Curriculum Vitae

I was born in Naples on 30 November 1958, a city where I unfortunately only lived for a few years while attending university. I grew up in Milan and then moved to Modena in 1966, where I lived until 2014. Since 2020, I have been happily living on Monte Amiata, near Castel del Piano (GR), where I have chosen to live in an atmosphere that suits me best, both for working and for writing and contemplating.

I graduated in Medicine in 1984 and specialised in Food Science in 1987, with an experimental thesis on the effects of fasting on humans. My passion for medical anthropology, cultivated during my early university years, led me to abandon my surgical training and take an interest in traditional medicine, eventually choosing to devote myself entirely to Classical Homeopathic Medicine, which I have been practising since 1985.

Initially, I attended a few homeopathy courses in Italy with minimal satisfaction, along with many seminars in various countries around the world. It was only thanks to the knowledge and deep friendship of Dr. Giovanni Marotta (Rome), the years of study we spent together, our shared reflections and continuous discussions with Prof. Alberto Panza that I was able to continue with enthusiasm, eventually developing my own method of studying and applying homeopathy: the Method of Complexity in Homeopathic Medicine. It is a model of study, research and work that I have been trying to illustrate, share and teach for more than 30 years, especially to colleagues in the international community.

In 1991, I began sharing my experiences mainly abroad. Those first seminars allowed me to introduce some of my ideas, my work and the clinical cases I had begun to collect: verbatim and respecting a very precise standard of response to therapy, selecting only cases treated with a single remedy and a long follow-up (see the “Cases and articles” section of the website). Since then, I have divided my time between working as a doctor and teaching Homeopathic Medicine: initially within the former Ulmus Association (founded in 1993 and closed in 2014), and now

directing the new Ianua Medica Amiata Association (2014), without forgetting the Koinè International School of Continuing Education in Homeopathic Medicine (2000). I have worked extensively with the New England Homeopathic Academy (Boston), where I taught for about 20 years from 1996, and I have collaborated and continue to collaborate with:

• Academia Medico Homeopatica de Barcelona

• Academic Departments of Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital

• Berlin Seminar of Homeopathy

• BERLINER HOMÖOPATHIE VORTRÄGE

• Brazilian Medical Homeopathic Association

• BÜTAD (Bütünleyici Tedaviler Araştırma Derneği – Turkey)

• Dragonfly Seminars (Brighton)

• Four Wind Seminars (San Francisco)

• HSA (Homeopathic South African Association)

• Homöopathie Seminare & Vertrieb (Augsburg)

• Los Angeles School of Homeopathy

• Medical Society for Classical Homeopathy (Salzburg)

• NHL (Norske Homeopaters Landsfordbund, Norway)

• NEHA – New England Homeopathic Association – (Boston)

• OCHM (Ontario College of Homeopathic Education)

• OGHM (Österreichische Gesellschaft für Homöopathische Medizin)

• Scottish Seminars (Edimburgh)

• School of Homeopathy (Stroud)

• SEHG (South East Homeopathic Group – Brighton)

• SHO Foundation for Post Academic Homeopathic Education (Wageningen)

• Suomen Homeopaatit RY (Helsinki)

• The Other Song Academy (Mumbai)

• VHK Switzerland (Zurich)

• Heron’s Seminars (Seattle)

• JPSH (Japanese Physicians Society for Homeopathy)

• JSH (Japanese Society of Homeopaths)

I was a member of the executive board of FIAMO (Italian Federation of Homeopathic Associations and Doctors) at the beginning of its foundation, for six years, dealing in particular with teaching Homeopathic Medicine, relations with other European schools and the first draft of the guidelines for the structure and programme adopted by the School – Training Department. – Teaching for Italian homeopathic schools recognised by FIAMO itself.

In 1996, together with Marion Meyemburg, I conceived and helped to found “DELPHI”: a project for the collection, study and exchange of experiences and clinical cases in the medical and veterinary fields, open to all colleagues in the international homeopathic community.

In 1997, Dr, Greta Hieromymus-Faust published, under my supervision, two books that faithfully report the seminars held in Augsburg in 1997: Klassische Homöopathie – Methodik & Arzneimittellehre vol. I and vol. II.

In 1998, I began research and clinical supervision work with a group of colleagues in Vienna, with the collaboration of Dr. Uta Santos Konig: some of the material developed in these meetings was then published in a bbok edited by the same study group: HOMEOPATHIC FAMILIES – 20 remedies coming alive.

In 2000, together with Dr Giovanni Marotta, we founded CIMI-Koinè: an international school for continuing education in homeopathic medicine. It offers a four-year basic course of 1.000 hours, followed by a three-year specialisation course and regular refresher seminars.

