BEST HEALTH ADVICE FROM FATHER OF MEDICINE, HIPPOCRATES

Walking is man's best medicine. Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food. If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool. All disease starts in the gut. Health is the greatest of human The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. The physician treats, but nature heals. It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has. As to diseases, make a habit of two things, to help, or at least to do no harm. Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients. A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession. Everything in excess is opposed to nature. Nature itself is the best physician. Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always. We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth. For it is a good remedy sometimes to apply nothing at all. The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day. Physicians are many entitled, but very few in reality. 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. Rest as soon as there is pain. Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage. It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has. Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease. Sport is a preserver of health. To really know is science, to merely believe you know is ignorance. Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind. Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure. The patient must combat the disease along with the physician. Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand. Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy. The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired. The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine. 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. The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired. 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.