Yotam Ottolenghi Quotes

I never shy away from herbs!

The herbalist I met a few times - it was great - she gave me literature about the different processes that an herbalist would do to make medicines from certain herbs and things.

Much Virtue in Herbs, little in Men.

Well, we all age, but I'd been taking herbal supplements for a long time.

My mother was a midwife and a herbalist, so we would go on these long walks, looking for yarrow or rosehips or whatever she needed to make her tinctures.

Vertue now is in herbs and stones and words onely.

I'm nearly blind. I can hardly see. But I'm taking some herbs. Something quacky.

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.

We have finally started to notice that there is real curative value in local herbs and remedies. In fact, we are also becoming aware that there are little or no side effects to most natural remedies, and that they are often more effective than Western medicine.

Just look at herbal remedies. It's essentially a throwback. It's saying you go to a plant and you mush it up and you stick it in the jar and you sell it and you eat it and it's going to cure what ails you. And that's the kind of stuff that people believed in the early 19th century.

If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.

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

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.

I remember how my dad was so into herbal solutions and health food well before that stuff became popular.

Well, I've seen a bunch of acupuncturists and one of my sister-in-laws is an herbalist. So I know a lot about alternative medicine. I don't know a lot about the practice but I know about the world.

I'm not a big believer in vitamins and all that stuff.

My grandmother was this amazing woman in the Dominican Republic who used to read tea leaves and palms. She would cure people in her neighborhood by going into her garden, plucking a couple of leaves, and brewing teas.

I went to Kerala in India, to learn Ayurveda, which was fantastic.

It was indeed not very sound. However, those who had taken it, were in a fairer way of recovery than the others at the end of the fortnight, which was the length of time all these different courses were continued, except the oranges.

My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.

I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.

Nature can do more than physicians.

I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.

For years, Suzanne Somers has been a pioneer when it comes to alternative medical treatments.

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