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Finally, each element/humor/season was associated with certain qualities. Thus yellow bile was thought of as hot and dry. Its opposite, phlegm (the mucus of colds), was cold and moist. Black Bile was cold and dry, while its opposite, blood was hot and moist.
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Each of the four humors has its own characteristic temperament, in accord with the system it regulates. Thus, the blood humor is moist and warm (like blood itself), phlegm humor is cold and moist, yellow bile humor dry and cold, and black bile warm and dry.
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www.unani.com/humours.htm
www.unani.com/humours.htm
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(in medieval physiology) one of the four elemental fluids of the body, blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile, regarded as determining, by their relative proportions, ... Blood was the warm, moist humor associated with the element fire, and phlegm was the cold, moist humor associated with water. Black bile was the cold,
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dictionary.reference.com/browse/humor
dictionary.reference.com/browse/humor
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(in medieval physiology) one of the four elemental fluids of the body, blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile, regarded as determining, by their relative proportions, ... Blood was the warm, moist humor associated with the element fire, and phlegm was the cold, moist humor associated with water. Black bile was the cold,
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dictionary.reference.com/browse/well+humored
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PHLEGM - WATER; YELLOW BILE - FIRE; BLACK BILE - EARTH ; All four of these humors, or vital fluids, are present in the bloodstream in varying quantities: Blood, or the Sanguine humor, is the red, hemoglobin-rich portion.
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www.greekmedicine.net/b_p/Four_Humors.html
www.greekmedicine.net/b_p/Four_Humors.html
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PATHOLOGY; Introduction; Dystempers; Humoral Pathology; Toxins and Toxipathy; Pathologies of Blood; Pathologies of Phlegm; Pathologies of Yellow Bile; Pathologies of Black Bile; ... Like any other humor, yellow bile can putrefy. The basic causes and mechanisms of its putrefaction are quite similar to those of blood.
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black bile - FastHealth Medical Dictionary ... black bile n : the one of the four humors of ancient and medieval physiology that was believed to be secreted by the kidneys and spleen and to cause melancholy .; Published under license with Merriam-Webster, Incorporated.
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www.fasthealth.com/dictionary/b/black_bile.php
www.fasthealth.com/dictionary/b/black_bile.php
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This is medicine by the 4 humours – Black bile, Yellow bile, Blood and Phlegm. The idea that the body is a concoction of these four essential juices is one of the oldest on record. From the Ancient Greeks to the 19th century it explained disease, psychology, habit and personality.
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Sigerist reports that this treatise, commonly attributed to Polybus, is the starting point for humoral theory.2 Equilibrium among these humors (blood, yellow bile, black bile, phlegm) was thought to constitute health.
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