Body constitution identification and maintenance

Body constitution in traditional herbal medicine refers to the comprehensive and relatively stable inherent characteristics of the human body in terms of morphological structure, physiological function and psychological state formed on the basis of innate endowment and acquired acquisition during the life process of the human body.

It is the human personality characteristics formed during the growth and development process of human beings that are adapted to the natural and social environment.

Thus if we know our body constitution now, we may make proper maintenance to our body constitution to achieve perfect health. We may even repair our body if the damage is still relatively small.

Thus let us find out what our body constitution is, and how we may start a maintenance program to achieve perfect health. Then we will be far away from doctors, medicines, surgery, and hospitals. Furthermore, we will be able to live actively and independently without nursing care. Do you like that?

01 Uses of the classification

We will start with the identification of our body constitution. Then we will go into the maintenance guidance plan aimed at the prevention, treatment, and health management of illnesses related to the body constitution thus identified.

The plan embodies the idea of “treating the illness before it is too late” prevalent in traditional herbal medicine thinking. The guidance plan is a proven effective way to “treat the illness before it is too late.”

Methods and important approaches are conducive to the implementation of individualized diagnosis and treatment, conducive to improving the health quality of the person, and play an important role in the prevention and treatment of chronic non-communicable diseases.

02 The classification types

The body constitution identification and maintenance guidance specifically refers to determining the physical attributes of an individual through body constitution identification, and then aiming at a completely balanced constitution as the objective of health preservation.

Thus, as practitioners of life cultivation, if we practice daily on body identification and maintenance as a guidance, then we will be able to routinely perform maintenance of health on ourselves, adjusting our body constitution to its ideal norm through routine maintenance techniques.

In the year 2009, the China Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine released the “Classification and Determination of Traditional Chinese Medicine Constitution” and formulated the “Classification and Determination Table of Traditional Chinese Medicine Constitution”, which provides methods, tools and evaluation systems for the quantitative identification of traditional Chinese medicine constitution.

The body constitution is divided into nine basic types.
Type A, balanced constitution
Type B, qi-deficiency constitution
Type C, yang-deficiency constitution
Type D, yin-deficiency constitution
Type E, phlegm-dampness constitution
Type F, damp-heat constitution
Type G, blood-stasis constitution
Type H, qi-stagnation constitution
Type I, special constitution

Each body constitution has its own unique characteristics which we will explore later.

The judgment standard determines the balanced body constitution as the normal constitution and the other eight constitutions as deviations. The judgment results are quantitatively graded.

The balanced constitution is divided into three levels: yes, basically yes and no. Likewise, the deviated constitution is divided into three levels: yes, inclinational yes and no.

03 How to determine your body constitution types

If you want to know your own body constitution, there are several options.

01 You may follow the standard published by the China Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine. A full description of the standard is fully explained in a post on this website. You may use the search function to locate the articles on this.

After reading the article, if you still have questions, you may contact us to help you to determine your body constitution type.

02 You may seek the help of a professional practitioner of herbal medicine. Ask him to tell you what your body constitution type is and then remember it, and treat your body accordingly.

03 You may seek the help of an instrument which you can buy from us. However, if you are going to use it only once, it is not a very wise option. We think it is a waste of money.

However, in view of the fact that many people buy a weighing machine, or a thermometer, or a blood pressure measuring machine, or a glucose level measuring machine, and so on, it may not be surprising to see people buying the body constitution measuring machine.

04 A brief summary

There are now available formulated relevant body constitution maintenance guidance programs based on various body constitutions. It makes it easy for even a layman to implement a maintenance program on a daily basis for himself.

We hereby gather relevant information of the relevant maintenance guidance programs for each type of the body constitution and publish them in more articles to come. You may follow the program based on your body constitution type.

If you want, you may contact us to hire a knowledgeable person to help you in your guidance program. It is similar to hiring a personal trainer in the gym to guide you in your personal training.

In future articles, we will focus on the classification of body constitution into nine types and the methods of adjusting each type into the balanced type.

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