It would be a good thing if we emphasized the big effort a person has to make when he or she desires to learn and investigate auto didactically some subjects which aren’t regulated in any Universities.

There’s no undervaluation towards University training when we say that autodidactic training has in its favour a huge, personal interest and motivation, both difficult things to be found at Universities. An Autodidactic Person studies and investigates to learn, not just to pass exams.

In order to learn a whole hour, we usually need from three to five hours as an average for searching, selecting, and, sometimes, translating from other languages. When studying a University degree, a school, learning hour has been selected by a team working with very important methods. The Autodidactic Person, in most of the cases, doesn’t have at hers disposal to many methods, and she has to spend a lot of working time searching for information before she reaches the desired objective.

At present, and thanks to the big effort operated during 20th century by some Autodidactic People, who have invested hundreds of non-recognized hours, we can enjoy in Occident some Natural, Health Therapies such as Traditional, Chinese Medicine, Naturopathy, Osteopathy, etc.

Next, we expose just the hours which have been recognized through official courses and certified by other professionals. That way, many other hours that have contributed to form a whole, have fallen into oblivion.

Javier Antolínez

From 1983 to 1985, Javier Antolínez began to compile and learn in an autodidactic way his first notions about Traditional Chinese Technique. In that time, there was very little information in Spanish, so he had to search for teaching materials in French and English and translate them into Spanish in order to be able to learn all this texts in a later step. From 1985, he intensified his training and finished his studies in 1988.

The Tenerife’s Acupuncture and Hand Acupuncture Association created a complete 2800 hours long program containing some subjects like Anatomy, Physiology, Biology, and Pathology besides all the subjects belonging to T.C.M.

Traditional Chinese Therapy Course: 2800 school hours.
Chinese Fitotherapy course: 1230 hours all together.
Postgraduate course: “T.C.M. Improvement”: 280 hours.
Creation of “ARES de T.C.M.” (Association that Regulates the Advanced M.T.C. Studies”) as President and teacher of Basic Theory, Traditional Chinese Technique, Conditional Chinese Diagnostic, Acupuncture, Neijing, and Nanking during 910 hours.

In 2005, COFENAT came into an agreement with Real University Centre “Escorial Maria Cristina” and recognized Antolinez’s knowledge. This agreement between both organizations gave rise to Philippus Program, whose aim is to establish Advanced Natural Therapy Degrees.

As a result, he obtained the “Advanced Degree in Natural Therapy”, and specialized in Traditional Chinese Therapy. This degree vouches for 180 credits.

Isabel Ros

From 1990, she began some courses about Massage and Lymphatic Drainage in Voder System’s Official School. Next, she developed this activity in Ros-Robert Centre in Barcelona.

	Mandel’s Colour Therapy Course: 160 school hours.
	Spagiric Homeopathy Course: 60 school hours.
	Traditional Chinese Technique Course: 2800 school hours.
	M.T.C. Fitotherapy Course: 1230 school hours.
	Postgraduate Course: “T.C.M. Improvement”: 280 school hours.

In 2005, COFENAT came into an agreement with Real University Centre “Escorial Maria Cristina” and recognized Antolinez’s knowledge. This agreement between both organizations gave rise to Philippus Program, whose aim is to establish Advanced Natural Therapy Degrees.

As a result, he obtained the “Advanced Degree in Natural Therapy”, and specialized in Traditional Chinese Therapy. This degree vouches for 180 credits.