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Medieval Medicine: Astrological and Humoral Medicine

Zodiacs, planets, and humors

Annie B. Holleran, Author

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Black Bile



Black bile, also called the melancholic humor, is related to the element earth. It is also associated with winter, and the qualities of cold and dry. The spleen and the planet Saturn rule over this humor.

"Signs of Melancholy abounding: fearfulness
without a cause, fearful and foolish imaginations, the skin rough and swarthy,
leanness, want of sleep, frightful dreams, sourness in the throat, the pulse
very weak, solitariness, thin clear urine, often sighing, etc." (From Nicholas Culpeper's The Complete Herbal and English Physician, Enlarged).



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