Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
HIPPOCRATESEveryone 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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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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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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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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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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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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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.
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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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