All disease begins in the gut.

Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.

It is better to be full of drink than full of food.

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.

Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.

Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.

Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.