There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.

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

The art is long, life is short

All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.

It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.

The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.

Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.