Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
HIPPOCRATESMen 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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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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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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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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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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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