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George Vithoulkas is one of the most respected homeopaths of the
twenty first century. Hailing from Greece, he has made significant
contribution to the revival of homeopathy in Europe and US.
George Vithoulkas was born in Athens, Greece in 1932. He started
studying homeopathy in South Africa in 1960. He continued in India
at different homeopathic colleges, receiving a diploma from the
Indian Institute of Homeopathy in 1966.
He returned to Greece the following year and started practicing
homeopathy and teaching it to a small group of Greek medical doctors.
He established the Athenian School of Homeopathic Medicine in 1970.
The school, since re-named the Center of Homeopathic Medicine, is
devoted exclusively to the teaching of MDs.
George Vithoulkas started teaching classical homeopathy in 1967.
In 1971 the first Greek Homeopathic Society was established and
a year later Vithoulkas started the Greek journal, Homeopathic Medicine.
In 1976, he organized the first International Homeopathic Seminars
in Greece.
In 1994, Vithoulkas opened the International Academy for Classical
Homeopathy on the Greek island of Alonissos, its purpose being to
provide post-graduate training for health practitioners from all
over the world. Currently, as the Director of the Athens Center,
Vithoulkas heads a team of 30 doctors who practice homeopathy while
they study under his supervision.
Vithoulkas' books, Homeopathy: Medicine of the New Man (Arco,
New York, 1979), written for lay people, and The Science of Homeopathy
(Grove Press, New York, 1980), for health professionals, have been
translated into twenty languages and have had a profound influence
upon the acceptance and practice of homeopathy worldwide. His book,
A New Model for Health and Disease, published in German and
English in 1991, makes a fundamental critique of conventional allopathic
medicine and sets out a new paradigm for the science of medicine.
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.
From 1987-1991, in co-operation with the University of Namur in
Belgium, he worked on creating and programming a highly sophisticated
computer system, the V.E.S. (Vithoulkas Expert System) developed
for the RADAR computer program. The VES has sold over 1,000 copies
and has brought classical homeopathy within the reach of practitioners
worldwide. Mr. Vithoulkas has also produced a series of video courses
made from his lectures.
Major Publications:
Homeopathy - Medicine Of The New Millenium
Published in May 2000
This is an expanded version of Homeopathy - Medicine of the New
Man,1970
The Science Of Homeopathy 1980
Materia Medica Viva 9 volumes
A New Model For Health And Disease
Essence Of Materia Medica
Talks On Classical Homeopathy
Homeopathic Conference Esalen
First edition in English 1980
The Bern Seminar 1987
The Celle Seminars 1992
Mr. Vithoulkas' website can be found at http://www.vithoulkas.com/
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