Bone and muscle: a bone cannot hold its own position. What keeps the spine up is the muscle gripping it and the organ function feeding it — which is why exercise and sleep matter more than the adjustment.
Why a Correction Never Holds: Chuna Therapy and the Tissue Around the Bone
Why spinal corrections slip back within days: the bone is only the pillar, and the muscle, ligament and fascia around it decide whether the alignment holds. How Chuna therapy sequences its steps.
Sprains Come from Fatigue, Not Accidents: Why It Happens on an Ordinary Day
Most sprains happen on ordinary days, in a body carrying accumulated fatigue. Why symptoms cannot distinguish a sprain from a fracture, and why the ache that returns when you are tired is worth listening to.
What Chronic Headache and Painkillers Taught Me: Minor Illness, Immunity and Longevity
A pathologist’s account of living with unexplained chronic headache — including the years of near-daily painkillers, why that was a mistake, and what the pain taught about rest, immunity and longevity.
Painkillers and Food: Why the Same Dose Works Slowly on a Full Stomach
Painkillers and food: why the same dose works quickly on one day and barely at all on another. How ingredient, formulation and your own gastric motility decide when relief arrives.
Pain Is How the Body Distributes Energy: Four Types of Pain and the Two Behind Them
Modern medicine sorts the types of pain into four mechanisms; Korean medicine into two states of qi. The two overlap — and together they show pain as a device for distributing limited energy.
Headache in the Pulmotonia Constitution: Why the Usual Remedies Work Against This Type
In the Pulmotonia constitution, painkillers, alcohol, deep massage and heavy sweating all work against a headache rather than for it. Why this sympathetic-tense type has to find the cause instead.
Headache in the Colonotonia Constitution: When a Reactive Large Intestine Tightens the Body
In the Colonotonia constitution, headache rarely starts in the head. A reactive large intestine tightens the muscles and organs — and sweating or deep massage entrenches the problem rather than clearing it.
Headache in the Cholecystonia Constitution: A Cold Lower Belly and Stagnant Qi
New to ECM? Start with What Is Eight Constitution Medicine? for the basics of the eight body types. Headache in the Cholecystonia constitution (목음체질) can be thought of along two lines: headache arising from a cold, sensitive lower abdomen, and headache arising when qi cannot disperse and stagnates — the headache that travels with low […]
Headache in the Hepatonia Constitution: When the Liver Gathers Too Much
New to ECM? Start with What Is Eight Constitution Medicine? for the basics of the eight body types. When you call to mind the average picture of each constitution, Hepatonia (목양체질) seems a long way from chronic headache. This is the most easygoing of the types, and the least given to minding how others see […]