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.
Why Some People Go Quiet at the Dinner Table: Vesicotonia and the Energy Cost of Eating
For some people, conversation during a meal is a burden — not out of rudeness, but because eating already takes most of what they have. Why Vesicotonia, and those with a recessive lung, often fall silent at the table.
The Vesicotonia Quiz: Ten True-or-False Questions for People Who Think They Know the Type
Vesicotonia was the top search term on my blog last year. So here is a deeper test than “I feel the cold, so I must be Soeumin”: ten true-or-false questions, with the reasoning behind each answer.
The Soyangin Who Can’t Digest and the Soeumin Who Digests Fine: Why Strengths Turn Into Weaknesses
Lee Je-ma said Soeumin are healthy when digestion is good and Soyangin when the bowels move. In clinic it is less simple: Soeumin who digest well and Soyangin who cannot are both common — and both stories are about strengths and weaknesses trading places.