{"id":1899,"date":"2013-04-04T14:37:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T18:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=1899"},"modified":"2013-04-04T14:40:14","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T18:40:14","slug":"an-ancient-saying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/an-ancient-saying\/","title":{"rendered":"An ancient saying&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/200px-Dhanvantari-at-Ayurveda-expo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1900\" alt=\"200px-Dhanvantari-at-Ayurveda-expo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/200px-Dhanvantari-at-Ayurveda-expo-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8230;which I translated from the original Sanskrit overnight:<\/p>\n<p><em>When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When diet is correct, medicine is of no need.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ayurveda proverb<\/p>\n<p>The picture is of Dhanvantari&#8230;.incarnation of Krishna, Lord of Ayurveda.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, our farm manager Duane Ard, came across the quote and knows I&#8217;m a sucker for this sort of thing.\u00a0 The rest is from Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p>While I like the quote, I&#8217;m not so sure\u00a0about Ayurveda, a forerunner of what we now call alternative medicine.\u00a0 Seems to be that &#8220;the lord&#8221; and his followers prescribed a lot of questionable medicines, things that were somewhat heavy on the heavy metals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;which I translated from the original Sanskrit overnight: When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need. Ayurveda proverb The picture is of Dhanvantari&#8230;.incarnation of Krishna, Lord of Ayurveda. Okay, our farm manager Duane Ard, came across the quote and knows I&#8217;m a sucker for this sort of thing.\u00a0 The rest is from Wikipedia. While I like the quote, I&#8217;m not so sure\u00a0about Ayurveda, a forerunner of what we now call alternative medicine.\u00a0 Seems to be that &#8220;the lord&#8221; and his followers prescribed a lot of questionable medicines, things that were somewhat heavy on the heavy metals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,22,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet","category-food","category-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1899"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1905,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions\/1905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}