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.
HIPPOCRATESIllnesses 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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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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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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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All disease begins in the gut.
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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