Primum non nocere, 'First, don 't
make things worse,
was an
essential principle of Hippocrates'
medicine. Nowadays, unfortunately, it
seems to have been forgotten.
Conventional modern medicine aims at
getting rid of patients' symptoms.
Little, if any consideration is given
to the fact that some of these
symptoms may actually be used by t.he
body in an attempt to correct deeper
disorders. When this is the case,
suppressing the symptom does not
necessarily help the patient.
—Samuel Sagan
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