Body Type Constitutional Medicine
Constitutional medicine activates your body’s natural ability to heal itself. Rather than merely suppressing symptoms or targeting disease directly, the focus is on restoring your body’s innate capacity for self-repair, which your genes and cells know how to do.
When your body achieves better homeostatic state, many illnesses naturally improve or resolve, and your overall well-being increases.
Your body is remarkably capable of healing itself safely and effectively. By optimizing your body type, we help promote smooth function. A body type is the way your body heals, differing from other body types. As your system regains balance, symptoms often diminish, and vitality improves.
To support this process, we use acupuncture, personalized nutrition, and Asian herbal medicine. These methods are not problem-focused. Rather, they are body type focused.
What Acupuncture Techniques Do You Use?
Our acupuncture techniques are called Bisoma (means two-body) and Sasang (means four-body) (pronouced Sah-Sahng). These techniques use special points on the hands and feet for treatment of a variety of problems. Even low back and migraine are greatly improved with only these acupuncture points. Because the relief is superb, there is no requirement to place acupuncture needles on the site of the injury.
What Diet and Asian Herbal Techniques Do You Use?
We use Korean Sasang medicine, which means Four Constitutions, to guide herbal and dietary treatment. Sasang identifies which foods and herbal ingredients are best suited to your specific body type. Your body type reflects your unique physiology, including how your system heals—different from other types.
Your body type remains same through your life time, just as genes and cells retain information. Sasang medicine was developed by the Korean physician Jema Lee over 150 years ago.
Everyone belongs to one of the four constitutional types. A person’s constitution expresses itself through personality, physiological tendencies, and body structure, providing multiple reliable ways to diagnose accurately. Sasang is a comprehensive system that integrates principles found in traditional world medicines. Its diagnostic framework shares similarities with Indian Ayurveda, Greco-Roman Unani medicine, and even the Myers-Briggs 16 personality system.
Below is an example of the four body types, each associated with a distinct torso shape:
Green: Diamond-shaped torso
Yellow: Double-triangle torso
Blue: Downward triangle torso
Red: Upward triangle torso
