Two pairs of opposing organs — lung and liver, kidney and spleen — decide which Sasang type you are. The order of the other pair then splits each type in two. Here is the map, with a pen in hand.
Sudden Death as an Accumulation of Small Things: An ECM Reading
Sudden death is hard to explain because it rarely has a single cause. Like an air disaster, it may be small events lining up — and ECM adds unsuitable food and exercise to the list.
The Hidden Cost of Eating Only What Suits You: Fragility, and a Body Used to the Limit
Eating only what suits your constitution sounds like the safest possible diet. In my experience it carries two hidden costs: a body that loses its toughness, and the temptation to spend every gain until something breaks.
The Treefrog, the Pesticide and the Predator: When Does an Unsuitable Food Actually Harm You?
A pesticide that did not harm treefrog tadpoles in the lab became deadly once predator stress was added. I think constitutionally unsuitable food works the same way: its harm depends on the state of the person eating it.
What the Colours on the Constitution Chart Mean — and How Much They Matter
ECM’s lifestyle chart lists beneficial colours as well as foods. A story about coloured kinesiology tape shows where the idea comes from — and why, in daily life, colour matters far less than food.
“Sweaty Exercise Is Harmful”: How Pulmotonia Should Read the Exercise Line on the Constitution Chart
The ECM lifestyle chart tells Pulmotonia that heavy-sweating exercise and saunas are harmful. Taken too literally, that line can stop people exercising at all. Here is how I think it should be read.
Why Pancreotonia’s Lower Body Lags Behind — and How to Build It Up
Pancreotonia tends to have a stronger upper body than lower body. Why qi that gathers in the middle and rises leaves the legs short — and what eating, rest and exercise can do about it.
How ECM Decides Which Foods Are Beneficial or Harmful — and Why the Line Can Move
Eight Constitution Medicine sorts foods into beneficial, harmful and neutral. Here is how those lists are actually built, why a simple good/bad split is too crude, and why the same food can change sides for the same person.
Sleeping Well as a Pulmotonia or Colonotonia: What Helps, and What to Take Away
Sleep rules that apply to everyone, then what specifically helps the Metal constitutions sleep — and why, for Pulmotonia and Colonotonia, removing what is unnecessary matters more than adding something good.
Big Dreams, Weak Stomach: How the Driven Soeumin Ends Up Running Hot
Books describe Renotonia and Vesicotonia as cold, listless and quickly tired. But many are driven people with big ambitions — and when ambition outruns digestion, the result looks like heat on the surface.