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.
HIPPOCRATESIf you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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Whoever 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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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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