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    Hippocrates associated four elements (earth, air, fire, water) with four humors in the body (black bile, yellow bile, blood, phlegm) and believed that a proper balance of humors resulted in health while an imbalance caused illness. The Hippocratics also believed the body has an innate ability for self-healing and that doctors should facilitate this natural process. About 500 years later, Galen extended Hippocrates' theory by associating the four humors with four temperaments based on which humor was dominant - phlegm with phlegmatic, blood with sanguine, yellow bile with choleric, and black bile with melancholic.

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    Hippocrates associated four elements (earth, air, fire, water) with four humors in the body (black bile, yellow bile, blood, phlegm) and believed that a proper balance of humors resulted in health while an imbalance caused illness. The Hippocratics also believed the body has an innate ability for self-healing and that doctors should facilitate this natural process. About 500 years later, Galen extended Hippocrates' theory by associating the four humors with four temperaments based on which humor was dominant - phlegm with phlegmatic, blood with sanguine, yellow bile with choleric, and black bile with melancholic.

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    CHANDGARH HIPPOCRATES

    associated the four elements with four humors in the body. They associated earth
    with black bile, air with yellow bile, fire with blood, and water with phlegm.
    Individuals for whom the humors are properly balanced are healthy; an

    imbalance among the humors results in illness.


    The Hippocratics strongly believed that the body has the ability to heal itself and
    that it is the physician's job to facilitate this natural healing.
    CU About 500 years after Hippocrates, Galen (ca. A.D. 130-200) associated the fr
    CHANDIGARH
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    humors of the body with four temperaments (thet 47-49/136 de

    from the Latin verb temperare meaning "to mix").


    " If one of the humors dominates, the person displays the characteristics associated
    with that humor.

    TABÉ 2.1 Galen's Extension of


    Hippocrates Theory of Humors
    Aumor Temperament Characteristic

    Phlegm Phlegmatic Sluggish, unemotional


    Blood Sanguine Cheerful
    Yellow bile Choleric Quick-tempered, fiery
    Black bile Melancholic Sad
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