Body Constitution Guide / Balanced
Body constitution · 平和 pínghé

Balanced

“The Even Keel”
平和 · pínghé

Your qi, blood, yin and yang are all sufficient and all moving — the state the other seven constitutions are trying to get back to.

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The picture

You're likely Balanced if most of these ring true

  • Steady, unremarkable energy — you rarely think about being tired
  • Asleep within minutes; awake without an alarm-clock war
  • Comfortable digestion; regular, well-formed stools
  • A complexion with colour and eyes with light in them
  • Rarely ill; quick to recover
  • Even-tempered under pressure; adaptable to season and circumstance
  • Tongue: pale red with a thin white coat — the textbook "normal tongue"
How balance is lost: irregular eating, chronic late nights, sustained stress, and the slow creep of "I'll rest after this busy patch." Every imbalance constitution is usually a Balanced one that was asked to cope for too long.
The theory

What the classics call health

「陰平陽秘，精神乃治」 "When yin is at peace and yang is securely stored, the spirit is in good order." Huangdi Neijing · Suwen · 素問·生氣通天論

This is the classical definition of health — not the absence of disease, but yin and yang in quiet, working agreement. Congratulations are in order. So is a warning: balance is kept, not owned.

「食飲有節，起居有常，不妄作勞」 "Eat and drink with measure, keep regular hours of rising and resting, and do not squander yourself in reckless overwork." Huangdi Neijing · Suwen ch. 1 · 素問·上古天真論

Keeping it — lifestyle

  • Eat seasonally and stop at 80% full — the old rule 七分飽, "seven-tenths full", points the same way
  • Keep your sleep window: in bed before 11pm most nights
  • Move daily, moderately — walking, swimming, tai chi. Balance is maintained by rhythm, not heroics

Keeping watch

  • Retake the quiz at each change of season — constitution drifts before it announces itself
  • Notice the early leans: colder feet, thinner sleep, a shorter fuse — each is a season's warning, not a sentence
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From our clinic — for this constitution

Nothing to fix — something to keep

Many Balanced patients use a seasonal acupuncture tune-up in the classical 治未病 "treat-before-disease" tradition, and keep a daily ritual they enjoy: a square of our Five Elements chocolate is a fine place for wellness to live when nothing is wrong.

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Food supplements support general wellbeing and are not a substitute for medical diagnosis or treatment, nor for a varied and balanced diet and a healthy lifestyle.

Questions

Asked across the treatment couch

Do I need any of this if I'm balanced?
Need? No. But balance is kept, not owned — the classical tradition prized tending the garden above rescuing it. A seasonal rhythm (regular meals, guarded sleep, a quarterly retake of the quiz) costs little and is precisely how Balanced stays Balanced.
How often should I re-check my constitution?
At each change of season, or after any big life shift — a house move, a new job, an illness, a bereavement. Constitution drifts before it announces itself; the quiz takes three minutes.
Is this a medical diagnosis?
No. Constitution describes a wellbeing tendency, not a disease. A professional constitutional assessment — tongue, pulse, history — happens in the clinic, and a GP handles medical diagnosis. The two work best side by side.
Can my constitution change?
Yes — that's the point of everything on this page. Constitution shifts with seasons, age, stress and habits. Take this page's advice for a season, then retake the quiz and watch the scores move.
Honest limits

When to seek more than a webpage

  • See your GP first for red-flag changes: unexplained weight loss, persistent unexplained pain, blood where blood shouldn't be, chest pain, breathlessness at rest, new severe headaches, or anything rapidly worsening.
  • Pregnancy changes the rules: some acupressure points on this page are traditionally avoided in pregnancy (marked above), and supplements should be run past your midwife or GP.
  • On medication? Check with your pharmacist or GP before adding botanical supplements.

This guide supports general wellbeing and is not a substitute for medical diagnosis or treatment. Always consult your GP for medical concerns. Food supplements should not be used as a substitute for a varied and balanced diet and a healthy lifestyle.

The other seven

Not quite you? Meet the other constitutions

Most people are a blend — a primary pattern with one or two supporting actors. If parts of this page fit and parts didn't, your answer is probably two doors down.

平和BalancedThe Even Keel 氣虛Qi DeficiencyThe Drained Battery 陽虛Yang DeficiencyThe Low Pilot Light 陰虛Yin DeficiencyThe Dry Riverbed 氣鬱Qi StagnationThe Held Breath 血虛Blood DeficiencyThe Unwatered Garden 血瘀Blood StasisThe Slow River 痰濕DampnessThe Morning Fog
Ready when you are

Take this page's advice for a season — then tell us what changed

Constitution work is gardening, not surgery. And if you'd like the professional reading — tongue, pulse, history, the full craft — the treatment room is where your pattern gets read properly.

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