Hippocrates

"Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always." Hippocrates (ca. 460-377 B.C.)  Clearly if food was medicine than everything in nature was meant to be.  Hahnemann refers to Hippocrates in his own studies. 

Hippocrates maintained that all diseases have natural causes. He made diagnoses and prescribed simple treatments like diet, hygiene, and sleep. Hippocrates is the author of the saying "Life is short, and the Art long" (from his Aphorisms).

I stumbled across Alexander's blog and found some great words to ponder. 

"It was Hippocrates who advocated preventive medicine and general patient care, seeing the symptoms only as superficial manifestations of an underlying condition. His approach was indeed more consistent with the homoeopathic approach than with that of the allopaths. With this in mind, my present decision to include in this Physicians series two homoeopathic greats alongside Hippocrates should make more sense than merely looking at it as a random choice." 

Alexander Artem Sakharov

This Link below explains in a bit more detail the story of Hippocrates, Hahnemann and Kent.

http://alexanderartemsakharov.blogspot.com/2012/08/physicians-of-genius-hippocrates.html

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