Testimonials

"I've used the concept searches with much pleasure. They are perfect for studying Materia Medica. ReferenceWorks is great for seeing families - so many beautiful graphs! It is a tremendous tool and has helped me to do research that would be impossible without it."

Jan Scholten, MD, the Netherland

"I cannot suppress my enthusiasm. I have already found remedies I would never have thought of without the programs!!"

Alize Timmermann, the Netherland

"These programs are a revolution and offer homeopathy tremendous potential! They have been invaluable for me in my research on plant families - not to mention their daily use in my clinic. I'm very happy with them. I must say that these programs have been absolutely magnificent."

Rajan Sankaran, MD, India

"ReferenceWorks and MacRepertory are very helpful, always there for me in my studies and practice - and in the most friendly and inspirational way, triggering my mind to play, explore and develope. I highly recommend these programs to all of my students."

Rina Markovits, MD, Israel

"The absolute beginner and the most skilled homeopath can use MacRepertory to great advantage in prescribing, studying and teaching. I have used other programs but my success was not nearly as impressive. I strongly encourage all of my students to buy them." 

Massimo Mangialavori, MD, Italy

"This version was very easy to install, and now I'm exploring all of the new features for my next project, a volume on plant remedies.
ReferenceWorks is incredible and, as far as I'm concerned, you should rename it ReallyWonderful."

Frans Vermeulen

"I am completely stunned by the possibilities of the new programs. I can unequivocally state that the multiple clipboards, the ability to change from materia medica books to remedies, and the Limit functions in ReferenceWorks are real winners. This is the direction that top- flight homeopathic educators are taking. The concept graph is so cool that a word has not been invented yet to describe it."

Linda Johnston, MD, USA

"These are the best and friendliest homeopathic software that you can buy and I strongly recommend them to every homeopath. They havehad a big hand in my growth as a homeopath and helped me to develope my ideas and concepts in psychiatry".

Mahesh Gandhi, MD, India

"ReferenceWorks is a truly incredible achievement. It is a mature program which combines state-of-the-art computer programming with a deep understanding of the needs and inner workings of homeopathy."

Roger Morrison, MD, USA

"In the never ending quest for the similimum I often wish I knew everything there is to know. Sigh! But then as Samuel Johnson said "The next best thing to knowing something, is knowing where to find it." That for me is undoubtedly MacRepertory and Reference-Works. Whether the case needs an overview of broad family groups, an exact sentence in the provers words or a peculiar rubric that is the confluence of the case, it's all there in the programmes. As the world evolves, David and his work keep pace with the constant growth towards perfection."

Divya Chhabra, MD, India

"I am sure I cannot practice a single day but for your programs. There cannot be enough of gratitude for you and your team for this service you have provided to the community of homoeopaths."

Jayesh Shah, MD, India

"MacRepertory and ReferenceWorks just keep getting more and more sophisticated - 21st century tools indeed. I find them so very valuable in effectively dealing with the complex cases we are now seeing in our practices.
I suggest that for those who have recently started studying homeopathy, and even teachers, rather than buying book after book or constantly feeling that you don't have the right book - get the library in one package: ReferenceWorks."

Louis Klein, Canada

"It's a great teaching tool - and of course studying tool. Makes learning small remedies a piece of cake."

Miranda Castro, RSHom, USA

"I cannot imagine life without ReferenceWorks! It makes my very busy schedule managing patients, teaching and writing so much easier. Thank you David and Kent Associates for this wonderful contribution to the homeopath of the 21st century."

Nancy Herrick, USA

"I cannot praise the programs highly enough for their quality of information, ease of retrieval, innovation and beautiful design. They have greatly enhanced our ability to find similima, to research and to teach and for nearly 20 years I have been their greatest fan."

Misha Norland, UK

"MacRepertory is a very smart program now. I can accurately compare remedies in ways that were never possible before. This will be so fun to teach with! I can't wait for next term to start!!!"

Krista Heron, USA

"I am not usually the gushing type but this definitely warrants a gush." Several hours later ... I take my previous praise back; it was much too mild and understated. ReferenceWorks is really fantastic. Just what a computer program should be."

Jonathan Shore, MD, USA

"You have again made great improvements. The work you have done throughout the years is such a great help to many!"

Harry van der Zee, MD, Netherlands

"Congratulations! Such a magnificent, gorgeous, fun, elegant program!!!  And so fast... I can't imagine prescribing without them. David, you are a true artist!"

