Every wellness quiz on the internet wants to give you a type. Ours does too — but the types are two thousand years old, and they were never really "types" at all. They're patterns: recognizable ways a body drifts out of balance, described so precisely by classical Chinese medicine that a practitioner in the Tang dynasty and one in a clinic today would recognize the same person in them.
At Daily Wei we give each pattern a name from weather and land — a climate. Not to soften the tradition, but because that's genuinely how it thinks: your constitution is the climate you live in, stable and characteristic, and your current pattern is a season passing through it. The Chinese-medicine names stay right underneath, because they're the real system. Here is the whole map.
Clear Sky — Balanced 平和
The reference point, not a grade. Energy that lasts the day, sleep that restores, digestion you don't think about. Nobody lives here permanently — the point of the practice is to keep finding your way back.
Low Tide — Qi Deficiency 气虚
You run low on reserves before you run low on time. The afternoon dip arrives early, a hard week takes longer to recover from than it seems like it should, and rest helps — but doesn't always refill the tank all the way.
Shaded Valley — Yang Deficiency 阳虚
Cold finds you first. You're the one reaching for a sweater in a room everyone else calls comfortable, and warmth — warm food, warm rooms, warm hands — feels less like preference and more like fuel. Yang is the sunlit side of the hill; here the sun arrives late and leaves early.
Dry Wind — Yin Deficiency 阴虚
The moistening, cooling side of the ledger runs thin: dry skin and eyes, warm evenings, a wiredness at night when the day should be winding down. Not cold air — dry air, and moving when it should be still.
Morning Mist — Phlegm-Damp 痰湿
Heaviness and fog. Limbs that feel weighted, a head that clears slowly, digestion that sits. Like mist, it burns off with movement and warmth — and settles back in with rich food and stillness.
Summer Storm — Damp-Heat 湿热
Heat and dampness together: the flushed, sticky, irritable-around-the-edges feeling after a stretch of rich food, late nights, or plain hot weather. Storms are loud but they pass — this pattern responds well to being taken seriously.
Still Pond — Qi Stagnation 气滞
Nothing is missing; something is stuck. The tight-chested, sighing, can't-quite-exhale feeling after a long stretch of stress. Tension that gathers in the shoulders and jaw. Movement — literal, physical movement — is the classical first prescription.
Frozen River — Blood Stasis 血瘀
When stuck goes on long enough, flow itself slows — classically, blood moves with warmth and congeals with cold. Discomfort that stays in one fixed spot, a dusky complexion, patterns that feel settled-in rather than passing. Deeper than Still Pond, and it thaws the same way: gradually, with consistency.
Your climate is one of these. Right now there may also be a season passing through — a second pattern layered on top, which shifts with stress and circumstance while your climate stays put. The intake reads both.
Find your climate — take the intake (about five minutes, and the reading is free).
This article reflects traditional Chinese-medicine wellness patterns, not a medical diagnosis, and does not replace professional medical advice. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.