Ninety percent of precocious puberty has no clear identified cause. But the KTM formulas that have shown effect share a common target — heat — and that convergence is itself a piece of evidence about where to look.
Why Boys and Girls Grow on Different Schedules
Girls start earlier and finish earlier; boys start later and keep going. The endocrine account is well established. What KTM adds is a reading of why the two schedules might differ in the first place — and a fish experiment that makes the point.
Does Weight Turn Into Height? Why the Old Saying No Longer Holds
“Let the child eat — it all turns into height.” That was reasonable advice when food was scarce and children ran outdoors all day. Two things have changed since, and they change the answer.
Morning Sickness in Korean Medicine: The Womb, the Stomach, and Why Clinicians Hesitate
KTM has effective formulas for morning sickness and a candid reason why clinics are reluctant to prescribe them. The reluctance has less to do with the medicine than with what else happens in the first trimester.
Bulsusan and the Postpartum Timeline: When Constitution Takes Second Place
People who avoid herbal medicine their whole lives seek it out around childbirth. The formula they are usually given is Bulsusan — and its timing matters more than its ingredients. It is also one of the clearest cases where life stage outranks constitution.
Why Korea Has Postpartum Wind and the West Does Not
Korean mothers check into facilities for weeks after giving birth. Western mothers generally do not. The difference starts with a concept — sanhupung — and ends with a prejudice worth retiring.
Heart Palpitations: Sorting Out Which Kind You Have
Tests come back clean, stress does not seem severe, and the heart still races. Four categories that sort the problem — including the awkward one KTM calls mibyeong, the state before disease. The overview article for this series.
What Makes a Heart Race: The Five Organs Behind the Symptom
In Korean Traditional Medicine the heart keeps a steady beat and little else. The uncomfortable racing comes from elsewhere — chiefly the liver and the kidney. Why stress becomes heat, and why alcohol and short sleep reach the heart by way of the kidney.
Heart Palpitations in Colonotonia: A Signal to Stop Watching the World
Colonotonia is the most outward-facing of the eight constitutions, and it receives the signal most readily. But the heat does not accumulate inside — which is why a racing heart here is less a warning about the heart than an instruction about attention.
Heart Palpitations in Pulmotonia: The Same Taeyangin, a Different Temperament
Pulmotonia and Colonotonia are both Taeyangin, so one would expect them to be alike. In the consulting room the impressions differ considerably — and palpitations are where that difference shows.