Nature itself is the best physician.
HIPPOCRATESOur food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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