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.
HIPPOCRATESOur food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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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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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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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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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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