AUTHOR'S ARTICLES
Soul and Body
by Pauline Koetschet Published on: 23rd October 2020
The reciprocity between soul and body represents one of the core principles of Arabic medicine. Arab physicians took a massive interest in explaining the mutual influence of these two dimensions of the human being and…
Humoral Pathology
by Pauline Koetschet Published on: 13th November 2019
In Islamic medicine, the most pervasive explanatory theory was that of humoral pathology. In this theory, the transformation of food into bodily substance results in four humours (ḫilṭ,ʾaḫlāṭ) : blood (dam), phlegm (balġam), yellow bile…