrics)". Remedies that cannot be found in that repertory are listed after "Not found in". Back to analysis returns you to the grid.

Compare is not shown in the phone layout of the analysis, or while Multi-view or the By family view (the Families button in the toolbar) is on. On narrower desktop screens the button shows only its icon.

Comparing remedy families

There are two ways to work with a remedy family.

Add a family's remedies to your comparison. In Remedies, use Add from taxonomy. Choose a taxonomy source, search the families and groups, then pick which of the matching remedies to compare. Remedies are listed in order of how much rubric evidence they have in the chosen repertory, so you can start with the best-documented members. The remedy cap for the comparison still applies, and a counter shows how many spaces remain.

Similia is explicit about what this does and does not mean: membership comes from the selected taxonomy and is not a curated clinical recommendation. Remedies from a group with no rubric evidence in the chosen repertory are not offered.

Compare whole families. Click Families at the top of the page, then Add family. You can study one family against the repertory baseline, or compare up to 10 families in the same chart. Every matched member of a family counts equally, so one large remedy cannot carry the family. Families offer the Chart, Table, Distribution insights and Shared rubrics views:

• Distribution insights includes Membership and coverage: how many of the family's taxonomy members were matched in the chosen repertory.
• Shared rubrics needs exactly two families. It separates the rubrics characteristic of both families from those characteristic of only one.

Exploring a repertory without picking remedies

Click Repertory at the top of the page to open the repertory overview. It explores the structure and wording of a whole repertory on its own, with no remedy selected. It reports the number of distinct rubrics, remedies and remedy–rubric links, the median coverage per remedy, the top remedies by rubric coverage and the leading remedies in each section. Click Load word analysis to see the top rubric words and the remedies each word is most concentrated in.

Section leaders can be ranked two ways: Coverage, the raw number of linked rubrics, or Prominence, which compares a remedy's share of a section against that section's share of the whole repertory. Counts use distinct remedy–rubric links, so duplicates are collapsed and rubric grades do not inflate the total.

These rankings describe what is recorded in the repertory. They are not a statement of clinical importance.

Calculation modes

The chart can count in four ways, so you can ask different questions of the same data. It opens in Equalized by remedy & section:

• Equalized by remedy & section: removes the effect of one remedy simply having more rubrics than another, and of some sections being much larger than others.
• Equalized by remedy: removes the effect of one remedy simply having more rubrics than another.
• Over / under-represented: shows where a remedy appears more or less than you would expect.
• Rubric count: the plain number of rubrics per section.

With QRep5, which has only one section, only Equalized by remedy and Rubric count are offered, and the chart opens in Equalized by remedy.

Each mode has a short explanation in the interface. Under Appearance you can also change the Palette (Soft, Vivid, or Color-blind safe), switch on Color by rubric degree, and choose how Over / under-representation marks bars that stand out (Markers, Markers and section shading, or Off).

What do I need to use it?

• The Remedy Comparison Chart is a Pro feature. On the Free plan, choosing it from Tools, or clicking Compare in an analysis, shows the upgrade window. Opening a link to the chart on the Free plan takes you to the home dashboard instead.
• You can only chart a repertory your account has access to, so the repertories offered depend on your plan and add-ons. The Dreams Repertory, the New World Veterinary Repertory and the Sensations As If repertories by Ward and Roberts cannot be charted, even when your account has them.
• It does not use AI credits. The insights are written from fixed, pre-written templates rather than generated by AI, so comparing remedies uses no credits.

Good to know

• The page address keeps the repertory and the selected remedies (up to 10). Reloading the page restores that repertory and those remedies, and you can share the link with a colleague who has Pro and access to that repertory. A family comparison is not kept in the address: a reload or a shared link opens on Remedies, with the calculation mode and view back to their defaults. If a link asks for a repertory your account cannot open, the chart keeps your current repertory and tells you.
• A chart opened from a case analysis also carries a Back to analysis link to your case, which a colleague cannot open. To share a comparison, open the chart from Tools and add the remedies there.
• A focus mode hides the headers and gives the chart the whole screen.
• Similar remedy distributions is not available for QRep5, because that repertory has only one section, so there is no distribution to compare.
• A remedy needs enough rubrics in the chosen repertory before a meaningful similarity can be calculated.

Updated on: 11/10/2026