Quotes About Homeopathy

Homeopathy - an invention of the Father of Lies! I have tried it and found it wanting. I would swallow their whole doles' medicine chest for sixpence, and be sure of finding myself neither better nor worse for it.

Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy.

HOMEOPATHS. Save money on petrol by filling up at the water pump. Your car will remember the petrol from the previous fill.

Homeopathy cures a larger percentage of cases than any other form of treatment and is beyond doubt safer and more economical.

I don't think you get a lot of comedians who are homeopaths. Comedy is essentially about not being hoodwinked.

High street homeopaths, who typically do not have any serious medical training, are allowed to treat you and me for almost any condition.

A doutrina homeopática viajou para a América onde, mais tarde, foi dissecada pelo doutor Oliver Wendell Holmes como "uma mistura confusa de engenhosidade perversa, falsa erudição, credulidade imbecil e hábil deturpação". Mesmo assim, seu criador morreu milionário, em Paris.

Quando a rainha Adelaide consultou um homeopata, Guilherme IV ordenou ao médico real, Robert Keate (1777-1857): "Examine a receita que ele der a ela para ver se a rainha pode tomar sem perigo." Eu prometi fazer isso, e quando recebi a receita, eu disse: "Ah, majestade, ela pode tomar durante sete anos que, no fim desse tempo, não terá tomado nem uma grama de medicamento".

I don't get inoculations or take anti-malaria tablets when I go abroad; I take the homeopathic alternative, called 'nosodes', and I'm the only one who never goes down with anything.

I cannot be more specific, because the process does not happen in books but in living persons. People have drunk grape juice and recovered from cancer. If you can successfully restore balance to the bodymind, then the patient's immune system will respond. The immune cells do not judge whether the doctor believes in conventional medicine, homeopathy, or Ayurveda. Insofar as it can change our participation in disease, every system is capable of working.

England has a long history of supporting alternative medicine - maybe it's because they don't have such a strong pharmaceutical industry in England, and homeopathy has been taught and promoted there for hundreds of years.

Then down into Giggleswick to a silly supper and a game of Trivial Pursuit. To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.

As a homeopath, he knew the powers not just of ordinary opiates but also of poisons such as aconite, from the root of the plant monkshood; atropine, from belladonna (or deadly nightshade); and rhus toxin from poison ivy. In large doses each could prove fatal, but when administered in tiny amounts, typically in combination with other agents, such compounds could produce a useful palette of physical reactions that mimicked the symptoms of known diseases.

It was deeply ironic that Rockefeller retained such residual faith in homeopathy even as he financed the world's most sophisticated medical-research operation.

To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.

Em homeopatia há um remédio chamado pulsatila para aqueles que choram com a música.

Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.

I always got a bit pissed off with those broadsheet sceptics who make their living being passionately angry about homeopathy, God, synchronicity or whatever, because it's as if they can't get past their emotions, and in their rage they become as faith-driven as the beliefs they criticise. I always said they give scientists a bad name. After all, science has to be about asking unthinkable questions, not closing down debate.

An anguishing book offers anguished people a homeopathy of anguish.

Similia similibus curantur [Likes are cured by likes].

Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.

Many books have been written on these types of healing. For further reading, I suggest the following books: The Science of Homeopathy by George Vithoulkas, M.D., Dimensions of Radionics by David Tansely, M.D., Chiropractic, A Modern Way to Health by Julius Dontenfass, M.D., Traditional Acupuncture: The Law of the Five Elements by Dianne M. Connelly, Ph.D.

Only in homeopathy do you get specific remedies for people who believe they are made of glass, have a delusion that they are selling green vegetables, or have an aptitude for, or a horror of, mathematics.

with the elucidation of the genetic code in 1966, Francis Crick confidently declared vitalism dead and buried. Only it still lives on in various pseudosciences. Homeopathy is based on vitalism. Its founder Samuel Hahnemann believed that diseases 'are solely spirit-like (dynamic) derangements of the spirit-like power (the vital principle) that animates the human body'.