What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
HIPPOCRATESJust as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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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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All disease starts in the gut.
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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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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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