The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
PARACELSUSAll arts lie in man, though not all are apparent. Awakening brings them out. To be taught is nothing; everything is in man waiting to be awakened.
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For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.
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The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.
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Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
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Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.
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Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
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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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All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.
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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.
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Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.
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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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The highest degree of a medicine is Love.
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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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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
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