Right and correct habits, intelligently and perseveringly practiced, will be removing the cause for disease, and the strong drugs need not be resorted to. Many go on from step to step with their unnatural indulgences, which is bringing in just as unnatural [a] condition of things as possible.—Medical Ministry, 221, 222 (General Manuscript entitled “Sanitariums,” 1887). (2SM 283.1) MC VC

As It Is Generally Practiced—Drug medication, as it is generally practiced, is a curse.—Healthful Living, 246 (1888). (2SM 283.2) MC VC

Less Dangerous if Wisely Administered—Do not administer drugs. True, drugs may not be as dangerous wisely administered as they usually are, but in the hands of many they will be hurtful to the Lord’s property.—Letter 3, 1884 (To workers at St. Helena Sanitarium). (2SM 283.3) MC VC

Discarding Almost Entirely—Our institutions are established that the sick may be treated by hygienic methods, discarding almost entirely the use of drugs.... There is a terrible account to be rendered to God by men who have so little regard for human life as to treat the body so ruthlessly in dealing out their drugs.... We are not excusable if through ignorance we destroy God’s building by taking into our stomachs poisonous drugs under a variety of names we do not understand. It is our duty to refuse all such prescriptions. (2SM 283.4) MC VC

We wish to build a sanitarium [in Australia] where maladies may be cured by nature’s own provisions, and where the people may be taught how to treat themselves when sick; where they will learn to eat temperately of wholesome food, and be educated to refuse all narcotics—tea, coffee, fermented wines, and stimulants of all kinds—and to discard the flesh of dead animals.—Temperance, 88, 89 (General Manuscript 1896). (2SM 283.5) MC VC

The Ideal—Finally Cease to Deal Out Drugs—When you understand physiology in its truest sense, your drug bills will be very much smaller, and finally you will cease to deal out drugs at all. The physician who depends upon drug medication in his practice, shows that he does not understand the delicate machinery of the human organism. He is introducing into the system a seed crop that will never lose its destroying properties throughout the lifetime. I tell you this because I dare not withhold it. Christ paid too much for man’s redemption to have his body so ruthlessly treated as it has been by drug medication. (2SM 283.6) MC VC