Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
HIPPOCRATESFat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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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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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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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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And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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