HEALTH TALK:THE CONSTITUTION OF MAN.
Wow! That
was a rough ride. What with all the negative news about MHI17, the Algerian plane
disaster, Boko Haram, Ebola, etc and wait Gaza of course Gaza, well, Gaza? Oh
my, Hamas and Israel- will the two of you stop these killings,please, will you please stop
shedding the blood of the innocents? Will you stop this destructions? Will you
stop this annihilation? Will the two of you, the hard hearted Hamas (yes,
because your people are dying in hundreds) and the stubborn Israel, stop this?
why don’t you listen to the United Nations and stop this politics, yes politics,
which in my own dictionary means takeover, yes, takeover-you mean you don’ t
know that politics is all about taking over? Taking over a district, town or
city, state, country and even the world, well this topic is for another day.
Today for a short while, I would talk about health. Now- we know that moving machine
parts require lubrication. This is necessary in order to reduce friction which
causes the wear of machine parts.
So is the
human body but with adequate and necessary care, we would surely live a vibrant
and healthy life. Now let us start from-
THE CONSTITUTION OF MAN
The
constitution of man is made up of seven constitutions:
The
first constitution is the elements, which are four in number:
Fire, which is hot and dry;
Air, which is hot and wet;
Water, which is cold and wet; and
Earth, which is cold and dry.
The second constitution is the
temperaments, which are nine in number:
The first is
an evenly balanced temperament. The second is an unevenly balanced temperament,
which may be unmixed, being then hot, cold, wet, or dry. Or it may be an
unevenly balanced but mixed temperament, being hot and dry, or hot and wet, or
cold and dry, or cold and wet. The most evenly balanced of all temperament in
the animal Kingdom is the temperament of man. No w, the temperament of youth is
evenly balanced. The temperament of childhood inclines to wetness and that of
maturity and old age to coldness. The most evenly balanced of the organs is the
skin of the tip of the index finger and after this the… to be continued..
