what are constitutional factors

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this term or words to this effect may be used on clinic forms at PCOM

to denote inborn tendencies that promote disease. To me, this could be

nothing other than genetic differences. If a genetic difference

interferes with cellular water excretion, for example, then such a

person would tend to get " damp " in TCM terms. I tell my students when

we discuss conditions like dampness or food damage that they may be

caused by those whose spleen is weak regardless of what they eat. In

many cases, there would appear to be no permanent correction for such

an imbalance. that person would have to be extra scrupulous about diet

but would also likely have to take some kind of supplements to build

spleen qi and move food and water. And they would likely never reach a

place where they were free of this need. Even if herbs and other

supplements do successfully shore up this inborn weakness, thus

resolving the syndromes associated with them, the genetic tendency

cannot be corrected, so the patient will always regress if therapy is

discontinued. And eventually, genetics will win out over all

intervention. Otherwise, why do even the most scrupulous and compliant

still age and die? this idea is not only not foreign to TCM, but

actually basic to it. And remarkably, like many ideas of TCM, when put

to the test of science, it all makes perfect sense.

 

 

 

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