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George Vithoulkas - Professor of Homeopathic Medicine

He was born in Athens in 25.7.1932.
 

George Vithoulkas is today a Honorary Professor of the Moscow Medical Academy (Academy of Medical Sciences), Professor in the Kiev Medical Academy and Collaborating Professor in Basque Medical University (2000-2003).

In 1996, he was honored with the Right Livelihood Award (also known as Alternative Nobel Prize, www.rightlivelihood.org) "...for his outstanding contribution to the revival of homeopathic knowledge and the training of homeopaths to the highest standards". United Nations (Development Forum) consider this award "Among the world's most prestigious awards", while TIME Magazine called Jacob Uexkull, the award's inspirator, as one of the 37 "heroes" of 2005 [1].

In 2000, George Vithoulkas was honored with the Gold Medal of the Hungarian Republic, from the country's President, for his work in the homeopathic medicine.

In 1995, he established International Academy of Classical Homeopathy in Alonissos, in which he is the director. In this Academy, George Vithoulkas gives the gist of 40 years of his experience and his recent ideas of levels of health. In his teachings, he gives details that will help the doctor or practitioner to determine the state of health of each individual patient and also the possibility to be estimated whether a case is curable with homeopathy and the amount of time and remedies that will be needed to accomplish a cure.

Every year, during the summer months, groups of doctors and practitioners from various countries are being trained there, doctors and practitioners from Germany, Italy, Sweden, Norway, United Kingdom, Russia, U.S.A., Canada, Austria, Japan, India, Mexico, Brazil and of course Greek doctors.

The University of the Aegean (www.syros.aegean.gr) has started since three years, in co-operation with International Academy of Classical Homeopathy, a programme for continuous education for doctors in homeopathy.

But the peak of homeopathy's educational recognition in Greece is the publication in the FEK (Government's Gazette) (1912/issue b', 29.12.2006) regarding the authorization for a Programme of Master Degree Studies in the University of the Aegean for medical doctors with the title "Holistic Alternative Therapeutic Systems-Classical Homeopathy" (duration: 2 years). In this Programme of Master Degree Studies will participate the International Academy of Classical Homeopathy and Professor George Vithoulkas.

He is peer reviewer in "Medical Science Monitor" (www.medscimonit.com).
He participates, as supervisor professor, at elaboration of doctoral thesis.

He is the author of the following books:
"Homeopathy-Medicine of the New Man" (1^st Edition 1970 by Arco USA, 21 editions after this)
"Homeopathy-Medicine for the New Millennium" (Published by International Academy of Classical Homeopathy)
"The Science of Homeopathy" (Published by Grove Press, 1980, USA, several editions). This book specifically, according to Wikipedia, can be found in 152 libraries in the world.
"Materia Medica Viva" (11 volumes-Homeopathic Pharmacology-Published by International Academy of Classical Homeopathy-not completed)
"A New Model for Health and Disease" (Published by North Atlantic Books, USA)
"Talks on Classical Homeopathy" (Published by B. Jain Publishers, India)
"Essence of Materia Medica" (Published by International Academy of Classical Homeopathy)
"Classical Homeopathy for Anxiety and Jealousy" (Published by Urs Maurer, Switzerland, 2001)
"Homeopathic Conference Esalen" (1^st Edition in English, 1980)
"The Bern Seminar" (Published by Ulrich Burgdorf, Switzerland, 1987)
"The Celle Seminars" (Published by Ulrich Burgdorf, Switzerland, 1992)
His books have been translated in approximately 20 languages.
Some of his books are mentioned in the NLM Catalog (National Library of Medicine, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Some of the most well known libraries that host his books are "The Library of Congress", "The British Library", "Harvard University Library", "Cambridge University Library", "The Library of Université Catholique de Louvain", "The Karolinska Instituet Library" (the foundation that is responsible for the Nobel Prize), "WHO Library" (World Health Organisation), "The Berkeley Library", "Die Deutsche Bibliothek".

