it has long been recognised that the 60-odd medical texts that together make up what is typically referred to as the ‘Hippocratic corpus’ could not have been written by a single individual in the 5th or 4th century BCE
Historians agree that Hippocrates was born around the year 460 BC on the Greek island of Cos; and became a famous ambassador for medicine against the strong opposing infrastructure of Greece. For this opposition he endured a twenty-year prison sentence during which he wrote well known medical wor...
There was a positive outcome that emerged from this prison sentence. Hippocrates did not allow it to deter him in his beliefs. In fact, he used his time in prison productively as he wrote “The Complicated Body,” a treatise that was many centuries ahead of its time. A great deal of ...
however, he was honoured as a hero and eventually worshiped as a god. The cult began in Thessaly but spread to many parts of Greece. Because it was supposed that Asclepius effected cures of the sick in dreams, the practice of sleeping in his temples became common, whereby people believed ...
Dr. Brenda T. Bradley, Certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, talks about ‘No Dairy! No Milk!’ For us, drinking milk or eating dairy could be a death sentence. Somewhere in time, it was determined that cow’s milk and dairy products would be good for human consumption. After deca...