“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.”

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.

I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.

All disease starts in the gut.

Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure

Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.

The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.

It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.

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.

That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.

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.

The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it

Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.

Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.