Fuoco contro Fuoco

Inside a small wooden house, built in the woods of the Piedmont hills, a healer practices, still today, the exercise of an ancient ritual of peasant origin for the fire of St. Anthony, a strong burning that often traditional medicine fails to cure in a short time. Fire against fire (Fuoco contro Fuoco) is the formula used to explain the nature of this ancient tradition which, a kind of homeopathic medicine in which similia similibus curantur. The practice is based on a principle of analogy and the exclusive use of natural elements such as wood and flame . The ritual, generated in an intimate and private dimension, thus establishes a deep bond with the natural environment and with the patient's body, while its fire restores balance and well-being where pathology has created space for pain.