Four Humors Black Bile

Greek physician hippocrates ca.

Four humors black bile. Do you have yellow bile black bile blood or phlegm. Too much fire choleric. Air corresponds with blood. µέλαινα χολή melaina chole black bile blackness of the bile also latin lugere lugubriousness to mourn latin morosus moroseness of self will or fastidious habit and old english wist wistfulness of intent or saturnine is a mental condition characterized by extreme depression bodily complaints and sometimes hallucinations and delusions. ξανθη χολή xanthe chole phlegm greek. Too much earth made one melancholic. It encourages prudence caution realism pragmatism and pessimism.

460 bce 370 bce is often credited with developing the theory of the four humors blood yellow bile black bile and phlegm and their influence on the body and its emotions. Water corresponds with phlegm. Until the 19th century humorism dominated medical practice with medical professionals ascribing most health problems to an imbalance in these fluids. The four humors of hippocratic medicine are black bile greek. Medical practitioners in shakespeare s england generally accepted the ancient belief that four body fluids called humors british spelling. The four humors are black bile yellow bile phlegm and blood. Each corresponds to one of the traditional four temperaments.

It encourages prudence caution realism pragmatism and pessimism. His famous treatise on airs waters and places describes the influence of geography on the body and its humoral makeup. Too much water phlegmatic. Not surprisingly the four humours readily relate to qualities still understood by herbalists today. The humors also appeared in muslim medicine spreading east to india where they are still utilized in some traditional medicine. The ancient names for these humor melancholic black bile choleric yellow bile sanguine blood and phlegmatic phlegm represented different temperaments and still do. Fire corresponds with yellow bile.

Black bile makes one pensive melancholy and withdrawn. φλέγμα phlegma and blood greek. Also in the following weeks sol and i will be posting a variety of the four humors personality tests. The four natural elements air blood water phlegm fire yellow bile and earth black bile as well as the four energetics hot cold dry and moist. Interesting question is it not. The four humors tend to have negative effects on the mind and emotions only when they re excessive or aggravated. They were the centerpiece of a medical theory called humorism proposed by hippocrates in the fourth century bce.

μέλαινα χολή melaina chole yellow bile greek. Earth corresponds with black bile.