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Constitutional Acupuncture

Sasang Diagnosis with Western Personality Assessments

The Western Personality Assessments Provide More Characteristics to Diagnose

the Sasang Constitutions.

By David Lee, L.Ac.

creator of Wonder Woman, ESTJ, and ISTJ. Soyangins are Conscientiousness. Soeumins
found the emotions of people ESFP, ISFP, ENFP, INFP, ENTP, have low Openness, low
as Dominance (Taeeumin), and INTP. Soeumins are ENFJ, Conscientiousness, and high
Influence (Soyangin), INFJ, ENTJ, and INTJ. Cold Agreeableness. Cold Taeumins
Steadiness (Soeumin), and Taeumins (Soeumin) are ESFJ, (Soeumin) have low Openness,
Conscientiousness (Soeumin, ISFJ, ESTJ, and ISTJ. high Conscientiousness,
cold Taeumin). Big Five, 1950-present, is the and high Agreeableness. All
David McClelland, 1917 – most scientifically validated constitutions have high and low
1988, was a Harvard professor, temperament assessment Extraversion.
whose research identified the tool using five personality Jema Lee would be proud to see
three basic motivation types. dimensions. Taeeumins are his medicine regularly practiced
Their primary motivations are characterized by high Openness, all over the world. With the
caused by Power (Taeeumin), high Conscientiousness, increased ability to diagnose the
Achievement (Soyangin), and low Agreeableness, and low Sasang constitutions, his 100-
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Affiliation (Soeumin and cold Neuroticism. Soyangins year prediction of it being in
Dr. Jema Lee’s neo-Confucian opportunity to assess the Taeeumin). have high Openness low every household is now ready.
interpretation of the four constitutions in various races of Merrill and Reid, 1950s,
constitutions set off a revolution people at my clinic in suburban observed the external social Four Constitutions (4체질)
in the world of East Asian Los Angeles. styles rather than internal Jema Lee Taeeumin Soyangin Soeumin Soeumin
Hippocrates Yellow Bile Blood Phlegm Black Bile
medicine. His proof was the Hippocrates premised that thought processes. The four
Unani Choleric Sanguine Phlegmatic Melancholic
efficacy and reliability of the the imbalance of the four social types are Driving Galen-
rearranged foods and herbal humors, Yellow Bile, Black (Taeumin), Expressive Avicenna hot and dry hot and wet cold and wet cold and dry
David Power Achievement Affiliation Affiliation
medicines for these body types. Bile, Blood, and Phlegm caused (Soyangin), Amiable (Soeumin),
McClelland Need Need Need Need
Personality profiling by disease. Physician Aelius and Analytical (Soeumin, cold
Merrill and Driver Expressive Amiable Analytical
western thinkers has made Galenus (Galen) 129 – 216 Taeumin).
Reid
the Sasang constitutions AD converted the humors Myers-Briggs, 1897-1980, William D I S C
easier to diagnose. The long into Four Temperaments as created 16 personality types Marston Driving Influencing Steadiness Conscientious
research on personalities, since climatic natures of hot-dry based on the works by the Big Five Low High Open Low Open Low Open
Hippocrates circa 400 B.C. to Choleric (Taeeumin), hot-damp psychologist Carl Jung. Myers- (OCEAN) High Open Conscientious Conscientious Conscientious
High High High
the present, is now unified with Sanguine (Soyangin), cold- Briggs Type Indicator MBTI Conscientious Agreeable Agreeable
the power of Sasang medicine. damp Phlegmatic (Soeumin), uses pair opposites to determine Agreeable
Because human beings are and cold-dry Melancholic Extrovert (E) or Introvert (I), Myers- ESTP ENFP ENFJ ESFJ
identical across the globe, the (Soeumin, cold Taeumin). Sensing (S) or Intuitive (I), Briggs ESTJ ENTP ENTJ ESTJ
ISTP ESFP INFJ ISFJ
characteristics of constitutions William Marston, 1893-1947, Feeling (F) or Thinking (T),
ISTJ INFP INTJ ISTJ
can be conveniently identified. a discoverer of a polygraph and Judging (J) or Perceiving INTP
For 17 years, I had the machine (lie detector) and a (P). Taeeumins are ESTP, ISTP, ISFP

The effectiveness and safety of cupping therapy for stroke survivors: A systematic

review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials ① Introduction

By Mikyung Kim(1Department of Internal Medicine, College of Korean Medicine, Sangji University),
Chang-ho Han(Department of Internal Medicine, College of Korean Medicine, Dongguk University)

The aging of the population and Cupping therapy is a form of stroke rehabilitation. However, at
the reduction in stroke deaths intervention that provides negative the time, only two uncontrolled
are expected to lead to further pressure on the skin by suctioning observational studies and three
increases in the prevalence of the air inside a cup and has been randomized controlled trials (RCTs)
stroke and socioeconomic burden widely used in multiple cultures comparing the effects of cupping
in the future3). throughout the world5,6). In therapy with different unproven
Therefore, now is the time to particular, it has one of the most techniques were identified in the
pay attention not only to current commonly used interventions in search, so only a narrative review
stroke strategies mainly focused modern East Asian traditional of the clinical evidence available at
on emergent and intensive care medicine to date5). Indications of the time for this topic was possible.
in the acute stage but also to cupping therapy covered almost Therefore, this study aimed to
continuous monitoring and medical all systems of the human body update the findings of the previous
△Indications of cupping therapy covered almost all human support for stroke survivors3). and mind in traditional medicine1), study6) by systematically reviewing
body and mind systems, including various complications Interest in complementary and including various complications currently available RCTs, performing
experienced by stroke survivors. image(c)AdobeStock_Tyler
Olson alternative medicine, represented experienced by stroke survivors6). a meta-analysis and providing
by traditional or folk medicine, In 2010, Lee et al6). published evidence-based information for
Stroke is one of the leading causes Although stroke mortality is on the has been increasing as one of the results of a systematic review those considering the application of
of death worldwide, accounting decline1), many stroke survivors the methods to satisfy the unmet of the clinical literature on the cupping therapy for stroke patients.
for 10% of the world’s mortality1). still suffer from residual disability2). needs of stroke survivors4). effect of cupping therapy for (→ To be Continued.)