BACKGROUND Human skin properties have been used as an important diagnostic component in traditional medicine as they change with health conditions. Sasang constitutional medicine (SCM) puts emphasis on the recognition of the constitution-specific skin features prior to the diagnostic decision of health. In this work, in search of skin-characteristics effectively reflecting SCM features, we comp...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study is to investigate the correlation between the constitution of Sasang and the bee venom hypersensitive reaction, as well as the hypersensitive reaction occurrence ratio between males and females, for patients treated with sweet bee venom (SBV) and who had undergone an examination of the constitution of the Sasang. METHODS All 81 patients enrolled in the study w...

a bstr act Mark Johnson’s work The Meaning of the Body presents John Dewey’s pragmatism and pragmatist aesthetics as the forerunners of the anti­ Cartesian embodied enactive approach to human experience and meaning. He rejects the Kantian noncognitive character of aesthetics and emphasizes that aesthetics is the study of the human capacity to experience the bodily conditions of meaning constitu...

SASANG CONSTITUTIONAL MEDICINE (SCM) SHARES ITS PHILOSOPHY WITH THAT OF PERSONALIZED MEDICINE: it provides constitution-specific treatment and healthcare individualized for each patient. In this work, we propose the concept of the Sasang Health Index (SHI) as an attempt to assess the individualized health status in the framework of SCM. From the target population of females in their fifties and...

The Indian constitution was drawn from the different sources of the world's constitution i.e. USA, Australia, Canada and Great Brittan. There was the only objective how to unite different kinds of people in united India. In fact constitution provides privileges and comforts to her masses so that all the minorities of India can take breath under the Indian constitution. It is true that the India...

•republic •Articles of Confederation •Northwest Ordinance of 1787 •Shays’s Rebellion •James Madison •federalism •checks and balances •ratification •Federalists •Antifederalists •Bill of Rights American leaders created the Constitution as a blueprint of government for the United States. More than 200 years after its creation, the Constitution remains the nation’s guiding document for a working g...

BACKGROUND This study identified susceptible loci related to the Yu-Zhi (YZ) constitution, which indicates stasis-stagnation, found in a genome-wide association study (GWAS) in patients with type 2 diabetes and possible regulated traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) using docking and molecular dynamics (MD) simulation. METHODS Non-aboriginal Taiwanese with type 2 diabetes were recruited. Compon...

in april 2003 iraq with a complicated and problematic conditions, was occupied by forces of us and its allies. this country adopted a constitution in october 2005 through a cumbersome process. deferent elements and factors, with their own backgrounds, have had their impacts on the formulation of the constitution. this paper is an attempt to examine the impact of the local, regional, and interna...