"Signs of "phlegm abounding" included sleepiness, dullness, slowness, heaviness, cowardliness, forgetfulness, much spitting, much superfluities of the nose, little appetite to meat and as bad digestion, the skin whiter, colder, and smoother than it was meant to be the pulse slow and deep, the urine thick and low colored, dreams of rain, floods, and water, etc." (from Nicholas Culpeper's The Complete Herbal and English Physician Enlarged).