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.

...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.

Any man who is intelligent must, on considering that health is of the utmost value to human beings, have the personal understanding necessary to help himself in diseases, and be able to understand and to judge what physicians say and what they administer to his body, being versed in each of these matters to a degree reasonable for a layman.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food

And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.

It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)...regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.