Do Jokes and Funny Things Have Any Therapeutic Value?

Jokes:These humors were related to personality (melancholic,
Making jokes, making funny things, making funnycholeric, phlegmatic, sanguine). That is where the
cartoons, funny pictures and funny stuff in general isrelation of humor with mood starts... From that point,
not an easy task, it is a very serious job. It takes athe meaning of the word kept evolving up to this day
person who is able to communicate effectively withwhen humor does not usually refer to a liquid
the psyche of the potential viewers, readers orsubstance that circulates through our bodies (although
listeners. A person who has to identify what appealsthe meaning is still valid), but a state of mind
to them, what makes them laugh, and sometimes cry.characteristically related to the things that cause
You can, sometimes hear or see jokes that are aboutlaughter and fun (humorous).
sad things presented in such a manner that they canLaughter: "...does the body good"
be read and interpreted as funny. That is why jokesJokes and their effects are considered by some
where people "fall, break a leg or die" can be funny.experts as a good coadjuvant therapy for stress
Humor:related diseases such as irritable bowel disease, heart
Humor and medicine were related long before theburn, anxiety, cancer, etc. Some of these ideas were
word humor meant fun stuff. Greeks and earlyexploited in a movie called "Patch Adams" where
Romans believed that mood was related toRobin Williams portraits a real life medical student who
substances that circulated through the body,shows "the power" of humor laughter and jokes.
substances they called humors.Jokes are a part of our nature, a life without laughter
Four humors were described in Hippocratic medicine:and funny things is not life, it is suffering. We need fun,
Blood (Spring, air)we need jokes, we need funny pictures, otherwise we
Black bile (Autumn, earth)yellow bile (Summer,get bored..... and sick too!
fire)phlegm (Winter, water).