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Today we started with a short reflection of the kung fu workshop we did yesterday. This was followed by a hour reading and reflection, and we concluded the morning with a description on what our presentation and essay assignment were going to be. In the afternoon doctor You, a doctor well known in eastern medicine came in and talked to us. He first talked to us about acupuncture and gave a demonstration using Mr Zhou as an example, placing a needle in his ear in order to fix lower back pains. Mr. Zhou with a needle in his ear after the acupuncture, Dr. You gave us a PowerPoint presentation on eastern medicine and how it is different from western medicine. Eastern medicine is more about curing the person, while western medicine is more about curing the symptoms. To give us more knowledge about eastern medicine he then demonstrated cupping a technique used to get fresh blood to the area providing more oxygen and nutrients to that area although  it looks painful and harmful it is