Dr Alana Skuse

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639 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 8 May

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You're Dead to Me · Renaissance Medicine (Radio Edit) · 8 May 2026 podcast

So you want to rebalance whatever humour is out of whack.

Let's say you've got a disease and it's being caused by melancholy.

So black bile, which is cold and dry.

You're going to want to eat things that are hot and wet.

So the foods that are hot, it kind of makes sense.

It's the things you think are hot.

So red meat, salty foods, cheese, red wine.

I mean, it sounds great.

More often, they're telling people that they have to give up all that stuff, which they don't always like very much.

And the physicians are always complaining about people not taking their advice.

Yeah, they love a purge.

So the three great remedies, as they call them, of the College of Physicians are bleeding, vomiting and diarrhoea.

Yeah, very fast and loose with the word great there.

Yeah.

They don't use leeches all the time.

Sometimes they just cut you and let you bleed into a bowl.

It just depends.

And we have this idea that physicians love letting blood out of people and they want to do it all the time.

Actually, it's kind of driven by the patients.

Patients want to get their blood let because they have the idea that if you let out some of the blood, all the bad stuff's going to go with it and then you'll make new blood, which is good.

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