Chinese Medicine Quotes

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

  Voltaire

  Art, Get Well Soon, Health

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• Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

  Ovid

  Health, Medicine, Nurse

  Tristia

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• The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.

  Lin Yutang

  Medicine, Chinese, Distinction

  The Importance of Living ch. 9 (1938)

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• A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Strength, Short Life, Acceptance

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• Qi gong therapy, as well as other branches of Chinese medicine, can be reduced to two simple principles: the cleansing of meridians to achieve harmonious energy flow, and the restoration of yin-yang balance.

  Wong Kiew Kit

  Simple, Two, Qigong

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• Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

  James Bryce

  Science, America, Practice Of Medicine

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• Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

  Robert Trout

  Medicine, Addiction, Chinese

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• Even though I believe we should promote Chinese medicine, I personally do not believe in it. I don't take Chinese medicine.

  Mao Zedong

  Believe, Medicine, Chinese

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• I was just a kid when I started doing this,yoga, meditation, natural foods, acupuncture - things like were seen as practically voodoo. And today you can go into any hospital and they'll have massage, and Chinese medicine, and therapy, and a prayer room.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Prayer, Yoga, Kids

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• As soon as we notice that certain types of events 'like' to cluster together at certain times, we begin to understand the Chinese, whose theories of medicine, philosophy, and even building are based on a 'science' of meaningful coincidences.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Meaningful, Philosophy, Destiny

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• Many of those in the medical fraternity instantly label treatments in the traditional, natural or holistic health fields as quackery. This word is even used to describe Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Indian Ayerveda, two medical systems which are far older than Western medicine and globally just as popular.

  James Morcan

  Two, Medicine, Chinese

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