George Vithoulkas - Professor of Homeopathic Medicine

He was born in Athens in 25.7.1932.

George Vithoulkas is today Honorary Professor at the University of the Aegean, Greece, Honorary Professor at the Moscow Medical Academy (Academy of Medical Sciences), Professor at the Kiev Medical Academy and Collaborating Professor at the Basque Medical University (2001-2004).

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” . The United Nations (Development Forum) consider this award “Among the world’s most prestigious awards”, while TIME Magazine called Jacob Uexkull, the award’s initiator, one of the 37 “heroes” of 2005.

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

In 1995, he established the International Academy of Classical Homeopathy in Alonissos, Greece, where he serves as Head of Educational Department (Educator). In this Academy, George Vithoulkas gives over the knowledge gleaned from his 40 years of his experience and teaches his most current theories regarding levels of health. In his teachings, he provides detailed information that both helps doctors determine each patient’s state of health, as well as facilitates their ability to estimate 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 from various countries gather to be trained at the Academy. They come from Germany, Italy, Sweden, Norway, United Kingdom, Russia, the U.S.A., Canada, Austria, Japan, India, Mexico, Brazil and Greece.

9.000 medical doctors and homeopathic practitioners from 32 countries have been trained in International Academy of Classical Homeopathy.

Since 2005 to 2008, the University of the Aegean (www.syros.aegean.gr) in co-operation with International Academy of Classical Homeopathy, had been offering a program of continuous education for medical doctors, dentists, veterinarians and pharmacists in homeopathy.

However, the climax of homeopathy’s educational recognition in Greece has been the publication in the FEK (Government’s Gazette) (1912/issue b, 29.12.2006) regarding the authorization of a Masters Degree Program at the University of the Aegean for medical doctors and dentists titled: “Holistic Alternative Therapeutic Systems–Classical Homeopathy” (a 2 year program- www.syros.aegean.gr/homeopathy ). In this Masters Program participates the International Academy of Classical Homeopathy and Professor George Vithoulkas.

Professor Vithoulkas is a peer reviewer in journals “Medical Science Monitor”, “Homeopathy” (Elsevier) and “British Medical Journal”.

He participates, as supervisor professor, at elaboration of doctoral thesis.

George Vithoulkas is the author of the following books (www.vithoulkasbooks.gr) :

“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, 2003)

“The Science of Homeopathy” (Published by Grove Press, 1980, USA, several editions)

“The Levels of Health” (the second volume of “The Science of Homeopathy”, Published by International Academy of Classical Homeopathy, 2010)

“Materia Medica Viva” (12 volumes–Homeopathic Pharmacology–Published by International Academy of Classical Homeopathy, starting 1993, in process)

“A New Model for Health and Disease” (Published by North Atlantic Books, USA, 1986)

“Talks on Classical Homeopathy” (Published by B. Jain Publishers, India, 1988)

“Essence of Materia Medica” (Published by International Academy of Classical Homeopathy, 1988)

“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)

“The Basic Ideas of Homeopathy” (Published by Ianos, Greece, 2008 – Best Seller for 9 months)

“Homeopathy, The Great Challenge in Medicine” (Published by Livanis, Greece, 2008)

His books have been translated in 23 languages.

Seventeen of his books, in various languages, 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”, “Stanford University Library”, “The Library of Université Catholique de Louvain”, “The Karolinska Instituet Library” ,“WHO Library” (World Health Organisation), “The Berkeley Library”, “Die Deutsche Bibliothek”.

George Vithoulkas’ most important articles, to be found in peer-reviewed journals, are the following:

1. The “continuum” of a unified theory of diseases, Medical Science Monitor, 2010; 16(2): SR715, G Vithoulkas, S Carlino

2. Debate: British media attacks on homeopathy: Are they justified?, Homeopathy, Volume 97, Number 2, April 2008, Pages 103-106, G Vithoulkas

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. 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

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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

12 of his articles, published in peer reviewed journals, are mentioned in PubMed (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov), 15 of them in British Library Direct (www.direct.bl.uk), 18 of them in Science Direct (www.sciencedirect.com) and 18 of them in Research Gate (www.researchgate.net).

70 citations for George Vithoulkas can be found in ISI-Thomson Scientific (www.isinet.com), 46.800 references in Google Scholar and 1.030 references in Google Books.

In the prestigious “Papyros Larousse-Britannica” encyclopedia, in a three column article, he is portrayed as “leader homeopath, one of the most famous reformers of homeopathy during the twentieth century, the man who infused homeopathy with new ideas on a scientific base”. His work is also being mentioned in “Who’s Who in the World”, (18^th edition, p.2293).

His name is mentioned in the website Better World Heroes (www.betterworldheroes.com), among approximately 1.000 personalities whose work influenced or helped humanity.

The German website mlahanas (www.mlahanas.de), when evaluating thirty four Greek doctors and professors of medicine who have excelled and contributed to humanity through their medical papers published in the international press, ranked  George Vithoulkas second, after Georgios Papanikolaou (who discovered the pap test).

In 1980, George Vithoulkas was invited by the World Health Organization to write the first article on Homeopathy for the book, Traditional Medicine, published by WHO, as well as the main article in the round table discussion for WHO’s scientific magazine, the World Health Forum journal.

In 1996, he was invited by the European Parliament to explain the position of homeopathy and after his presentation the European Parliament voted in favor for Homeopathy.

In 11.6.1999, George Vithoulkas was requested by Council of Europe to make a day- long presentation on homeopathic medicine (as part of their evaluation of alternative therapeutic methods) before the Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee. The text that was published thereafter mentions his receipt of the Alternative Nobel Prize and refers to his categorization of the various alternative methods.

COUNCIL OF EUROPE

Parliamentary Assembly

Doc. 8435

11 June 1999

A European approach to non-conventional medicines

Report

Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee

Rapporteur: Ms Lara Ragnarsdóttir, Iceland, European Democratic Group

Summary

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7. In May 1998, the Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee heard Mr Vithoulkas, a homeopath who has been awarded the Alternative Nobel Prize1, and who identifies three separate categories: firstly, alternative medicine, which includes homeopathy and acupuncture; secondly, complementary medicine, which includes osteopathy, chiropractic, herbal medicine, naturopathy and so on; and a third, paramedical, category comprising techniques such as music therapy and meditation which bear no relation to medicine proper.

1 awarded by the European Parliament