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TEACHING COURSE ON TRADITIONAL HELLENIC MEDICINE AND HERBS

AKADIMIA OF ANCIENT GREEK AND TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE is very pleased to announce the realization of a teaching course on the basic principles of Traditional Hellenic Medicine and Traditional Hellenic Herbology.

Nowadays with the modern scientific Medicine being so against human nature with medical drugs, operations, vaccinations, and so on the only hope we have as humanity is to turn our vision to the traditional medical systems. Traditional Hellenic medicine is one of the oldest medical traditions worldwide. THM has influenced all the known medical systems of our times, like Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, Tibetan Medicine, Traditional Persian Medicine and so on. THM has also influenced the modern scientific Medicine.

Now for the first time we can have a closer contact with one of the most important medical traditions of the world. AKADIMIA OF ANCIENT GREEK AND TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE has been working many years for the revival of Traditional Hellenic Medicine. All our work is based on the Hippocratic corpus and for the first time in the history of medicine we are going to teach directly from the ancient Hippocratic texts.

Schedule for the Academic year 2024-2025:

Live lessons on Zoom:

  • 19-20/10/2024 Reading and analyzing of Hippocratic Books (About diet I, About Air Water Places, About Seven, etc). Teacher: Alexandros Tilikidis
  • 2-3/11/2024 The Hippocratic Meridian Network and the most important points. Teacher: Alexandros Tilikidis
  • 23-24/11/2024 Greek Mythology – The Gods. Teacher: Eftychia Anaplioti
  • 14-15/12/2024 Greek Herbology – Prognosis. Teacher: Konstantinos Grivas
  • 18-19/1/2025 About Diet. Teacher: Alexandros Tilikidis
  • 1-2/2/2025 About Organs (Liver, Brain, Lungs). Teacher: Alexandros Tilikidis
  • 22-23/2/2025 Greek Herbology – Classic Formulas. Teacher: Konstantinos Grivas
  • 22-23/3/2025 How we collect and prepare Greek Herbs. Teacher: Maria Skarli
  • 12-13/4/2025 About Diagnosis. Teacher: Alexandros Tilikidis
  • 3-4/5/2025 Greek Herbology – Therapeutica. Teacher: Konstantinos Grivas

Available Video lessons

Part 1:Traditional Hellenic Medicine. Teacher: Alexandros Tilikidis

Video 1:
Brief History of Traditional Hellenic Medicine. The influence of THM on the medical traditions worldwide.
The importance of THM in the modern times.
Introduction of the basic books of THM (Hippocrates, Plato, etc.).
Basic Principles of THM: Holism and the connection between microcosmos and macrocosmos.
The observation of the weather according to the moon and the influence on human beings.
About Fire and Water. The duality of Yin-Yang in THM.
About the four elements (fire, air, water, earth) and the four humors (humoral theory).

Video 2:
About the three substances that constitute the human body and the three parts of the soul.
About the concept and the flow of energy Qi.
About quintessence.

Video 3:
About the internal fire. About the soul.

Video 4:
About patients and diseases and the protection system of the human body.

Video 5:
About the human body and the organs (Heart physiology and Pathology).

Video 6:
About Traditional Hellenic Acupuncture method.
Introduction of the Hippocratic Meridians and points.
Importance of Acupuncture as a therapeutic tool.

Part 2: Traditional Hellenic Herbology. Teacher: Konstantinos Grivas

The Ancient Hellenic Medicine is considered one of the three main ancient medical traditions in human history; the other two being Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine. The Ancient Greek Medicine, developed on the foundations of the rich flora of the Mediterranean Basin, the philosophical quests of the Greek civilization, as well as the older medical traditions of Mesopotamia and Egypt, constructed an advanced and elaborate system of herbal treatment. Its core used the philosophical principles of the Opposites (fire and water, hot and cold, moist and dry), the Four Elements (Fire, Air, Water and Earth) and the Four Humors (Yellow Bile, Blood, Phlegm and Black Bile), as well as the rhythmical transformations of Nature (seasons, lunar months, day and night etc.).

