Thomas Sydenham Quotes

I've been amazed at how quickly people can heal themselves, actually.

...These healers...my intellect has been unable to assimilate their theories....But their facts are patent and startling; and anything that interferes with the multiplication of such facts, and with our freest opportunity of observing and studying them, will, I believe, be a public calamity.

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

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

Nature can do more than physicians.

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

No pills gonna cure my ill.

The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.

For 30 years, which I never talked about in Hollywood, I actually worked with doctors lecturing and doing some medical intuitive counseling both in a medical setting and for the community at large.

My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.

I think modern medicine has become like a prophet offering a life free of pain. It is nonsense. The only thing I know that truly heals people is unconditional love.

Allopathic doctors used to laugh condescendingly at those who posited that psychological, emotional and spiritual factors were important contributors to the sickness as well as healing of the body.

The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies.

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

It is the forces of the universe that make human beings fall ill. Having learnt to recognize how sun qualities and moon qualities live in plants, animals and minerals, we discover how we can find counterforces and also individual natural forces that point us towards medicines for specific internal illnesses.

Home remedies are the best.

You might think that modern chiropractors restrict themselves to treating back problems, but in fact they still possess some quite wacky ideas. The fundamentalists argue that they can cure anything. And even the more moderate chiropractors have ideas above their station.

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.

I've fought physical disability and was cured because of naturopathy and yoga.

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

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.

All medicine is gradations and differences and nuances. And there's such a thing as natural recovery: people spontaneously get better. It happens.

If there's any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.

The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines we need.

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