Sunday, April 11, 2010

More from Siegel's Love, Medicine & Miracles

"Drugs and surgery buy time, and may cure, while the patients work to change their lives."

"I try to get patients to understand that the body heals, not the therapy. All healing is scientific. At a recetn conference, someone told me he knew someone on a macrobiotic diet, someone else on a diet exactly the opposite, an a third person on chemotherapy and radiation. All three got well, and this person couldn't understand how the body could accomplish this or how the treatments made any sense. But the body can utilize and form of energy for healing--as long as the patient believes in it."

"Let's say I recommended eating three peanut butter sandwiches a day to cure cancer. Some people would get well and claim it was the peanut butter that did it. Then even more people would have hope, eat peanut butter, and get better too. But we know it's not the peanut butter. It's their hope and the changes they produce in their lives while they're on the new therapy."

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