1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,172 Broadly speaking, Western medicine treats disease; 2 00:00:02,946 --> 00:00:05,335 naturopathic medicine treats the person and addresses systemic problems. 3 00:00:05,370 --> 00:00:07,330 The essence of naturopathic medicine 4 00:00:07,365 --> 00:00:08,876 is that it must not cause secondary harm. 5 00:00:14,130 --> 00:00:15,701 Naturopathic medicine as a discipline exists 6 00:00:15,736 --> 00:00:16,967 only in the United States and Canada; 7 00:00:17,176 --> 00:00:18,576 China doesn't have it. 8 00:00:19,123 --> 00:00:20,330 Speaking of naturopathic medicine, 9 00:00:20,365 --> 00:00:22,028 what is it? A lot of 10 00:00:22,063 --> 00:00:24,323 Chinese people don't really know. Mention naturopathic medicine 11 00:00:24,358 --> 00:00:27,985 and they think of Chinese medicine. In fact, it and Chinese medicine 12 00:00:28,020 --> 00:00:31,063 are two different things; it includes Chinese medicine. 13 00:00:31,332 --> 00:00:32,656 The essence of naturopathic medicine 14 00:00:32,690 --> 00:00:34,259 is that it must not cause secondary harm. 15 00:00:34,294 --> 00:00:36,590 Say, a bowl of brewed Chinese herbal medicine: 16 00:00:36,624 --> 00:00:38,546 you drink it, and your cold is cured, 17 00:00:38,850 --> 00:00:40,374 but you've brought heavy metals into your body. 18 00:00:40,409 --> 00:00:42,563 That's not naturopathic medicine; it has caused secondary harm. 19 00:00:42,798 --> 00:00:43,737 Chinese medicine what? 20 00:00:43,807 --> 00:00:46,685 Chinese herbal preparations. 21 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:50,024 You drink them to treat a cold, 22 00:00:50,607 --> 00:00:53,113 for example, and the cold is cured, 23 00:00:53,148 --> 00:00:55,277 but you've taken in heavy metals. 24 00:00:55,772 --> 00:00:56,642 That's a problem. 25 00:00:56,711 --> 00:00:57,903 Heavy metals. 26 00:00:58,294 --> 00:00:59,407 You've taken in heavy metals, 27 00:00:59,442 --> 00:01:02,042 so it's not naturopathic medicine; it has caused secondary harm. 28 00:01:02,746 --> 00:01:03,955 So our naturopathic medicine 29 00:01:04,311 --> 00:01:07,321 uses very pure methods 30 00:01:07,356 --> 00:01:10,057 to intervene in the body and in health. 31 00:01:10,091 --> 00:01:12,755 Naturopathic medicine includes many kinds, 32 00:01:12,790 --> 00:01:15,297 for example, Mongolian and Tibetan medicine, Indian (Ayurvedic) medicine, 33 00:01:15,331 --> 00:01:17,777 Chinese medicine, nutritional medicine, and, 34 00:01:17,812 --> 00:01:20,291 very popular with Americans right now, functional medicine. 35 00:01:20,491 --> 00:01:22,648 Massage and acupuncture all fall 36 00:01:22,683 --> 00:01:25,185 within naturopathic medicine. But there is 37 00:01:25,220 --> 00:01:27,717 just one red line: secondary harm. 38 00:01:28,343 --> 00:01:29,839 How is it different from Western medicine? 39 00:01:29,909 --> 00:01:32,752 Broadly speaking, Western medicine treats disease; 40 00:01:33,526 --> 00:01:36,474 naturopathic medicine treats the person and addresses systemic problems. 41 00:01:38,057 --> 00:01:41,257 That's the biggest difference. Now, in an emergency, 42 00:01:41,291 --> 00:01:42,752 say someone's been in a car crash 43 00:01:42,787 --> 00:01:45,238 with their head split open and bleeding. Expecting 44 00:01:45,273 --> 00:01:47,900 naturopathic medicine, or acupuncture, to stop the bleeding 45 00:01:47,935 --> 00:01:50,048 and solve the problem isn't realistic. 46 00:01:50,561 --> 00:01:52,703 Emergencies must be handled by Western medicine. 47 00:01:52,737 --> 00:01:54,907 I don't know if you've noticed: 48 00:01:54,942 --> 00:01:56,903 a person's whole medical chain 49 00:01:57,615 --> 00:02:00,896 is divided into prevention, health care, diagnosis, treatment, 50 00:02:00,930 --> 00:02:03,650 and rehabilitation. That's the entire medical chain. 51 00:02:03,685 --> 00:02:06,334 In North America, especially the US, 52 00:02:06,369 --> 00:02:08,789 American doctors value this medical chain highly. 53 00:02:09,213 --> 00:02:12,187 During surgery, too, they advise prevention and health care, 54 00:02:12,222 --> 00:02:14,271 addressing those two. Now think about it: 55 00:02:14,306 --> 00:02:17,083 the vast majority of our Western-medicine hospitals, 56 00:02:17,457 --> 00:02:19,446 across the whole medical chain, 57 00:02:19,481 --> 00:02:21,654 focus only on diagnosis and treatment. 58 00:02:21,689 --> 00:02:23,886 You're ill, you're diagnosed with instrument tests; 59 00:02:23,921 --> 00:02:26,091 a problem shows up, then surgery. 60 00:02:26,350 --> 00:02:29,697 Diagnosis, treatment: after diagnosis comes medical intervention. 61 00:02:29,891 --> 00:02:32,217 Canada has three branches of medicine 62 00:02:32,251 --> 00:02:34,259 recognized by the government: Western medicine, 63 00:02:34,642 --> 00:02:36,941 naturopathic medicine, and a Chinese one, 64 00:02:36,976 --> 00:02:39,330 TCM and acupuncture. 65 00:02:39,365 --> 00:02:41,340 Just now, Dr. Shi, our president, and I 66 00:02:41,375 --> 00:02:42,529 were discussing this very issue. 67 00:02:42,563 --> 00:02:44,755 We keep arguing this with the government: 68 00:02:44,790 --> 00:02:47,059 can we prescribe drugs or not? Today the government 69 00:02:47,094 --> 00:02:48,750 says yes, tomorrow it says no. 70 00:02:48,784 --> 00:02:50,888 But acupuncture is recognized. The US recognizes it too. 71 00:02:50,923 --> 00:02:52,970 But in Canada, 72 00:02:53,005 --> 00:02:57,457 only five provinces license naturopathic doctors. 73 00:02:57,987 --> 00:02:59,610 Not every province does. 74 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:02,593 A while ago I heard on the news 75 00:03:03,141 --> 00:03:06,106 that cancer cells had been conquered. What's your take on that? 76 00:03:06,489 --> 00:03:07,993 I have reservations about that. 77 00:03:08,332 --> 00:03:09,037 Why? 78 00:03:09,967 --> 00:03:11,054 Cancer is not easy to conquer, 79 00:03:11,428 --> 00:03:12,793 because it has many 80 00:03:13,341 --> 00:03:16,115 cancer cells that are very smart, even smarter than humans. 81 00:03:17,071 --> 00:03:21,202 There's an element of marketing in this, 82 00:03:21,810 --> 00:03:23,593 and quite a large one at that. 83 00:03:24,037 --> 00:03:25,460 Given ordinary people's blind spots in knowledge, 84 00:03:25,495 --> 00:03:27,019 it's an irresponsible attitude. 85 00:03:28,071 --> 00:03:29,558 So I have reservations.