Chinese Medicine Quotes:

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

- Voltaire

topic: Art, Health, Medicine, Chiropractic Care, Medical Care

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

- Ovid

topic: Medicine, Giving, Care, Medical Education, Chinese Medicine

The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.

- Lin Yutang

source: The Importance of Living ch. 9 (1938)

topic: Medicine, Chinese, Distinction, Chinese Medicine

A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

- Benjamin Hoff

topic: Short Life, Acceptance, Medicine, Chinese Medicine

Qi gong therapy, as well as other branches of Chinese medicine, can be reduced to two simple principles: the cleansing of meridians to achieve harmonious energy flow, and the restoration of yin-yang balance.

- Wong Kiew Kit

topic: Simple, Two, Medicine, Qigong, Chinese Medicine

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

- James Bryce

topic: Science, Medicine, Reason, Incessantly, Medical Profession

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

- Robert Trout

topic: Medicine, Addiction, Chinese, Opium, Chinese Medicine

Even though I believe we should promote Chinese medicine, I personally do not believe in it. I don't take Chinese medicine.

- Mao Zedong

topic: Believe, Medicine, Chinese, Chinese Medicine

I was just a kid when I started doing this,yoga, meditation, natural foods, acupuncture - things like were seen as practically voodoo. And today you can go into any hospital and they'll have massage, and Chinese medicine, and therapy, and a prayer room.

- Elizabeth Lesser

topic: Prayer, Yoga, Kids, Voodoo, Acupuncture

As soon as we notice that certain types of events 'like' to cluster together at certain times, we begin to understand the Chinese, whose theories of medicine, philosophy, and even building are based on a 'science' of meaningful coincidences.

- Marie-Louise von Franz

topic: Meaningful, Philosophy, Destiny, Coincidence In Life, Chinese Medicine

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

topic: Two, Medicine, Chinese, Quackery, Western Medicine