Bill Gray, MD, USA

"The programs are by far the best ever made. The wide spectrum of possibilities to analyse, repertorize and search for the remedy is unique with MacRepertory. And it is like miracle to get information about a remedy which is not well known yet through ReferenceWorks. I can't say enough about these tools."  

Anne Schadde, Germany

"You did a fantastic job. It is nice to look at ¬ good for the heart and eyes. It is full of great information ¬ good for the brain and ears. It is intuitive and easy to operate ¬ good for the health!"

Andreas Bjorndal, MD, Norway

"I absolutely love to work with MacRepertory and Reference Work and use it 120% of the time. Thank you for all the good work you're doing!"

Corrie Hiwat, the Netherlands

"The interface is beautiful, quick and responsive. It is amazingly intuitive, clear and straightforward. It's like sitting on a huge mountain of information, and knowing many ways around and inside it, and still always finding new paths and corners. The concept graph is truly visionary. ReferenceWorks is great fun to play with, very transparent and elegant. It is great to see the work on families you have done. My beloved fungi are a family all their own for the first time in homeopathic literature (now I owe you a mushroom meal)! Anything I can think of doing I can do!"

Cees Baas, the Netherlands

"I'm always trying to think of an analogy for me having such a wonderful program and not knowing all that it is capable of and the closest I can come to is that it is like having a luxury car and using it to listen to the radio only!"

Donna Powers

"ReferenceWorks arrived just in time, there are so many fascinating new books and provings to study it will provide all my holiday reading! Rachel said the only reason I did not take my laptop on our honeymoon is that they had not invented laptops yet....."

Francis Treuherz, MA RShom FSHom, UK

"The appearance of ReferenceWorks in the history of homeopathy will divide it into two clearly differentiated parts. It is a brilliant product that constitutes a revolutionary new method to reach an amazing amount of information in just seconds. The possibility of being able to consult several authors simultaneously by comparing the original texts will make it easier and much more comprehensible to practice homeopathy. For those homeopaths who write papers and books or teach and for all of those who mainly study and practice, ReferenceWorks is an incredible tool able to help you in ways never imagined before. It is a real pity that I could not have had it ten or fifteen years ago - How much more complete and productive would have been my life as an author!"

Francisco Eizayaga, MD, Argentina

"I studied carefully the concept approach and I think it is a big development in studying of comparative materia medica. Congratulations."

Jose Mirilli, MD

"Thank you David for providing us with an indispensable tool for studying and practicing homeopathy. Your creativity, enthusiasm and hard work are greatly appreciated."

Nadia Bakir B.SC., N.D., F.C.A.H., D.H.A.N.P., C.C.H., Associate Professor the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine

"I have to say that you have created one of the most powerful tools I can imagine. I will be eternally grateful for ReferenceWorks. I love being able to search so many repertories and materia medicas so quickly. I love the feature of being able to copy and paste quotes (previously a laborious task) from these references for my case analyses and for teaching. It will certainly advance the practice of homeopathy."

Peggy Chipkin, FNP, USA

"For those of you who don't know about MacRepertory, it is the cream of the repertorization programs. It helps to repertorize and analyze your patient's cases using virtually all of the repertories and materia medica's. It shows you the best choices of remedies for your case analysis to fit the individuality of the case. It also allows you to quickly compare materia medica, to find confirmatory symptoms, and to save your patients' charts, electronically, for ongoing follow- ups. MacRepertory has long had the reputation for being the richest and easiest of homeopathic tools." "In terms of comparing different analysis strategies and finding the best approach to interpreting the repertorization, MacRepertory's full suite of graph styles is hard to beat. Much more important than that, however, is the ability to play with the case and see how that affects the repertorization. MacRepertory's graphs are linked 'live' to the rubric clipboards. Any change you make there (e.g. underlining, or selecting certain rubrics, etc.) will be reflected immediately in the graph. To me, this immediacy promotes an intimate interaction with the case, which more than once showed me the right way to the simillimum. One area where MacRepertory really shines is the analysis of a case based on natural families. With only two mouse clicks you see your case projected onto the periodical table of elements and can easily locate the center of gravity and likely remedy relationships there. Or, maybe, you suspect a plant remedy and want to see which botanical families the repertorization favors. Nothing easier than that. You can view the botanical families in hierarchical order, while the darker shades of green show you where the repertorization falls. I really enjoyed playing with this part of the program, not the least because the pictures are well done and fun to look at. Besides chemical and botanical relationships, there are several others you can explore in a similar fashion (e.g., zoological or miasmatic)."

