Balgham — phlegm

phlegmatic, cold and moist humour

Balgham is the phlegmatic humour, conventionally cold and moist in Unani humoral doctrine. The lung and upper-torso anchor is a target-organ projection of the classification, not a claim about where a humour physically resides.

Dam — blood humourBalgham — phlegmBalgham — phlegmSafra — yellow bileSawda — black bile

Point 2 of 4 in Unani Mizaj Herbalism

Cross-tradition overlaps

No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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Sources

Ibn Sina, The Canon of Medicine (primary_canonical)

Documents the four humours and the hot/cold, moist/dry qualities used in mizaj classification; Book 1, Fen 1, Doctrines.

Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi, Kitab al-Hawi (primary_canonical)

Documents humoral pathology and temperament reasoning across the al-Hawi medical discussions; book and page numbering varies by edition.

H. H. R. Khane, Principles of Unani Medicine (scholarly_modern)

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