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Introduction
"You have an impetuous temperament,"
I said, silently taking the pulse of a sixty-two year old
patient.
"Huh?
How did you know? Does the pulse show the temperament
too?"
Her son, standing nearby, exclaimed in surprise.
"Of
course, and not only the temperament. Your mother has a
great internal warmth and drinks cold water even in severe
winter. And she has weak kidneys and bladder from
birth."
"No
one can curtail my mother's impetuous temperament. One of
her kidneys was operated on ten years ago, and nowadays she
doesn't sleep well because of having to urinate frequently at
night. Now it's clear that she has had these problems since
birth."
If
a bystander were to hear the conversation with that patient, he
might look at me not as a doctor who heals people, but as a
practitioner of telepathy or physiognomy, or someone who heals
by some mysterious magical power. But it is not any kind of
sorcery to learn a patient's general character and physiological
and pathological state from taking the pulse, nor is it very
difficult for students of constitutional medicine. It's
more surprising, that my constitutional acupuncture based on
constitutional medical science can have unimaginably miraculous
effect compared to classical acupuncture known as Chinese
acupuncture.
The
above-mentioned patient's left shoulder hurt so much that she
couldn't lift her left arm, nor sleep at night, due to the pain.
But, right after one of my acupuncture treatments, she
could easily lift her arm. Usually for such a patient it
would take more than two weeks of general acupuncture
treatments, or by Western medical treatments, even longer.
The patient was completely well after only five of my
treatments.
Let
me give some examples.
There was a patient about 50 years old. His right eyebrow
completely covered his eye in two or three days because of a
problem with the optic nerve. His black pupil was aimed to
the side as though he were wall-eyed and suddenly he was seeing
double. He went to famous eye doctors one after another,
and received the recommendation of an operation. Finally,
he came to me.
One
treatment from me was enough to lift his eyebrow halfway by the
next day. After four or five days of treatments, his
eyebrow was completely healed, and in the seventh day his pupil
returned to its normal position and he could see normally again.
There
was a sixty-year-old patient who had cancer of the colon. About
five months after the operation he found that he couldn't
swallow food through his throat, or even drink water. A
hole was made in his belly to allow nutrition to enter. He
was in that state when he visited me. After just one treatment
from me he began to sip juice or milk through the throat, and
after one week of treatment, he could drink anything and eat
porridge. After ten days, he could eat anything.
A
fifty-year-old patient suffered from constant noise in his ears.
He tried any way he could to find a cure, and visited many
clinics, but in vane. But after one treatment from me, the
noise abated to half its former level, and in one week he was
completely cured.
A
youth about 20 years old came to me supported on the shoulders
of friends after suddenly twisting the lumbar region of his
back. His pain was so great that he could not even get
himself into bed. However, one acupuncture treatment from
me was enough that he could get himself out of bed, and even
bend his waist forward and backward. The patient himself
could hardly believe the effect of the treatment. He
returned on his own, admired by the friends who had helped him.
There
was also a patient who suffered terrible headaches during more
than two weeks and regularly visited a Western-style medical
clinic, but the pain persisted. But after just one
acupuncture treatment, the pain disappeared. Another
patient with constant hiccups for two days was freed from that
after one acupuncture treatment. A patient's sleep was
interrupted by the need to urinate four times a night. After
one acupuncture treatment he awoke only once at night to
urinate, and was completely healed after five days of
treatments.
These examples are innumerable.
All
of these successful healings are attributable not to my healing
competence, but to the seemingly miraculous effects of the
unique constitutional medicine and constitutional acupuncture
based on Sa-am acupuncture created by outstanding Korean
doctors.
Up
till now, acupuncture is undoubtedly thought of as only the
Chinese acupuncture based on the traditional Chinese medicine.
But you will now encounter in this book a new and amazing
medical system which you might not have heard of before.
The
unique Korean constitutional medicine originated from the
traditional Chinese medicine, but was transformed into a new
medical system based on a completely different theory. This
is a cultural heritage that Korea can proudly show to the rest
of the world along with its traditional martial art Taekwondo.
This
site will show not only the differences between Chinese medicine
inherited from ancient China and the traditional Korean medicine
which specifically evolved in Korea, but also how the Korean
medicine criticizes and applies various ancient Chinese
theories. I believe that it may instigate a drastic change
in the reader's knowledge of modern Asian medical theory and
acupuncture, an alternative to the much better known Chinese
model.
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