Healing & Medicine
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Only 15 percent of the decisions a doctor makes
everyday are based on evidence.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Robert Califf M.D. Director of Duke University's Clinical Research Institute
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .(Time magazine October 12, 1998)
Cultural assumptions are often the hidden rationale
underlying many scientific premises.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Fatimah Jackson
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Professor of Biological Anthropology
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .University of Maryland
men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Moliere
The microbe is nothing; the terrain is everything.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Louis Pasteur
The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth, and
he that is wise will not abhor them.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Brillat-Savarin
. . . . . . . . . . . . . ."The Physiology of Taste" 1826
There can be healing without labels and labels without healing.
. . . . . . . . . . Luminosity
What you do not bring forth will destroy you.
. . . . . . . . . The Gnostic Gospels
A nutrient can be life-giving, useless or an irritant depending its the form.
. . . . . . . . . Luminosity
Does being thin resolve anything? No.
. . . . . . . . . Demi Moore
The binges are part of the diet.
. . . . . . . . . Luminosity