Georgos Vithoulkas

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Georgos Vithoulkas (Γιώργος Βυθούλκας, * 1932 in Athens ) is a Greek homeopath . He received the Right Livelihood Award in 1996 and is one of the most famous homeopaths of the 20th century.

Life

Vithoulkas was born in Athens in 1932, his parents died in World War II . In 1958 Vithoulkas came into contact with homeopathy in South Africa for the first time, and in 1962 he received a diploma from the Noel's Puddhepahat School there. From 1963 to 1967 he lived in India. In 1966 he graduated from the Homeopathic Medical College in Bombay with an award from the Indian Institute of Homeopathy.

In 1967 he returned to Greece. There he began intensive practical and development work with a group of doctors whom he had trained. In 1970 he founded the Homeopathic Clinic in Athens, where many doctors who are now practicing homeopathic medicine in Greece are trained. In the same year his book Homeopathy - Medicine of the Future was published .

Since 1976 Vithoulkas has held international seminars for homeopaths. In the following years he became a world-famous teacher. In 1978 he established an international foundation for classical homeopathy in the USA and published his book Scientific Homeopathy . In 1986 he returned to Europe. From 1987, in collaboration with the University of Namur in Belgium, he developed the Vithoulkas Expert System (VES), a computer system for electronic data processing in homeopathic practice and research. In 1991 the first volume of his Materia Medica Viva was published . Since then, other volumes have been published regularly.

In May 1995 he inaugurated the “International Academy for Classical Homeopathy” on Alonissos in Greece, and in 1996 he began teaching for a four-year course at the International Academy for Classical Homeopathy . In December 1996 he received the Right Livelihood Award in Stockholm.

In 1997 the German edition of his book Die neue Dimension der Medizin appeared . In 2000 he received lectureships at universities in Kiev and Barcelona. Vithoulkas' students include Bill Gray, the author of Synthesis , as well as Frederik Schroyens, Jan Scholten, Ananda Zaren, Alfons Geukens, Roger Morrison and Anton Rohrer.

Peculiarities of homeopathy by Vithoulkas

Vithoulkas' method is part of classical homeopathy, which means that he avoids complex remedies (mixtures of several homeopathic medicines) in his prescriptions . Its analysis is based on the patient's symptoms on the physical, emotional and spiritual levels. He confirms his medication prescriptions using a computer-aided repertorisation system ( RADAR ).

Vithoulkas assumes that the vital force of the human being expresses itself decisively in the ability to show acute and physical symptoms, whereas people with a variety of stresses develop chronic and mental and spiritual complaints and are thus permanently restricted in their lifestyle. The ability to show a fever now and then, which is usually present in small children, is seen as a positive sign. Life force is assessed using a twelve-level scheme.

A second model developed by Vithoulkas says that the patient's symptoms can be assigned to different homeopathic remedies in order to cure them in reverse chronological order through a sequence of several remedies. The means are graphically symbolized as superimposed differently corrugated layers so that the older layers can still show symptoms on the surface.

The Miasmenlehre stands at Vithoulkas - unlike other homeopaths as Rajan Sankaran - in the analysis of the patient's condition and the subsequent Arzneiverordnung not the focus.

According to his students, his method is well suited to be able to practice homeopathy relatively quickly at a high level. From a scientific perspective, Georgos Vithoulkas is a pseudoscientist . He was sharply criticized by Edzard Ernst .

Works

  • Scientific homeopathy - theory and practice of natural law healing , Ulrich Burgdorf-Verlag, Göttingen 1986 (is now: The practice of homeopathic healing)
  • The new dimension of medicine , Wenderoth, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-87013-023-7
  • Materia medica viva (10 volumes)
  • Medicine of the Future , Wenderoth, Kassel 2002, ISBN 3-87013-009-1 (a book from the 1970s)
  • Classical homeopathy for fear and jealousy , Groma 2003, ISBN 3-9521004-3-9
  • The practice of homeopathic healing , Urban & Fischer bei Elsevier, June 2005, ISBN 3-437-57180-X
  • Essences of homeopathic medicines , Sylvia-Faust-Verlag, Höhr-Grenzhausen 2004, ISBN 3-929-91105-1
  • Homeopathic Seminar , Volume 1 + 2, Verlag Silvia Stefanovic, Bielefeld 1993, ISBN 3-9802053-1-2
  • Seminars and lectures , Verlag Silvia Stefanovic, Bielefeld 1990, ISBN 3-9802053-2-0

literature

  • Peter Clotten, Susan Pfeifer: Georgos Vithoulkas - The Master Homeopath, Biography and Cases , TB 384 pages, Goldmann / Arkana 2002, ISBN 3-44221-632-X

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j curriculum vitae ( memento of the original from April 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Homeopathy Concrete (undated). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.homoeopathie-konkret.de
  2. ^ Edzard Ernst : George Vithoulkas: homeopathy makes infertile women fertile. May 6, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Vithoulkas, Georgos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek homeopath and winner of the 1996 alternative Nobel Prize
DATE OF BIRTH 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens