“When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need”

“When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need” is a saying that has been printed on many images.
 
The saying is almost always credited as “Ancient Ayurvedic Proverb.” However, in English, the saying began appearing in books in 2004 and 2005.
 
     
Wikipedia: Ayurveda
Ayurveda (/ˌɑːjʊərˈveɪdə, -ˈviː-/) is an alternative medicine system with historical roots in the Indian subcontinent. The theory and practice of Ayurveda is pseudoscientific. Ayurveda is heavily practiced in India and Nepal, where around 80% of the population report using it.
 
Ayurveda therapies have varied and evolved over more than two millennia. Therapies include herbal medicines, special diets, meditation, yoga, massage, laxatives, enemas, and medical oils. Ayurvedic preparations are typically based on complex herbal compounds, minerals, and metal substances (perhaps under the influence of early Indian alchemy or rasashastra).
 
Google Books
The Fat Flush Foods:
The World’s Best Foods, Seasonings, and Supplements to Flush the Fat From Every Body
By Ann Louise Gittleman
New York, NY: McGraw-Hill
2004
Pg. 37:
When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need.
ANCIENT AYURVEDIC PROVERB
   
Google Books
Cracking the Code of the Diet and Food Industries
By Sarena S. Johnson
Victoria, BC: Trafford Publishing
2005
Pg. ?:
When diet IS wrong medicine IS of no use. When diet is correct medicine is of no need. -Ancient Ayurvedic PROVERB
 
Google Books
Diet for a New Life Anthology:
Expert Advice on Weight Loss and Wellbeing
Edited by Mariana Bozesan
Palo Alto, CA: Sageera Institute LLC
2005
Pg. 28:
“When diet is wrong medicine is of no use. When diet is correct medicine is of no need.” — Ancient Ayurvedic Proverb
   
Google Books
You 1.0:
The Ultimate User’s Guide For You
By Matthew Kounkel D.C.
Lincoln, NE: iUniverse
2005
Pg. 59:
When diet is wrong medicine is of no use.
When diet is correct medicine is of no need.
Ancient Ayurvedic Proverb
 
6 January 2006, The Times of India (Mumbai, India), pg. 1, col. 1:
“When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need.”
—Ayurvedic proverb
 
25 April 2007, The Times of India (New Delhi, India), “Take a leaf out of his book to fight waistband bulge [Bangalore],” pg. ?:
BANGALORE: Bulging waistbands are a big business. At 47, Rajkumar, an electronic engineer, realised this after a five-year-long battle to lose weight.
(...) 
Thus began his war with fat. And in five years, he discovered that when the diet is wrong, medicine is of no use and when diet is right, medicine is of no use.
     
12 May 2009, McClatchy-Tribune Business News (Washington, DC), “India’s ancient ayurvedic tradition is taught in Fresno” by Joan Obra:
Joshi and Neer shared an ayurvedic proverb in one of their classes at Perfect Balance: “When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need.”
 
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Lydia Proschinger
@SerendipityJane
“When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use.When diet is right, medicine is of no need.”
- Proverb from Indian Ayurveda medicine
5:58 PM · Apr 5, 2009
   
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My Edible Advice
@MyEdibleAdvice
When diet is wrong medicine is of no use.
When diet is correct medicine is of no need.
- Ancient Ayurvedic Proverb
1:15 PM · Apr 29, 2009
 
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Russell Simmons
@UncleRUSH
“When diet is wrong medicine is of no use. When diet is correct medicine is of no need.”—Ayurvedic truth
4:02 PM · Apr 12, 2013
 
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American Health Care Academy
@CPRAEDCourses
#LiveLonger
“When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need.”
– Ayurvedic Proverb
11:24 AM · Dec 12, 2022