Díaita — The Whole Day as Treatmenthippocratic regimenFood, exertion, sleep and the time of year are set against one another and adjusted together: exertion answered with food, food with exertion, and both read against the season and the person's own constitution. The Hippocratic On Regimen is given over to this, and its argument is that no single element is the lever — the balance is. It is the oldest position in this collection on questions we now ask one nutrient at a time.What it's for

Can't Fall Asleep — Trouble falling asleep is read as the day's balance arriving at night, and so the adjustment belongs earlier — in what was eaten and how much was exerted, not in the last hour before bed.

Chronic Pain — Persistent pain is read as a constitution out of balance across the whole regimen, which is why this medicine adjusts several things at once and expects the change to be slow.

Shift Worker Sleep — Working against the clock is read here as a regimen at odds with the season and the hour — not a sleep problem in isolation, but food, work and rest arranged in an order the body does not recognise.