Norman Cousins Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

...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.

You don't have to do something exotic to enjoy the benefits of natural healing agents. So many things in your kitchen - common spices, common herbs and foods - have powerful healing agents as well.

An allopath comes and treats cholera patients and gives them his medicines. The Homeopath comes and gives his medicines and cures perhaps more than the allopath does because the Homoeopath does not disturb the patients but allows the nature to deal with them.

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

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

I've been amazed at how quickly people can heal themselves, actually.

I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.

The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies.

It is the forces of the universe that make human beings fall ill. Having learnt to recognize how sun qualities and moon qualities live in plants, animals and minerals, we discover how we can find counterforces and also individual natural forces that point us towards medicines for specific internal illnesses.

Your body has a remarkable capacity to begin healing itself, and much more quickly than people had once realized, if you simply stop doing what's causing the problem.

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.

If there's any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.

Homeopathy offers a safe, natural alternative that causes no side effects or drug interactions.

The need is to recognize that The patient is the healer, Not the doctor.

A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist.

The physician knows that his little black bag can carry him only so far and that the body's own healing system is the main resource.

With the growing recognition of the value of herbs, it is surely time to examine the professional therapeutic use of these herbs. There are profound changes happening in the American culture and herbal medicine, 'green medicine,' is playing an ever-increasing role in people's experience of this transformation.

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.