Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
HIPPOCRATESLife is short, the art long.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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Life is short, the art long.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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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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All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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Many admire, few know.
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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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.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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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.
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