
“ACUPUNCTURE CAN TREAT ANYTHING YOU GO TO YOUR DOCTOR FOR.”
The Mystery of Life Seen in the Eight Constitutions 8
December, 1999
Light and Salt
Dr. Dowon Kuon
Animals are classified into carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores, and they are different in their talents, disposition, courage, and preferences according to their species. Although human beings belong one kind of species, every person has different preferences and hobbies, and takes different types of food according to each one's individuality. How may all these different individuals live together in peace? Even moralism or pacifism did not answer this question because they have ignored the matter of human individuality. Democracy has become prevailing because it respects the human individuality.
Mankind’s well-being can be accomplished only when the physical diversity is secured. Every aspect of the practical human living such as food, hygiene, residence, occupation, and medical treatment must be distinctively respected and secured according to the physical diversity of people.
Unfortunately, while mental democracy has barely taken its root, the idea of physical individualism has not even sprouted yet. As a result, people have only dealt with various cases of human life in a uniformed manner. You are fortunate if a certain lifestyle you have adapted by chance happens to fit you; if not, it might be something poisonous and disastrous to you.
At last, the first theory that has come out of this barren land of individualism is the eight constitutional medicine. This theory is not an impractical idealism or an abstract argument but a substantiated practical theory that must be applied without any delay. Every human being is born into the world is given his or her own set of things, which can be considered the will, grace, or mission from Heaven for them. Therefore, one should find out which things have been prepared by Heaven. When he eats and practices the things predestinated by Heaven, he will be healthy and blessed. God has given human beings the eight different types of body constitutions that have the different order of the strong and weak organs, and they exist for eight different individualities. The condition in which all the internal organs are properly arranged in their strength and weakness is called the eight constitutional physiological state or the appropriate hereditary imbalance.
Individuals with different arrangement of strong and weak organs should eat different types of food. When people adhere to their constitutional diet, they are healthy and happy. But when they do not discern their body constitution and live without the consideration of it, the formations of their organs change their state from the appropriate imbalance to the over-imbalance state. This is the physiology of the eight constitutions.
What is the constitutional treatment? As mentioned before, the eight constitutional treatment is to recover the state of the appropriate hereditary imbalance from the state of the acquired over-imbalance caused by a living pattern that does not match one's constitution. This medicine uses a new acupuncture method that had never been used before throughout the 5000-year history of acupuncture—the pulse-examining method. This method of taking pulses through the signs of the eight constitutions in the radius arteries and a diet method that has been classified into eight types have been discovered for the first time. Eight constitutional medicine theory is a life science combined with metaphysics. My hope is that along with democracy that values mental individualism, there will be the proper practice of the eight constitutional medicine in which physical individualism is emphasized, so that human beings may have peaceful, just, healthy, and happy lives in the 21st century.



