Hippocrates Quotes

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Health is the greatest of human blessings.

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

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)

Sport is a preserver of health.

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.

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.

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

Rest as soon as there is pain.

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

All disease begins in the gut.

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.

Nature itself is the best physician.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.

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

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.

Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.

Opposites are cures for opposites.

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

Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.