Chris Kilham 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.

Just look at herbal remedies. It's essentially a throwback. It's saying you go to a plant and you mush it up and you stick it in the jar and you sell it and you eat it and it's going to cure what ails you. And that's the kind of stuff that people believed in the early 19th century.

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

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

Nature can do more than physicians.

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

Home remedies are the best.

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

Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chinese cures.

Some set more by such things as come from a distance, but I rec'lect mother always used to maintain that folks was meant to be doctored with the stuff that grew right about 'em.

...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.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

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

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

I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting.

My grandfather was a healer, and he used matches often. Once, he burnt a wart off my finger and then rubbed the ash deep into it, and it never did come back. When he worked at a factory, people would line up next to his truck to be healed. He died before he could teach us any of his secrets.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

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

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

I really want to go to school for herbalism. Healing plants - that's a really big passion for me.

I mix all different oils - my bathroom at home is littered with oils; I'm really into natural beauty and natural healing. Peppermint is really good if you put it on your stomach for a tummy ache; lavender is kind of all-purpose - I think everyone should carry it.

My mother was a midwife and a herbalist, so we would go on these long walks, looking for yarrow or rosehips or whatever she needed to make her tinctures.

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

I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of berry juice in it. Told him I'd bought it from the dwarves. That's the biggest part of doct'rin, really. Most people'll get over most things if they put their minds to it, you just have to give them an interest.