Hippocrates Quotes

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

Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.

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.

All disease starts in the gut.

Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.

It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.

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 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.

Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. ... 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.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

The physician treats, but nature heals.

The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.

Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.

The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.

Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food.

Walking is a man's best medicine.

All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.

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

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.

We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.

Each of the substances of a man's diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.

Health is the greatest of human blessings.

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.

Your foods shall be your 'remedies,' and your 'remedies' shall be your foods.

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.

The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.

Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.

Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food

Sport is a preserver of health.

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And by this, in an especial manner, we acquire wisdom and knowledge, and see and hear and know what are foul and what are fair, what are bad and what are good, what are sweet and what are unsavory…. And by the same organ we become mad and delirious, and fears and terrors assail us….All these things we endure from the brain when it is not healthy….In these ways I am of the opinion that the brain exercises the greatest power in the man.

Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)

The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.

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.

It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.

Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.

Rest as soon as there is pain.

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

All disease begins in the gut.

Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.

All diseases begin in the gut.

Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Nature itself is the best physician.