Hippocrates

For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable.

Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

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.

To eat when you are sick is to feed your illness.

Walking is man's best medicine.

Idleness and lack of occupation tend — nay are dragged — towards evil.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

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

Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food.