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1. What is Sasang Constitution Type?
Lee Je-ma (1837-1900) is the founder of Sasang Constitution Type Medicine. It is the most creative and original medicine of Korea, and there is no such example even in China, Taiwan, Japan and anywhere else. Lee Je-ma was a philosopher and a medical expert living in the latter Yi(Chosun) Dynasty. He distinguished body types of mankind into four different categories based on the philosophy of Confucianism, which was absolutely different from the previous oriental medicine based on Yin and Yang. In Sasang Constitution Type Medicine, people have diverse appearances, personalities and biological & clinical characteristics, which govern what type of medical treatment has to be applied to each person. And as an original Korean clinic, it has an object of making people live in a harmonized way by understanding one’s own constitution type, enlarging the advantage of it, and supplementing its insufficiency. It also aims to make people have appropriate mindset and healthy social relationship, and also adapt proper lifestyle and foods which are matched with their own constitution types. And this will eventually lead them to prevention of possible diseases.
Sasang Constitutional Medicine(四象醫學) is a Korean Creative Constitutional medicine by Je-ma Lee(李濟馬) of Yi(Chosun) Dynasty.
In Sasang constitutional Medicine human bings are classified in four constitutions :Taeyangin(太陽人),Taeumin(太陰人), Soyangin(少陽人) and soeumin(少陰人).
And it is presents different ways to live and to treat diseases according to the constitution in general life.
There are four basic principles in Sasang Constitutional Medicine.
The first principles is affairs (事) - mind (心) - body (身)- objects(物) ;
the second principle is heaven (天) - human (人) - nature (性) - order (命) ;
the third principle is the different congenital formation of organs :
and the last principle is moderation(中庸).
To distinguish the Sasang Constitutional Medical Type is not easy, because the learning, social position, circumstances.
In the WOOREE Oriental Medical Clinic, distinguish the Sasang Constitutional Medical Type by Sasang Constitutional Medical questions paper, Sasang Constitutional Medical Computer Programs, appearance, character, constitutional physiology and pathology, and sometimes using the Kinesiological test, Herbal Drug Test, O-ring Test, etc.
Lastly, I decide the Sasang Constitutional Medical Type by watching the reaction after taking the constitutional herbal medicine.
[Dongyi Soose Bowon]
2. Sasang Constitution Type Diagnosis Program of Wooreedul Korean Medical Clinic
You can confirm your constitutional type by answering the questionnaire below. And by clicking the picture of your constitutional type, you can check characters, cautions, recommended diet, life and exercise therapy for your type.
◈ Wooreedul Medical Clinic’s Sasang Constitution Type Diagnosis Program
◈ Questionaire for diagnosis of Sasang constitution Medicine Type.
◈ ｳﾘ(ﾄﾞｩﾙ)韓医院 四象体質設問(Japan日本語)
◈ Wooredul Medical Clinic’s Sasang Constituion Type Diagnosis Questionnaire (For Patients)
3. Sasang Constitution Types
1) The Greater Yang Person (Taeyangin)
Appearance
People of this type likes being aggressive, heroic and demagogic. Its body type has a strongly developed head and a neck with a relatively weak waistline which hinders the person from standing or walking for a long time. In terms of the face shape, it has luster in the eyes to overwhelm others and the overall face looks big and strong.
Personality
This typed person can communicate with anybody easily, and do everything easily without hesitation, and also is able to get along with people even at first acquaintance. The type is mannish a lot and has a strong driving force, but sometimes becomes radical, heroic and arrogant.
Recommended Foods
Plain and cool foods, vegetables, low-fat foods, seafood, crucian carp, shrimp, shellfish(Oyster, ear shell, turban shell), octopus, squid, crab, sea slug, grapes, persimmon, cherry, fruit of Actinidia arguta, papaya, wild vine, pine pollen powder, buckwheat, cool noodle(naengmyeon), pine needle, papaya tea, persimmon leaf tea, ogapi tea
Foods to avoid (In case having a disease written in the brackets, be more careful)
Spicy, hot and high fat foods, high-calorie foods, soda drinks, ice cream, bread, noodles, instant foods, canned foods, chemical seasoning, radish(indigestion), beef and sugar(eye troubles), yellow corbina(full body discomfort)
2) The Lesser Yang Person (Soyangin)
Appearance
People of this type are broad-minded, shrewd and artistic. Its body type has big and wide chests and shoulders with relatively small hips, which make one’s overall shape as an inverted triangle. It tends to have a weak waist, and while walking, one looks moving very fast but the upper body is swaying with no stability. Regarding the face shape, it is also an inverted-triangle-look with a wide or projected forehead, pointed jaws, sharp eyes and thin lips.