In these series of lectures, we are going to study a number of herbs, their tastes, qualities, uses and the different ways to combine them. Our guides will be the most important of the classical texts: the Corpus Hippocraticum, which laid the basis of dietetics, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, although its main herbal work named “Pharmakitis” is now lost, and “De Materia Medica” by Dioscorides, a true cornerstone for the herbals that followed during the next centuries, influencing tremendously the Latin, Arabic and Persian medical traditions.

We are going to ask Galen’s expert opinion for the better understanding of the constitutions of both humans and herbs, as well as their playful interaction, submersing in his monumental work “De Simplicium Medicamentorum Temperamentis ac Facultatibus”. Texts written by other important byzantine authors, like Oribasius, Aetius of Amida, Paul of Aegina and Alexander of Tralles, to name a few, will also elaborate us on the later uses and combinations of herbal products.

Following this very long tradition, the actions and uses of the plants are going to be discussed in terms of their attributed tastes and qualities, classified in degrees of hot and cold, moist and dry, according to ascending or descending movements, their influence on different organs, their affiliation with seasons or planets etc.

This approach, based on the actual physiology and understanding of the human-herb interaction of the Greek medical tradition is going to enhance the understanding of both students and experts of Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine, or practitioners of various schools of herbology, so they would be able to compare the different plants or approach the same plant from different angles, or even to be able to substitute some Chinese or Indian herbs with their European equivalents. Nevertheless, we are going to parallel these interpretations with modern knowledge on plant pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.

We welcome you to join us in a beautiful travel, immersing in the depths of the Ancient Hellenic Medicine. A travel that we believe it will prove crucial to the broadening of your therapeutic horizons. A spiritual journey that will bring you to the very roots of medical thought, medical ethics, and medical philosophy, those very things we miss today in our practice.

Video 7:
– Introduction (history of the Ancient Greek Medicine, elements of Botany and Ethnobotany).
– Nourishing and tonifying herbs.

Video 8:
– Softening and digestive herbs. Styptics and diaphoretics.

Video 9:
– Expectorants and gynecological herbs.
Diuretics and cathartic/detoxifying herbs.

Video 10:
– Phlegm dissolving and external usage herbs.
The art of formulas (combining the herbs)

Tuition: 100€ per Video

Teachers:

Alexandros Tilikidis

Dr. Alexandros Tilikidis, born in 1966 in Athens, Greece graduated from the medical university of Patras, Greece in 1991. As a western medical doctor he received the medical specialty of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in 2001. He started his studies on acupuncture in 1994 in Athens, Greece. In 1996 he studied in TIANJIN UNIVERSITY of TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE Basic Theory of TCM, Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine with Professors Liu Gongwang and Zhong Qiangwei.

Since 1997 he practices Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine in Athens, also he teaches the Basic Theory of TCM, Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine.  In 2004 he established a private school in Athens (AKADIMIA of ANCIENT GREEK & TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE) in order to spread and promote Traditional Chinese Medicine and to unite TCM with Ancient Greek Medicine. He has published the following books: The Basic Theory of TCM (1999), Chinese Herbal Medicine – Herbs and Prescriptions (2011), Greek Acupuncture, meridians and points according to Hippocrates (2013 in Greek and English) and the Basic Theory of Ancient Greek Medicine (2014).

Constantinos Grivas

He studied at the Agricultural University of Athens and received a M.Sc. on medicinal plants in the Department of Botany, in 2003. An AGROCERT advisor on the environment, public and plant health, agricultural and environmental good practices, since 2008. He has extensive fieldwork experience in environmental projects of the University of Crete, the University of Athens, the Ionian University, the National Agricultural Research Foundation, the Hellenic Ornithological Society, the Goulandri Natural History Museum, the Arcturos Society, the Archelon-Sea Turtle Protection Society, the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation, “Biosphere” and “Ecostudies” NGOs etc.

