Quotes

“Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.” -Barry Commoner

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

“Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh

“To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.” ~ Hippocrates

Food as Thy Medicine:

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” ~ Hippocrates

“Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.” ~ Hippocrates

“All disease begins in the gut.” ~ Hippocrates

“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 depend.” ~ Hippocrates

“To eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.” ~ Hippocrates

Exercise:

The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work. –David Suzuki

“Walking is a man’s best medicine.” ~ Hippocrates

“The way to health is to have a bath and massage every day.” ~ Hippocrates

“Many diseases are related to 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.” ~ Hippocrates

“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.” ~ Hippocrates

“Be not sick too late, nor well too soon.” – Ben Franklin

Nature and YOU:

“Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.” ~ Hippocrates

“If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.” ~ Hippocrates

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

“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.” ~ Hippocrates

“Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.” ~ Hippocrates

“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.” ~ Hippocrates

The Physician

“The doctors of the future will give no medicine but will interest patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.” –Thomas A. Edison

“The physician treats, but nature heals.” ~ Hippocrates

“The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it.” ~ Hippocrates

“Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.” ~ Hippocrates

“A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician. The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.” ~ Hippocrates

“Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.” ~ Hippocrates

“It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.” ~ Hippocrates

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

“It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.“ ~ Hippocrates

“He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.” ~ Hippocrates

“The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.” ~ Hippocrates

“In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient, and see whether it is like the faces of healthy people, and especially whether it is like its usual self. Such likeness will be the best sign, and the greatest unlikeness will be the most dangerous sign. The latter will be as follows. Nose sharp, eyes hollow, temples sunken, ears cold and contracted with their lobes turned outwards, the skin about the face hard and tense and parched, the colour of the face as a whole being yellow or black.” ~ Hippocrates

“The human soul develops up to the time of death.” ~ Hippocrates

“The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.” -Mother Teresa

After Hippocrates, another significant physician was Galen, a Greek who lived from AD 129 to AD 200. Galen perpetuated the tradition of Hippocratic medicine, In the Middle Ages, the Islamic world adopted Hippocratic methods. and developed new medical technologies.[74] After the European Renaissance, Hippocratic methods were revived in western Europe and even further expanded in the 19th century. Notable among those who employed Hippocrates’ rigorous clinical techniques
were Thomas Sydenham, William Heberden, Jean-Martin Charcot and William Osler. Henri Huchard, a French physician, said that these revivals make up “the whole history of internal medicine.”[75]