why isn't phlegm air it's literally in the respiratory system (because the four humors work on a hot/cold wet/dry grid and water and phlegm are colder than air and blood I guess)

(and fire is dry. can't really argue with that one)

(I still don't understand what yellow or black bile actually are so I will take the dead Greeks' word for it that they're fucking dry apparently)

help kaz this toplevel is so insane out of context

iirc I don't think black bile and yellow bile actually like, correspond to anything actually like, existing in the body

yeah I've heard a lot of different explanations for them, I think yellow bile being actual bile/stomach acid is the usual theory, which makes sense. but black bile is harder, sometimes they say it's when other fluids etc get dark, or a mixture of them, or cancerous/diseased tissue...

it looks black when someone's internally bleeding and you see blood mixed with other stuff come up

blood should be water it's literally wet

this tl is deranged without context. like i get it now but pardon

thank you I absolutely wanted it to sound like absolute nonsense at first glance

turtleen: yellow bile being stomach acid does make sense. now I can be mad again that blood isn't fire because yellow bile is ALSO wet ANYWAY