He studied at the Akadimia of Ancient Greek and Traditional Chinese Medicine and received a Therapist Certificate on Traditional Chinese Medicine (acupuncture and Chinese herbalism), in 2012. Follows specialized TCM classes with professors from the Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, among others. He also studied extensively other Asian systems, like the Korean Hand Therapy and the Yamamoto New Scalp Acupuncture, Ayurveda, Persian and Tibetan traditional medicines. In 2015, he received the certificate by the Shang Shung Foundation (Italy) on Tibetan Medicine and Kunye (Tibetan Massage).

He teaches Chinese and Greek herbalism, acupuncture and history of Greek medicine, in the Akadimia of Ancient Greek and Traditional Chinese Medicine, since 2009. He has published two books on Good Practice in agriculture and Greek herbalism, as well as several scientific articles on the environment, history of medicine and traditional medical systems (Greek, Chinese, Ayurvedic and Tibetan). He participates regularly in national and international conferences, with presentations related to traditional medical systems and their history.

He is a member of the Geotechnical Chamber of Greece, the Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions, the Hellenic Society of Ethnopharmacology, the Professional Association of Complementary Medicine and Humanities, as well as the Hellenic Association of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine.

Eftychia Anaplioti

Eftychia Anaplioti was born in Athens in December 1973 and grew up in its southern suburbs. She studied Conservation of Antiquities and worked for several years in archaeological excavations and conservation workshops.

In 2004 in Northern Thailand she was first introduced to the art of healing, obtaining a degree in Traditional Thai Massage and Reflexology from the “Thai Massage School of Chiang Mai”. Two years later, in mountainous India she studied at “Om Ha Hara” Shiatsu and Macrobiotic nutrition and moreover to her education, was in a broader sense the “Great Lesson” of her life. Since 2012 she was a student of the AKADIMIA in the courses of Homeopathy and Ancient Greek Medicine, Astrology, Crystal Therapy and Su Jok.

Since 2016 she joined the teaching staff of the AKADIMIA, teaching the courses of Therapeutic Astrology and Hellenic Mythology. Also, in the same year she published her first work “Hippocrates and Democritus – The meeting in Abdera”, by the publications of “Ancient Greek & Traditional Chinese Medicine”.

Up to today she is continuing the teachings at the ACADIMIA of Ancient Greek & Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Maria Skarli

I was born and grew up in the provincial capital of Euboea,  Chalkida in 74.

In 2005, after the births of my three children, and as a consequence of participating in the early eco-festivals of Greece, I became interested in herbalism and enrolled at the Academy of Ancient Greek and Chinese Medicine.

There I spent two years studying Aromatherapy, and then two cycles of Creative Healing, with Katerina Papakonstantinou.

Since that time I have had some important mentors to guide my understanding of the correct harvesting, processing, properties and uses of Greek wild plants.

19 years ago I opened my current apothecary and herbal shop where for the last 8 years I have worked with my collaborator Eleutheria.

The vast majority of the raw materials, we harvest and process ourselves – distilling our essential oils and hydrosols, making tinctures and herbal oils, soaps and remedies.

As I progress on my journey, I find myself more outside under the skies, doing what I love the most – collecting and learning.

As I walk the fields and mountains, the plants tell me that I am home.

ΠΛΗΡΟΦΟΡΙΕΣ

Live lessons on Zoom:

  • 19-20/10/2024 Reading and analyzing of Hippocratic Books (About diet I, About Air Water Places, About Seven, etc).
  • 02-03/11/2024 The Hippocratic Meridian Network and the most important points.
  • 23-24/11/2024 Greek Mythology – The Gods.
  • 14-15/12/2024 Greek Herbology – Prognosis.
  • 18-19/01/2025 About Diet.
  • 01-02/02/2025 About Organs (Liver, Brain, Lungs).
  • 22-23/02/2025 Greek Herbology – Classic Formulas.
  • 22-23/03/2025 How we collect and prepare Greek Herbs.
  • 12-13/04/2025 About Diagnosis.
  • 03-04/05/2025 Greek Herbology – Therapeutica.

Hours: 17:00-21:00 (Greek time zone)

Contact: [email protected]

Cost of participation: 100 euro per weekend

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