Source: From the preface of his work Na Han (Call to Arms) (1922)
中醫不過是一種有意的或無意的騙子。
Dara Ó Briain Talks Funny: Live in London (2008)
“The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.”
Source: The Importance of Living (1937), Ch. IX : The Enjoyment of Living, p. 249
there are always sufficiently gullible patients
Foreword to Snake Oil and Other Preoccupations by John Diamond, Vintage, 2001.
Forewords
“Laughter is the best medicine, y'know, besides medicine.”
Words, Words, Words (2010)
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
This is often attributed to Hippocrates but does not appear in the Hippocratic corpus. See Diana Cardenas https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258099432_Let_not_thy_food_be_confused_with_thy_medicine_The_Hippocratic_misquotation, "Let not thy food be confused with thy medicine: The Hippocratic misquotation", e-SPEN: The European e-Journal of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism XXX:6 (October 2013).
Disputed
The Works of Tertullian (1842), pp. xvii-xviii
The Paris Review interview
Context: The idea occurred to me that art was perhaps this—the psychological component of the autoimmune system. It works on the artist as a healing. But it works on others too, as a medicine. Hence our great, insatiable thirst for it. However it comes out — whether a design in a carpet, a painting on a wall, the shaping of a doorway — we recognize that medicinal element because of the instant healing effect, and we call it art. It consoles and heals something in us. That’s why that aspect of things is so important, and why what we want to preserve in civilizations and societies is their art — because it’s a living medicine that we can still use. It still works. We feel it working. Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry this healing. Poetry does it more intensely. Music, maybe, most intensely of all.
