Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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.

It's amazing how much people talk about colonics here. That's not a thing anywhere else in the country. But I totally did a juice cleanse, I did a colonic - I'm getting into L.A. living!

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

The best thing I've learned is that you have to listen to your body, and you have to be your own physician. Don't ignore those little groaning aches and pains.

I got into the whole Ayurvedic thing. It was really cool.

For a sore throat I take arnica, just a tiny pill dissolved under my tongue. And because your throat is like a muscle, I keep mine warm drinking herbal teas, usually camomile.

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

Medicine has its limitations, Life Force has none.

Poor health is not caused by something you don't have; it's caused by disturbing something that you already have. Health is not something you need to get, it's something you have already if you don't disturb it.

All disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering: an effort of nature to remedy a process of poisoning or of decay, which has taken place weeks, months, sometimes years beforehand, unnoticed.

With the growing recognition of the value of herbs, it is surely time to examine the professional therapeutic use of these herbs. There are profound changes happening in the American culture and herbal medicine, 'green medicine,' is playing an ever-increasing role in people's experience of this transformation.

In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.

A little health now and again is the ailing person's best remedy.

It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen

We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. Nothing but observation and experience will teach us the ways to maintain or to bring back the state of health. It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; medicine is the surgery of functions as surgery proper is that of limbs and organs.

A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.

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.

Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health.

Fasting is the first principle of medicine; fast and see the strength of the spirit reveal itself.

A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine.

Let your body take care of you.

You need to make sure everyone is healthy first and foremost.

I have endeavored to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession of medicine and that it is injurious to mankind.

Your muscles know nothing. It's your brain. Exercise is something you've got to do the rest of your life. It's a lifestyle. Dying is easy. Living is a pain in the neck. You've got to work at it.