205 Quotes by Hippocrates

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

Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food.

Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath.... Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.

Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things--to help, or at least to do no harm.

Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.

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

When in sickness, look to the spine first.

The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.

Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.