Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
HIPPOCRATESWhat I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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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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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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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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And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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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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