Most heel pain settles. The version that keeps coming back is usually telling you something about the whole body rather than the foot — and there is a reason two constitutions get the stubborn kind more often.
What Diarrhoea Is Telling You: Five Mechanisms in Korean Medicine
Diarrhoea is not only an unpleasant symptom. Read one way, it is the body deciding that getting something out fast matters more than absorbing it — and which of the five mechanisms is producing it changes what you should do about it.
Sweating Through Every Meal: What Your Stomach Is Telling You
Everyone sweats over hot food. Sweating heavily whenever you eat rice or anything spicy, while the people around you stay dry, points at something about your stomach — and there are three quite different versions of it.
What a Nosebleed Tells You: Heat With Somewhere to Go
Nosebleeds are treated as a sign of overwork, but overwork rarely produces one on its own. What it does indicate is heat — and in an otherwise healthy person, a nosebleed can be heat finding an exit.
Cold Hands in Pancreotonia: Not Too Little Heat, but Heat in the Wrong Place
The constitution known for running hot is also one of the most common to present with cold hands and feet. That is not a contradiction — and it explains why the warming foods these patients reach for make it worse.
What Fever Is For: Growth, Emergency, and Immunity
Fever is unpleasant, so we treat bringing it down as the treatment. But feeling better afterwards is often because the body used the heat to resolve something. Three physiological domains where heat is doing necessary work.
Safe Infant Sleep: The Standard Rules, and Why Each One Makes Sense
The safe-sleep rules come from paediatric bodies, not from Korean medicine. But understanding why each one exists makes them far easier to apply consistently — and the arousal framing supplies that understanding.
The Crying That Means the System Is Working: Night Waking, Arousal, and the Sovereign Fire
A baby who wakes and cries is exhausting. But read one way, that crying is evidence that a protective system is doing its job — and the same reading casts a difficult light on what happens when it does not.
Precocious Puberty: What the Herbs Being Used Tell Us About the Cause
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.