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Useful information about health and Korean medicine.
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What Does Pulse-Taking Actually Tell Us — Reading Pulse Diagnosis in the Language of Circulation
When a Korean medicine doctor takes your pulse, what we read is the pressure wave of your blood flow. Let me interpret pulse diagnosis in the modern language of circulation.
When Your Alignment Keeps Slipping Back — Maintenance Is Half the Treatment
Alignment slips back because the strength to hold it has not yet been prepared. A note on thixotropic Chuna and maintenance care.
If You Want to Fall Asleep Without Sleeping Pills — The Autonomic Nervous System and Sleep
Chronic insomnia may be a state in which the autonomic nervous system stays switched to daytime mode even at night. Toward relying less on medication.
Why You Still Feel Heavy Even on Blood Pressure Medication
Medication lowers the number, but it does not change the flow in the body that produced that number. How to read the symptoms that remain.
The older the illness, the smaller the first goal — recovery has an order too
Small goals in sequence beat one big goal. I explain why that order favors recovery.
Why Does Herbal Medicine Work? — The Paradox of Low Concentration
The blood concentration of herbal compounds is remarkably low — far below what modern pharmacology would expect to matter. Yet the body responds. I look for the reason not in the strength of the compound, but in how the body reads a signal.
The Same Herb, Different People, Different Results — Why Your Gut Decides
I give the same prescription, and one person improves quickly while another is slow. I believe much of that difference is settled in the gut.
Why Lifestyle Management Is Half the Treatment in Chronic Illness
The longer you have had an illness, the more each day outside the clinic matters. Here is where to start.
If we saw the body as a flow of water — reading Korean medicine through circulation and pressure
When you understand the body as a fluid system in which blood and body fluids flow along differences in pressure, chronic symptoms that never showed up on tests start to look different.
Is Korean Medicine Science? — Explaining Herbal Medicine Through Compounds, Blood Flow, and Microbes
Why does herbal medicine actually work in the body? I explain it from the perspective of compounds, blood flow, and gut-microbe metabolism — Korean medicine, re-read in the language of modern science.
Post-Meal Drowsiness and Chronic Fatigue: A Signal from Your Metabolism
Drowsiness after eating and fatigue that rest won't relieve. I explain this from a viewpoint that sees blood pressure, blood sugar, and weight as a single metabolic flow.
Chuna That Doesn't Crack Your Joints — The Story of Thixotropic Chuna
Not a forceful, cracking adjustment, but a Chuna technique that uses the property by which stiffened tissue becomes soft (thixotropy). Let me explain the concept and its advantages in plain terms.