Personality
This typed person is very creative and makes many new ideas, incorruptible, passionate and also honest. The type has a strong service mind for others, so passionate about other people’s matters, and shows honest emotional expressions. However, people in this type tend to proceed many things at the same time and do not finalize them properly. And also, the type tends to avoid personal or family matters, and shows off oneself to others.
Recommended Foods
Pork, Egg, Duck(Prohibited for Paralytic, High Blood, Diabetic), Oyster, Sea Cucumber, Shrimp, Turban Shell, Snakehead Mullet, Globefish, Snapping Turtle, Mud Snail, Ascidian, Crab, Crawfish, Carp, Flatfish, Mackerel, Tuna, Pacific Saury, Watermelon, Melon, Grape, Strawberry, Banana, Pineapple, Melon(Summer Fruit, Tropic Fruit), Chinese Cabbage, Cucumber, Egg Apple, Pumpkin, Cabbage, Burdock, Fresh Vegetables, Barley, Red Bean, Green Bean, Sesame Seed, Buckwheat
Foods to avoid (In case having a disease written in the brackets, be more careful)
Hot foods, soda drinks, ice cream, bread, noodle, instant foods, canned foods, chemical seasonings, chicken, beef, milk(Indigestion, nettle rash, stomachache, diarrhea or constipation), honey, dog meat, goat, ginseng(fever), peanuts(headache, fatigue), red pepper, ginger, green onion, garlic, pepper, mustard, curry
3) The Greater Yin Person (Taeeumin)
Appearance
People of Teeumin are patient and have good appetites. The body is humid and unstably circulated with a thick waistline and a thin neck, but its overall body looks grand, and there are many obese people with heavy bones. Taeeumin has a round face in general, and its facial line is distinct with big and vivid features, such as big eyes, thick lips, rough skins and big pores.
Personality
The type is the best suitable type for a social life, so once the typed person starts some works, he tries to accomplish it until the end. One in the type is so stable and patient to stick to one place. He has a broaden mind to think of everything, decent and careful in every single matter. On the other hand, the type is coward, so gives up even before starting something, and lazy with showing not too much movements. He is also very much into himself to care of his own things but not external concerns, greedy and conservative.
Recommended Foods
Beef, Milk, Butter, Cheese(Prohibited for High-Blood, Diabetic, arteriosclerotic, Paralytic), Liver Oil, Spawn of a Pollack, Mud Snail, Eel, Codfish, Brown See Weed, See Weed, Laver, Seafood, Pear, Chestnut, Nut, Gingko Nut, Sweet Potato, Pine Nuts, Peanuts, Plum, Apricot, Radish, Chinese Bellflower, Lotus Root, Taro, Mushroom, Carrot, Bracken, Wheat, Bean, Adlay, Bean Sprouts, Flour Food, Tofu, Perilla, African Millet, Brown Rice, Adlay Tea, Schisandra Chinensis Fruits’ Tea, Perilla Tea, Arrowroot Tea, Sulloc Tea, Mushroom Tea
Foods to avoid (In case having a disease written in the brackets, be more careful)
High-calorie foods, fats, soda drinks, ice cream, instant foods, canned foods, egg, chicken(People with Paralysis, high-blood pressure, heart disease, anemia, gallstones, neurosis), dog meat, goat(fever, hemorrhoids), row radish, apple(diarrhea, cough), pork(cold, cough, neuralgia, high-blood pressure, heart disease, hemorrhoids), honey, sugar, chemical seasonings
4) The Lesser Yin Person (Soeumin)
Appearance
This type is very attentive, accurate and polite. Its body is cold with big hips and narrow and weak chests. The body shape is generally small and skinny, but there are some tall people, too. Soeumin has weak digestion, and cannot eat so much. Features on this typed person’s face are small and tidy, looking so accurate to make no mistake at all, and especially, there are many oriental-looking beauties in the type.
Personality
The type is attentive in every matter, tidy and friendly to gather people around. Rather than working outdoor places, he prefers to work inside of the office or at hone, also is so much feminine, tender, sentimental and homely. On the other hand, the typed person likes things comfortable and safe. And because he tries to make everything clear, there are always some troubles happened. Getting a lot of stresses, having too strong individualism, disliking others’ interruptions are also the type’s characteristics.
