Dr. Karapet Matinyan - MD, Anthroposophic and General Physician, Herbalist, Anaesthesiologist and Reanimatologist, Founder and Head of the PRIMULA Center for Phytotherapy and Anthroposophic Medicine.
Dr. Karapet Matinyan was born in 1958 in Yerevan. He is married and has five children.
Primary education
Dr. Karapet Matinyan graduated from the secondary school N12 with a Golden Medal in 1976. From 1966 to 1973 he studied at the Yerevan Armen Tigranyan Music School's piano department.
Higher education and training
Dr. Karapet Matinyan graduated from the Medical Faculty of the Yerevan State Medical Institute (currently called Yerevan State Medical University after Mkhitar Heratsi) (YSMU) in 1982. From 1982 to 1983 he passed the internship as a physician-anesthesiologist at Yerevan's N2 Ambulance Hospital.
During the years of 1998-1999 Dr. Matinyan successfully accomplished his Medical Residency on Internal Medicine in the Department of Internal Diseases of the National Institute of Health Named After Academician S. AVDALBEKYAN (NIH).
Dr. Karapet Matinyan participated in several educational and training programs, including a special training program in ANTHROPOSOPHIC MEDICINE & PHARMACY held in Switzerland. In the framework of that Program, in 1990 Dr. Matinian attended various seminars and other trainings at LUKAS KLINIC and ITA WEGMAN KLINIK of ARLESHEIM, Swiss. To enable him to produce some of the medicines in Armenia, he also studied the basics of medicine production at pharmaceutical laboratory of WELEDA AG Company during that period.
Conferences
Dr. Karapet Matinyan participated in several medical conferences in DORNACH, Switzerland in 1993, 1994, 1997, 2010 and 2013.
Medical practice and related professional experience
Dr. Karapet Matinyan started his medical practice in 1979 -- in parallel with studying at YSMU, he worked as a nurse at the Reanimation Department of MIKAELYAN SURGERY INSTITUTE (cardiac surgery research clinic). Later, during the Internship of 1982-1983 he worked as a Physician-Anesthesiologist at Yerevan's N2 Ambulance Hospital. In 1984-1985 he worked as an ambulance doctor at the same hospital and also served as a doctor-anesthesiologist.
From 1985 to 1986 Dr. Matinyan worked as a Physician-Anesthetist at Surgical and Gynecological Departments of the Central Hospital of MASIS city, Armenia.
From 1986 to 1988 Dr. Karapet Matinyan served in the Soviet Army and worked as a Physician-Anesthesiologist and Reanimatologist at Surgical Department of the Military Hospital in a region equal to the extreme northern zone of former USSR. During his service, he was awarded an honorary medal for construction of Baikal-Amur Railway.
From 1990 to 2004 Dr. Matinyan was engaged in private medical practice in Yerevan as an anthroposophytic physician and herbalist. He also worked as a junior scientific specialist at the Department of Тraditional Medicine of the Medical Radiology Research Institute, 1993-1995.
Dr. Matinyan continued his medical practice in Internal Medicine during the Medical Residency at the Department of Internal Diseases of the NIH, from 1998 to 1999.
As an individual entrepreneur Dr. Karapet Matinyan founded the PRIMULA Center for Phytotherapy and Anthroposophic Medicine and became the Head and the Chief Medical Doctor of the same Center since 2004.
About the Anthroposophic Medicine
Anthroposophic medicine offers an integrative concept for diagnosis and therapy. It integrates natural science-based medicine with anthroposophy and is practiced today in over 60 countries.
With direct reference to the essence of the human being and his or her mental and spiritual needs, this practice medicine is naturally patient focused and practical. A patient’s constitution, age, biographical setting, mental and spiritual state and social environment are included in diagnosis and treatment.
In addition to their general and specialist medical training, anthroposophic physicians study anthroposophic medical science of the human being and the world. Great value is placed on involving a patient in the recovery process.
Anthroposophic remedies are taken alongside conventional medications, either by mouth, or in the form of subcutaneous or intravenous injections, or in the form of compresses, wraps, light massage (embrocations), and therapeutic baths (hydrotherapy). Eurythmy therapy, rhythmical massage, and art therapies are intrinsic part of treatment and healing - and encourage self-development through health education and self-education.
The origins of anthroposophic medicine
Dr. Rudolf Steiner Phil (1861-1925) developed anthroposophy as a humanistic world view and theory of knowledge with the human being at its centre (anthropos = Greek man, sophia = Greek wisdom). His contribution to medicine was established in collaboration with Dr. Ita Wegman MD (1876-1943), who founded the Arlesheim Clinic in 1921.
About the treatment
There is a medical consultation in PRIMULA Center for Phytotherapy and Anthroposophic Medicine, after which the pharmacy at the Center is preparing the necessary medication prescribed by the physician.
As a cause of illness the importance of internal and external human imbalance, displacement from natural rhythms, and the harmful factors of the external environment are highlighted.
Age features of human development and their disorders are considered.
As a medication, substances that are extracted from nature are used, which, as a result of special treatment, become a medicine. The purpose of the medication is to restore human inner balance and promote its natural healing processes. The materials derived from nature complement the lack of the body's disease during illness.
Local herbal raw materials are collected from Dr. Karapet Matinyan, from different regions of Armenia and Artsakh, with the help of family members and partners.
The list of healing diseases is conditioned by the experience of the doctor and the possibilities of the medical method. These are mainly internal, endocrine, skin, subcutaneous and oncological diseases.
