Paste your case notes in plain language. Nikolife suggests repertory rubrics from Kent, ranks the remedies that run through them, and shows you where every rubric and grade comes from — so you can weigh the differentiation yourself.
how grounding works Why this isn't ChatGPT
Every rubric and remedy grade below is retrieved from a curated, public-domain corpus — Kent's Repertory (1897) and Boericke's Materia Medica — never generated from the open web. Each suggestion carries its source, so you can trace and check it.
how ranking works Künzli's hierarchy of symptoms
Remedies are ranked by the value of each symptom, not merely by how many rubrics match. Following Künzli and the Organon (§153), a striking, characteristic symptom counts for far more than a common local complaint. Each symptom carries its tier, and score = Kent grade × tier weight.
- ① ★Characteristic / peculiar (§153) — strange, rare, paradoxical or concomitant symptoms; the ones that surprise you. Weighted highest.
- ② MindMind & emotions — deep disturbances (aversion to family, self-destructive impulses), then emotions (fears, jealousy, anxiety, irritability), then intellect (memory, learning).
- ③ GeneralGenerals — the "I / me" symptoms — temperature, weather, thirst, food cravings & aversions, sleep, sexual and menstrual symptoms, relation to the sea and mountains.
- ④ CauseCausation / etiology — a clear cause in the case: grief, fright, disappointed love, suppressed anger, a blow or fall.
- ⑤ LocalLocal symptoms — the presenting diagnosis (the headache, the constipation, the eruption). Lowest in the choice of remedy.
Any symptom, if unusual, rises to group ①. Tap ★ on a rubric to mark it characteristic and re-weight the case — Künzli's rule that an out-of-the-ordinary symptom from any group becomes a leading one.
Not characteristic — down-weighted or best un-ticked: what merely repeats and is common (e.g. "nervousness"); a vague general with no modality (e.g. "headache" with no better/worse); and anything the pathology itself explains (e.g. breathlessness in pleurisy). Per §118, no two remedies are alike — so the case is analysed by what is characteristic.
Acute prescribing works the same way — describe what just happened and Nikolife maps it to Kent rubrics and ranks the acute remedies.
An acute first-aid guide will be added here once its file is provided.
Look up any remedy in the corpus for a Materia Medica snapshot — keynotes, mind, generalities and modalities from Boericke — plus the repertory rubrics it leads, and study prompts to test yourself for exams.