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The outline of Constitution Medicine What is Constitution Medicine? Constitution Medicine established by famous Korean Dr. Je Ma Lee 100 years ago insists that patients' individual needs be considered when given medical treatment. According to this theory “patients would be given different prescription to treat same disease." Till now both Eastern and Western medicine believe the remedy or prescription is defined by the patient's disease, whereas Constitution Medicine allows the patient's constitution to define the remedy or prescription. For example in modern medicine the remedy for the common cold are based on the patient's symptom, but in Constitution Medicine remedies depend on patient's constitution. Therefore Constitution Medicine is newly established medical theory. This is the reason why this medical theory is spotlighted that the effect is excellent. Many diseases modern medicine cannot cured is healed by this medicine. However Constitution Medicine is incomplete for its historicaly short time. Main part of incomplete is what we do not know perfectly each constitution's feature, hygiene, medical treatment yet. For instance we can see in Nephro-Pulmona LIA type small intestine twisting symptom, yet we do not know the reason of physiology and anatomical characteristic and the remedy for these patient. In other constitutions we have same problem, and it is necessary to research in depths. Nevertheless this medicine already can cure disease very well. What is Physical Constitution? Physical constitution means each person's physiological, anatomical characteristic. For instance we can observe someone drinks cold water even in winter, but others after drinking cold water even in summer they make stomach disorder. It is the reason their stomachs are different physiologically. We call former stomach energy excessive type and latter stomach energy weak type. We can see same phenomena in other internal organ similarly. We call this “weakness and firmness of viscera.” This fact can influence outward characteristic of the body. For instance stomach energy excessive woman has big bosom. And it can also influence dispositionally. Stomach energy excessive person can be easily over-action. In the human body there are 10 or more viscera(Liver, Heart, etc) and they are weak or excessive in energy flow. Therefore constitution types come out several kinds. Why is Constitution Medicine Treatment so effective? Why Constitution Medicine Treatment(CMT) can cure the diseases easily? CMT considers the patient's constitution, that is personal characteristic, as we already discussed. It can do over Traditional Chinese Medicine treatment, which considers the weak and strong of patient's viscera. For example, as it will be good for a patient of weak stomach to give hot water, we will give medicine or food of hot disposition like peppers, gallics, etc. On the contrary we will give medicine or food of cold disposition like porks, crabs, beers to a patient of strong stomach. CMT is called by "Custom made medicine" because it considers of patient's constitutional characteristic, that is, weak and strong of their viscera. There are numerous that Constitution Medicine can cure those diseases which modern medicine cannot cure. Of course, it can be a breakthrough of modern medicine which is at uppermost limit. What are those Constitution Medicine remedies? The first is Constitution Acupuncture Treatment(CAT). Acupuncture is a kind of well known and historically long medical treatment. In addition acupuncture which applied by Constitution Medicine theory to differentiate the traditional acupuncture. CAT uses a few acupuncture points contrary to previous acupuncture, because it only uses the acupuncture points below the elbows and knees. Therefore its effect is strong enough, since it also cures those diseases other acupuncture cannot. The second is Constitution Herbal Medicine(CHM). This is similar to the oriental medicinal herbal therapy, but CHM is different from the theory which medical prescriptions and decoctions must be differed by the patient's constitution even same disease. For instance of indigestion, Nephra(one of constitution types) can take ginger, but Splena(one of constitution types) can not take ginger. it may make symptom worse. Splena can take cold beer which can help their indigestion. The third is Constitution Dietetic Therapy(CDT). Contrary to previous dietetics, CDT considers the properties of food with personal weakness and strongness. Following the accumulation of clinical experience by CMT, it is cleared the cause of many incurable diseases is the food which patients eat every day. Some food is bad for certain people according to their constitution types. Consequently patients must avoid some food which is unmatched to their constitution types. Even some diseases can be cured by CDT only. |
