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Quotes About Dosage

Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
~ Edmund H. North
The learned Paracelsus wrote that anything is poisonous in sufficient dosage.
~ Dave Duncan
All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
~ Paracelsus
If you have a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: take two, and keep away from children.
~ Janice Thompson
I get love from fans in a big enough dosage that it acts as a shield, and I would not sacrifice that love in order to please the industry.
~ Jeremy Scott
Every day you use dozens of products that have strong chemicals in them, but remember, the only difference between poison and medicine is dosage.
~ Aubrey McClendon
There is a saying in the medical profession 'Inside everytablet is a little bit of poison'. Avoid medications if you can.
~ Steven Magee
Endurance is another matter altogether. Comfortable pace, regular dosage over a period of years and frequent runs stretching maybe twice as long as the average – these seem to be the keys to unlocking the almost limitless flow of endurance we're all capable of producing.
~ Joe Henderson
Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
~ Paracelsus
In general, people are administered drugs too readily.
~ John McEnroe
HOW TO USE: 1000-1500 mg per day (divided doses). Many use throughout the cycle, but some stop once ovulation has occurred. Vitex takes 2-3 months to build up in the system. If using for luteal phase, take throughout the cycle with a break during menstrual bleeding. Should be taken long term for best results.
~ Sally Moran
HOW TO USE: For Men: 500 mg 1-3 x day (may take up to 3 months to see improvement); use all month long for 3-6 months. For Women: 250-500 mg per day (from end of menstrual bleeding up until ovulation occurs, or from day 5-14 if ovulation is not known).
~ Sally Moran
Too much medicine was what ailed Dick Colton. Not that he had been taking it. On the contrary he had been administering it to others.
~ Samuel Hopkins Adams
There were little white things called pills.
~ Erin Hunter
Zolpidem and zaleplon are secreted in breast milk and are therefore contraindicated for use by nursing mothers. The dosage of zolpidem and zaleplon should be reduced in elderly persons and persons with hepatic impairment.
~ Benjamin James Sadock
The dosage range of carbamazepine used to facilitate withdrawal is 400 to 500 mg a day. Some clinicians report particular difficulty in tapering and discontinuing alprazolam, especially in persons who have been receiving high dosages for long periods. There have been reports of successful discontinuation of alprazolam by switching to clonazepam, which is then gradually withdrawn.
~ Benjamin James Sadock
The manufacturer of nefazodone recommends that the dosage of triazolam be lowered by 75 percent and the dosage of alprazolam be lowered by 50 percent when given concomitantly with nefazodone.
~ Benjamin James Sadock
The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as carcinogenic in humans.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
I don't think much of such plants as medicine. Dr. Andrews's face was disapproving. Every plant grows differently. One cannot control for strength of dosage.
~ Sujata Massey
The robots came bearing a gift and the name of it was "Plenty." Plenty is a habit-forming drug. You do not cut the dosage down. You kick it if you can; you stop the dose entirely. But the convulsions that follow may wreck the body entirely.
~ Frederik Pohl
fragility is in the dosage: falling from the 20th floor is not in the same risk category as falling from your chair.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
equal dose of potassium chloride was administered. This drug relaxes the heart and stops its pumping.
~ James Patterson
As vitamin C is the main nutrient on which the body runs, expecting a toxic effect from vitamin C at some point of increased dosing is somewhat akin to expecting toxicity to result from assimilating too much nutrition from a quality diet.
~ Thomas E. Levy
The steroids I did were on a very, very low dosage. I didn't want to take a lot of that. I didn't want to look like Arnold Schwartzenegger or Lou Ferrigno.
~ Mark McGwire