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.

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

Point 3 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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