Quotes About Alternative Medicine

#1. You see that the people who are drawn to alternative medicine are often fairly healthy and they go to alternative medicine for what I call the 'symptoms of life.' Fatigue, joint pains, inability to concentrate, perhaps, the kinds of things that anyone over twenty-five gets at some point.

Marcia Angell

#2. Alternative medicine people call themselves "holistic" and say it's the "whole" approach. Well, if it's the whole approach, let it be the mind as well. Use logic, use sense, use the incredible five wits you were given by creation.

Stephen Fry

#3. England has a long history of supporting alternative medicine - maybe it's because they don't have such a strong pharmaceutical industry in England, and homeopathy has been taught and promoted there for hundreds of years.

Dasha Zhukova

#4. Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.

Marcia Angell

#5. If any remedy is tested under controlled scientific conditions and proved to be effective, it will cease to be alternative and will simply become medicine. So-called alternative medicine either hasn't been tested or it has failed its tests.

Richard Dawkins

#6. You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine.

Tim Minchin

#7. Well, I've seen a bunch of acupuncturists and one of my sister-in-laws is an herbalist. So I know a lot about alternative medicine. I don't know a lot about the practice but I know about the world.

Tim Daly

#8. Calling holistic medicine "alternative medicine" is no longer appropriate. The best approach now is "integrated medicine" in which we take the best of both worlds.

Candess M. Campbell

#9. [Alternative medicine is defined as] that set of practices that cannot be tested, refuse to be tested or consistently fail tests.

Richard Dawkins

#10. If insurance companies paid for lifestyle-management classes, they would save huge sums of money. We need to see that alternative medicine is now mainstream.

Deepak Chopra

#11. Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease.

Mehmet Oz

#12. There are plenty of quacks in the field. Fewer than you'd expect, though still plenty (in alternative medicine).

John Bradshaw

#13. In some aspects of alternative medicine we are fighting an almost medieval belief in magic but debunking such beliefs is like telling people that the tooth fairy is sniffing glue.

John Diamond

#14. Alternative medicine is simply medicine for which there is no evidence of effectiveness. Once

Daniel J. Levitin

#15. Complementary or alternative medicine is really just unproven medicine. That's not an unfair criticism; that's just what it is. When an alternative medicine is openly put to the test and confirmed as useful by the scientific process, then it becomes just plain medicine.

Guy P. Harrison

#16. Co-creating our lives from a heart-centered and spirit-connected space is simply more efficient, effective and healthy.

Heidi DuPree

#17. A mistake that a lot of people make, and I've been guilty of this as well, is that we assume that just because something is natural it is therefore safe, and ergo, good for us. I like to point out that cobras are natural too, but I don't want to kiss one.

Steve Bivans

#18. The higher self knows there is no right or wrong, no good or bad, and accepts that both light and dark must exist to maintain the balance of the whole.

Heidi DuPree

#19. If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply, as Diamond explains, becomes medicine.

Richard Dawkins

#20. Medicine's a funny business. After all, dispensing chemicals is considered mainstream and diet and nutrition is considered alternative.

Charles F. Glassman

#21. One cannot judge a performance in any given field (war, politics, medicine, investments) by the results, but by the costs of the alternative (i.e., if history played out in a different way).

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#22. Every herbalist has their favorite plant. Mine is Rhodiola rosea.

Chris Kilham

#23. To truly regenerate, to find what we are seeking, we must change from within.

Heidi DuPree

#24. Only a system in which all parts flourish is holistic.

Chris Kilham

#25. Alternative therapists don't kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their efforts to distort science are so extreme.

Ben Goldacre

#26. Unlike much of orthodox medicine, alternative approaches to healing typically honor the wisdom and capability of the human body. Their goal is often to support and strengthen the powerful healing forces already at work within us.

John Robbins

#27. When we take on responsibility for others, or make them wrong so we can feel right, we get in the way of spirit.

Heidi DuPree

#28. Homeopathy is the only non-violent health care system

Ron Harris

#29. From the unlimited wellspring of energy that flows from our center, life situations cease to be "too much" or "not enough.

Heidi DuPree

#30. Transformation is always an inside-out process.

Heidi DuPree

#31. When we experience the loss of our outer life, the way to our inner light is cleared.

Heidi DuPree

#32. It is a very brave choice to go against traditional medicine and embrace the alternative route. It's easier to try the traditional route and then, if it fails, go to the alternatives, but often it can be too late.

Suzanne Somers

#33. Attraction isn't about physical appearance. It's about energy.

Heidi DuPree

#34. Giving and helping from the heart becomes like a magnet, amplifying the energy to all those involved in the exchange.

Heidi DuPree

#35. Your inner landscape determines your outer life.

Heidi DuPree

#36. Problems in medicine do not mean that homeopathic sugar pills work; just because there are problems with aircraft design, that doesn't mean that magic carpets really fly.

Ben Goldacre

#37. 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.

Anthony Bourdain

#38. Giving authority to others to control your lower-self impulses only serves to keep you in the lower self!

Heidi DuPree

#39. Mind-body medicine should not be an 'alternative,' nor should complementary and integrative medicine be something doctors are not exposed to during their training.

Bernie Siegel

#40. The ability to do perform Reiki comes from an internal freedom. The power to be free from stress, tension, and anger.

Nikita Dudani

#41. Metaphors are a window into the soul and carry us across the boundary between the lower and higher selves, connecting us to the universal energy field and the collective consciousness.

Heidi DuPree

#42. The failure to accept cancer as a systemic disease is one of the greatest failures in modern medicine.

Michael Lam

#43. A feeble body makes a feeble mind. I do not know what doctors cure us of, but I know this: they infect us with very deadly diseases, cowardice, timidity, credulity, the fear of death. What matter if they make the dead walk, we have no need of corpses; they fail to give us men, and it is men we need.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau