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

When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.

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.

And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.