Herbert M. Shelton quotes

It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated. (Herbert M. Shelton)

Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.

Herbert M. Shelton

Although man has included meat in his diet for thousands of years, his anatomy and physiology, and the chemistry of his digestive juices, are still unmistakably those of a frugivorous animal.

Herbert M. Shelton

There are many things to resist, but disease is not one of them.

Herbert M. Shelton

Life should be built on the conservation of energy.

Herbert M. Shelton

You don't need treatment. The fever, inflammation, coughing, etc., constitute the healing process. Just get out of their way and permit them to complete their work. Don't try to 'aid' nature. She doesn't need your puny aid-she only asks that you cease interfering.

Herbert M. Shelton

These men [medical doctors] plan ways of doubling their incomes and come to the public with the plea that they are sincerely interested in the health and welfare of our children and that they put over their income-increasing programs for the health of our babies and for the welfare of the school children. They are as cold-blooded as any class of criminals on the whole earth. Indeed, I know of no other class of criminals who live by crippling, maiming and killing babies and children.

Herbert M. Shelton

What the sick need is teachers not treaters, health schools not hospitals, instruction not treatment, education in right living not training the sick habit. Both they and their advisors must get rid of the curing idea and the practices built up thereon.

Herbert M. Shelton

Cutting out bad habits is far more effective than cutting out organs.

Herbert M. Shelton

Healing is a biological process, not an art. It is as much a function of the living organism as respiration, digestion, circulation, excretion, cell proliferation, or nerve activity. It is a ceaseless process, as constant as the turning of the earth on its axis. Man can neither duplicate nor imitate nor provide a substitute for the process. All schools of healing are frauds.

Herbert M. Shelton

An intelligent person may be wrong sometimes, but a fool is never wrong. The medical profession is never wrong. (Herbert M. Shelton)

Health and disease are the same thing-vital action intended to preserve, maintain, and protect the body. There is no more reason for treating disease than there is for treating health.

Herbert M. Shelton

Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the body, it is abuse that does.

Herbert M. Shelton

Deep within the human constitution lie written laws of nature that should guide man in the conduct of his life.

Herbert M. Shelton

A modern hospital is like Grand Central Station-all noise and hubbub, and is filled with smoking physicians, nurses, orderlies, patients and visitors. Soft drinks are sold on each floor and everybody guzzles these popular poisons. The stench of chemicals offends the nose, while tranquillizers substitute for quietness.

Herbert M. Shelton

There is not a single argument nor a single fact that can be offered in favour of flesh eating that cannot be offered, with equal strength, in favour of cannibalism.

Herbert M. Shelton

The so-called symptoms of disease are manifestations of an inherent principle of the organism to restore healthy function and to resist offending agents and influences.

Herbert M. Shelton

If you desire truly to live you will cease trying to find magic tricks and short-cuts to life and learn the simple laws of being, and order your life in conformity with these. Realign your life with the laws of nature-this and this alone constitutes living to live.

Herbert M. Shelton

Moderation is the only rule of a healthful life. This means moderation in all things wholesome.

Herbert M. Shelton

So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and things outside of him, he logically sought for extrinsic means of healing, and a healing art was a logical development. The system of medicine, as we know it today, was a logical development out of the fallacy that healing power resides in extrinsic sources.

Herbert M. Shelton

"Science" is pedantic, arrogant, esoteric and often insane. (Herbert M. Shelton)

At the very dawn of history, the care of the sick was actually superior to what the great majority of mankind receive today when ill.

Herbert M. Shelton

There are but a few blood purifiers and these are all in the body. We know them as the liver, kidneys, lungs, colon, and a few glands.

Herbert M. Shelton

In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed.

Herbert M. Shelton

Food-addiction, or food-drunkenness, is an old story in Hygienic literature. This is the first mention I have seen of it in "regular" medical literature. I fear to hope that its recognition spells progress.

Herbert M. Shelton