Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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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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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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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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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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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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Even 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.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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