Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
HIPPOCRATESAll diseases begin in the gut.
More Hippocrates Quotes
-
-
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.
HIPPOCRATES -
Health is the greatest of human blessings.
HIPPOCRATES -
Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
HIPPOCRATES -
If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
HIPPOCRATES -
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
HIPPOCRATES -
Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
HIPPOCRATES -
Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
HIPPOCRATES -
Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
HIPPOCRATES -
All disease starts in the gut.
HIPPOCRATES -
Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
HIPPOCRATES -
He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
HIPPOCRATES -
The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
HIPPOCRATES -
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.
HIPPOCRATES -
To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
HIPPOCRATES -
…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.
HIPPOCRATES