CURE Quote
the importance of staying well by maintaining a healthy lifestyle and healthy interaction with the natural
environment seems to be as old as the first emergence of humankind from the wild into civilization. Of course, historically such aspirations are not novel to us: Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and Jews had various rules or expected practices of hygiene, bathing, massage, and sports, with varying emphases. A probable new idea that is appropriate to modern pharmacology, however, is the
cynical one that drugs possess very little power to cure disease but rather
suppress the symptoms.— Barry Robson & O.K. Baek, The Engines of Hippocrates From the Dawn of Medicine to Medical and Pharmaceutical Informatics, 2009Archives
Monthly Archives: January 2014
Do you need a medicine, or a healthicine?
Healthicines increase healthiness. Medicines decrease illness. It’s easy to say, but it can be very difficult to understand clearly. Are “alternative medicines” healthicines or medicines? Are vitamins healthicines, or medicines? Are herbal medicines healthicines or medicines. Let’s begin with some simple … Continue reading
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