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utter folly

novice_2009
14 years ago

" If we look to ancient Greek medicine we can see how healing was approached by some of the great philosphers and healers of that time. In one of Plato's dialogues a young man named Charmides complains about a headache. He would like a certain drug; but Socrates explains to him at length that this simple treatment is not adequate. ' To treat the head by itself, apart from the body as a whole,' he says, ' is utter folly. ' A Thracian physician had once described the ideal approach to him.

You ought not to attempt to cure the eyes

Without head,

Or head without body,

So you should not treat body

Without soul."


-from The Sustainable Herbalist;

The Sustainable Life

by Candis Hope Kirjales

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