Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
HIPPOCRATESAnd 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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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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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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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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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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