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George Vithoulkas is the founder of modern homeopathy. Although often viewed as controversial, homeopathy is based on Hippocrates’ quote “Treat similar ailments with similar means”. Many patients with chronic diseases claim they have greatly benefited from homeopathy, which uses minuscule amounts of organic substances or natural elements to stimulate the patient’s immunity. He has established Homeopathy in Greece as a science respected by the medical profession, and has also made Greece one of the leading centers for homeopathy in the western world. Vithoulkas' books, "Homeopathy: Medicine of the New Man” written for lay people, and “The Science of Homeopathy” for health professionals, have been translated into twenty languages, and have had a profound influence upon the acceptance and practice of homeopathy worldwide. He has been an international teacher of classical homeopathy for 20 years. In the year 1996, he was awarded the Alternative Nobel Prize for his work in the field of Classical Homeopathy.

George Vithoulkas was born in Athens in 1932. He is married and lives on the island of Alonissos, Greece. He started studying homeopathy in South Africa in 1960 and he continued his studies in India in various homeopathic colleges. George Vithoulkas has been teaching Classical Homeopathy since 1967.

His enormous contributions have helped to reestablish Classical (Hahnemannian) Homeopathy in Europe and in the U.S. this century. It is due to his clear interpretation of Samuel Hahnemann's writings (the Father of Classical Homeopathy) that students are able to appreciate the effect of Classical Homeopathy today. In 1967 he began to teach Homeopathic Medicine to medical doctors in Athens, a science which was almost unknown at that time in Greece.

Main Achievements and Interviews/Speeches

• In 1996 he received the Right Livelihood Award known as the Alternative Nobel Prize at the Swedish Parliament for his efforts to upgrade Homeopathy to the standards of a science.

• In May 2000 he received the Gold Medal of the Hungarian Democracy presented by the President of the Democracy in the Hungarian Parliament for his efforts to educate doctors from all over the world in classical homeopathy.

• In Oct. 2000 he was honored by the Kiev medical Academy with the title of Professor Honoris Causa.

• In 1999 he was nominated as a collaborating Professor in the Medical Faculty of the Basque University in Spain.

• In January 2000 he was nominated as full professor of Homeopathy in the Kiev Medical Academy.

• In Feb 2000 he was honoured in India as the 'Homeopath of the Millenium' by the Minister of Health of the Central Government of India who presented him with a Gold Medal in the presence of 2500 homeopathic physicians.

• In June 2000 he was honored by the oldest Hom. Medical Association of USA in Washington D.C. for his contribution in Homeopathy.

• In 1989 he was honoured in Barcelona, Spain, during the International Congress of the LIGA Medicorum Homeopatica Internationalis with a Gold Medal.

• In 1974 he was honoured for his work by the LIGA Medicorum Homeopathica Internationalis in Washington DC (The International Homeopathic Medical Society)

Positions Held at Present

• Dean of the International Academy of Classical Homeopathy

• Professor Honoris Causa in the Kiev Medical Academy

• Collaborating Professor at the Medical Faculty of the Basque University, Spain

• Director of the Center of Homeopathic Medicine, Athens

• Honorary President of the Hellenic Medical Association for Homeopathy

• Honorary member of the Rumanian Hom. Medical Association

• Member of the Advisory board at Beth Israel Medical Center, New York

He is a regular Member of:

• The New York Academy of Sciences, USA

• The American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, USA

• Scientific and Medical Network

• Member of the Academy of Personalities, Kiev, Ukrania

• Member of the Academy of Georgia

Associations with Medical Bodies and Medical Universities

• Since 1989 he has collaborated with the General State Hospital, the Kaplan Hospital of Tel Aviv, Israel, for research on Classical Homeopathy.

• Since June 2000 he is a member of the Advisory Board of the Beth Israel Medical Centre

• He has been invited to talk by Universities, foundations and by Medical Schools, such as Kiev Medical Academy, te 3rd Medical School in Moscow, the Berkeley Homeopathic Clinic, California, Bohn Medical School, Medical School of Athens, the Medical School of Oslo, Norway, the Berlin Medical School, Basque medical faculty, San Sebastian, Spain, etc.

