Health was understood in this perspective to be a condition of harmony or balance among these basic components, called eucrasia.
In modern medicine, the term is still occasionally used in medical context for an unspecified disorder of the blood, such as a plasma cell dyscrasia.
This is similar to the concepts of bodily humors in the Tibetan medical tradition and the Indian Ayurvedic system, which both relate health and disease to the equality (Skt.
viṣamatā) of the quantities of three (or four) bodily humors, generally translated as wind, bile, and phlegm (and blood).
[3] H2 receptor antagonists, such as famotidine and nizatidine, in use for treatment of peptic ulcers, are known for causing blood dyscrasia – leading to bone marrow failure in 1 out of 50,000 patients.