Hippocrates

The Greek physician Hippocrates (460-377 BC) was born on the island of Kos in the eastern Aegean and is known as the father of medicine. The "Hippocratic Oath" used to define the moral and ethical duties of a doctor. However, this oath is no longer officially required today.

Filtration - Hippokrates, Manica Hippocratis, Hypocras

Wine as a remedy

Wine plays an important role in almost all of his traditional remedies. In his work "Corpus Hippocraticum", he refers to the health aspects of wine consumption in the form of therapeutic recommendations using many examples. He recognised the processes in the human body in connection with wine. Hippocrates prescribed wine to cool fevers, as a general germicide, as a diuretic and as a tonic for convalescents. He recommended certain wines based on their properties such as strength, sweetness or dryness according to the ailment or, if necessary, advised against consumption.

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