Hippocrates Health Quotations

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.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food

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

It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

The human body contains blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. These are the things that make up its constitution and cause its pain and health. Health is primarily that state in which these constituent substances are in the correct proportion to each other, both in strength and quantity, and are well mixed.

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.

The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.

Any man who is intelligent must, on considering that health is of the utmost value to human beings, have the personal understanding necessary to help himself in diseases, and be able to understand and to judge what physicians say and what they administer to his body, being versed in each of these matters to a degree reasonable for a layman.

The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.

Health is the greatest of human blessings.

All diseases begin in the gut.

The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.

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

Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.