All disease starts in the gut.

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

I swear... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.

Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.

Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.

Your foods shall be your 'remedies,' and your 'remedies' shall be your foods.

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.