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hi everyone I'm Victor what a my job is
to promote Chinese medicine and Chinese
culture I often meet a lot of people who
dismiss Chinese medicine because they
don't simply don't understand it or they
don't believe it or maybe they're just
Western medicine doctors who have a bias
for Chinese medicine but in 2015 dr. -
yo-yo received her Nobel Prize using
Chinese medicine material to treat
malaria now this was a big news in the
Chinese medicine field and we thought
some people think that the pseudoscience
but it's not and we see that Michael
Phelps the Olympic gold medalist was
happy these marks on him now some of the
audience in here might know what these
marks are they're called
cupping therapy in Chinese medicine but
with these news and these research and
Nobel Prize it should be easier for us
to promote Chinese medicine and let
people believe in it however that's not
the case so what happened why are people
not believing in it why are people still
to symptoms dismissing Chinese medicine
my grandfather dr. Lee foo Chen was one
of the most important and most famous
promoter of Chinese medicine and
protector of Chinese medicine he
received his master's in engineering
from Pittsburgh University and as a
scientist he always says that anybody
who rejects Chinese medicine with the
understanding it doesn't have the
scientific spirit now why are so many
people still not believing in it well
there's a phenomenon called the dawning
Cooper effect what happened is that
there's a lot of people who have relaxed
in certain knowledge and experience in
the field
and thinks that they understand more
than the people who are who are experts
so but this is not only occurring in
Chinese medicine these are not are only
occurring in people who doesn't believe
in Chinese medicine even people who
believe in Western medicine have the
same problem
well it's December right now and as
winter comes there's a lot of people who
gets cold or flu especially in Asia a
lot of people would ask their doctor to
prescribe antibiotics however a lot of
people don't know that
antibiotics doesn't treat virus they
only treat bacteria but I always meet
people and say hey you know what I need
antibiotics and they will even mock me
and say you understand I had experience
where antibiotics treat me and cure my
flu or cold so these also these people
also falls into that phenomenon that the
up dunning-kruger effect so how do we
obtain the actual knowledge well people
who believe in things believe in true or
false information but people who have
knowledge or based on facts now how do
we obtain knowledge how do we obtain
truth well I also teach Confucianism and
I look back to our ancient Chinese
philosophy and the teachings of
Confucius and I found out that you know
we can conclude with five questions when
we don't want to obtain knowledge --is
the first question would be have you
collected your information meticulously
well what does it mean by meticulous it
means it has to be thorough well it
takes time and how do we it collect
information usually we collect
information from seeing listening
hearing
tasting and touching but one of the most
important thing is by reading vast
amount of reading will get us
information and by reading enough
information we will actually learn from
other people other people's experience
and avoid wrongdoing however there are
less and less people read now you will
be surprised in America less people are
spending less and less time on what they
are interested personal interest well if
they don't even spend time on their
personal interest would they even real
what's even more surprising as we are in
Taiwan right now is that 40% of the
people in Taiwan haven't read a single
book in the year of 2018 so how would
you obtain any kind of knowledge without
reading even worse I'm sure that you
guys audience have probably done it or
I've done it sometimes is to read
newspaper with only the title but never
really read what the content is and how
will you know the content matches the
title so reading is a very very
important thing for us the first step
the second question is have we asked the
relative question well we should ask
question all the time and asking
question is for us to find out more and
more things why do we ask questions
first it's because we don't know
anything that's why we ask questions
second is we know some things but we
want to know more so we ask the third is
we ask enough but want to know more
detail we still ask but you would think
that we ask a lot of questions that you
know that kids ask 300 questions a day
nearly but as we grow up as adults we
don't ask them as much questions anymore
why well mainly because
we don't bother to ask okay and the
worst part is when I go onto Facebook or
any kind of social media I will post
something and people were asking what is
it
I say google it you could Google
yourself without asking me first
you could ask these questions yourself
and I found out that for four things
people don't do I mean they don't ask
questions out of these four questions
for reasons one is laziness they just
are lazy to ask questions I don't want
to think about it I don't want to even
use my brain second is they didn't
prepare anything they didn't read before
hands so you don't know what they don't
know what they're talking about and they
don't ask anymore the third one is
afraid of embarrassment there are people
who don't ask questions especially in
Asia because they are afraid that
they're showing they don't understand or
they don't know and this last one is
they just don't know how to ask the
question so asking question for us is
very important because only by asking we
would know more we're diggin more and
