"Fasting is the first principle of medicine."
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"The fact that the mind rules the body is, in spite of its neglect by biology and medicine, the most fundamental fact which we know about the process of life."
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"Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable."
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"Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine."
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"Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopaedia, your life story."
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"Unless we put medical freedom into the constitution the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship and force people who wish doctors and treatment of their own choice to submit to only what the dictating outfit offers."
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"When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly."
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"Future medicine will be the medicine of frequencies."
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"A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession."
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"The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food."
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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."
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"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."
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"Doctors should first understand the cause of disease, then treat it with diet. Medicine should only be used if diet fails"
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"Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil."
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"Our physical illnesses serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since they are to us the messengers of death, we ought to learn to have one foot raised to take our departure when it shall please God."
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"If religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to the struggle for social change then it is a wonderful medicine."
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"The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect."
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"Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind."
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"I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet 'paradise'. More important, I no longer fear 'hell'. The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it, until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, consuming myself."
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"Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors."
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