Plutarch Quotes

Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.

If I can help it, I don't go to modern doctors.

Strive to preserve your health; and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for their drugs are a kind of alchemy concerning which there are no fewer books than there are medicines.

I love doctors and hate their medicine.

I try to live holistically and avoid conventional medicine.

Medicine's good for some people. Not for me.

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

I am not against all forms of high-tech medicine. Drugs and surgeries have a secure place in the treatment of serious health conditions. But modern American medicine treats almost every health condition as if it were an emergency.

I use nothing but homeopathic remedies, for my girls as well.

Socially, in most groups I tempered my conversations on my approach to health because those who entrusted their lives to allopathic, 'standard of care' Western doctors might not want to entertain the idea that they might have made the wrong choice or that their way wasn't the best way.

You see that the people who are drawn to alternative medicine are often fairly healthy and they go to alternative medicine for what I call the 'symptoms of life.' Fatigue, joint pains, inability to concentrate, perhaps, the kinds of things that anyone over twenty-five gets at some point.

Superstition's not for me. And I'm not much for medicine either. I know my mind and my body better than anyone else.

The secret of a long life is to never trust a doctor.

I'm very much interested in having people take herbs that make them feel good because if they do that, they'll have an experience, and they'll say, 'Oh, this is real.' This is something you take, and you don't have to go on faith, but you can feel the difference.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.

I'm all for natural solutions. I'm for eastern philosophies. Yoga is a good one.

I've always been like a guinea pig when it comes to health trends.

I've done acupuncture, and I believe in it. That's the first place I go if I'm having any particular pain anywhere.

I don't think you should rely on medicine. I think you should rely upon herbal doctors, acupuncture, and doctors outside the medical world, with different kinds and forms of treatment.

Homeopathy offers a safe, natural alternative that causes no side effects or drug interactions.

If you or I want to be healthy (whether it's our digestion, our reproduction, our skin, or anything) we have to assume greater responsibility for our wellness. One of the best ways to do that is to be familiar with and to use on a regular basis, plant medicines.

The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.

I can't manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies. I often make use of them.

I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.

You know you're screwed when a Western doctor recommends acupuncture.