The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
HIPPOCRATESWhoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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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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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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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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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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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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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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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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