What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.- Paracelsus
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?
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.
Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
The interpretation of dreams is a great art.
The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits , who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.
The dose makes the poison.
Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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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Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.
Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
