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George Vithoulkas (Greece)

(1996)

George = Vithoulkas

=93...for his outstanding = contribution to the=20 revival of homeopathic knowledge and the training of homeopaths to the = highest=20 standards.=94

George Vithoulkas was born in Athens in 1932. He = started=20 studying homeopathy in South Africa in 1960 and he continued in India in = different homeopathic colleges, receiving a diploma from the Indian = Institute of=20 Homeopathy in 1966.

Returning to Greece the following year, = Vithoulkas=20 started practising homeopathy and teaching it to a small group of Greek = medical=20 doctors. The therapeutic success of these first doctors so attracted the = attention of others that the Athenian School of Homeopathic Medicine was = established in 1970. The school, since re-named the Center of = Homeopathic=20 Medicine, is devoted exclusively to the teaching of MDs. In 1971, the = first=20 Greek Homeopathic Society was established and a year later Vithoulkas = started=20 the Greek journal, Homeopathic Medicine. In 1976 he organised the first=20 International Homeopathic Seminars in Greece. Since then, international = seminars=20 have been held every year, attended by health professionals from at = least 20=20 countries.

In 1994, Vithoulkas opened the International Academy = for=20 Classical Homeopathy on the Greek island of Alonissos, its purpose being = to=20 provide post-graduate training for health practitioners from all over = the world.=20 Currently, as the Director of the Athens Center, Vithoulkas heads a team = of 30=20 doctors who practise homeopathy while they study under his supervision. = He has=20 established homeopathy in Greece as a science respected by the medical=20 profession, and has also made his country one of the leading centres for = homeopathy in the western world.

Vithoulkas' books, Homeopathy:=20 Medicine of the New Man (Arco, New York, 1979), written for lay = people,=20 and The Science of Homeopathy (Grove Press, New York, 1980), = for health=20 professionals, have been translated into twenty languages and have had a = profound influence upon the acceptance and practice of homeopathy = worldwide. His=20 book A New Model for Health and Disease, published in German = and=20 English in 1991, makes a fundamental critique of conventional allopathic = medicine and sets out a new paradigm for the science of = medicine.

George=20 Vithoulkas' overall vision is the establishment of homeopathy on a = worldwide=20 basis. A major goal in this vision is the foundation of homeopathic = medical=20 colleges in the USA and Europe where homeopathy can be taught at the = highest=20 level. A major production has been the Vithoulkas Expert System computer = programme and a series of video courses made from his lectures. The = computer=20 programme has sold over 1,000 copies and has brought classical = homeopathy within=20 the reach of ordinary homeopathy students.

At present Vithoulkas = is=20 writing a new homeopathic Materia Medica Viva, in 16 volumes, including = the=20 contemporary knowledge and his own experience from the more than 150,000 = cases=20 treated at the Center in Athens. The first six volumes have been = published in=20 German and translation into English is planned. Vithoulkas also = continues to=20 teach, both in Greece and internationally.

As the practice of = homeopathy=20 becomes more widespread in many countries, Vithoulkas is seen to have = made a=20 major contribution to its establishment as a science that can = substantially=20 benefit human health and welfare.

Quotation

"It is a truly satisfying = experience for me=20 to see that, 2,500 years after Hippocrates, medical doctors are coming = back to a=20 Greek island to be taught what I am convinced to be today the most = advanced form=20 of therapy."

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