zen101
October 5, 2002, 10:22pm
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I tried searching “crab temperature” and got nada so I’m asking.
The reason I’m asking is that Iron Chef seems to think eating crab meat lowers your blood/body temperature. I would not know, as I don’t eat shellfish.
So is this true? If so, why? If not, why would someone think it is true?
Squink
October 5, 2002, 10:49pm
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Perhaps it has something to do with crabs being a watery, sea creature, and thus having a cool damp humour:
The microcosm consisted of the four bodily humours: blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile. Each of the four humours reflected the elements of the macrocosm: air, water, earth, and fire, respectively. The humours also had temperature and moisture properties. Blood was hot and wet, phlegm was cold and wet, black bile was cold and dry, and yellow bile was hot and dry. According to this theory, when a person became sick, one of the four humours was out of balance. To balance the humours, one needed to take a prescription, usually made from some combination of plants or animals. Doctors categorized all plants and animals by their temperature and moisture. Thus, if a patient’s illness was caused by an imbalance of phlegm, which is cold and wet, he or she needed to counteract that humour with its opposite,
http://orb.rhodes.edu/non_spec/missteps/Ch4.html