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Biography
George Loukas was born on the island of Corfu on July 4, 1963.

· 1981-1988: He obtained his medical degree from the Military School of Army Officers.

· 1990-1994: He specialized in Psychiatry.

· 2005: He submitted his research “An examination of the effects that thermal springs have on modifying the mood of patients taking the cure” to the School of Medicine of the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece.

He started studying homeopathy in 1982. Initially he studied under the supervision of Aristarhos Tsamaslidis. Later he continued his studies visiting Rajan Sankaran in Bombay. From 1993 to 1997 he orgazised a series of postgraduate seminars of Jawahar Shah in Salonica. In cooperation with pharmacists Ioannis Efstathiou and Christiana Efstathiou he has prepared a considerable number of new homeopathic remedies; several have been studied and their particular characteristics have been recorded.

Georgios Loukas is the author of the Unifying Theory of Constitution which presents a unified theoretical medical model of constitution based on the comparative study of the homeopathic theory of chronic diseases combined with the theory of psychoanalytic fixations, Pavlov’s typology, the Hippocratic theory of humours and the four elements of Plato and Embedocles.

Since 1994 he has studied the impact of sounds on psychological states together with music therapist Dora Psaltopoulou. Since 1995 he teaches homeopathy in Novosibirsk (Siberia), in Krasnodar and in Ukraine (Kiev). Since 1999 he teaches homeopathy and participates in research programs in the Peoples’ Friendship University of Moscow. He also teaches homeopathy and participates in research programs of the Medical School of the University of Crimea.

The Russian Academy of Natural Sciences awarded to Georgios Loukas the Pavlov prize in November 2000. The prize was given to him for the designing and the clinical applications of new homeopathic remedies. He has also been elected an honorary member of the International Academy of Authors of Scientific Discoveries and Inventions.

Books
George Loukas is the author of the following books:

· “REPERTORY ORGANON 2001”

· “Roots, Principles of a Unification of Human Sciences”

· “A Study on the Psychism of Homeopathic Remedies, vol. I & II”

· “The second prescription”

· “Periodic table and homeopathy”

· “Cognitive Homeopathy: A new system of practicing homeopathy”

A novel combination of homeopathy and psychology
''“It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet. These lines may have their roots in quite different parts of human culture, in different times or different cultural environments or different religious traditions: hence if they actually meet, that is, if they are at least so much related to each other that a real interaction can take place, then one may hope that new and interesting developments may follow.”''

Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976)

The history of homeopathy begins with the search for the definition of the symptom. Recognising symptoms as part of the defence mechanism and as the body’s means of restoring its balance (homeostasis) is the foundation of the therapeutic system of homeopathy. Consequently, the first homeopaths began with the study of the symptoms.

Homeopathy makes a distinction between three categories of symptoms: psychological, general and physical. Within this context different ways of treating an individual’s symptoms were developed accordingly. The Kent school of thought set the symptoms in order of hierarchy as follows: Mental/emotional – General – Physical, whereas Boenninghausen’s hierarchy is defined as General – Mental/emotional – Physical and Boger’s as General – Physical – Mental/emotional.

Homeopathy has been practiced based on this methodology for many decades, mainly in the context of pathology and general medicine. During that time, a large number of provings of homeopathic remedies was conducted and a great deal of information on new medicines was acquired, though mainly on physical and general symptoms. Despite homeopaths’ efforts, knowledge on most remedies is limited. However, a wealth of information is available on a number of multi-purpose remedies, and it is on this information that homeopaths based their homeopathic practice until recently.

In recent years however, a veritable revolution in the field of homeopathy has taken place. Therapists that were mainly into psychoanalysis began to venture into homeopathy. The theory that dreams provide direct access to the unconscious led the provings to new directions. Currently, during provings, the study of dreams is a fundamental procedure. In this way, a great deal of information on the character of remedies is collected.

Various teams from around the world began to study homeopathy in a different light. One of the most well-known teams is that of Rajan Sankaran, who introduced a novel approach in the study of the psychological symptom of delusion, which is found in every Repertory by homeopaths. He believed that delusions are not exclusive to schizophrenics, but that each one of us has a personal illusion of reality; each one of us perceives reality from their very own point of view.

According to this approach, the therapist seeks the particular way in which each patient perceives reality. When taking the patient history, the therapist does not only record the patient’s symptoms, but looks for the underlying distinct way with which he or she experiences reality. Sankaran’s teaching method of the homeopathic materia medica is consistent with the above principles. He describes remedies in terms of different ways of perceiving reality.

My study alongside Rajan Sankaran as well as my specialization in psychiatry helped me adopt the above viewpoint, and thus I changed the way in which I recorded a patient’s history. Rather than simply registering the symptoms, I tried to investigate further by looking at the patient’s relationship with him/herself and the environment.

For this new methodology I used the term “Cognitive Homeopathy”. According to Cognitive Homeopathy, each individual has his or her own hierarchy of ideals-values in life. For example, some rate money above everything else, others family, love relationships, fame, aspirations, etc.

An individual’s various distortions of ideas (delusions) are formed depending on the environment. For example, some believe that they are not loved in a relationship, others that they are not appreciated by their friends, or that they will be abandoned by their relatives, that they will be abused, etc.

The above approach brought on radical changes to my daily practice of homeopathy because my primary focus shifted towards understanding each individual patient rather than simply classifying them according to the existing multi-purpose remedies. There were frequently cases of patients that could not be classified in a known class of remedies, but for whom it was obvious that a remedy that took into account their particular system of beliefs would be much more appropriate.

Slowly-slowly I started to understand an increasing number of remedies and their core in depth. The biggest part of my work concerned the study of the periodic table of elements. The use of synthetic thought lead me to create many new triple salts, which are coordination compounds that contain three chemical elements in their composition with the exception of hydrogen and oxygen.

At this stage, the help of pharmacists Ioannis Efstathiou, a man with international distinctions in the field of alternative medicine (homeopathy, herbalk medicine, etc.) and his daughter Christiana Efstathiou proved valuable. They undertook the task of preparing hundreds of new homeopathic remedies. The most significant of these are new coordination compounds made of three chemical elements, apart from hydrogen and oxygen. These compounds were named triple salts.

These new remedies produced spectacular results. The main reason was the precise individualisation of the patient, and consequently the more comprehensive inclusion of the symptoms. As a result, patients that previously only displayed minor improvements after years of homeopathic treatment, began to experience remarkable results following the administration of some new triple salt. The academic recognition followed shortly afterwards when in November 2000 the Russian Academy of Sciences awarded the Pavlov prize for the clinical applications of those new remedies.