Six ways to read the same body
Each assessment measures a different axis of the classical pattern model. None of them is a diagnosis. Start with the constitution test if you are not sure — it is the widest view, and every other test becomes more useful once you know your base pattern.
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Nine Constitution Assessment
Chinese medicine describes nine constitutional patterns: one balanced type and eight that lean in a particular direction — Qi deficiency, Yang deficiency, Yin deficiency, phlegm-dampness, damp-heat, blood stasis, Qi stagnation and the reactive "special" constitution.
Your pattern is not a disease. It is the default setting your body returns to: how fast you run out of energy, how you handle cold, how your digestion behaves under stress, how quickly your skin reacts. Two people can eat the same meal and have completely different outcomes because their patterns differ.
What this test measures
Three questions per pattern, covering the signs the classical texts associate with each one. The result shows all nine scores at once, marks which ones cross the threshold for "present", and identifies a dominant pattern plus up to two secondary ones.
How to read your result
A high score is not bad news — it means that pattern is pronounced. Because the eight biased patterns are what the plan is designed to correct, a strong Qi deficiency score usually sits alongside a lower overall wellness index. The threshold is 40: at or above it, the pattern is called present; 30 to 39 is a tendency.
Ways to take it
Result includes
- Nine-pattern radar with thresholds
- Dominant and secondary patterns
- Food, acupressure, movement, tea and rhythm plan
- Organ-system correlations
- 7-day reset
Yin-Yang Balance Check
Yin and Yang are the two directions the system can drift. Yin is the cooling, moistening, resting side. Yang is the warming, activating, outward side. Most everyday complaints reduce to one of those directions running short or running hot.
Rather than describing them abstractly, this test puts you on two concrete axes: cool to warm, and dry to damp. Your position in the four resulting zones is what classical texts call cold-damp, damp-heat, dry-heat and cool-dry.
Why two axes instead of a score
Because balance is a direction, not a quantity. Two people can both score "50" while needing opposite things — one is cold and stagnant, the other is hot and dry. The quadrant tells you which one you are.
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The four zones
- Warm & damp — heat sitting on dampness: oily skin, heaviness, short fuse in heat
- Warm & dry — dryness with false heat: dry throat, night sweats, restless nights
- Cool & damp — cold with fluid pooling: aching joints, swelling, loose stools
- Cool & dry — under-warmed and under-moistened: cold hands plus dry skin
Zang-Fu Organ Check
In TCM the organs are systems of function rather than anatomy. The Heart houses awareness and sleep; the Liver keeps Qi flowing and stores blood; the Spleen converts food into energy; the Lung governs breath and the body's surface; the Kidney stores deep reserves and governs bone, hair and lower back.
Four questions per system, all phrased as positive statements so a high score always means "this system is doing well". The result names the two systems that need the most attention rather than one.
How to act on it
A weak reading is not a claim that an organ is damaged. It is an indication that the associated function is under strain — which usually maps onto very practical things: sleep timing, meal regularity, how much you sit still, how much you push through fatigue.
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Symptom Pattern Decoder
Instead of rating statements, this one asks you to tick what you actually experience in the past month. QiLife then works out which pattern best explains the cluster.
This is closer to how a practitioner reasons: not "how often do you feel tired on a scale of one to five", but "these five complaints tend to travel together, and they point to this pattern rather than that one".
How the matching works
Each symptom carries weights toward one or more patterns. Two things are then measured: how much of a pattern's typical picture your selection covers, and how specific your selection is to that pattern. The combination ranks the eight patterns and shows the top matches with percentages.
Select between four and twelve symptoms. Fewer than four rarely gives a clean signal; more than twelve overlaps patterns and blurs the ranking.
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Patterns it can identify
Body Clock Check
The classical Chinese body clock divides the day into twelve two-hour windows, each associated with an organ system at its peak. The practical claim is simple: meals, sleep and effort have better and worse times, and most modern schedules fight the clock in predictable ways.
This test scores how close your actual routine is to that rhythm, and names the specific windows where you are working against it — a late dinner, a 4 PM coffee, screens right before bed.
The windows that matter most
- 7–9 AM · Stomach — the best time for the largest, warmest meal
- 9–11 AM · Spleen — the natural mental peak; put hard work here
- 1–3 PM · Small Intestine — a short pause improves the whole afternoon
- 3–5 PM · Bladder — the dip; caffeine here drains the evening
- 9–11 PM · Pericardium — the wind-down window, and the easiest one to lose
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Seasonal Alignment Check
Traditional advice changes with the 24 solar terms. Winter is for storage and rest; spring is for expansion; autumn is for gathering and moistening; summer is for moving outward. The most common seasonal problem is not doing the wrong thing — it is doing the same thing all year.
This test reads the current solar term and measures how well your habits match it right now, then tells you the specific adjustments for this season.
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Changes with the season
The "ideal" answer for each question shifts with the season, so this assessment gives you a different result in January than in July — on purpose.