Western Medicine Quotes

• The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Motivational, Fitness

  Aphorism

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• Our colonizers have taught us to believe that our health has improved because of Western medicine, Western foods, and Western technology. In a society that values progress, our colonizers taught us that conditions in the world are perpetually improving, that with each new technological advancement, each new discovery, each new way to utilize resources, each new way to alter the environment, that the world is getting better, that it is advancing. These are all lies.

  Waziyatawin

  Lying, Believe, Technology

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• I do find that Western medicine is more and more open to proving energetic concepts. Why not, because modern physics is 100 percent based on it.

  Deborah King

  Medicine, Why Not, Physics

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Plant medicine does not just improve symptoms; it approaches healing the whole of the body - as opposed to Western medicine, which may just approach the symptom.

  Karen Rose

  Healing, Plant Medicine, Doe

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• Many of those in the medical fraternity instantly label treatments in the traditional, natural or holistic health fields as quackery. This word is even used to describe Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Indian Ayerveda, two medical systems which are far older than Western medicine and globally just as popular.

  James Morcan

  Two, Medicine, Chinese

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• I don't think I can put my finger exactly on when remission occurred, because from that moment on, I left Western medicine and never looked back. I practiced every day for ten to twelve hours a day - spiritual studies, meditation, pranayama, yoga postures, Ayurvedic studies, deep, deep, powerful cleansings and fasting.

  Brad Willis

  Spiritual, Powerful, Yoga

  "Warrior Pose: A Conversation with Bhava Ram". Interview with Zoë Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There is huge merit in both Eastern and Western medicine, and I've taken a little bit from both.

  Ann Romney

  Taken, Medicine, Littles

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• Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Suicide, Doctors, Ethical Issues

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• I'm not into western medicine. That to me is a complete scare tactic.

  Bill Maher

  Scare Tactics, Medicine, Western

  Interview with Larry King, transcripts.cnn.com. December 15, 2005.

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• There are many plant medicines that are available to us that have a lot of stigma around them that I hope, in the future, our medical community can look at, because I would absolutely go to those alternatives first before I went back to Western medicine.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Plant Medicine, Community, Firsts

  "Interview with Melissa Etheridge; Interview with Rielle Hunter". "Piers Morgan Tonight", edition.cnn.com. August 25, 2012.

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