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Appendix XI<br />
Attributes and Correspondences of the Four Temperaments<br />
Table 5: Attributes and Correspondences of the Four Temperaments<br />
To the Heart of the Matter<br />
Choleric Phlegmatic Sanguine Melancholic<br />
Primary Quality hot & dry cold & moist hot & moist cold & dry<br />
Elemental Fire Water Air Earth<br />
correspondence<br />
Associated humor Yellow bile (cholos) Phlegm (phlegma) Blood (sanguis) Black bile (melas cholos)<br />
Stature short short middle middle<br />
Build lean fat fleshy slender<br />
Skin quality rough smooth smooth & soft rough & hard<br />
Pulse swift and strong little and low great and full slow<br />
Appetite strong weak good qnd quick good appetite<br />
and digestion weaker digestion<br />
Characteristics emotional controlled lively moody<br />
restless calm easygoing anxious<br />
aggressive peaceful sociable reserved<br />
impulsive even tempered superficial sober<br />
optimistic careful carefree pessimistic<br />
Predilection Subject to billious Subject to phlegmatic Subject to Subject to chronic<br />
and inflammatory and 'cold' affections over-indulgence and 'dry' affections<br />
affections<br />
Corresponding age youth old age childhood middle age<br />
References: Ebertin (1989), Chishti (1998), Tobyn (1997)<br />
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