"If one is fully cognizant of the reason for the incursion of
disease and can determine the balance of elements, he can cure diseases by administering
the food that can restore the normal level of the deficient element. In this
way there will be no need for medicines and other difficulties will not arise."
[After a detailed discussion of this subject, He asked them:]
"Although animals do not know the science of medicine, why, when they are sick, do they abstain instinctively from what is injurious to them and eat foods that are beneficial, while man, when ailing, inclines more to that which is injurious to him?"
"Although animals do not know the science of medicine, why, when they are sick, do they abstain instinctively from what is injurious to them and eat foods that are beneficial, while man, when ailing, inclines more to that which is injurious to him?"
- 'Abdu'l-Baha (Words of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, May 7, 1912, Pittsburgh, recorded by
Mahmud Zarqani; ‘Mahmud’s Diary’)