therefore asking us if we ask the
question or ask the relevant profession
it's very important next question is
have we done deliberation have we done
elaboration having inference this is the
this is the part where you gather the
information you start asking question
and then you organize them you
systematize them and this is the part
where you start having hypotheses but
the thing is you would think well it's
simple it sounds like it's simple but
when you get to a higher degree of
knowledge it's harder if you look at
these pictures in Chinese medicine and
you would think wow what the hell is
this does this make any sense well when
I first encountered Chinese medicine
it's very hard for me to understand it
but as I start reading and I start
asking
and I start organizing them it becomes a
very systematic thing and start to
understand them easily if you ask if you
use a good language to explain them an
engineer would be easier to understand
just like I like my grandfather
so thinking and organizing is very
important the fourth one the fourth
question is have you done
differentiation and have you done the
judgment that you judge the sources that
you get the information from a lot of
times we get information but we don't
know that the information was biased or
prejudiced or even ourselves this bias
and why is that a problem because we
always try to find things that we like
or things that can prove us right
or prove others wrong and that would
become a problem that is not a neutral
way to look at things and only with
neutral stuff neutral way of looking at
things with all aspects with all angles
you'll be able to get the real truth so
we don't want we want everything to be
balanced just like the Chinese
philosophy so we have to ask ourselves
all the information we gathered bias or
prejudice because we always get excuses
to look at the bias stuff while we look
at the information say well that is the
reason the reason why he wrote this is
because of this we find excuses for the
information we get and sometimes we just
don't refuse to believe things just like
some people I meet in Chinese medicine
they just simply don't want to believe
it no matter how you want to explain to
them and there's no reason for it and if
you don't believe in if you don't want
to believe in to something you're not
open to any kind of new information
and not willing to make any mistake is
also because in Chinese word face you
don't want to lose face because if you
ask certain questions if you find out
the information is not what you thought
you might be embarrassed but the last
one the most important one is a
bandwagon effect where people around you
all believe the same thing and therefore
you just kind of follow them and you
don't distinct distinguish yourself from
their knowledge you just believe in what
everybody else says that becomes a
problem
so being be able to differentiate and
judge where the the information comes
from is very important now lastly is
have you practiced an experiment
well you gather all that information
from reading from asking from thinking
ok from differentiating but can you
verify if they're true or not does it
work or not so we have to verify a lot
of things think about it I can teach you
I can tell you how to swim I can tell
you how to make a stroke I can how you
how to kick your legs but without going
into the water you'll never learn how to
swim the same thing here I like to give
you two examples of very very awesome
and very impressive case studies where I
can counter it personally in Chinese
medicine these people didn't unbeliev in
Chinese medicine at all but after they
keep it a try it changed your life the
first person was a dentist from Thailand
she was diagnosed in May this year with
hyperthyroidism and you can see the
white blood cell count the liver number
and the t3 t4 hormone are off the chart
off the
look at the main so she was a dentist
she studied Western medicine and I
convinced her to try Chinese medicine
she said yes she'll try it and if
anybody who knows hyperthyroid is that
you had to take no drugs for almost two
years to become normal lad so we started
treating her and in we start treating
her at end of June and at end of July
her numbers are starting to come down
but still high but at the mid October
her numbers are all normal within four
months using Chinese medicine without a
single pill of Western medicine the
second one I want to share is a friend
of mine was very very who got into
accident really bad broke all his limbs
he had his vertebra here I his spine
broke
okay severed you can see the ax in the
picture and he was on wheelchair or four
month three years without your note bag
and I convinced him to try Chinese
medicine using special acupuncture you
can even see the scars on his back from
the surgeries the doctors basically told
him that that's gone and this is him now
within four months of treatment he can
move you can almost you can walk now
that's very impressive and they all
believe in Chinese medicine now so if
you haven't really experiment anything
you wouldn't know anything about Chinese
medicine so being having an open heart
about it it's very important so the word
Sherwin is the same word as knowledge in
English the word Sri is actually learned
the word one is asked the literal means
learn to ask and ask to learn but
besides all that the most important
thing for us
is you have to know what is what you
know already and what you don't know and
Confucius says that if you know what you
know you realize what you don't know and
that is the true knowledge and so
therefore we need to have humility and
motivation always for us to do this to
learn more and so therefore we will
continue to learn to ask and continue to
ask to learn thank you very much
I'm Victor