Andrew Taylor Still Quotes

The human body is a miraculous self-healing machine, but those self-repair systems require a nutrient-dense diet.

For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy, acupuncture, yoga and massage. I appreciate this because I truly believe medical care should address the person as a whole - their mind, body, and spirit.

I liked medicine. I liked helping people. I liked the biology of it and understanding how the body works.

Medicine is the science by which we learn the various states of the human body in health and when not in health, and the means by which health is likely to be lost and, when lost, is likely to be restored back to health. In other words, it is the art whereby health is conserved and the art whereby it is restored after being lost. While some divide medicine into a theoretical and a practical [applied] science, others may assume that it is only theoretical because they see it as a pure science. But, in truth, every science has both a theoretical and a practical side.

The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.

Medicine deals with the states of health and disease in the human body. It is a truism of philosophy that a complete knowledge of a thing can only be obtained by elucidating its causes and antecedents, provided, of course, such causes exist. In medicine it is, therefore, necessary that causes of both health and disease should be determined.

The Alexander Technique works... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain.

Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the least inclination to be well, we should not be sick.

God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence.

There is only one healing force, and that is nature; in pills and ointments there is none. At most they can give the healing force of nature a hint about where there is something for it to do.

I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.

AI systems will enable doctors to diagnose diseases and treat people better, so blocking that progress is probably one of the worst things you can do for making the world better.

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.

Healing through the mind can work harmoniously with medicine.

There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.

I probably wouldn't even be here now if it weren't for chiropractic

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

It's nice to finally be able to wake up and tie my shoes without feeling like I'm about to tip over, or walk a straight line without feeling dizzy, or be able to feel my left arm. That means a lot more to me.

Your body has this instinct to start healing and then you go back to work and it hurts even more. It's almost better to keep your body messed-up on a consistent basis.

The relief of suffering is a great good. The curing of illness and disease - these are great human goods. This is the mission of medicine.

The orthodox school has witnessed for centuries that nature itself has never once cured any existing disease with another dissimilar one, however intense. What must we think of this school, which nevertheless has continued to treat chronic diseases allopathically, with medicines and formulas that can only cause a disease condition -God knows which -dissimilar to the one being treated? Even if these physicians have not hitherto observed nature attentively enough, the miserable results of their treatment should have taught them that they were on the wrong road.

Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.

The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.