Greg Bedayn, RSHom, Review in the American Homeopath

"I like ReferenceWorks very much. It is very easy to use and surprisingly fast considering the quantity of material that is in the database . ReferenceWorks lets me create my own rubrics by searching for symptoms not found in the repertory. Also, small rubrics can be enhanced and completed by using ReferenceWorks to do a complete search of the materia medica. It is invaluable for my work with animals that have symptoms not found as often in people. I am able to work more creatively with ReferenceWorks because I am able to put in specific words or phrases ‹ and the form I use is completely in my control. It is a well thought out program. The very nice features make it extremely flexible and useful to the practitioner."

Richard Pitcairn, DVM, USA

"I highly recommend doing David's workshop on MacRepertory and ReferenceWorks. Even though I have used the programs for a long time, there is always a need to be refreshed in their capabilities and also to become more familiar with the new features that David is exploring with the programs. To gain the most from these programs, it is really worth hearing and seeing what David has to say and demonstrate."

Richard Pitt, USA

"I just installed MacRepertory. IT'S STUNNING. Absolutely beautiful to work with."

Alastair Gray, Australia

"I think MacRepertory and ReferenceWorks are the best Homeopathic software by far, and have certainly helped my prescribing... GREAT STUFF!!"

Andrew Marsh, USA

"I don't know where I would be without MacRepertory. My work is getting good, really good and MacRepertory has helped a lot in getting me there."

Barbara Seideneck, USA

"I love the program, and keep finding things it does, by experimenting and playing with it like a very fun toy. I am constantly doing it's woo woo in the classes I teach, and the students are always in awe and they love it, it sells itself, it can't help it. Thank you David for the incredible work you do, it touches so many so deeply."

Bill Mann, USA

"The program is brilliant. The searching is like lightning. The interface is simple and clean. Well done!"

Charles Forsyth, MD, UK

"I just wanted to tell you how much a colleague of mine and myself enjoyed and valued your DVDs on MacRepertory and ReferenceWorks. They are truly inspirational and I realized how much more I could get from those two programs. I really think that those creatures of yours are making and will make an enormous difference for homeopathy. Your explanations are clear, may be there is some more to tell on ReferenceWorks, I had the feeling that its possibilities are more than one can guess, maybe even for you..."

Cristina Vittorini, MD, Italy

"Your wonderful programs MacRepertory and ReferenceWorks are both indispensable to preparing seminars and the presenting of cases. They are "Wow" You have every right to be proud of ReferenceWorks it is the richest mine of information."

David Lilley, MD, UK

"Indispensable in our daily practice, MacRepertory and ReferenceWorks are also helping to carry out Farrington's scheme to study remedies by family, and to extend and strengthen Hahnemann's concept of the chronic diseases. For these reasons and more, David Warkentin has earned a place of honor in the pantheon of our history. By enriching and perfecting our oldest, most cherished teachings in the light of the new information technology, he also exemplifies the true genius of America and its people."

Dick Moskowitz, MD, USA

"As a homeopath who trips around the world, literally, my laptop has tramped the Swiss Alps, the Andes of Peru, the humid jungle temple of Machu Picchu, into the depths of the Amazon Basin of Brasil, and into the library of the sacred Royal Botanical Kew Gardens library in London, England, 11,500 feet levels of the Rocky Mountains, to Down Under in 130F Red Center of Uluru (Ayres Rock) to the damp, windy coast of Dunedin, New Zealand--and my trusty MacRepertory went with me. And never failed me. Hiking the Alps, tramping through jungles, and everything in-between, I could count on MacRepertory to give me the feedback I needed to utilize my homeopathic remedies that always went in my backpack."

Eileen Nauman, DHM (UK), author Homeopathy 911

"When I graduated, I looked at every homeopathic world teacher and leader I respected and they were all using MacRepertory and ReferenceWorks, so I decided to purchase them myself. I have never, ever, regretted my decision. They have proven invaluable in my teaching and my practice."

