lunatic

Japanese: lunatic
lunatic

...The parts of the human body that it controls are the sense of taste, throat, stomach, lower back, uterus, and the left half of the body, and it is said to make a person anemic. The moon is also often associated with mental disorders, as seen in the English word lunatic (derived from the Latin luna, meaning moon), which is based on the traditional idea that the moon's spiritual energy flows into humans and drives them to insanity. [Tadao Arita]
[The Moon and Japanese Folklore]
The moon is a major celestial body alongside the sun, and because we can count days by its movement and age, and determine the tides and their times, it has been revered as a standard on which to base daily life in a different sense to the sun.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "lunatic" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…人体の支配部位は,味覚,のど,胃,腰部,子宮,身体の左半分で,貧血性の体質をつくるとされる。月はまた,英語lunatic(ラテン語で月を意味するlunaに由来する)などの語に見えるように,しばしば精神の異常と結びつけられるが,これは月の霊気が人間に流入して狂気におもむかせるという伝統的な観念にもとづく。【有田 忠郎】
[月と日本の民俗]
 月は太陽と並ぶ主要な天体であると同時に,その運行と月齢によって日を数え,潮の干満の度やその時刻がわかることから,太陽とは別の意味で日常生活のよるべき基準として尊崇されてきた。…

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