The art is long, life is short
HippocratesRead
The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
Interpretation
The inherent strength and resilience in each person can lead to healing and recovery.
Hippocrates' quote emphasizes the idea that our bodies possess innate capabilities to heal and recover from ailments. It suggests that the natural force within us—be it our immune system or our mental fortitude—plays a crucial role in our overall health and wellbeing, often more so than external interventions. This perspective encourages individuals to recognize and trust their body's ability to heal itself.
In practice
In a health seminar focusing on alternative medicine.
The art is long, life is short
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.
That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.
Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
Walking is man's best medicine.
The drama of AIDS threatens not just some nations or societies, but the whole of humanity. It knows no frontiers of geography, race, age or social condition(calling) for a supreme effort of international cooperation on the part of government, the world medical and scientific community and all those who exercise influence in developing a sense of more responsibility in society.
I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's.
By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years.
We can aim to create a culture, where kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.
Kids who participate in school meal programs get roughly half of their calories each day at school. ... This is an extraordinary responsibility. But it's also an opportunity. And it's why one of the single most important things we can do to fight childhood obesity is to make those meals at school as healthy and nutritious as possible.
A real medicine can only exist when it penetrates into a knowledge which embraces the human being in respect to body, soul and spirit.
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