Seems old medical systems are of a piece with the holistic, symbolic way they used to see the world, which is absolutely amazing. I wish I could study it more, but unfortunately don’t have time. There is an old Chinese medical text that relates the functions of the organs symbolically to the roles of people in a city. The Bible draws these kinds of parallels as well, which we’ve only apparently lost in modernism- where man is a microcosm in some sense of the cosmos, and there are all these connecting patterns throughout. We’ve gained and lost a lot of accumulated knowledge in modernity. Johnathan Pageau’s channel is dedicated to this.
I thought t you video was quite interesting. It is so funny that some thing that they believed then had a bit of truth to it even though it might have been based on anecdotal evidence (or how ever they came to these funny conclusions) .For example they mention that melancholy people have digestive issues which might have some merit but rather the wrong way around. Melancholy is rather a symptom form a unhealthy gut, your gut produces 90% of you serotonin in you body, when you have allot of digestive problems your gut does not produce enough serotonin and the person might experience melancholy.
These fluids thing sounds a bit like ayuverda. I mean....somehow it seems like you could put body types in 4 types or characters in 16 types but there are always some nontypical persons.....but somehow it seems to work
Seems old medical systems are of a piece with the holistic, symbolic way they used to see the world, which is absolutely amazing. I wish I could study it more, but unfortunately don’t have time. There is an old Chinese medical text that relates the functions of the organs symbolically to the roles of people in a city. The Bible draws these kinds of parallels as well, which we’ve only apparently lost in modernism- where man is a microcosm in some sense of the cosmos, and there are all these connecting patterns throughout. We’ve gained and lost a lot of accumulated knowledge in modernity. Johnathan Pageau’s channel is dedicated to this.
I love this approach! Very unique approach to history. Also love the reference to Karolina Zebrowska. lol
Almost like astrology, but with fluids and people's livelihoods on the line
Very much so! Astrology was another method used by some medical doctors at the time
I thought t you video was quite interesting. It is so funny that some thing that they believed then had a bit of truth to it even though it might have been based on anecdotal evidence (or how ever they came to these funny conclusions) .For example they mention that melancholy people have digestive issues which might have some merit but rather the wrong way around. Melancholy is rather a symptom form a unhealthy gut, your gut produces 90% of you serotonin in you body, when you have allot of digestive problems your gut does not produce enough serotonin and the person might experience melancholy.
These fluids thing sounds a bit like ayuverda. I mean....somehow it seems like you could put body types in 4 types or characters in 16 types but there are always some nontypical persons.....but somehow it seems to work
And somehow in the earlier days we sort out our partners by the smell or sth else so maybe it is right to sort humans in types
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Apart from being smart, you're also beautiful.
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