James Randi Quotes

High street homeopaths, who typically do not have any serious medical training, are allowed to treat you and me for almost any condition.

Homeopathic doses are perhaps the strongest.

Homeopathy - an invention of the Father of Lies! I have tried it and found it wanting. I would swallow their whole doles' medicine chest for sixpence, and be sure of finding myself neither better nor worse for it.

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

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

Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.

Homoeopathy is supposed to work miracles.

In some aspects of alternative medicine we are fighting an almost medieval belief in magic but debunking such beliefs is like telling people that the tooth fairy is sniffing glue.

Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.

I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine.

I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pajamas feeling each other's chi.

Every crazy fad from the 1800s comes back or they never go away. It's like fashion, like everything's already been invented, and somebody stumbles onto it and people will always, always be looking for an answer for some vague illness they can't get a diagnosis for.

One, I am skeptical of the effectiveness of nutritional supplements.

Let your Medicine be something of the Nature of the Sign ascending.

… much like the cure-all theory of patent medicine.

Bearing in mind that homeopathic remedies are generally so diluted that they contain no active remedy, it seems obvious they can be nothing more than placebos.

My dad studies and practices homeopathy and Ayurveda medicine. He's a strong believer in both honey and milk as forms of healing. Honey is the one food that does not die. It does not expire. Growing up, he'd always be mixing up almonds or turmeric or gram flower with milk to cure a cough or a cold.

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.

...This large and expensive stock of drugs will be unnecessary. By...doses of...medicines...multiplying...combining them properly, 20 to 30 articles, aided by the common resources of the lancet, a garden, a kitchen, fresh air, cool water, exercise, will be sufficient to cure all the diseases that are at present under the power of medicine.

Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.

I have always stuck up for Western medicine. You can chew all the celery you want, but without antibiotics, three quarters of us would not be here.

Nature can do more than physicians.

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

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