Mappa Mundi

[David Gittins]

Each of the four types are associated with certain emotions and body types. The choleric temperament (earth) usually has a warm, dry, rectangular or square body, tight connective tissue, yellowish complexion, and are practical and rational, yet prone to anger, irritability, and impatience. The phlegmatic temperament (water) usually has chilly, watery, round or oval body with a white complexion, lax soft tissue, and are sympathetic and sensitive, yet prone to fearfulness, tearfulness, and sadness. The sanguine temperament (fire) usually has a hot, moist, triangular or barrel chested body, muscular or fleshy tissue, a red complexion, and are optimistic and joyful, yet prone to pride, passion, and cruelty. The nervous melancholic temperament (air) usually has a cool, dry, thin, body with pipe stem bones, little flesh, a gray, ashy complexion, and are intelligent and sophisticated, yet prone to be pensiveness, restlessness or depression. With these correspondences in mind please look at the Mappa Mundi below and allow the images to take hold of your subconscious mind where they may draw on information from the collective unconscious.
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[Sheri Nakken]

Thanks David. How is your father?
Sheri

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[Tanya Marquette]

Thanx for sending. Haven’t heard Mundi’s name or his Mappa Mundi in years.

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[Irene de Villiers]

Four divisions is NOT enough.
There are MANY genetic types, and they do not collect conveniently into one of four groups.
...Irene
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[John Harvey]

Genetic or not, one might force all instances of, say, general aggravations into one of four categories such as hot dry, hot moist, cold dry, and cold moist; but inherent in the Mappa Mundi diagram here are the four major claims such as the claim that all those who would fall into "hot dry" must also be angry and intellectual rather than emotional, depressed, or sad, and vice versa. Is there the least evidence that every angry intellectual is hot and dry rather than cold or moist, or that every hot, dry organism is angry rather than emotional (if that distinction makes any sense)? Is there any evidence that no organism is both angry and sad, or both intellectual and emotional?

The easiest way of disposing of this castle in the air may be to think of ready counter-examples in the form of common medicinal types. Sulphur is surely hot and dry; is it distinctly angry rather than sad, or consistently intellectual rather than emotional? Of course not; and neither is every patient for whom one would consider it. Calc. carb. is surely cold and moist; is it consistently sad rather than angry and emotional rather than intellectual? No.

The trouble with this philosophy is that it's based solidly on hypothesis; and, as it happens, that hypothetical basis is at the root of allopathy, not of homoeopathy.

It was on these "temperaments" that the most allopathic of prescriptions were based at the time when Hahnemann announced that the allopathic approach was senseless and dangerous. Hahnemann's departure from hypothetical bases of prescriptions was not arbitrary; it was profound and arose through his realisation that until physicians possessed knowledge of the direct action of a medicine upon health, all prescriptions would continue to be mere guesswork whose only consistent "successes" in suppressing illness relied upon wholly memory of historical accident and not at all upon understanding of the organism's healing capacities.

Only armed with both knowledge of the direct action of drugs and knowledge of the intimate relationship between such action and the natural disease most susceptible to its influence could Hahnemann first observe that the homoeopathic relationship is the curative one: the one that rouses the organism's healing powers by stimulating it to respond to a medicinal disease so similar to the natural one that it was capable of displacing it.

And only once that consistency of relationship had been established was it possible to formulate a rational basis for medicine.

The pre-homoeopathic, pre-rational Mappa Mundi, with its demonstrably false assumptions, has no place in a medical system not only needing no such assumptions but clearly transcending them in its capacity, first, to deal flexibly with a great many characters falling outside the narrow scope of the four "temperaments" -- characters such as aggravation or amelioration by windiness, walking, running, sexual activity, eating, drinking, sleeping, waking; second, to deal with complexity of characters, such as desire for something though it aggravates, or aversion to something though it ameliorates, particulars distinctly at opposites with generals, modes of sadness or anger, shades of exuberance or thoughtfulness, and dependence of an emotion such as anger or anxiety upon a state such as windiness, fulness, or mental perceptions. In a medical methodology that deals with all these matters in a rational, systematic way, what place has an arbitrary linkage of summer to anger and intellect? None at all.

Cheers --

John

[John R. Benneth]

Profound!