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Constitutional Medicine
Body type or constitution is a grouping of human particularity
in metabolic, functional and structural similarity that has been
formed during incubation period of life.
Constitutional medicine is an approach to looking at how
disease progresses differently among such different groups
of people and administering treatments based on the
recognition of distinguished patterns of each constitutional
type.
While Western medicine has excluded constitution or body
type as a subject of medicine for hundreds of years since
Greek physician Galenus, the two medical traditions in the
East developed comprehensive constitutional medicine. They
are Ayurveda Medicine of India and Sasang Medicine of
Korea.
In Ayurveda, body type is determined by the three major life
forces, called dosha (vata, kapha, and pitta). The doshas are
formed by combining the five basic elements of the Universe.
Then, the doshas affect life energy, called prana, and help
determine a person’s body type, personality, and overall
health.
In Sasang Medicine, body types are distinguished by
predisposed imbalances between four major organs, i.e.
lung, pancreas, liver, and kidney. Four body types are found
as a result of four combinations of imbalance between these
major organs.
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