In 1998, 2003, 2005 and 2025, I was a key speaker at the world congresses of the Liga Medicorum Homeopathica Internationalis. From 2001 to 2005, drawing on the best material from almost twenty years of experience, I started the “Three-Year International Postgraduate Course of Homeopathy”, a continuing education school based in Bologna and Boston, aimed at colleagues in the international community.

In 2003, in collaboration with Dr Giovanni Marotta, I wrote my first fundamental text, translated into English and German, which illustrates our personal reinterpretation of the methodology in Homeopathic Medicine: “PRAXIS – A new method in Homeopathic Medicine – the search for coherence in the manifestation of clinical phenomena”. The first book, in four volumes, translated into German and English, which illustrates the basics of the ‘Method of Complexity in Homeopathic Medicine’ through clinical cases treated with homeopathic remedies that I consider belonging to the homeopathic family of the “drugs”.

In 2004, in collaboration with Dr. Hans Zwemke, I published ‘Bitten in the Soul: experiences about the use of spiders in Homoeopathic Medicine’. A book on homeopathic medicine, in English and German, focusing on the clinical experiences of certain remedies prepared from arachnids.

(for information, see the “PUBLICATIONS” page)

In 2005, again in collaboration with Dr Giovanni Marotta, we began the Advanced Course in Homeopathic Medicine: a series of seminars focused on differential diagnoses between homeopathic remedies and families with the aim of sharing our twenty years of sharedexperience in the study and observation of the most significant issues in human existence and development.

In 2006, in collaboration with NEHA (New England Homeopathic Academy), I held a three-year master’s degree in Homeopathic Medicine: ‘Accurately Differentiating Homeopathic Remedies and Families’.

In 2007, in collaboration with Dr. Betty Wood, I published: ‘Solanaceae – A nightmare between Light and Dark’. This book is a transcript of a seven-day seminar held in Boston on the homeopathic family of Solanaceae.

From 2007 to 2009, at the invitation of Dr. Tom Withmarsh, I led a clinical supervision group at the N.H.S., the homeopathic department of

Glasgow Hospital.

Also in 2007, I was a key speaker at the ‘Celebrating Links’ conference in Heidelberg, presenting a study and clinical cases with long-term follow-up on Oleum animale.

In 2008, again in collaboration with Dr Betty Wood, I published “Insecurity – A homeopathic perspective”. This is another book extracted from a long seminar covering various homeopathic families and reporting clinical experiences on the broad theme of insecurity.

Also in 2008, in collaboration with Marion Meyemburg and Ose Heimes, I designed the foundations of one of the most important information portals on homeopathic medicine for doctors, pharmacists and patients: Homeovision. It is one of the few websites that contains scientific information on homeopathic medicine.

For many years, I collaborated with my dearest friend David Warkentin (San Francisco) on the development of one of the most important software programmes used by the international community: Mac Repertory and Reference Works.

In 1990, I designed my first homeopathic medical record software: Consulta. Thanks to Paolo Barbolini, this programme has been continuously updated and used by many homeopaths around the world.

From 2011 to 2016, I recorded more than 50 lectures, in English and Italian, on the homeopathic families I know best, along with another series of lectures on the most commonly prescribed remedies (the so-called polycrests). This material is available on my website and is still studied by many colleagues around the world.

Since 2014, I have been working assiduously with Betty Wood, Krista Heron and John Sobraske on two publishing projects consisting of several texts.

Firstly, my Materia Medica Clinica, a series of volumes dedicated to certain families of homeopathic remedies, the first six volumes of which have been translated into English (German and Portuguese for the first volume only): Latti, Funghi, Rosaceae, Aracnidae, Oli, Arnica and similar. A second series of volumes, due out in 2025, will be dedicated to the so-called polycrests.

Since 2017, I have been working on Suggesta, a profound revision of the very concept of the homeopathic repertory: the fundamental text in the clinical practice of homeopathic medicine. Fiorella Cerami took part only in the first edition, Federico del Conte and Riccardo Tomassini have been the core team since the first draft, and Marta Pigliapoco and Tomomi Myakawa have just joined to work on the third edition. We are revisiting and redefining in a substantial, modern and exquisitely clinical way the tool most used by the majority of homeopaths worldwide. Our latest update, Suggesta 2.0, published in 2025, is a highly up-to-date clinical repertory now available for the two major homeopathic software programs: SHS and Radar Opus.

In 2022, together with Prof. Alberto Panza and organised by Omeonatura (Lugano), we held a two-year Master’s course, largely residential and comprising 200 hours, on the Complexity Method in Homeopathic Medicine.

In 2025, I began recording a long series of lectures on my website on the rational use of the repertory, with particular reference to Suggesta.