ABOUT ME AND THIS BLOG

I was born in 1961. I entered the Athens Medical School in 1978 and graduated in 1985. I first heard about Homeopathy during my medical studies in a lecture organised by the Athens Center of Homeopathy and I liked the homeopathic doctors' way of viewing human body as a whole and not as a sum of independent parts. However, it was not until years later that I decided to study Homeopathy. During my rural service as a doctor in a provincial village, I was amazed to see that many patients with long-standing problems ineffectively treated by "Allopathic" Medicine, found cure in Homeopathy. So, along with my specialisation in General Practice / Family Medicine (1989-1992), I followed the study courses of the Hellenic Homeopathic Medical Society and of the Athens Homeopathic Center. I worked then in the Athens Homeopathic Center for three years (1992-1995) under the supervision of expert homeopathic physicians, pupils of G.Vithoulkas. The exchange of knowledge and experience with them and the participation in seminars from G.Vithoulkas, V.Ghegas and other distinguished homeopathic physicians greatly contributed to my maturation as a homeopathic doctor. I realised that there is no illness or case which should be dismissed as "incurable" from a homeopathic standpoint without making a try. I will never forget a case of a boy with muscular dystrophy, a disease considered incurable from allopathic medicine, who was told from his attendant neurologist that he would be confined to a wheelchair in a few years and who still walks due to the great reduction in the rate of muscular destruction with homeopathic treatment.
In 1995, my wife and I decided to leave stressful life in Athens in order to live more peacefully and at a slower "pace" in the Greek province. Since then, I have been living in Paralio Astros, a picturesque Greek seaside village, enjoying life with my wife and my four children, working as a general practitioner in the nearby Public Health Center and treating patients with homeopathy in private practice.
Last year I visited the World Health Organisation site to get information about avian influenza. I was deeply concerned with the possibility of the avian influenza virus mutating into a pandemic strain. I felt that, if a pandemic happens, humanity will be vulnerable and with poor defense means available against a deadly virus. I wondered if Homeopathy could offer any help and from my search in homeopathic literature came out the article entitled "avian influenza and homeopathy". It was recently published in the bulletin of the Hellenic Homeopathic Medical Society. I thought that I owe to present my work to the international Homeopathic community as well, that's why I came at creating this blog. It is essentially a single-post blog (at least at the moment) but I hope that you find it worth reading.
Panagiotes-Socrates Loumakis, homeopathic physician/general practitioner