Quote

Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.

Hippocrates

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Hippocrates
Greek Physician
Philosopher
Physician
Cos
Hippokrates
Hippokrates of Kos
Hippocrates of Cos
Chiropractic
Medicine
Healthy
Food

More quotes by Hippocrates

Image
There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
Hippocrates
Image
Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient's belief.
Hippocrates
Image
Sometimes give your services for nothing.
Hippocrates
Image
...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
Hippocrates
Image
To really know is science to merely believe you know is ignorance.
Hippocrates
Image
Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
Hippocrates
Image
Your foods shall be your 'remedies,' and your 'remedies' shall be your foods.
Hippocrates
Image
Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
Hippocrates
Image
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.
Hippocrates
Image
Nature itself is the best physician.
Hippocrates
Image
The body of man has in itself blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile these make up the nature of this body, and through these he feels pain or enjoys health. Now he enjoys the most perfect health when these elements are duly proportioned to one another in respect of compounding, power and bulk, and when they are perfectly mingled.
Hippocrates
Image
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.
Hippocrates
Image
And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
Hippocrates
Image
Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
Hippocrates
Image
I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
Hippocrates
Image
A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
Hippocrates
Image
Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
Hippocrates
Image
When in sickness, look to the spine first.
Hippocrates
Image
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
Hippocrates
Image
The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
Hippocrates