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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.

Four humors black bile. Also in the following weeks sol and i will be posting a variety of the four humors personality tests. ξανθη χολή xanthe chole phlegm greek. It encourages prudence caution realism pragmatism and pessimism. φλέγμα phlegma and blood greek. Air corresponds with blood. 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. Too much air sanguine. Humours governed the emotional and physical health of a person. 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. Do you have yellow bile black bile blood or phlegm. These fluids produced by the body s organs and tissues were black bile yellow bile phlegm and 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.

Too much earth made one melancholic. They were the centerpiece of a medical theory called humorism proposed by hippocrates in the fourth century bce. Earth corresponds with black bile. Not surprisingly the four humours readily relate to qualities still understood by herbalists today. The four humors of hippocratic medicine are black bile greek. μέλαινα χολή melaina chole yellow bile greek. Black bile makes one pensive melancholy and withdrawn.

Too much fire choleric. Interesting question is it not. Water corresponds with phlegm. The ancient names for these humor melancholic black bile choleric yellow bile sanguine blood and phlegmatic phlegm represented different temperaments and still do. Each corresponds to one of the traditional four temperaments. Until the 19th century humorism dominated medical practice with medical professionals ascribing most health problems to an imbalance in these fluids. Medical practitioners in shakespeare s england generally accepted the ancient belief that four body fluids called humors british spelling.

Fire corresponds with yellow bile. Greek physician hippocrates ca.