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jEONHEE jANG l.ac, Ed.M.

Jeonhee Jang, is an acupuncturist, educator, and author who developed a practical framework for understanding chronic health conditions through body adaptation, body shape, and daily habits.

Rather than focusing solely on diagnoses, laboratory values, or disease labels, she views the body as a living record of long-term behaviors, stress, recovery patterns, and environmental influences. Her work is based on the observation that chronic conditions do not appear overnight; they develop gradually as the body adapts to years of repeated habits, compensations, and imbalances.

She created the P–T–S System to describe the timeline of adaptation:

  • Type P represents temporary stress and pressure that can still recover naturally.
  • Type T represents a transitional phase in which the body begins storing stress through inflammation, swelling, and metabolic changes.
  • Type S represents a chronic adaptive state in which these accumulated changes become visible in the body’s structure, posture, movement, and shape.

Within Type S, she further identified four major body adaptation patterns based on the Eight Extraordinary Channels:

  • Chong & Yin Wei
  • Dai & Yang Wei
  • Ren & Yin Qiao
  • Du & Yang Qiao

These patterns are not intended to diagnose disease, but to help individuals recognize where their bodies have adapted and how those adaptations appear physically over time.

At the heart of her philosophy is the belief that true healing requires more than improving laboratory numbers. A person must rediscover what a healthy body actually feels like. Many people live with chronic discomfort for so long that they forget what normal breathing, comfortable movement, restful sleep, and physical ease feel like.

Her approach therefore emphasizes practical daily actions—cooking, walking, movement, self-care, skin care, breathing, exercise, and recovery—as tools that help people reconnect with their bodies and gradually reverse years of accumulated patterns.

Rather than offering patients a diagnosis alone, she aims to provide something more valuable:

A map.

A map that helps people understand where they are today, how they arrived there, and what steps they can take to move toward a healthier future.

As she often teaches, healing is not simply about treating disease. It is about helping people remember what a healthy body feels like and giving them the tools to find their way back.

Book cover on body reshaping through muscle and skin meridian therapy.

Education and experiences

 



Education and Experience




  • California Licensed Acupuncturist
  • M. S in Oriental Medicine, Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College, Berkeley, California
  • M. Ed in Health Education, Boston University
  • B.A in Health Education, Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, Korea
  • Art of Cosmetics "à la française" and Advanced Cosmetics and Perfume Development, Isipca Summer School, Versailles, France, 2018


Person wearing a feathered mask and green boa at an expo in Chicago.

Conference Presentations and Exhibitions


 

  • "The concept of TCM for the relationship between the skin treatment and the prevention of external pathogens."
    • Presentation at American Public Health Association (APHA)'s 2020  Annual Meeting, 2020
  • Moderator at the session of Innovative Strategies to Improve the Public Health Workforce
    • American Public Health Association (APHA), Atlanta, GA, U.S.A., 2017
  • “Practical guide to the identification and treatment of hormonal imbalance obesity body shapes in 8 extraordinary meridians”
    • Presentation at American Public Health Association (APHA), Denver, U.S.A., 2016
  • “Practical guide to the identification and treatment of hormonal imbalance obesity body shapes in 8 extraordinary meridians”
    • Presentation at International Conference of World Federation Of Acupuncture - Moxibustion Societies (WFAS), Tokyo/Tsukuba, Japan, 2016
  • “Practical guide to the identification and treatment of hormonal imbalance obesity body shapes in 8 extraordinary meridians”
    • Presentation at International Congress for Integrative Health & Medicine, Stuttgart, Germany, 2016
  • “Muscle Meridian Acupuncture for Treatment of Obesity”
    • Presentation at American Public Health Association (APHA), New Orleans, U.S.A., 2014
  • "Muscle Meridian Needling Technique"
    • Presentation at Zijou City General Hospital. Zizhou City, China, 2014
  • "Muscle Meridian Acupuncture for Obesity”
    • Presentation at WFSA 2013.  Sydney, Australia, 2013
  • "Muscle Meridian Acupuncture for Obesity"
    • Poster Exhibit at ISAM 2013. Stockholm, Sweden, 2013
  • "Overweight and Treatment Methods"
    • Exhibits, 2012 American Public Health Association. San Francisco, CA, 2012 
  • “Reset Detox Diet Oral Presentation”
    • Korea Cosmetic Bliss. New York, NY, 2012

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