Hippocrates
Physician
"Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food."
Ayurveda quotes
Ayurveda
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Hippocrates
Physician
"Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients."
Maya Tiwari
Author, Spiritual Teacher
"Ayurveda is not just about nutrition or herbology, it has a unique tool for diagnosis, diagnosis of understanding the human constitution is different from person to person. Each one has a unique metabolic system."
Lin Yutang
Writer
"Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks."
George Herbert
Poet
"A good digestion turneth all to health."
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"Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion."
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"The commercialism of yoga, the commercialism of Ayurveda, the commercialism of guru-ism, is difficult. It's difficult because it confuses, it confuses the general populations as to what this is all about, but yet those of us who are trained within a certain tradition, who trained from the ancestral gene bank, so to speak, it is fine, it's not bothersome at all because we must live."
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"The body must be credited with an immense fund of know-how."
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"Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach."
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