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Herbal Medicine: Open Access
ISSN: 2472-0151
August 20-21, 2018
Dublin, Ireland
Acupuncture Congress 2018
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9
th
International Conference on
Acupuncture &
Chinese Medicine
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onstitutionalacupunctureisbasedonHippocratesstatement:
“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 andWater). 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. AKorean doctor, Dr EuWon
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 equilibrium of 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
Physiotherapy and works with Acupuncure since 1980. He is the Founder
and Director 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.
homerobernardo@gmail.comConstitutional acupuncture and astrology–
effective and quick results when
equilibrating the uniqueness of each person
Homero F Bernardo
Tai Institute, Brazil
Homero F Bernardo, Herb Med. 2018, Volume 4
DOI: 10.21767/2472-0151-C1-002