Andrew Weil Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.

  Andrew Weil

  Health, Simple, Years

  "U.S. manages disease, not health" by Andrew Weil, www.cnn.com. March 10, 2013.

• Whenever the immune system deals successfully with an infection, it emerges from the experience stronger and better able to confront similar threats in the future. Our immune system develops in combat. If, at the first sign of infection, you always jump in with antibiotics, you do not give the immune system a chance to grow stronger.

  Andrew Weil

  Giving, Stronger, Antibiotics

  Andrew Weil (2004). “Natural Health, Natural Medicine: The Complete Guide to Wellness and Self-Care for Optimum Health”, p.212, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Whole plants differ in their effects from refined drugs (:)...Plants are dilute preparations (of) the active principles...Plants usually go into the body through the mouth and stomach, whereas purified chemicals can be put...by snorting or injecting...directly into...bloodstreams without giving...bodies a chance to process them. Other compounds in drug plants...may modify the active principles, making them safer.

  Andrew Weil

  Dark, Giving, Drug

• If at the first sign of infection, you always jump in with antibiotics, you do not give the immune system a chance to grow stronger.

  Andrew Weil

  Giving, Stronger, Antibiotics

  Andrew Weil (2004). “Natural Health, Natural Medicine: The Complete Guide to Wellness and Self-Care for Optimum Health”, p.212, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can be extraordinarily challenging.

  Andrew Weil

  Giving, Challenges, Humanity

  "Healthy Gift Ideas" by Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

• A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women, but I have recommended that both men and women keep fresh flowers in the home for their beauty, fragrance, and the lift they give our spirits.

  Andrew Weil

  Beautiful, Flower, Home

  "Healthy Gift Ideas" by Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

• Another very common use, in all cultures, of psychoactive substances is to give people transcendent experiences. To allow them to transcend their human and ego boundaries to feel greater contact with the supernatural, or with the spiritual, or with the divine, however they phrase it in their terms.

  Andrew Weil

  Spiritual, People, Giving

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