The most important articles of George Vithoulkas in peer-reviewed journals are the following:

1. True but strange? Nature, 1996 Oct 3;383(6599):383, G Vithoulkas

2. Debate: Homeopathy and chronic headache, Homeopathy, Volume 91, Issue 3, July 2002, Pages 186-188, G Vithoulkas.

3. Homeopathic treatment of chronic headache: a critique, Homeopathy, Volume 91, Issue 1, January 2002, Pages 32-34, G Vithoulkas

4. The need for the correct sequence of remedies, Homeopathy, Volume 91, Issue 1, January 2002, Pages 40-42, G Vithoulkas

5. A proving of Thiosinamine, British Homoeopathic Journal, Volume 90, Issue 3, July 2001, Page 172, G Vithoulkas

6. The question of the “constitutional remedy”, British Homoeopathic Journal, Volume 87, Issue 3, July 1998, Pages 145-147, G Vithoulkas

7. Medically qualified vs NMQ homoeopaths, British Homoeopathic Journal, Volume 86, Issue 1, January 1997, Pages 37-38, G Vithoulkas

8. As good as gold? British Homoeopathic Journal, Volume 85, Issue 1, January 1996, Page 39, G Vithoulkas

9. Obstacles to homoeopathic treatment, British Homoeopathic Journal, Volume 85, Issue 1, January 1996, Page 42, G Vithoulkas

10. Health and disease in homoeopathic philosophy, British Homoeopathic Journal, Volume 84, Issue 3, July 1995, Pages 179-180, G Vithoulkas

11. Homoeopathy: past, present and future, British Journal Clin. Pharmacol. 1998, Jun;45(6):613, G Vithoulkas

12. Answer to the review of my book “The Science of Homeopathy”, British Homoeopathic Journal, Volume 68, Issue 4, October 1979, Pages 233-238, G Vithoulkas

13. The necessity for an inner preparation of the classical homeopath, Simillimum, 2005, Volume 19, Pages 117-122, G Vithoulkas

14. The colour of the homeopathic improvement: The multidimensional nature of the response to homeopathic therapy, Homeopathy, Volume 94, Issue 3, July 2005, Pages 196-199, M. Oberbaum, SR Singer, G Vithoulkas

15. Effects of homeopathic treatment in women with premenstrual syndrome: a pilot study, British Homoeopathic Journal, Volume 90, Issue 3, July 2001, Pages 148-153, M Yakir, S Kreitler, A Bzrezinski, G Vithoulkas, M Oberbaum, Z Bentwich

16. Homoeopathic treatment of premenstrual syndrome: a pilot study, British Homoeopathic Journal, Volume 84, Issue 3, July 1995, Pages 182-183, M Yakir, S Kreitler, M Oberbaum, A Bzizinsky, G Vithoulkas, Z Bentwich

17. Perspectives of research in homoeopathy 1987-1994, British Homoeopathic Journal, Volume 84, Issue 3, July 1995, Pages 176-177, Z Bentwich, M Oberbaum, Z Weisman, N Harpaz, D Rothman, G Vithoulkas

18. A working hypothesis for homoeopathic microdiluted remedies, British Homoeopathic Journal, Volume 81, Issue 1, January 1992, Page 67, GS Anagnostatos, G Vithoulkas, P Garzonis, C Tavouxoglou

19. Reinventing the wheel? Or the emperor’s new clothes, J Altern Complement Med. 2003 Oct;9(5):613-5, M Oberbaum, G Vithoulkas, R van Haselen, S Singer

20. Clinical trials of classical homeopathy: reflections on appropriate research designs, J Altern Complement Med 2003 Feb;9(1):105-11. Review, M Oberbaum, G Vithoulkas, R van Haselen

Ten of his articles that have been published in peer reviewed magazines are mentioned in PubMed (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov), seven of them in British Library Direct (www.direct.bl.uk, a British Library database that hosts reputable articles), fifteen of them in Science Direct (www.sciencedirect.com) and fifty three journal results are mentioned in Scirus (www.scirus.com, a credible and acceptable by scientists scientific database).
Seventy citations for George Vithoulkas can be found in Isi-Thomson Scientific (www.isinet.com), the credible and recognized worldwide citations database.

In the prestigious "Papyros Larousse-Britannica" encyclopedia, in a three column article, he is mentioned as "leader homeopath, one of the most famous reformers of Homeopathy during twentieth century, the man who added new dynamics to therapeutic of homeopathy on scientific base". His work is also being mentioned in "Who is Who in the World", (18^th edition, p.2293).

In 1980, George Vithoulkas was called from the World Health Organization to write the article about Homeopathy for the book Traditional Medicine that WHO published, as well as the main article in the round table for the scientific magazine of WHO, World Health Forum.

In 1998, George Vithoulkas was called by Council of Europe to inform about the homeopathic medicine. In the text that was published, his views on homeopathy and alternative therapeutic systems are referred and Alternative Nobel Prize award is mentioned.