For practitioners and educators

Constitution Map is an educational self-check for adults exploring the nine constitution patterns in traditional Chinese medicine. It can support a classroom discussion or a conversation before an appointment. It is not a diagnosis or a substitute for an in-person assessment by a licensed practitioner. This questionnaire has not been validated in a US population. I am not licensed in the United States and I do not see patients.

Access and cost

We do sell to individuals: Seeing your result is currently free in every language. There is an optional paid 28-day plan. Your patients pay nothing if they come through your clinic link — see the clinic partner program below. No account or sign-in is needed to take the quiz.

Resource introduction · What it measures · Uses and limits · Source notes

A short resource introduction

Constitution Map is an educational resource about the nine constitution patterns in traditional Chinese medicine. Its English self-check uses questions and scoring rules from China’s published constitution classification standard, with links to the source and research explaining the limits. Adults, teachers and practitioners can use it to introduce the framework and prepare questions for discussion; it does not diagnose a condition or replace an in-person assessment, and it has not been validated in a US population.

What the self-check measures

The questions ask about your experiences over the past year, such as tiredness, sensitivity to cold, mood and recurring physical signs. Answers use a five-point scale. The quiz groups them into nine traditional constitution patterns, described in our guide to the constitution types. These are categories within a traditional framework, not disease names.

The English quiz uses the items in Appendix A of GB/T 46939-2025, translated into English, and the scoring formula and thresholds in §5. The standard contains 27 distinct questions, including two alternative sex-specific questions; a respondent answers 26. Shared questions contribute to more than one pattern. Each pattern has a transformed score from 0 to 100; that score is not a probability of having a disease.

What the English result shows

The standard’s Table 1 supplies the labels “Yes”, “Leaning”, “Broadly yes” and “No”. This site displays one pattern, with its score and label. It chooses balanced when the balanced criteria are met; otherwise it chooses the highest-scoring “Yes” pattern, or, if none, the highest “Leaning” pattern. Ties follow the order in Appendix A and are disclosed. Showing one pattern is the site’s summary choice; it does not mean other patterns have been ruled out. If no pattern meets the thresholds, the page says so and shows no pattern, score or constitution guidance. Climate information and the save option remain.

When a pattern is shown, the English result includes a plain-English description and lifestyle material drawn from T/CACM 1460-2023, covering emotions, food, daily routine and movement, plus the guideline’s acupoint material. Herbal formulas are not on the English result page. This material describes the guideline; it is not a personal prescription or evidence that a suggested action will work for you.

Who it is for, and what it cannot answer

This resource is for adults who want to learn the vocabulary, educators introducing the framework, and practitioners who want a patient to bring questions to an appointment. A useful starting point is to ask which answers were uncertain and what the patient meant by them. A licensed practitioner’s assessment remains separate from this self-check.

It cannot explain the cause of a symptom, diagnose or exclude a disease, or decide which treatment you need. A balanced result does not establish that you are healthy. Use appropriate medical care for symptoms rather than relying on a score.
It is self-report. The quiz does not examine you, take a medical history in person, or assess your tongue or pulse. Appearance questions depend on your own judgement. For example, the blood-stasis scale asks about a dull complexion or brown patches and dark lips; those answers alone cannot establish the reason for that appearance.
Thresholds are sensitive to answers near a boundary. Moving one answer by one step can change the displayed label. The result is a prompt for discussion, not a clinical finding or a complete account of mixed patterns.
Language and population matter. English, simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese use the national-standard questions and rules. Spanish, German, Japanese and Korean use an adapted questionnaire; they should not be treated as equivalent instruments. Translation and use of the same scoring rules do not establish validity in a new population.

The lifestyle guideline is a separate source from the questionnaire. Its §5.3 specifies ages 18–60 and constitution identification by a doctor, and refers to the older ZYYXH/T157-2009 classification standard. It calls for specialist guidance for people with chronic disease or during an illness episode. Pairing its material with this site’s newer self-check does not establish that it is suitable for an individual, or that a 28-day plan changes constitution or improves health.

