The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.
PARACELSUSWhether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
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What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?
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All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.
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Then God sends us such a messenger who appears to us in spirit, warns us, consoles us, teaches us, and brings us His good tidings.
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We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
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All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.
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Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things that manifest the hidden.
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Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.
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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
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A little bit of beer is divine medicine.
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Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
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Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.
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As you talk, so is your heart.
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But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?
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