It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
HIPPOCRATESThe natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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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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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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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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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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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.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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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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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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