Food is the Cause of the Production of the 4 Humors

The following article has been made available to me to use here compliments of Dr. Hijazi from one of his presentations: Humor: is a fluid d substance which food is first transmuted to it. Humor substances are compiled into four categories: • the category of blood humor, which is

the best; • the category of phlegmatic humor; • the category of yellow bile humor; and • the category of black bile humor. Humors are derived from the nourishing food and drink. To clarify this we need to show the four digestive phases of food, and how the four humors are originated from food. According to humoral medicine, foods pass through 4 digestive phases: First phase of digestion – Begins by mastication inside the mouth by teeth and tongue, the saliva helps the chewed to be digested and ready to be swallowed, at swallowing, the food is volplaned downward towards the esophagus to go into the stomach at which it completes the first phase of digestion. 1..SecondSecond phase of digestion – The muscles of the stomach wall carry out the transmutation of food into chyle, then the residue of the first phase plunges into the small intestine for digestion, then to be ejected from the large intestine to the anus. The thin chyle is pulled from the stomach and intestines as well, then is whooshed by the route of the loop so-called the mesentery, which are narrow stiff veins connected to all the intestines, if the thin chyle plunges into theth mesentery it turns into the vein which is calledca portal hepatis and goes into the liver, thatth is into sections and reduced damped capillaryca branches of the portal hepatis insidesi the liver, passing through the orifices of theth sections of the origins of the ascending veinve from the convexity of liver. When the thinth chyle is disassembled in the fibers of theseth veins, this becomes as if the whole liver encounters this whole chyle, consequently the function of the liver in transmuting the chyle into chymus which are the humors becomes stronger and faster. At that time in those veins which are inside the liver the second phase of digestion is completed, the substance which ascends like the foam is the yellow bile; the substance which sediments as the turbidity and residue is the black bile; the thin intermediate substance is the blood, and the thick substance like egg white is the phlegm. 2.2 ThirdThi dh phase of f digestiondi ti – TheTh filt filteredd and fully matured amongst these total substances of the four humors originated in the liver is the blood humor. The blood humor if it is originated in the liver goes by the blood vessels to nourish and oxygenate all parts of the body, and what is superfluous of the blood humorh is stored by the liver for exigency. The yellow bile humor if it is originated in t the liver, is divided into two parts, one part goes to the blood to be intermixed with it, t to nourish the organs which need according to its temperament a certain amount of the yellow bile like the lungs, and to make the blood thin and able to pass through narr row streams. The other part of the yellow b bile is dispensable to the blood, thus it is exuded to the gall bladder, for the salvation of the whole body from the residue, and for the nourishment of the gall bladder organ. The yellow bile which is dispensable to the gall bladder is exuded to the small intestine through an orifice called bile duct, to wash the intestine from the residue, viscous phlegm, to disassemble the fats, and to sting the intestine and muscle of the anus, to stimulate the sensation of the need to rise for defecation. The black bile humor if it is originated in the liver, is divided into two parts, one part goes to the blood to be intermixed with it, to nourish the organs which need according to its temperament a certain amount of the black bile like the bones, to strengthen thicken and condensate the blood and prevent it from being thin. The other part of the black bile which is dispensable to the blood, it is exuded to the spleen for the salvation of the whole body from the residue, and for the n nourishment of the spleen organ. The phlegmatic humor if it is originated in the liver, goes to the blood for intermixing w with it to nourish the phlegmatic organs which in fact need to have in its nourished blood a certain amount of phlegm like the brain; as well to adjoin the organs in order to be transmuted into blood when it is needed, and for the sake of wetting the joints and the organs which have considerable movement, preventing it from dryness due to the organ movement and friction. What is superfluous of the phlegmatic humor is stored by the lungs. Where the coldness of the stored phlegm in the lungs is connected with the respired air which enters through the throat to the pipes of the lungs then is brought to the heart for its ventilation and for diminishing the vaporish hotness originated from the blood core. However the four humors while still being in the liver they are thinner than they should be due to the excessive wateriness needed for digestion, thus the liver works on separating the excessive wateriness from the four humors, the part of the blood humor which is stored in the liver is without wateriness, while the other part of the blood humor outgoes to the blood with its wateriness; the part of the black bile humor which is exuded to the spleen is without wateriness, while the other part of the black bile humor outgoes to the blood with its wateriness; the part of the yellow bile humor which is exuded to the gall bladder is without wateriness, while the other part of the yellow bile humor outgoes to the blood with its wateriness; whereas the phlegm humor outgoes with its wateriness to the lungs after the outgoing parts of the four humors leave the liver and go to the blood. The texture of the outgoing four humors with its wateriness is suitable and applicable to be mixed with the blood present in the streams; therefore the outgoing four humors with its wateriness plunge from the liver to the heart through the vein which is ascending from the convexity of the liver to the inferior vena cava. 3. Fourth phase of digestion Subsequently the humors infiltrate from the orifices of the arteries to the organs, to be transmuted into the category of the nourished organ, whereat the cells absorb it through its membranes and use it according to its need, where its accumulation and disassembly is taken place once again. As a result some of the nourishments are used to provide the body with energy, some are used to build new tissues, some are used in growth processes and other than that, whereat the fourth phase of digestion is completed. “Our methodology concerning Medical Diagnosis is to know the causes and symptoms by Methods of Humoral Medicine while, wwbbba merging what is compatible from Phytotherapy with humoral medicine in detecting the symptoms as well. Our treatments are based only by using appropriate herbs, taking into account each herbal temperament in accordance to Humoral Medicine, and herbal extracts according to the principles of Phyto-therapy. It is known, that the modern European Medicine is powerless in treating many causes of diseases and is preoccupied with diminishing only symptoms (palliative care) through the use of chemical remedies that are not exempt from harmful secondary effects. Such as: hypertension, rheumatism, migraine, epilepsy, diabetes, stricture of the heart blood vessels and many others, or they choose the recourse of surgery. On the other hand, Humoral Medicine through its magnificent principals and its splendorous sources, which we call the Genuine Medicine that was used and regarded by the mankind since the creation of humans until nowadays; it’s the only reference with which we, the doctors who are practicing this methodology, have arrived to impressive results in the treatment and healing of illnesses, through elimination of their root causes, resulting in patient’s becoming healthy and being healed through the permission of Allah.”