E. F. Schumacher Quotes

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.

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

I appreciate health care that gets to the root cause of our symptoms and promotes wellness, rather than the one-size-fits-all drug-based approach to treating disease. I love maintaining an optimal quality of life - naturally.

Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.

I have developed a unique way of looking at the relationship of the human body to health and disease.

The fact that we are living does not mean we are not sick.

Health and disease don't just happen to us. They are active processes issuing from inner harmony or disharmony, profoundly affected by our states of consciousness, our ability or inability to flow with experience. This recognition carries with it implicit responsibility and opportunity.

The practice of 'asanas' and 'pranayama' wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.

Face towards the perfect image of every organ and the shadows of disease will never touch you.

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

The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.

It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.

The key to creating health is figuring out the cause of the problem and then providing the right conditions for the body and soul to thrive. It isn't taking another medication.

If governments encourage people to become more spiritual there will be a reduction in healthcare costs.

We cause our diseases. We are directly responsible for any illness that happens to us.

Imagine a world in which medicine was oriented toward healing rather than disease, where doctors believed in the natural healing capacity of human beings and emphasized prevention above treatment. In such a world, doctors and patients would be partners working toward the same ends.

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

You can't separate the mind and body. It's impossible.

The science and technology of how this life functions and what we can do with it, is what we refer to as yoga.

Meditation is the direct means of eradicating the very cause of the majority of diseases, both mental and physical.

Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.

The existence of illness in the body may no doubt be called a shadow of the true illness which is held by man in his mind.

To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task of living wisely.

If the mind is tranquil and occupied with positive thoughts, the body will not easily fall prey to disease