Uniting leading physicians, scientists, engineers, and public health professionals to advance asthma prevention, respiratory medicine, and healthy aging — through the integration of Korean Traditional Medicine with modern biomedical science.
Founder, Pyunkang Korean Medicine
Director, Center for Korean Traditional Medicine
The Pyunkang Asthma Forum unites leading physicians, scientists, engineers, and public health professionals to advance innovative research in asthma prevention, respiratory medicine, healthy aging, and longevity through the integration of Korean Traditional Medicine with modern biomedical science.
Under the honorary chairmanship of Dr. Seo Hyo-Seok, founder of Pyunkang Korean Medicine, the Forum is guided by an International Scientific Advisory Board and organized around five Centers of Excellence.
A lecture by Dr. Hyo-Seok Seo, Chief Korean Medicine Doctor and Chief Director, Pyunkang Korean Medicine Hospital, Republic of Korea.
In an experiment conducted in Lucknow, northern India, an artificial lung exposed to fine particulate matter turned visibly black after just 24 hours. Dr. Seo's lecture traces how this environmental burden drives the major respiratory diseases of modern society — and presents lung cleansing as the foundation of a restored immune system. Air-pollution experiment source: World Health Organization (WHO)
The first assault on the airways, beginning at the nose.
Intermediate conditions follow: sinusitis, otitis media, and conjunctivitis.
Allergic disease the lecture describes as unresolved by modern medicine.
COPD (emphysema and bronchiectasis) and pulmonary fibrosis.
Where conventional medicine regards severe lung disease as irreversible, Pyunkang Medicine holds that complete resolution is possible once immunity is fully restored — beginning by cleansing the lungs first.
Clearing polluted lungs strengthens innate immunity and the associated organs of the respiratory immune system, including the tonsils — helping prevent pneumonia, influenza, and high fever (≥39°C).
The gut microbiome accounts for roughly 70% of immune function. After six months of lung cleansing, neutral bacteria shift toward beneficial bacteria, supporting brain health through the gut–brain axis.
Eliminate a lifetime of accumulated toxins and maintain a fully developed immune system — one month every six months, and after age 70, lung cleansing once daily.
Figures as presented in the lecture, reflecting the practice's reported clinical experience since 1972.
Research published in the SCI-indexed journal JTCM and the SCOPUS-indexed journal NPS reported efficacy in reducing excessive sputum secretion and COPD associated with smoking and air pollution, as well as bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis.
A Seoul National University study published in the SCI-indexed journal Antioxidants examined Pyunkang-tang's effect on asthma:
"Taken together, oral delivery of PGT successfully alleviated asthmatic responses provoked by OVA in a mouse model and could lead to novel therapies for allergic asthma."
Overcame childhood allergic rhinitis and asthma; improved cardiopulmonary function and endurance, with multiple international championships.
Recovered from tuberculosis and tuberculous pleurisy; asthmatic cough, shortness of breath, itching, and insomnia resolved.
Marked improvements in hemoptysis, asthma, chronic hepatitis B, and overall health.
Hemoptysis and excessive sputum resolved, with enhanced immunity, better circulation, and renewed vitality.
A long-standing case, with improved respiratory health, skin conditions, and blood pressure.
New York Times health campaigns, with lectures across the U.S., Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, and beyond.
Participants from over 40 countries at the World Conference of Science Journalists — the first-ever presentation on Korean Medicine there.
Featured lecture at the International COPD Conference.
Reducing the burden of asthma through scientific research, preventive medicine, Korean Traditional Medicine, public education, and international collaboration — beginning in the communities of New Jersey.
The Forum aspires to build research collaborations with leading academic medical institutions in the United States, Korea, and beyond. The institutions below represent the caliber of partners we aim to engage; their inclusion does not indicate a current affiliation, partnership, or endorsement.
The Forum seeks to convene expertise across disciplines and sectors:
Alongside universities, hospitals, research institutes, public health agencies, and community organizations.
Universities, hospitals, research institutes, public health agencies, and community organizations are invited to connect with the Pyunkang Asthma Forum.
Inquiries regarding research collaboration, institutional partnership, and public health initiatives are welcome.