The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
HIPPOCRATESJust as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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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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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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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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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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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 natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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