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Essentially, this theory holds that the human body is filled with four basic substances, called humors, which are in balance when a person is healthy. All diseases and disabilities supposedly resulted from an excess or deficit of one of these four humors.
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03 Nov 12
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four different layers can be seen
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From mixture of the four [humors] in different weights, [God the most high] created different organs; one with more blood like muscle, one with more black bile like bone, one with more phlegm like brain, and one with more yellow bile like lung.
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21 Dec 11
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positing that an excess or deficiency of any of four distinct bodily fluids in a person directly influences their temperament and health.
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A humor is also referred to as a cambium (pl. cambia or cambiums).[1]
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this theory holds that the human body was filled with four basic substances, called four humors, which are in balance when a person is healthy.
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When a patient was suffering from a surplus or imbalance of one fluid, then his or her personality and physical health would be affected.
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earth, fire, water and air; earth predominantly present in the black bile, fire in the yellow bile, water in the phlegm, and all four elements present in the blood.
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A dark clot forms at the bottom (the "black bile"). Above the clot is a layer of red blood cells (the "blood"). Above this is a whitish layer of white blood cells (the "phlegm", now called the buffy coat). The top layer is clear yellow serum (the "yellow bile")
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While Galen thought that humors were formed in the body, rather than ingested, he believed that different foods had varying potential to be acted upon by the body to produce different humors. Warm foods, for example, tended to produce yellow bile, while cold foods tended to produce phlegm. Seasons of the year, periods of life, geographic regions and occupations also influenced the nature of the humors formed.
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Health was associated with a balance of humors,
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was thought to be the direct cause of all diseases.
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The imbalance of humors
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The qualities of the humors, in turn, influenced the nature of the diseases they caused. Yellow bile caused warm diseases and phlegm caused cold diseases.
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26 Jul 09
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This theory was closely related to the theory of the four elements: earth, fire, water and air - earth was predominantly present in the black bile, fire in the yellow bile, water in the phlegm, and all four elements were present in the blood.[1]
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Methods of treatment like bloodletting, emetics and purges were aimed at expelling a harmful surplus of a humour. Other methods used herbs and foods associated with a particular humour to counter symptoms of disease, for instance: people who had a fever and were sweating were considered hot and wet and therefore given substances associated with cold and dry. Paracelsus further developed the idea that beneficial medical substances could be found in herbs, minerals and various alchymical combinations thereof. These beliefs were the foundation of mainstream Western medicine well into the 1800s.
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20 Aug 08
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Humour Season Element Organ Qualities Ancient name Modern MBTI Ancient characteristics Blood spring air liver warm & moist sanguine artisan SP courageous, hopeful, amorous Yellow bile summer fire gall bladder warm & dry choleric idealist NF easily angered, bad tempered Black bile autumn earth spleen cold & dry melancholic guardian SJ despondent, sleepless, irritable Phlegm winter water brain/lungs cold & moist phlegmatic rational NT calm, unemotional
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