Mirsada Vins, Head of Homeopathy, Ontario College of Homeopathic Medicine

"I am so happy to have these programs ¬ they are so versatile and so easy to use that it is a real joy to study and compare remedies. ReferenceWorks has been an incredible help; there are some cases I could never have solved without it. They are truly remarkable."

Nandita Shah, MD, India

"Thank you for your excellent new work. It is again extending the boundaries of our possibilities."

Peter Tumminello ND, DBM, Australia

"Having used all three of the major materia medica search programs I can say that ReferenceWorks is by far the best. Not only does it have the largest library of information, but the search capabilities, analysis methods and family or group analysis abilities are far superior. It is a real learning tool."

Phillip Robbins, Australia

"Thank you so much for the beautiful programs"

Raymond Sevar, MD, UK

"ReferenceWorks and MacRepertory are simply brilliant! We cannot imagine studying and analyzing our cases without them. If you are serious about practicing homeopathy, buy these programs as early in your studies as possible. It is no longer necessary to travel from seminar to seminar to learn the latest and greatest in homeopathic thinking. David brings the homeopathic world to us."

Robert Ullman & Judith Reichenberg Ullman, ND, USA

"I highly recommended this tool in practice. A state of art computer software which has so much diversity. A seed to harvest for beginners and experienced practitioners too. Thanks David for your wonderful and generous contribution."

Sudhir Baldota, MD, India

"I have been using the latest versions of MacRepertory and ReferenceWorks in order to teach a 3 year course to homeopaths in Egypt. I have found the material in both programs to be invaluable in applying the latest pedagogical methods to homeopathy. It allows me to collate data from a vast number of sources and illustrate it with graphs and extracts on my laptop and project them via a datashow. The students are also enthused about the ability to see the repertorization on the screen instantly when doing patient cases or paper cases. Of course, I need not mention the usefulness of the programs for case work with patients."

Abdul Hayy

"Thanks for all the great work - I smile everyday when I open up the programs."

Adam Grove, ND

"What you did is outstanding! The homeopathic community will be ever so grateful in the future to have such an indigenous mind as yours in between its lines! There is an ardent homoeopath who regularly attends the seminars of our outstanding teachers and at the same time has the creativity to transform their ideas into an ever so helpful computer program - so that all of us are bale to use these ideas in the daily clinic and for research as well! For my taste, your name should be heard more often when the great contemporary homeopaths are mentioned! And it's ever so rewarding for me to be a whatever little help to your work: it makes me feel proud!"

Andreas Quast

"Functional and beautiful, MacRepertory & ReferenceWorks continue to be the state-of-the-art in homeopathic computer programs. They are my constant research tools for my writings and seminars. I love the elegance and depth of these programs. They are irreplaceable tools for accurate, informed prescriptions."

Asa Hershoff, USA

"This is truly magnificent. I'm having a great time with it! It's interesting to compare remedies both through MacRepertory and your own concept words vs limiting the phrase window to a few remedies in ReferenceWorks and doing various searches, which is what I had recently discovered, as I compared two remedies, looking for the language expressed in a "vital sensation." And thanks for sending off the "tutorials," it's a great way to learn. The program is so full, I'm sure most of us use a very small part of what it has to offer."

Betsy Levine - The School of Homeopathy, Devon

"I have used the programs since 1989 and feel they have always been on the cutting edge of Homeopathy and have helped me tremendously in my prescribing. As the depth and breadth of Homeopathy expands, so do these programs. I am delighted with the new developments and especially appreciate their versatility. I often use the "Concepts Graph" to compare remedies I am considering in a case. I love the theme palate and its graph and appreciate being able to "drag" a ReferenceWorks' search into a MacRepertory graph. Even when I feel like I am "sure" of a remedy after taking a case, after a little work with these programs I often find a remedy that much more accurately fits the patient's picture. Thank you David for your dedication in bringing to the world these remarkable programs and in continuing to update them. I know this is a service of pure love for Homeopathy and its community."

Betty Wood, USA

"Finally we homeopaths have a 'reference' that truly 'works' for us and the benefit of humanity. Thank you."

Blair Lewis, PA

"I enjoyed your article on eclectic prescribing philosophy. It encouraged me to get on with prescribing, and not worry quite so much about exactly how I do it."

Chet Wood

"Greetings! All I can say is that it is the most wonderful tool, hobby and toy all in one."

