Alternative Medicine Quotes

• The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

  Paracelsus

  Art, Healing, Mind

  Seven Defenses Ch. 4

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• You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine.

  Tim Minchin

  Medicine, Alternatives, Natural Healing

  Song: Storm

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• The treatments themselves do not 'cure' the condition, they simply restore the body's self-healing ability.

  Leon Chaitow

  Healing, Self, Medicine

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• The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Motivational, Fitness

  Aphorism

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• A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.

  Hippocrates

  Wise, Men, Medicine

  Hippocrates, Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd, John Chadwick, William Neville Mann (1978). “Hippocratic writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and reason is powerless.

  Herophilos

  Art, Health, Bad Ass

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• The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

  Voltaire

  Art, Get Well Soon, Health

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• Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.

  Marcia Angell

  Medicine, Play, Alternatives

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• 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.

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• A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Medicine, May

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.215, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are.

  Deepak Chopra

  Uplifting, Reflection, Who We Are

  Deepak Chopra (1997). “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• Alternative medicine people call themselves "holistic" and say it's the "whole" approach. Well, if it's the whole approach, let it be the mind as well. Use logic, use sense, use the incredible five wits you were given by creation.

  Stephen Fry

  Medicine, People, Mind

  "Room 101" (Season 6 Episode 10, 2001), (1994-).

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• If you want to be happy, make someone else happy. If you want to find the right person in your life, be the right person. If you want to see change in the world, become the change you want to see.

  Deepak Chopra

  World, Want, Life Is

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• Medicine is intention. Those who are proficient at using intention are good doctors.

  Sun Simiao

  Inspirational, Doctors, Medicine

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• Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease.

  Mehmet Oz

  Thinking, Doctors, Medicine

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• It is time for the scientific community to stop giving alternative medicine a free ride There cannot be two kinds of medicine — conventional and alternative. There is only medicine that has been adequately tested and medicine that has not, medicine that works and medicine that may or may not work. Once a treatment has been tested rigorously, it no longer matters whether it was considered alternative at the outset. If it is found to be reasonably safe and effective, it will be accepted.

  Marcia Angell

  Two, Medicine, Giving

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• First, modify the patient's diet and lifestyle and only then, if these do not effect a cure, treat with medicinals and acupuncture.

  Sun Simiao

  Health, Medicine, Chinese

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• The first question an Ayurvedic physician asks is not 'What disease does my patient have?' but 'Who is my patient?' By 'who,' the physician does not mean your name, but how you are constituted.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mean, Names, Medicine

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• We are destroying the world's greatest pharmacy. It is very important that we protect the rainforest in everything that we do.

  Chris Kilham

  Medicine, Important, World

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• The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Liars, Atheism, Patient

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• [Alternative medicine is defined as] that set of practices that cannot be tested, refuse to be tested or consistently fail tests.

  Richard Dawkins

  Medicine, Practice, Alternatives

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you begin to meditate on a regular basis, you will start to notice that thoughts and feelings that may have been building up inside of you are gently released and you reach the quiet place that was always there, waiting for you- the place of pure awareness. It is there that you will experience peace, healing, and true rejuvenation.

  Deepak Chopra

  Peace, Healing, Thinking

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• People in the U.S. are more cranked up on pharmaceutical drugs than any other culture in the world today. I want people using safer medicine. And that means plant medicine.

  Chris Kilham

  Mean, Medicine, Other Cultures

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• The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself.

  John Knowles

  Medicine, People, Next

  "God’s Hybrid" by Dr. Jeffrey McCombs, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2008.

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• An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease.

  Andrew Taylor Still

  Healing, Engineering, Law

  Andrew Taylor Still, George Van O'Linda Webster (1935). “Sage Sayings of Still: Selected from the Writings of Dr. A.T. Still; with a Historical Sketch of Osteopathy and an Appreciation of Dr. Still”

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