Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
HIPPOCRATESAll parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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About 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.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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Fat 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.
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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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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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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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Many admire, few know.
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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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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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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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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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