Week Eight

• How do you feel about western approaches to HIV/AIDS?\

The way the western approaches HIV/AIDS is rooted on the way they view the origin etiology of HIV/AIDS - the Virus. I feel like the western approaches to HIV/AIDS is more concern about killing the virus than the person - who is living with it. Viruses is everyway and the more important may be the person and the immune system the person has. If the person has a strong immune system the virus wouldn't be a problem since even the person may get attacked the person would win.

• Can TCM strengthen our immune systems?

Yes. The Huang di nei jing ( Yellow Emperor's classics ) is the ancient TCM classic which TCM was borned from and it talks a lot about how we can strengthen people's immune system. TCM was borned as a medicine concerned about how we can prevent people from getting diseases and therefore developed many methods to strengthen our immune systems. The Nei jing is saying in the classic a lot that TCM is the way of life to strengthen our source qi and when the source qi is strong - our immune systems are strong - so therefore, we maintain our health.

• What do you think of “the deal that saved the whale”?

In my personal point of view, I think it is important to think about what really is saving the whales and what their current situation really is.