Western Medicine Quotes:

The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Fitness, Health, Doctors, Chiropractic Care, Medical Care

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

topic: Lying, Believe, Technology, Technological Advancement, Western Medicine

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

source: Source: www.edgemagazine.net

topic: Medicine, Why Not, Physics, Modern Physics, Western Medicine

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

source: Source: www.refinery29.com

topic: Healing, Plant Medicine, Doe, Western 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

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

topic: Spiritual, Powerful, Yoga, Remission, Western Medicine

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

- Ann Romney

topic: Taken, Medicine, Littles, Western Medicine

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

topic: Suicide, Doctors, Years, Ethical Issues, Western Medicine

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

- Bill Maher

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

topic: Scare Tactics, Medicine, Western, Western Medicine

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

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

topic: Plant Medicine, Community, Firsts, Western Medicine