 This comes from the phlegm which is superabundant within them.For if man had remained in paradise, he would not have had the "flegmata" within his body, from which many evils proceed, but his flesh would have been whole and without dark humor ["livor"].However, because he consented to evil and relinquished good, he was made into a likeness of the earth, which produces good and useful herbs, as well as bad and useless ones, and which has in itself both good and evil moistures.