Unconventional Treatments Quotes

Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything.

Every crazy fad from the 1800s comes back or they never go away. It's like fashion, like everything's already been invented, and somebody stumbles onto it and people will always, always be looking for an answer for some vague illness they can't get a diagnosis for.

The practice of physic [Medicine] is jostled by quacks on the one side, and by science on the other.

When you've tried all the salves in the world and they don't work, you start thinking about fire

I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular.

You can't possibly fathom the ins and outs of a prepubescent beauty treatment until you've felt the strange but exhilarating tingle of a cottage-cheese-and-Pop-Rocks facial.

Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.

When I was little, I used to suck the candy coating off of Advil and spit the white part back in the bottle.

Invent new drugs, that's what you should be doing... fight to get new weirder ones... and weirder establishments to do them in.

You might think that modern chiropractors restrict themselves to treating back problems, but in fact they still possess some quite wacky ideas. The fundamentalists argue that they can cure anything. And even the more moderate chiropractors have ideas above their station.

This is something we're seeing more, especially with patients from outside of this country. They love body modification, they love having things done that we don't do in this country. For example, putting pubic hair on your eyelashes. What practitioner in this country would do something that ridiculous?

A lot of great medicines and ancient therapies are blocked by the FDA, so that's why I choose to travel and recognize the value of diverse points of view in medicine.