About

Jason Lee, K.M.D.

Licensed Doctor of Korean Medicine (Republic of Korea)

Why this site exists

Sasang constitutional medicine is a Korean system, published by Lee Je-ma in 1894, that sorts people into four constitutions and approaches each differently. It is taught in Korean medical universities and practised in clinics across the country. Almost none of that reaches English readers. What does reach them is usually a quiz.

A quiz tells you a label. It does not tell you what to do on a Tuesday evening when your stomach is unhappy. That gap — between the label and the kitchen — is what this site is for, and it is a gap you can only write across if you have watched a lot of people try.

What I actually do

I see patients as a licensed Korean Medicine doctor. Alongside clinic work I run a gut-health programme and a research project applying machine learning to constitutional classification. Where an article draws on those — a completion rate, a pattern across a cohort, an experiment that failed — I say so and give the number.

How to read me

Traditional Korean medicine is a framework with centuries of clinical observation behind it and a thin modern evidence base in most areas. I try to be exact about which is which: where I am reporting tradition, I say traditionally used for; where there is research, I cite it; where I am reporting my own clinical impression, I label it as impression. If you catch me blurring those, please write.