Sources and what they support

These sources serve different purposes. The standard supplies the questions and rules; the studies below provide background and limits. They are not validation studies of this website in US users.

GB/T 46939-2025, Classification and determination of constitution in traditional Chinese medicine. Published by China’s State Administration for Market Regulation and Standardization Administration; effective 1 April 2026. §4 describes the patterns, §5 gives scoring and thresholds, and Appendix A contains the questions. The official entry offers the Chinese text; the English wording on this site is our translation.
Bai et al. (2023), Development and evaluation of short-form version of the Constitution in Chinese Medicine Questionnaire. Chinese Medicine 18:140. DOI: 10.1186/s13020-023-00844-3. This study developed short forms and tested their measurement properties using Chinese samples. Its agreement analysis used the original CCMQ as the reference, including data from 21,948 participants in nine Chinese provinces. That comparison is with another questionnaire, not a test of disease diagnosis or this site’s English use in the US.
Zhu et al. (2023), Associations between traditional Chinese medicine body constitution and obesity risk among US adults. Longhua Chinese Medicine 6:4. DOI: 10.21037/lcm-23-7. The Methods describe the 60-question English version of the CCMQ, completed by 191 White adults from a colorectal-cancer-risk trial cohort in Nashville, aged 40–85, rather than a general population sample. The paper reports internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha) of 0.44–0.72 across the subscales. This is evidence about a different version in a specific cohort; it does not validate the current short self-check in a US population.
T/CACM 1460-2023, Guidelines for intervention of TCM constitution for the prevention of diseases in the adult people. China Association of Chinese Medicine. §4.1 is the source of the lifestyle and acupoint material; §5.3 sets its conditions of use. The association’s publisher listing (PDF, entry 1) identifies the guideline; it is not the guideline’s full text. Our account of the sections above was checked against the Chinese guideline text.

What happens to answers and reports

Your answers stay in your browser unless you ask us to email a report. A report passes through us when you ask us to send it to yourself, or, through a clinic link and with a box ticked naming the practice, to that practice. Our mailbox keeps a copy of every email we send, and there is no clinic dashboard: we cannot look anyone up, and neither can you. See our privacy policy for the data practices.

Try the assessment or browse the nine constitution types. Practitioners are welcome to tell us which wording is unclear or which questions need closer examination.

Clinic partner program

We give your practice a link of its own, such as constitutionmap.com/c/your-practice. Anyone who comes through it sees their result free, and gets the 28-day plan free where it applies (English version, a US city, and any body type except the balanced one). There is no fee either way: you pay us nothing and we pay you nothing.

How it works

Each practice starts with about 25 free results a month. If you need more, write to us and we will raise it. If the allowance is used up or the link cannot be used, your patient can still see their result free. The free 28-day plan needs an available clinic pass. When your patient sees their result, they can tick a box naming your practice and we email you the report, with the name and the contact they type. Nothing reaches you unless they tick it, and we send it only to the practice address you give us — your patient never types an address. Once it is in your inbox it is yours to look after under your own privacy practices.

What we ask of you

Hand the link out, or put it at your front desk. The reading is yours: the result is a conversation starter for intake, not a diagnosis. It is for adults. If you link to us from your website, please mark the link rel="sponsored"; we do not ask for that link, and the free results do not depend on it.

To join, write to support@constitutionmap.com with your practice name and the email address reports should go to.

Want to know when it changes?

I will write when we change something because a practitioner told us to, or when there is validation data worth reading. A few times a year at most, and never a sales email. This list is kept separate from the patient-facing one, so you will not get the every-fortnight readings.

No account. We hold the address ourselves and give it to nobody. Reply “stop” and you are off the list.

Rather just reply to a human? support@constitutionmap.com reaches us directly.