All disease begins in the gut.
HIPPOCRATESOld people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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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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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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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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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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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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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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