Recommended Foods
Chicken, Lamb, Goat, Roe Deer, Pheasant, Dog Soup(Prohibited for Paralytic, High Blood, Diabetic), Walleye Pollack, Dried Walleye Pollack, Loach, Sea Bream, Anchovy, Croaker, Harvest Fish, Jujube, Apple, Tangerine, Peach, Tomato, Orange, Citron, Spinach, Dropwort, Cabbage, Crown Daisy, Spring Onion, Garlic, Ginger, Red Pepper, Mustard, Curry, Sticky Rice, Foxtail Millet, Potato, Ginseng Tea, Ginger Tea, Citron Tea, Cinnamon Tea, Honey Tea
Foods to avoid (In case having a disease written in the brackets, be more careful)
Cold foods, Soda drinks, Ice creams, Bread, Noodles, Instant Foods, Canned Foods, Buckwheat, Radish(Cough, acute gastritis, nephritis), beef, milk(cold, bronchial trouble, appendicitis, haemorrhoids), pear, water melon, melon, cucumber, sweet potato, chestnut, walnut(indigestion), green bean, barley, red bean(diarrhea, indigestion), pork(indigestion, gastritis)
4. The origin of Sasang Constitution Type Medicine and “The Book of Changes”
When talking about Sasang medicine, people remind “The Book of Changes” first. In “The Book of Changes,” Yangeui(兩儀) came from The Great Absolute(太極) and Sasang(四象) came from Yangeui(兩儀), and eight signs of divination came from Sasang(四象). Lee Je-Ma explained it clearly in his philosophical book in “Bansungjam(反誠箴) of Kyuckchigo(格致藁).” The great absolute expresses mind(心), Yangeui expresses body and mind(心身), sasang expresses work, mind, body and object(事心身物), work(事) has the start and the end(終始), mind(心) has quick and slow(緩急), body(身) has the first and the later(先後), and object has the original and the end(本末).
5. Sasang Constitution Medicine and Humanism, personality of joy, anger, sorrow and pleasure
Closely examining its theological background of Lee Je-Ma’s constitution medicine, it is absolutely different from Taoism of yin and yang. Lee Je-Ma thought about the Sasang Medicine based on humanism, which means the distinction of four constitutions was made based on each type’s personalities of joy, anger, sorrow and pleasure. And he also analyzed a disease’s improvement and deterioration based on personalities of joy, anger, sorrow and pleasure.
6. Characteristics of Sasang Constitution Medicine
Sasang Constitution Medicine is regarded as an original Korean medicine and has characteristics like written below.
1) A medicine with a structure of four elements
In the book “Kyuckchigo”, Lee Je-Ma called The Great Absolute(太極) as mind(心), Yangeui(兩儀) as mind and body(心身) and Sasang as work, mind, body and object(事心身物). Based on this, he explained a structure of four elements in space as 天人性命, a structure of four elements in social circumstance as 仁義禮智, 忠孝友悌, 士農工商, 田宅邦, a structure of four elements in a human body’s biology as 耳目鼻口, 肺脾肝腎, 頭肩腰臀, 함臆臍腹, and a structure of four elements in a human’s constitutional type as 太陽人, 太陰人, 少陽人, 少陰人.
2) A medicine focused on human beings
If the previous oriental medicines were started from a background of Taoism, Sasang constitution medicine is a medicine with a background of Confucianism.
3) A medicine for treating body and mind
Different from the previous oriental medicines treating diseases only with medication and acupuncture, it brought “psychological stability” to realize a medical treatment on balance between body and mind.
4) Metaphysically demonstrating Medicine
If the previous medicines could be called as identical medicines, Sasang Constitution Medicine could be called as “Metaphysically Demonstrating Medicine” That is, it links unseen psychological phenomenon with physical phenomenon, and explains biological phenomenon of bodies in an easy and clear term.
5) A Medicine presenting a new method of treatment
In Sasang Constitution Medicine, symptoms are shown based and focused on a person’s vigor, so even if people get same diseases, each constitution type can show different resistance toward the diseases, and Sasang constitution medicine followed this theology, treating patients.
6) A Medicine of Prevention in an ordinary life through Constitution Type Maintenance
Lee Je-Ma focused on cultivation of personality and made people search for the method in their ordinary lives.
Specialized in Sasang Constitution Medicine (Diet), Wooree Korean Medical Clinic
Specialized in Body Correction (Disc), Wooreedul Korean Medical Clinic
Dr. Su-Beom Kim Ph. D. in Korean Medicine
Representative Director, Wooreedul Korean Medical Clinic
Chairman, The Institute of Korean Pain Medicine (IKPM)
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