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"Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness."
"The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it"
"Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear."
"If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him."
"All disease starts in the gut."
"Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food."
"It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has."
"If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool."
"Positive health requires a knowledge of man's primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known. The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick."
"Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit."
"Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm."
"The physician treats, but nature heals."
"The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day."
"Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity."
"The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well."
"Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food."
"Walking is a man's best medicine."
"All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly."
"Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure"
"Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always."