Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
HIPPOCRATESYour foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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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.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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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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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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