Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
HIPPOCRATESIt 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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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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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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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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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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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All disease begins in the gut.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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