Nargis Fakhri Quotes

In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore.

That's the Indian in me - you must put spices on everything. As a kid, whenever we got sick, my mom would take milk and put turmeric in it. That was our medicine. That was the cure-all. Some people turn to Robitussin.

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.

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.

Eastern medicine is not about curing your sickness. It's about keeping you well.

My mother-in-law's from Norway, and she's always liked old-school remedies.

There is huge merit in both Eastern and Western medicine, and I've taken a little bit from both.

I am very interested in Ayurvedic medicine and hope to explore it more someday. I only have a very superficial understanding of the whole thing right now. But learning what my body type is has shifted my whole self-care regime a bit, and I feel better because of it.

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

For centuries, cultures throughout the world have used indigenous technologies to navigate life's complexities. From navigator-priests in Micronesia to mystics in India, vast sums of knowledge are available if we but recognize it.

This is a coca leaf. This is not cocaine. This represents the culture of indigenous people of the Andean region.

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

In India, people love turmeric. They make turmeric milk, and sometimes I mix it with some cream or yogurt and turn it into a scrub. You'd be amazed at what it can take off your skin.

People have been dealing with health long before there was science, certainly before nutrition science. We're constantly reading about scientific studies that support old wives' tales.

I think we have a lot to learn from ancient cultures and different tribes.

I got up from the wheelchair thanks to natural products like tulsi, aloe vera, kali mirch, and awla.

We have been using Ayurveda for generations, and it has been a vital part of the family.

Kumbh Mela is the best way to get an insight of our culture.

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

In the Middle Ages people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead.

I'm not an advocate for everything that rolls out of the laboratory. I'm an advocate for things sanctioned by millennia of usage.

People in the U.S. are more cranked up on pharmaceutical drugs than any other culture in the world today. I want people using safer medicine. And that means plant medicine.

Some alternative medicines work when the instructions are followed. But I always recommend seeing a medical professional.

We cannot blame globalisation for diluting our cultural heritage and music, as our music is respected more outside India than here.