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.

All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.

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.

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.

Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.

Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.