All disease starts in the gut.
HIPPOCRATESLeave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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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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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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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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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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What 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.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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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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