Safra — yellow bile
choleric, hot and dry humour
Safra names yellow bile and the hot-dry choleric pole in Unani descriptions. Its liver-side placement is an editorial target-organ projection rather than an anatomical map.
Point 3 of 4 in Unani Mizaj Herbalism
Cross-tradition overlaps
No overlapping points are registered for this point.
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)