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Acupuncture Congress 2018 Herbal Medicine: Open Access
ISSN: 2472-0151 Page 28
August 20-21, 2018
Dublin, Ireland
9th International Conference on
Acupuncture &
Chinese Medicine
Constitutional acupuncture is based on Hippocrates
statement: “There is no disease but ill people”. This
constitutional understanding of human beings came from very
ancient times. In the ancient book “Nei Ching Ling Shu” is stated
in its chapter 72 that there were four types of people: Tai-Yang;
Shao Yang; Tai Yin and Shao Yin with similar physical and
psyquic characteristics and proper tendency of disharmonies
of each of these types. Also in India with ayurvedic medicine
we find the temperaments like Vata (Air), Pitta (Fire), Kapha
(Earth and Water). In Traditional Chinese Medicine we use the
five elements with reference to understand different types of
people. Many other attempts along human history were made
trying to understand the human being as unique, like Unicist
Homeopathy, The Enneagram of Claudio Naranjo and astrology
among others. A Korean doctor, Dr Eu Won Lee, author’s
teacher, brought to Brazil in the 70’s this ancient tradition of
constitutional acupuncture to actualize it and spread out
through courses, seminars and congresses. Astrology also
work with this view, trying to understand humanity in its 12
types of human beings, three types of each of the four elements,
with its own particularities; and author, Homero Bernardo, as
an astrological student and an acupuncture practicioner, have
made this connection between constitutional acupunture and
astrology to make it easier the diagnosis and practice of this
extraordinary therapy that through the equilibriumof the person
as a whole we achieve very nice results in several physical and
mental diseases.
Biography
Homero F Bernardo is a Physiotherapist, with specilization in Sportive Phys-
iotherapy and works with Acupuncure since 1980. He is the Founder and Di-
rector of Tai Institute, a Post Grade Acupuncture School based in the Federal
District University Center in Brasilia, Brazil. He is a former Nanjing University
student and has visited there twice to lecture on this theme of Constitutional
Acupuncture.
Homero F Bernardo
Tai Institute, Brazil
Homero F Bernardo, Herb Med. 2018, Volume 4
DOI: 10.21767/2472-0151-C1-002
Constitutional acupuncture and astrology–effective and
quick results when equilibrating the uniqueness of each
person