A Miraculous People’s Doctor, a Korean-born Uiseong, but a forgotten name

1909, Hongwon County, Hamgyeongnam-do. In the darkness of the Japanese colonial period, a child born with the destiny to save the people was born. He devoted his life to sick neighbors and poor patients, and people called him “the miracle people’s doctor” and “the divine doctor born in Korea.” His name was Insan Kim Il-hoon.

🔹 Innate intelligence and spiritual intuition

• A genius who learned Korean and Chinese characters at the age of 4
• The principle of yin-yang and the five elements, intuitively feeling the energy of medicine from a young age
• Amazing memory that allowed him to read classics such as the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Kangxi Dictionary

🔹 A healer born in the pain of the nation

• At the age of 16, he went to Manchuria and participated in the independence movement.
• After overcoming Japanese torture with his own moxibustion method,
• Established a healing philosophy by caring for the sick in Russia, Myohyangsan, and other places

🔹 The origin of bamboo salt and moxibustion, and the birth of a new medicine philosophy

• Independently establishes the 9-time method of bamboo salt, modernizing tradition into law
• Treating numerous patients with moxibustion using moxibustion called Yeongwun-beop
• I personally proved that life-saving medicine is based on the laws of nature.

🔹 6.25 War, People’s Doctors Who Saved Lives for Free

• A time when the country was collapsing and everything was in short supply
• Treating thousands of refugees and war victims without receiving a single penny
• People called him ‘Korean Schweitzer’ and ‘miracle healer’.

🔹 The origin of disease as seen from the philosophy of mutual growth of organs and the theory of detoxification

• “The disease must be cured by the energy of my body.”
• Focus on restoring immunity and organ flow without relying on surgery and drugs
• Wrote immortal medical books such as 『New Testament』 and 『New Medicinal Herbs』

🔹 The life of ‘Hwalin Gu-se’ that continued until the last moment

• At the age of 78, he traveled around the country giving 22 public lectures, spreading medical skills to tens of thousands of people.
• A true embodiment of humanitarianism who stayed by the patient’s side until the day he died at the age of 84
• A person who believed that “saving people is the same as saving the country.”

👉 The life of Insan Kim Il-hoon is not just a medical practice, but a record of the depth and philosophy of the Korean spirit and self-respect .
Bamboo salt, moxibustion, and the philosophy of new medicine are not simple prescriptions.
It is a philosophy that sees through nature, the universe, and the energy of people.

That philosophy is still alive and well today through Insan Oriental Medicine Clinic and its descendants, and is
the pride of our tradition and a great legacy that Korean medicine can present to the world .