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12 Opinion Nov 1, 2020 Vol. 20 Hani Times
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Western Meets Eastern: “Precision Medicine” Adopts Ideas from the Eastern Medicine’

All People Are Different. So, Medicine Should Consider the Difference of Each Person
and Disease to Overcome its Limitation.

and the Eight-Constitutional announced that he's launching characteristics, such as a
medicine believes food serves the Precision Medicine Initiative person's genetic makeup or
an essential role in maintaining during the 2015 State of the the genetic profile of an
people's health. Union address. individual's tumor. This is
helping transform the way
In Korea, researchers have been He said, "Until now, most we can treat diseases such
trying to distinguish between medical treatments have as cancer: Patients with
two different constitutional been designed for the average breast, lung, and colorectal
medicines and prove each patient. As a result of this cancers, as well as melanomas
theory's principles based on one-size-fits-all approach, and leukemias, for instance,
scientific evidence since the treatments can be successful routinely undergo molecular
△ Recently, conventional medicine adopts a constitutional 1990s. for some patients but not testing as part of patient
medical approach. 사진ⓒ shutterstock_T. L. Furrer for others." He continued, care, enabling physicians to
There was good news. Because "To overcome, we need an select treatments that improve
constitution are from different people understand the limitations innovative approach that chances of survival and reduce
strengths of the lungs, liver, of conventional medicine and takes into account individual exposure to adverse effects.
spleen, and kidneys. started to adopt the ideas that differences in people's genes,
Sasang typology classifies all each person is different, and environments, and lifestyles. I would like to add a diagnosis
population into four types based standardized therapy for specific It gives medical professionals from the constitutional medicine
on their biopsychosocial traits symptoms cannot benefit all the resources they need to to "precision medicine." To apply
with a combination of yin/yang populations. target the specific treatments the constitutional medicine
and greater/lesser: tae-yang of the illness we encounter." to conventional medicine, we
By David Park, Founder, (태양, 太陽) or "greater yang"; In conventional medicine, the should develop subjective
South Baylo University so-yang (소양, 小陽) or "lesser concept of precision medicine Advances in Precision Medicine methods to distinguish each
yang"; tae-eum (태음, 太陰) or has been emerging. The precision have already led to powerful person's constitution and
"greater yin"; and so-eum (소 medicine was introduced since discoveries and several new diagnosis for conventional
Some people sleep like a log, 음, 小陰) or "lesser yin." the last president Obama treatments tailored to specific medical personals.
even drinking ten cups of Each type consists of a
coffee throughout the day. But classification of pathology,
some others feel palpitation medicine, and hygiene depending
and trouble falling asleep after on personality, psychological Whitehead’s view of the Human Body
drinking a cup of coffee. There status, and organ functionality. as an Organic Society
are ones who always suffer Lee, Je Ma focused and stressed
from cold hands and feet and each type has its typical and
easily feel cold. There are also distinctive desires and states of
the mechanist materialism or body is not composed of a
ones who easily feel the heat mind. If one only follows one's By Simon C. Kim, materialist mechanism. mechanistic molecular entity.
and drinking cold beverages desire without controlling it, the Director of Korean Han Spirit The great triumph of early The human body is achieving
during the cold season. There stronger organ would stronger, ‘modern’ natural science was on a scale of concentrated
are ones who easily catch a cold and the weaker organs would possible on the assumption efficiency a type of social
It is not easy to compare two of a mechanical universe. organization. (PR 119) This
and suffer from respiratory be weaker. Lee, Je Ma believed
different ideas, especially However, the time is to come philosophical premise of
allergies or infections. There that organs' deviation acts as when they came from different when the growth of knowledge Whitehead’s organism is very
are ones who have chronic a pathogen that develops the cultural backgrounds in different necessitated the adoption of similar to Qi philosophy in East
gastritis or indigestion. physical and emotional illness. languages. Nevertheless, a more organic philosophy no Asian culture. (You can use
To live without diseases, he comparative ideas between less naturalistic than atomic the terminology of ‘Chinese’
Examples of differences between stressed meditation to control Whitehead’s Philosophy of materialism. (J. Needham, instead of East Asian if it is
Organism and Qi philosophy 1956. P. 505) Joseph Needham convenient for you to grasp
the individual are abundant. and suppress one's distinctive
in Eastern Medicine provide suggested that Neo-Confucian this idea.) Many scholars are
I wanted to show how people desires.
affluent insights understanding philosophy was fundamentally apt to characterize Eastern
could be different depending There is also Eight- the universe and nature. In a philosophy of organism and medicine as a medical system
on their constitution or body Constitutional Medicine, a sense, knowledge is an that Chu Hsi’s philosophy based on a ‘holistic, organic
types. which started by Dr. Kuon, intellectual product derived attained a position analogous view of nature.’
Dowon (1921~present) from differentiation. So, any to that of Whitehead. (ibid,
adventure of ideas is subject P.458) I would like to present my
The Sasang constitutional in 1965. The medicine
to be ignited by hybridization. There is a body, a human body. idea about Whitehead’ view of
medicine (사상의학 四象醫 understands each innate
However, to compare two You never defy this basic the human body by examining
學) or Sasang typology is a constitution physiologically ideas to find out any common experience inside and outside of some basic assumptions of his
typological constitution medicine and pathologically. Dr. Kuon ground among them, we need your body as ‘Nexus’ of ‘Actual process philosophy
of Traditional Korean medicine. says, "each unique with its a broader perspective about Entity’ or ‘Actual Occasions’ in I have divided the discourse
The theory was developed dynamic association between the given topic. That is why terms of Whitehead’ Process into two parts; the first
systematized by Lee, Je Ma , organs, strives to maintain the I have to start this paper from philosophy. There are also concerned with a world view
philosophical premises in the cells, tissues, and body organs in the light of metaphysical
in his book Longevity and Life patient's best possible condition
contemporary scientific world in the human body. You don’t philosophy. And the second
Preservation in Eastern Medicine of health by enhancing the
view. Nobody can deny the need any knowledge for this with the specific view of the
(東醫壽世保元, 동의수세보원) immune system up to its optimal accomplishment of modern basic insight even though we human body as an organic
in 1894. It divides people into state." The Eight-Constitutional civilization constructed by have learned all those names society.
four body types based on their Medicine developed its natural sciences, which is, in ordinary languages. I will discuss more regarding
biopsychosocial traits. Lee, Je acupuncture techniques for in their premises, based on According to Whitehead, the the world view next month.
Ma thought differences of each each constitutions' symptoms,