Hippocrates said that maintaining health involves drinking water and avoiding fullness from food and drink.
And he said, 'Reducing harmful things is better than increasing beneficial ones.'
Al-Shahrastani said in 'Kitab al-Milal wa al-Nihal'.
This Hippocrates is the founder of medicine.
His virtue was acknowledged by the ancients and the moderns.
A king from among the kings of Greece sent to him loads of gold so that he would come to him, but he refused.
He would not accept a fee for treatment from the poor and middle-class people.
He stipulated that he would receive from the rich one of three things: a necklace, a crown, or a bracelet of gold.
He was asked, 'What is the best state of living?'
He said, 'Security with poverty is better than wealth with fear.'
And he said, 'Treat every sick person with the herbs of their land.'
