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The word humor is a translation of Greek χυμός, [3] chymos (literally 'juice' or 'sap', metaphorically 'flavor'). Early texts on Indian Ayurveda medicine presented a theory of three or four humors (doṣas), [4] [5] which they sometimes linked with the five elements (pañca-bhūta): earth, water, fire, air, and space. [6]
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. ... Humor theory may refer to: Humorism, an ancient and medieval medical theory that there are four body fluids;
Articles related to pre-modern medical humour theory and the four humours. Pages in category "Humorism" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Relief theory suggests humor is a mechanism for pent-up emotions or tension through emotional relief. In this theory, laughter serves as a homeostatic mechanism by which psychological stress is reduced [1] [2] [6] Humor may thus facilitate ease of the tension caused by one's fears, for example.
While it is hard to know exactly which theory is correct, it is important to examine the medical context, because the humoral model emphasised the need for balance between the four humours. This means that blood could be healthy or polluting depending on the humoral context in which blood was discharged and observed, in the same way that ...
Hildegard of Bingen was an example of a medieval medical practitioner who, while educated in classical Greek medicine, also utilized folk medicine remedies. [13] Her understanding of the plant based medicines informed her commentary on the humors of the body and the remedies she described in her medical text Causae et curae were influenced by ...
The four temperament theory is a proto-psychological theory which suggests that there are four fundamental personality types: sanguine, choleric, melancholic, and phlegmatic. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Most formulations include the possibility of mixtures among the types where an individual's personality types overlap and they share two or more temperaments.
The Taccuinum Sanitatis is a medieval handbook mainly on health aimed at a cultured lay audience. The text exists in several variant Latin versions, the manuscripts of which are profusely illustrated.