When diet is wrong medicine is of no use. When diet is correct medicine is of no need. -Ayurvedic Proverb 1. “The first wealth is health” - Ralph Waldo Emerson 2. "The greatest wealth is health" - Virgil 3. "Opposites are cures for opposites" 4. "A good digestion turneth all to health" 5. "Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well." -Marcus Valerius Martial 6. " Health is not simply the absence of sickness.” Hannah Green 7. "Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion." -Lin Yutang 8. "I am convinced digestion is the great secret of life" 9. "Let food be thy medicine, thy medicine shall be thy food." -Hippocrates 10. "A man has often more trouble to digest food than to get it." -Proverb 11. “In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.” Henri Frederic Amiel 12. "The body must be credited with an immense fund of know-how" 13. “It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver” Mahatma Gandhi 14. "Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks." -Lin Yutang 15. "Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means." -Maimonides 16. "Indigestion is charged by god with enforcing morality on the stomach" 17. "Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food." - Hippocrates 18. "He that takes medicine and neglects diet, wastes the skill of the physician." - Chinese Proverb 19. "Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients." - Hippocrates 20. “A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time – pills or stairs.” - Joan Welsh 21. "The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them." - Ecclesiasticus 22. “So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.” - A. J. Reb Materi 23. "Ah me! love cannot be cured by herbs" 24. "Stomach:a slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave" 25. "Men of lean habit of body are commonly a long time healthy, having good appetites and strong stomachs for digestion" 26. "In physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humours" 27. "A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world" 28. "What fools indeed we morals are to lavish care upon a car, with ne'er a bit of time to see about our own machinery!" 29. "Science of yoga and ayurveda is subtler than the science of medicine, because science of medicine is often victim of statistical manipulation.”-Amit Ray 30. "A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world." - Harvey Cushing 31. "The longer I live the less confidence I have in drugs and the greater is my confidence in the regulation and administration of diet and regimen." - John Redman Coxe 32. “Because we cannot scrub our inner body we need to learn a few skills to help cleanse our tissues, organs, and mind. This is the art of Ayurveda.”-Sebastian Pole 33. "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 Edison 34. "Anyone who believes that anything can be suited to everyone is a great fool, because medicine is practised not on mankind in general, but on every individual in particular." - Henri de Mondeville 35. “Love is at the heart of the world, just as it is at the heart of your life. Your relationships with your lover, your family, your friends, and the world around you define the quality of your emotional wholeness and reflect your relationship with yourself.” - Sebastian Pole 36. "What fools indeed we morals are To lavish care upon a Car, With ne'er a bit of time to see About our own machinery! " -J ohn Kendrick Bangs 37. “The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind” - G.K. Chesterton
