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.
HIPPOCRATESIt is better to be full of drink than full of food.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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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 physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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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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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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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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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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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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