Echoes

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

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.

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

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it.

Excessive eating is like a deadly poison to the body and is a principal cause of all illness.

An immoderate diet is unhealthy, but a temperate one preserves strength.

As long as a person exercises, exerts himself greatly, does not eat to the point of being overly full, and keeps his bowels soft, illness will not come upon him and his strength will increase.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

Walking is man's best medicine.

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.

One should not eat unless one is hungry, nor drink unless one is thirsty.

Anyone who lives a sedentary life and does not exercise, even if he eats good foods and takes care of himself according to proper medical principles — all his days will be painful ones and his strength shall wane.

Tell me what you eat, and I shall tell you what you are.

The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians of Hellas, because they are ignorant of the whole, which ought to be studied also; for the part can never be well unless the whole is well.

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

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.

The food which a temperate man leaves upon his plate is more beneficial than that which a glutton eats.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

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

To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

I eat only what is enough to sustain my life. My food is bread, soup, an egg, and a little meat. And the amount I eat is no more than my body can easily digest.

The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of mankind than the discovery of a new star.

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.