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Question : What is health according to Hippocrates and Indian Ayurveda system of medicine? |
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Answer» Solution :ACCORDING to Hippocrates the HUMAN body is filled with humor/fluid, which CONSISTED of blackbile, yellowbile, blood and phlegm Each of this humor/fluid CORRELATED with elements of nature, such as blackbile represented carth, yellowbile represented fire, blood represented air and phlegm represented water This humors/fluids where thought to be the four basic substances that filled the human body When these were balanced, a person is said to be in a good health. Too much humor in the human body resulted in mental or physical illness that manifested bad health. It was believed that a person with blackbile belonged to hot personality and would have FEVERS. |
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