The spirit is the master; imagination the tool, and the body the plastic material ...The power of the imagination is a great factor in medicine. It may produce diseases in man and in animals, and it may cure them ..Ills of the body may be cured by physical remedies or by the power of the spirit acting through the soul.
ParacelsusOnce 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.
ParacelsusThe book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.
ParacelsusThe art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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