Often, when I post or write an article promoting nutrition, natural diets and natural remedies and oppose the side-effect laden FDA approved medications created by man in laboratories, I am labeled as some kind of kook whose thinking is outside mainstream and accepted thought.

Perhaps it might be instructive to take a look at what famous figures from the past have had to say on the subject. Here is a sampling:

"Nature is the physician of man.”
Author:Hippocrates, “the father of medicine”
Source: The Nature of Man

"Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence."
Author: James Bryce
Source: None

"I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the fishes."
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Source: None

"God heals and the doctor takes the fee."
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None

"Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend."
Author: John Dryden
Source: Epistle to John Dryden of Chesterton (l. 92)

"Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon."
Author: Dag Hammarskjold
Source: News Summaries, Mar. 18, 1956

"Physicians, of all men, are most happy: whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth and what faults they commit, the earth covereth."
Author: Francis Quarles
Source: Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man

"Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases."
--Moliere (1622-1672)

"The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease."
- Thomas Edison

"Having good health is very different than only being not sick."
Seneca the Younger, 50AD

"In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties."
Henri-Frederic Amiel 1828-1881

"Most diseases are the result of medication that has been applied to relieve and take away a beneficient and warning symptom on the part of Nature."
Elbert Hubbard

"Leave your drugs in the chemist's pots if you can cure your patient with food."
Hippocrates, 420BC

"One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine."
William Osler

"A merry heart does good like medicine."
- Proverbs 17:22

"Medicine makes people ill, mathematics makes them sad, theology makes them sinful."
- Martin Luther (1483-1546)

"I have endeavored to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession [of medicine] and that it is injurious to mankind."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"The miserable have no other medicine but only hope."
- William Shakespeare Measure for Measure

"Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing."
- Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet]

"Formerly, when religion was strong and Science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic."
- Thomas Szasz, M.D.

"[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)

"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

Live long, live healthy, live happy!

Tony Isaacs
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/oleandersoup