• He is also involved in various important research projects.

Prof. Vithoulkas and his work are mentioned:

1. In a long article, in the prestigious Encyclopedia of Greece: Papyros-Larousse-Britannica 15^th Vol page 396 1

2. In the Who is Who in the World 18th edition p.2293

3. In the International Directory of Distinguished Leadership by the American Biographical Institute Ninth edition p.466

Main Books Written by George Vithoulkas

From 1970 to date, he has been writing important and informative books on classical homeopathy (See following list).

The books of George Vithoulkas have been translated so far into 19 different languages.

HOMEOPATHY - MEDICINE OF THE NEW MAN
1st Edition 1970 by ARCO USA, published in 20 languages

HOMEOPATHY - MEDICINE FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM
Published in May 2000 By IACH (This is a new, expanded version of Academy of Classical Homeopathy)
(International Medicine of the New Man )

THE SCIENCE OF HOMEOPATHY
Published by Grove Press USA, Published in 18 languages, New York 1980.

MATERIA MEDICA VIVA
Published by IACH, 8 volumes in English, 8 in German

A NEW MODEL FOR HEALTH AND DISEASE
Published by North Atlantic Books USA, published in 10 languages

TALKS ON CLASSICAL HOMEOPATHY
Published (3 times) by B. Jain Publishers, New Delhi

ESSENCE OF MATERIA MEDICA
Published by B. Jain. Five editions in English

HOMEOPATHIC CONFERENCE ESALEN
First edition in Engllish 1980 Homeovisie

THE BERN SEMINAR
Published by Ulrich Burgdorf, First edition in Berne, Switzerland in 1987.

THE CELLE SEMINARS
Ulrich Burgdorf 1992

Part from an Interview Reported by Peter Morell

"I claim that diseases of the human race have never been tackled properly by conventional medicine; on the contrary, they have been treated wrongly - suppressively - and therefore while the symptoms were masked, the real disorder underneath progressed and finally was pushed to the interior of the organism, which is the central and peripheral nervous system.

"Let me give you just a few facts to judge for yourself: Multiple sclerosis, a disease that eventually leaves its victims totally paralyzed, is one which thousands of people are suffering from in the western world. Yet it is entirely unknown to Africans, Asians or South Americans, who have not had the 'benefit' of the excellence of western medicine. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a terrible disorder of the neuromuscular system, is also unknown to all these people. Myopathy and muscular dystrophy is the same, known only to westerners. Epilepsy, which is rampant in the western world, is seldom encountered in these countries.

"Anxiety neurosis, compulsive neurosis, and in general mental disorders of a severe nature from which millions of patients are suffering in the western world, are almost unknown in these groups that have not had the 'benefit' of modern medicine and vaccinations. Chorea and a host of other nervous system disorders are also unknown to them. "The model suggests that all these chronic diseases, including hay fever, asthma, cancer and AIDS, are the result of wrong intervention upon the organisms by conventional medicine. It claims that the immune systems of the western population, through strong chemical drugs and repeated vaccinations, have broken down and finally admitted the diseases deeper and deeper into the human organism, to the central and peripheral nervous system.

"In short, this model claims that conventional medicine, instead of curing diseases, is actually the cause of the degeneration of the human race. It is also very simple for anyone to think that if conventional medicine were really curing chronic diseases, today we would have a population in the west that was healthy, mentally, emotionally and physically.

"Due to this model, I had already, in 1970, predicted the appearance of AIDS, saying to a group of medical doctors in Athens that if conventional medicine continued to use antibiotics the way it did, there would come a time when the immune system would break down and new incurable diseases would emerge. It was an unfortunate but precise and timely prediction of the appearance of AIDS. "Today, I want to make another prediction. If conventional medicine does not take notice of what we say and drastically change its practices and its logic in treating with chemical drugs; if it does not also change the direction of its research, soon diseases will go to the very center of the organism, which is the nervous system, and most of the population on earth will be mentally ill individuals."

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