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.
HIPPOCRATESSilence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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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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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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Life is short, the art long.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Many admire, few know.
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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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