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Foma G. Portnov (27 May 1921 - 16 June 2008)
Doctor of Medical Sciences, professor, Honored Scientist of the Latvian SSR, State Prize Laureate, the President of the International Association of Specialists in Electropuncture and Alternative Medicine (ASEAM), Director of Medico-Biological & Ecological Investigations Center, Scientific Adviser of the All-Union School of Electropuncture (Jurmala, Latvia), Member of Biomedical & Environmental Consultants, Inc., Vice-President of the International Society on ECIWO-Biology (China), Honorary Member of International and National medical and acupuncture societies of Austria, Bulgaria, Poland, France, Czechoslovakia and Venezuela.

Awarded to the Honorary Diploma of the Austrian Acupuncture and Auricular Therapy Society, Scandinavian Acupuncture Foundation, Honorary Medal of Medicina Alternativa, Honorary Diploma and Medal of ICMART. Albert Schweitzer Prize Laureate; Laureate of the Royal Order of International University Medicina Alternativa.

Participated in International and World Congresses on Physical Medicine, Acupuncture, Alternative and Natural Medicine in Austria, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Spain, China, Cuba, Mexico, USA, Finland, France, Czechoslovakia, Singapore, Sri-Lanka, Japan and other countries.

Professor Portnov is the author of more than 300 scientific publications, including 10 books and 40 inventions. listed in the International Register of Specialists in practical acupuncture and Tao-medicine - N 7906234 with MD title (Paris, 1979)

Main Scientific Interests: theoretical and practical aspects of acupuncture; electropuncture diagnosis; auricular diagnosis and therapy; problems of ECIWO-biology; bioholographic diagnosis and therapy; problems of clinical biophysics; hygienic and clinical aspects of aeroionization and electro-aerozoles; biological effect of electric fields; medical aspects of ecology.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES.
Diagnostic consultations: electropuncture express-diagnosis of pathological conditions; auricular diagnosis, bioholographic diagnosis, evaluation of health level according to indices of immunologic and hematologic analyses. Determination of risk factors. Treatments using the methods developed by the author and approved by the Ministry of Health of the USSR and Latvian Republic: pain syndromes of spinal osteochondrosis; nerve system functional diseases (neuroses, neurasthenia, insomnia); neuro-circulatory disieases (hypertension, hypotension); allergic diseases (bronchial asthma, rhino-sinusopathy, dermatoses; digestive apparatus dyskinesia; stammering, nocturnal enuresis; sexual disorders (feminine frigidity, some forms of impotence); cigarette smoking, toxicomania, drug dependence; obesity, etc. Original devices, developed by the author.