Clare Sheehan, Ireland

"Easiest to use of all programs, with the most consistent user interface' Seamlessly integrated remedy families' Most versatile and powerful search feature' Powerful and extendable suite of case analysis strategies' Extensive and customizable set of repertorization graphs' Good integration of patient data and charts'"

Comparative Review of homeopathic software by Kris Kurz

"It's been two years since using MacRepertory out in the bush. I've put it through its paces in the rainforest. It has greatly increased both accuracy and speed with which I can repertorize...and after two and a half years I am still amazed at its power and flexibility. I am still discovering features that are useful for my particular way of working."

Craig Spaulding, Papua New Guinea

"I've been meaning to write to you and tell you how much I have enjoyed the programme but I have this problem - I can't get away from the materia medica. Than you so much for your contribution to classical homeopathy. I would recommend it to anyone."

Desmond Payne, USA

"This is such a fabulous tool.....not just for practicing homeopathy, but for studying the world around me."

Ellen Coleman

"Studying Themes and Families, which has been my approach since the beginning, has never been so easy and contemporarily profound. It has been a great leap ahead for the Research and Clinical Sessions in our School."

Flavio Tonello MD, Italy

"What a wonderful job, the new version! My wife and I are enjoying every minute working with the software! Apart from the content itself I must express my admiration of the programmers of the kernel or the engine. Have you re-written it completely? The speed and performance are now just beyond all compliments."

Leonid Anikeev, Russia

"The new ReferenceWorks and MacRepertory programs are by far the most functional, versatile, and easy to use programs out there for homeopaths. MacRepertory's newest theme search allows for remedy comparisons at a glimpse with a flexible graphical analysis that gives new life to the repertory. On the other hand, in its newest form ReferenceWorks has freed us all from the constraints of a repertory while allowing us to take advantage of many newer analytical approaches of experienced and insightful contemporary homeopaths. I find the programs invaluable in practice, study, and teaching and frankly could not imagine homeopathy without them."

Liam McClintock, USA

"We have used MacRepertory and ReferenceWorks at our college since the late 1980's. It has been an absolute must for us in both the classroom and clinic, using it to teach students how to repertorise properly and for case analysis purposes in our student clinic. Even more importantly the software allowed us to develop Homoeopathic Facial Analysis using MacRepertory in particular, to compare rubrics across remedies to allow for their correct miasmatic classification. These modules are user friendly and a must in the clinic for every Homoeopath who practices classical Homoeopathy."

Louise Barton, Victorian College of Classical Homoeopathy, Australia

"Thank you for your excellent program MacRepertory, for the technical support and for all of the wonderful people who work at Kent. It is always a pleasure to deal with your company."

Louise Schaefer, USA

"I've only just started using it - but WOW. I am amazed at what it can do - it would take me hours and hours to do this longhand. I know I'll really know more in 6 months, but it has already helped me by changing my attitude toward doing cases - I feel like it helps me learn so much. Anyway, hope you're not tired of hearing MacRepertory praises - I already ordered an upgrade to the complete package, but the basic package is amazing."

Lucinda Dykes, USA

"The programs are beyond every imagination! They are the best of homeopathy in the world."

Riccardo Tomassini, Italy

"It is great to hear the creator of this software speak about the hows and whys and to hear him explain the reasons for the workings of this software. I am very excited about really understanding the 'Concept Graph' and have started using it for remedy differential purposes. I also continue to really appreciate this program as a fabulous teaching tool. I recommend this training day to anyone using homeopathic software. There are so many features within these programs that are never used; I find that after some guidance I become comfortable with poking around and discovering for myself. Highly recommended!"

Anneke Hogeland, USA

"The seminar was definitely very useful. David is so knowledgeable; and he has such a nice style of teaching. I have been to a couple of these trainings and every time I (re)learn features (there are so many wonderful things!) and then incorporate them in my practice. I recommend these seminars to anyone who wants to become more effective in their prescribing."

Peggy Chipkin, FNP, USA

"I just wanted to tell you how much a colleague of mine and myself enjoyed and valued your DVDs on MacRepertory and ReferenceWorks. They are truly inspirational and I realized how much more I could get from those two programs. I really think that those creatures of yours are making and will make an enormous difference for homeopathy. Your explanations are very clear. There may be even more to say about ReferenceWorks; I had the feeling that its possibilities are more than one can guess, maybe even for you..."

Cristina Vittorini, MD, Italy