Paracelsus Medicine Quotations

Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

The highest degree of a medicine is Love.

The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books

Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.

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.

A little bit of beer is divine medicine.

Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage