Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
HIPPOCRATESIt is better to be full of drink than full of food.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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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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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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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no 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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All 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.
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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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