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From Hippocrates to Del Giudice: workshop on a deep understanding of the similia principle

PROGRAM

This year, we celebrate 40 years since the creation of GIRI, which was born during “Les Entretiens Internationaux de Monaco” from an initiative of Professor Madeleine Bastide. GIRI was officially founded in 1986 when it was registered in France as an “Association 1901”, a non-profit scientific society. Since then, annual meetings have been held on a traveling basis, and from 2022 onwards, the meetings have adopted a hybrid format, increasing the participation of aspiring members and students, as travel costs are no longer a barrier to their involvement.

In 2025, HRI and HDScience will host the XXXVIII GIRI meeting in Greece. It holds symbolic value, as it celebrates 40 years of the GIRI in Hippocrates’ land, serving as a satellite event of the HRI meeting 2025—a large-scale Congress focused on disseminating cutting-edge scientific results in high dilutions and homeopathy. In short, it is a point of convergence between past and future, an opportunity to deepen discussions on the results of basic research, both physical-chemical and biological, to establish bridges with the results of clinical research, and to do justice to Hahnemann’s legacy by giving contemporaneity to studies related to his original discoveries.

Scientific papers involving recently published, completed, or not yet published partial data can be presented and are open to peer discussion before completion. Protocols and projects in the initial phase are also welcome for discussion. The GIRI´s original nature is to be a laboratory of ideas where everyone can think and build knowledge together. The result of this movement is to envision solutions or forms of mitigation for serious contemporary problems related to human, animal, and environmental health through the improvement of their bio-resilience.

At this event, the presentations will be distributed at similar times among GIRI members whose abstracts have been approved by the International Journal of High Dilution Research (IJHDR) review committee. Non-member participants are also welcome to attend as an audience and participate in the discussions. We hope that the XXXVIII GIRI meeting and the blue seas of Greece will be an inspiration for years to come!

The GIRI Organization and Scientific Committee

April 2025


Scientific / Organization Committee:

Prof. Carla Holandino – Brazil – President of the GIRI

Dr. Igor Jerman – Bion Institute – Slovenia – Vice-President of the GIRI

Dr. Steven J Cartwright – UK – Vice-President of the GIRI

Prof. Adalberto CB von Ancken – Brazil – Secretary of the GIRI

Dr. Alexander L Tournier – Switzerland – Treasurer of the GIRI

Prof. Leoni V Bonamin – Brazil – Editor of the GIRI

Prof. Vânia Bucco – Brazil – invited Scientific Committee member

Dr. Rodrigo Duarte – Brazil – invited Scientific Committee member

Dra. Nathalia Salles S de Medeiros – Argentina – invited Scientific Committee member


PROGRAM:

Venue: Makedonia Palace

2, Meg. Alexandrou Ave.

Thessaloniki Gr-546 40, Greece

June 23, 2025

Morning (Central European Time) – in-person conferences

08:30H – RECEPTION and WELCOME

09:00H – OVERTURE (The President Prof. Carla Holandino) AND TRIBUTE TO OUR FRIEND AND GIRI FOUNDER RENÉ HALM (Richard Blostin)

SESSION ONE – CONTROL QUESTION – Chairman: Steven Cartwright

09:20H – Steven Cartwright – The problem of controls in homeopathic research and a possible way forward

09:30H – Annekathrin Uecker – The different roles of systematic control experiments in homeopathic basic research

09:40H – DISCUSSION

SESSION TWO – HOMEOPATHY AND CELL BIOLOGY – Chairman: Carla Holandino

10:00H – Sandra Tribolo – Arnica montana: Anti-inflammatory properties in various cell models

10:10H – Pritam Goswami – Ultra-diluted Solanum tuberosum alleviates acetaminophen-induced hepato-toxicity by down-regulating c-JUN-K, CYP3A4, cytokine, and apoptotic genes

10:20H – Fateme Mirzarjani – Exploring the Structural and Morphological Characteristics of Ultra-High Dilution Essences

10:30H – Seyedeh S. Hosseinian Ghamsari – The Relationship Between Essential Original Matters in Human Blood and Ultra-High Dilutions in order to Validating Homeopathic Diagnosis

10:40H – DISCUSSION

SESSION THREE – MENTAL HEALTH AND THE SIMILIA THINKING – Chairman: Irene Schlingensiepen

11:00H – Mitra Ghaziani – Homeopathic Treatment of Severe Anxiety, intense fear, and trichotillomania in a 14-Year-Old

11:10H – Ubiratan C Adler – Homeopathy as a Personalized Adjuvant Approach in Treating Major Depressive Disorder: An N-of-1 Study with Plasma Proteome and Physicochemical Analysis of Homeopathic Preparations

11:20H – Richard Blostin – Is the law of Similarity a quirk in biology? What does neurophysiology show us?

11:30H – Irene Schlingensiepen – How broadly does the Simile-Principle apply?

