Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
HIPPOCRATESEverything in excess is opposed to nature.
HIPPOCRATESEven 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.
HIPPOCRATESLet food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
HIPPOCRATESThrough seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
HIPPOCRATESAll diseases begin in the gut.
HIPPOCRATESIn all abundance there is lack.
HIPPOCRATESAll excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
HIPPOCRATESYour foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
HIPPOCRATESOpposites are cures for opposites.
HIPPOCRATESAnyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
HIPPOCRATESThere are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
HIPPOCRATESNatural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
HIPPOCRATESHe who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
HIPPOCRATESThe greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
HIPPOCRATESAbout medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
HIPPOCRATESThe forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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