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  2. Humorism - Wikipedia

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    The proper blending and balance of the four humors was known as eukrasia. [18] Humorism theory was improved by Galen, who incorporated his understanding of the humors into his interpretation of the human body. He believed the interactions of the humors within the body were the key to investigating the physical nature and function of the organ ...

  3. Four temperaments - Wikipedia

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    This meant that having a balance and good mixture of the humours defined good health, while an imbalance or separation of the humours led to disease. [11] Because the humours corresponded to certain seasons, one way to avoid an imbalance or disease was to change health-related habits depending on the season.

  4. Menstruation and humoral medicine - Wikipedia

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    People believed that the human body contained four humours: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile. [1] Illnesses and problems were understood as being caused by dyscrasia, or an imbalance in the four humours. Treatments for disease had the aim of restoring a balance, curing the patient.

  5. Food and diet in ancient medicine - Wikipedia

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    These substances are known as the humors. The humoral theory explains one's behavior and health conditions. The idea of humors in the human body reflected the four terrestrial elements: air, fire, earth, and water. The human body is composed of four essential substances (humors): yellow bile (fire), black bile (earth), blood (air), and phlegm ...

  6. Bloodletting - Wikipedia

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    The second was that humoral balance was the basis of illness or health, the four humours being blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile, relating to the four Greek classical elements of air, water, earth, and fire respectively. Galen believed that blood was the dominant humour and the one in most need of control.

  7. Two-factor models of personality - Wikipedia

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    Galen also had intermediate scales for "balance" between the hot/cold and wet/dry poles, yielding a total of nine temperaments. Four were the original humors, and five were balanced in one or both scales. [6] [7] [8]

  8. Ancient Greek medicine - Wikipedia

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    The establishment of the humoral theory of medicine focused on the balance between blood, yellow and black bile, and phlegm in the human body. Being too hot, cold, dry or wet disturbed the balance between the humors, resulting in disease and illness. Gods and demons were not believed to punish the patient, but attributed to bad air (miasma ...

  9. On the Nature of Man - Wikipedia

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    It was a practice to change one's routine to keep these humors in balance as the weather and seasons changed. [3] The theory of the four humors was its own theory of science and medicine. Even with clear parallels to the theory of the four elements of air, water, fire, and earth they draw no connections to the theory of the four humors. [3]