11:40H – DISCUSSION

12:00H – 13:00H – American Lunch

Afternoon (Central European Time) – video conferences

SESSION FOUR – ROUND TABLE – Chairman: Ubiratan Adler (in person)

13:00H – ROUND TABLE – Homeopathy and control of chemical dependence – introduction by Ubiratan Adler

13:10H – Vânia Bucco – Tobacco

13:20H – Marilise Burger – Opioids

13:30H – DISCUSSION

SESSION FIVE – MICROBES AND MOUTH – Chairman: Vânia Bucco

13:50H – Tânia Passeti – Effects of different potencies of the homeopathic medicine Belladonna on cultures of Streptococcus pyogenes “in vitro”

14:00H – Leila Mourão – Experimental Clinical Study, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled with the use of Biotherapeutic as an adjuvant in Stage III Periodontitis

14:10H – Larissa Soares-Silva – Development of an RCT Methodology to Evaluate the Efficacy of Melissa officinalis at Various Concentrations in Managing Probable Sleep Bruxism

14:20H – DISCUSSION

SESSION SIX – PROTOCOLS – Chairman: Nathalia Salles

14:40H – Nathalia Salles – Scoping review of homeopathic basic research on animal models

14:50H – Mario Domingues – Protocol proposal: N-of-1 clinical trials in equine osteoarthritis

15:00H – Monica Souza – Morphological and physicochemical analysis of tick harvested from horses treated with a homeopathic complex: an experimental protocol

15:10H – DISCUSSION

15:30H – 16:00H Coffee break

SESSION SEVEN – OTHER PERSPECTIVES – Chairman: Adalberto Von Ancken

16:00H – Adalberto Von Ancken – Study of Weihe points

16:10H – Adalberto Von Ancken – The paradox of unicism in veterinary homeopathy

16:20H – Kurian Poruthukaren – Estimating the sensitivity of homeopathic repertories using a Python script

16:30H – DISCUSSION

16:50H – 18:00H – GENERAL DISCUSSION

June 24, 2025

Morning (Central European Time) – in-person conferences

SESSION EIGHT – HOMEOPATHIC Viscum album 1 – Chairman: Annekatherin Uecker

09:00H – Carla Holandino – Viscum album Homeopathic Preparations and Biological Effects: Phytochemical Markers and Seasonal Aspects in In Vitro Models

09:10H – Elizabeth C Peres – High-diluted preparations from Viscum album decrease nitric oxide levels produced by murine melanoma cells

09:20H – Elizabeth C Peres – Evaluation of Epigenetic Alterations Induced by Treatment with Ultradilutions of Viscum album in Murine Melanoma Cells

09:30H – DISCUSSION

SESSION NINE – HOMEOPATHIC Viscum album 2 – Chairman: Elizabeth C Peres

09:50H – Elizabeth C Peres – Use of Viscum album 5 LM as an adjuvant in treating a dog with cutaneous mastocytoma: a case report

10:00H – Richard Blostin – Clinical use of Viscum album: potential role of dynamization

10:10H – DISCUSSION

SESSION TEN – PHYSICOCHEMICAL – BIOLOGICAL CROSSOVER 1 – Chairman: Fateme Mirjzajani

10:30H – Leoni Bonamin – Magnetic field-exposed Silicea terra 24cH at different magnitudes and its effect on Artemia salina development: preliminary results

10:40H – Sandhimita and Nirmal Sukul (video) – Intrinsic infra-red radiation from a homeopathic potency transforms the water structure of aqueous ethanol into that of the potency as revealed by UV and FT-IR spectroscopy

10:50H – DISCUSSION

SESSION ELEVEN – PHYSICOCHEMICAL – BIOLOGICAL CROSSOVER 2 – Chairman: Fateme Mirjzajani

11:10H – Jasper Zanco (video) – Micro vibrational patterns to distinguish between water and homeopathic solutions

11:20H – Monica Souza (video) – Grain weight and number of pods per plant in a soybean bed (Glycine max) treated in the planting furrow with a similia-based agronomic product prepared by magnetic printing

11:30H – DISCUSSION

12:00H – 13:00H – American Lunch

Afternoon (Central European Time) – video conferences

SESSION TWELVE – HUMAN AND VETERINARY CLINICS 1 – Chairman: Richard Blostin (in person)

13:00H – Monica Souza – Use of homeopathy to control buller steer syndrome in bulls kept in the feedlot

13:10H – Surjit Makker – Leveraging Machine Learning for Evaluating Homeopathic Treatment Efficacy in Canine Parvovirus: A Retrospective Analysis of 118 Cases

13:20H – Bruna Scardoeli – High dilution in the treatment of anemic dogs with erythroid medullary hypoplasia

13:30H – DISCUSSION

SESSION TWELVE – HUMAN AND VETERINARY CLINICS 2 – Chairman: Gurudev Choubey (in person)

13:50H – Hanna S. Kokubun – Remission of a Tracheal Collapse of a Yorkshire Terrier using Cactus grandifloras

14:00H – Cideli Coelho (in person) – Chronic kidney disease in Cats – Retrospective Homeopathic Study

14:10H – Anastasios Vartholomaios (in person) – The Low/Ultra-Low Dose Treatment of Cancer: is there a common place between chemotherapy and homeopathy?

14:20H – Gurudev Choubey (in person) – Double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of individualized homeopathic medicines in functional dyspepsia

14:30H – DISCUSSION

14:50H – 15:30H – GENERAL DISCUSSION +

COMMENTS ON THE NEXT GIRI MEETING IN POLAND, 2026 (Daniel Wrzałko), AND CLOSENING (The President Carla Holandino) WITH TIME FOR AN “EVERYBODY PHOTO”.

15:30H – 16:00H Coffee break

16:30H – 18:00H GIRI BOARD MEETING – PRIVATE VIDEO CONFERENCE IN THE SAME ROOM

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

LIMITED PLACES:

The room is limited to 30 in-person participants. Seats are reserved for presenters and GIRI members in chronological order of confirmed registration. After completion, only online participants will be accepted, at a limit of 100 people.

All non-GIRI members must participate online exclusively.

TIMELINE:

April 16, 2025Deadline for presenters’ registration (IN-PERSON OR ONLINE) and program confirmation
June 13, 2025  Deadline for non-presenters’ ONLINE registration

FEES (for both in-person and online participants):

Non-members: 100 Euros

GIRI members: 80 Euros

Students (with document): 50 Euros

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