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Medieval Medicine: Astrological and Humoral Medicine

Zodiacs, planets, and humors

Annie B. Holleran, Author

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Yellow Bile



Yellow Bile relates to fire and summer. The qualities of hot and dry are associated with yellow bile, and the organ is the gall bladder. Mars is the planet ruling over the "choleric" humor.

"Signs of Choler abounding: leanness of body,
costiveness, hollow eyes, anger without a cause, a testy disposition,
yellowness of the skin, bitterness in the throat, pricking pains in the head,
the pulse swifter and stronger than ordinary, the urine highly coloured,
thinner and brighter, troublesome sleeps, much dreaming of fire, lightning,
anger and fighting." (From Nicholas Culpeper's The Complete Herbal and English Physician Enlarged).



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