Black Bile

Unfortunately, black bile is another corporeal fluid I know little about. In real life I think it comes from the liver and I think it aids in emulsifying those pesky lipids that we eat from time to time. And by emuslify I mean "break down...I think." Let me look that up actually.

Yeah, I was right more or less. Anyway, the main thing I remember black bile for is as one of the four humors in the body. The others were blood, yellow bile and phlegm. In the earliest, earliest forms of physiology and psychology, these were believed to be the reasons people felt the way they felt. If you were black biley, you were the sensitive, deep-feeling sort. If you were bloody, you were the engaging life-of-the-party sort. Which you'll know is true as people covered in blood are always so popular.

The main thing I remember about the four humors, though, is what I learned after that in my psychology class. It was the Egyptian form of psychology. Ancient Egyptians believed that within your brain was a little man called a Ka who told you what to do, and how to feel. Except within that Ka was another Ka who told your Ka how to feel. And THAT Ka had another Ka! All the way up till the 7th Ka deep in your mind's mind. But Ka 7 has no Ka 8. It stops, for reasons I believe to be apparent.

This one goes out to Stefan who requested the BBile about a week or so ago! Big ups!