BJ Palmer

Today I am quoting BJ Palmer who was the son of D D Palmer, the founder of modern Chiropractic. He was a scholar, a visionary and a leader for the Chiropractic profession.

This is one of my favorite quotes about Chiropractic at a time when the majority thought that Medicine was the only way...


The Truth by BJ Palmer, Developer of Chiropractic


We chiropractors work with the subtle substance of the soul. We release the imprisoned impulse, the tiny rivulet of force, that emanates from the mind and flows over the nerves to the cells, and stirs them into life. We deal with the magic power that transforms common food into living, loving, thinking clay; that robes the earth with beauty, and hues and scents the flowers with the glory of the air.


In the dim, dark, distant long ago, when the sun first bowed to the morning star, this power spoke and there was life; it quickened the slime of the sea and the dust of the earth and drove the cell to union with its fellows in countless living forms. Through eons of time it finned the fish and winged the bird and fanged the beast. Endlessly it worked, evolving its form until it produced the crowning glory of them all. With tireless energy it blows the bubble of each individual life and then silently, relentlessly dissolves the form, and absorbs the spirit into itself again.

And yet you ask, ? Can Chiropractic cure appendicitis or the flu?? Have you more faith in a knife or a spoonful of medicine than in the power that animates the living world?

-By B. J. Palmer, D.C., Ph. C

I wonder if things are different now and then I realize that it is irrelevant. Chiropractic is a unique science that looks at the body differently than all other sciences, that is important. It offers an individual choice to pick how they want to live their life...reacting to your symptoms and thinking that your body is powerless or letting your body heal itself by removing subluxations.