The second thing I want to talk about is a mentality change. Like everything else, if you want to change for good, you must change your mentality first.

When my second son challenged me as to why so many people still seek Western medicine while I said that Chinese medicine is a better alternative medicinal system, I realized he’s not the only one. That’s why I decided to start posting videos and write books to educate the people about the health understanding.

While Western medicine can be said to target the disease itself, the Chinese medicine or system is totally different. I think it would be more suitable to call it a holistic wellness system instead of just a medicinal system. The goal of Chinese medicine is to bring you back to the total balance within your body system, and the balance between you and nature so that you will have total harmony within yourself and with nature. This is not only used as the guidance to treat health problems but most importantly for overall wellness.

The way of thinking between Western medicine and Chinese medicine is very different. But don’t get me wrong. The physiological foundation can be consistent but described in different terminology. It’s the different understanding of pathological theory and hence the treatment directions that separate them.

 For example, in regard to diabetes, I often give my students this illustration.

Let’s take two cups. We fill the first cup with 1/2 cup of water, and we fill the second cup with a full cup of water. We then add one tablespoon of sugar to each of these two cups. Could you please tell me which cup of water will taste sweeter?

Without thinking, you would choose the half cup. When you do a blood test, you will be told the sugar concentration level is too high. So various enzymes will be given to you to break the sugar down. The problem is that the broken sugar will then sink to your lower limbs. That’s why a lot of diabetic people end up losing their lower limbs at the later stage if they don’t change their habits or seek alternative solutions. From Chinese medicine theory, it’s the water issue, not the sugar. We need to add more water to the half cup. But of course, it doesn’t mean that you just drink more water. It must be water “qi” to be utilized by your body. This will be another big topic. I will try to cover various health issues. You can follow my YouTube channel-Holistic Queen.

I believe Chinese medicine is the most natural holistic medicinal system in the world. It’s not technological, but it’s very scientific. Its theory never changes, in the past or in the future. While Western medicine focuses on the disease itself, Chinese medicine focuses on holistic wellness.  There is a big difference.