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

I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine.

Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.

The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

There has never been a miracle drug that could equal the Word of God. God's medicine is the answer to every need.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Stress is extremely harmful to the body. Even mainstream medicine is recognizing how many diseases stress causes.

Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards

My mom's a nurse so I'd kind of grown up with, around medicine which is probably why I became an actress instead.

Both times I had cancer? Preventative medicine. Caught 'em both early. I'll take physicals anytime I can get one.

Coffee, though a useful medicine, if drunk constantly will at length induce a decay of health , and hectic fever.

'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.'

I've been practicing Ayurvedic medicine, and I've read the 'Bhagavad Gita' and Rumi, and these are very important.

The Bible is no ordinary book. The words are like medicine to your soul, and it has the power to change your life!

Food is man's only truly reliable medicine and foods do cure, just the same as wrong foods and drinks may kill us.

Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.

People can help us heal, can give us medicine, advice, many forms of help, but nobody can manage our minds for us.

I used to practice clinical medicine. Now I practice political medicine, because it's the mother of all illnesses.

Is there a medical rule that requires doctors-office personnel to treat you as though you have the IQ of a Cheeto?

Making sure that people have access to preventive medicine for the first time ever as a nation? That's a big deal.

I studied medicine so I could help others - set a leg or whatever - and it's given me a great deal of satisfaction.

The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.

We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.

I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of th' infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine.

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

Some people need flowers, some people need dandelions. It's medicine, it's what you need at that time in your life.

Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine.

Your body has natural healing capacities that nobody in the field of medicine can pretend ultimately to understand.

Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen.

If you are good at in the art of finding consolation, it means that you have the best medicine after the disasters.

Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.

The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine.

The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.

Superstition's not for me. And I'm not much for medicine either. I know my mind and my body better than anyone else.

A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.

I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician.

I believe in holistic medicine, yoga, Pilates and so on. But I also believe in banana split sundaes once in a while.

It's an expansion. And it's a stealth mechanism to put the tentacles of socialized medicine even deeper into society.

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

When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.

The State of Israel must be at the forefront of global science - in physics, in mathematics, in medicine, in biology.

Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.

Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.

I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.

Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.

Law and Order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

I would say laughter is the best medicine. But it's more than that. It's an entire regime of antibiotics and steroids.

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