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Medieval Medicine: Astrological and Humoral Medicine

Zodiacs, planets, and humors

Annie B. Holleran, Author

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Blood



Blood, also called the "sanguis" humor, was related to air and spring, the qualities of being hot and moist, the heart, and the planet Jupiter.

"Signs of Blood abounding: the veins are bigger
(or at least appear so), and fuller than ordinary, the skin is red, and as it
were swollen, pricking pains in the sides, and about the temples, shortness of
breath, headache, the pulse great and full, urine high coloured and thick,
dreams of blood, etc." (From Nicholas Culpeper's The Complete Herbal and English Physician Enlarged).


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