Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
HIPPOCRATESWhoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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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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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with 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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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Life is short, the art long.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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