Liver, Biliary System and Temperament
In primitive times, the soul and the body is not considered as separately as at present. In Greece, knew four fundamentally different moods of the human soul and are designated with bodily functions or substances related to liver-bile system. The choleric (Greek Jole, bile) is a “bilious.” It was believed that he dominated the formation of bile and, therefore, directly related, activity and impulsivity, which can reach debauchery and angry outbursts. In German, this relationship is also referred to when someone says “it exalts the bile.”
The man opposite mood Greeks called phlegmatic, which means “brat”. In fact, the mucus is truly living water. Thus, the term “phlegmatic” also indicates that in this man dominate life processes, assimilative and watery. In this case, we have, in general, good liver function but deficient bladder function. These two human types offer a contrast humoral polar due to the relationship.
Another pair of opposites, also based on these relationships is that of blood and melancholy. The blood has, in fact, good circulation and momentum associated with the iron in the blood. Thus, it has also in mind the impetuous spring from ideas.
By contrast, the melancholic (the “black bile”) is entered instead of dark forces. Now the darkness is related to the severity and the earth. He is too tied to your physical body. So take everything seriously, is overwhelmed and sad.
These characters constitutional apply to both the physical life of the liver-bile system as corresponding moods. Everyone responds more or less to one of these temperaments or a mixture thereof.
However, a provision is absolutely fixed, to which the man was subdued. In the course of life, a character can become a way or another. That depends on the attitude and orientation of each.
Corno liver “gives life”, it depends on the quality of life. The vibrant man feel good in general, is active and enterprising: the liver-bile system works well. But if, because of certain influences, it is followed correctly assimilative function of the liver, damaged continuously by forces or harmful substances, the man treats a condition that prevents you feel comfortable. These forces act harmful in it lowers their morale, making overwhelmed and depressed.
In anthroposophic medicine, has been known for decades that depression as a mental disorder, is due to subtle functional disturbance of the liver.
Currently, there are relatively many bad moods, called latent depression, and in which the liver is not sick, but was troubled, diverted, particular his assimilative function. This can be determined by personal, but also by a disorder of hepatic metabolism, for example, as a consequence of continuous ingestion of substances that the liver does not know what to do, because they are dead. Among them are, for example, all the synthetic products are found in many foods. In sensitive individuals, or in constitutionally predisposed, these subtle influences that cause functional disturbance may be due to a depressed mood.
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