From Hippocrates to Del Giudice: workshop on a deep understanding of the similia principle
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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, 2025 | Deadline 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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