Rest as soon as there is pain.
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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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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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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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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