Bob Flaws Books

This is the most complete discussion of Chinese medicine on this subject available in English. It includes the TCM treatment for various Western diseases associated with infertility, such as female immunologic infertility, fallopian tube blockage, endocrine imbalances, polycystic ovarian syndrome, uterine myoma, luteal phase defect, anovulation, and endometriosis.

My Sister the The Diagnosis & Treatment of Menstrual Diseases by Traditional Chinese Medicine is the most thorough source on Chinese medicine patterns involved in gynecology. The information helps to disentangle the complexity of PMS patterns. Although mostly devoted to herbal medicine, there are brief lists of acupuncture points for many of the menstrual conditions discussed. Author Bob Flaws refers to the 18th century text The Golden Mirror of Medicine, which gives a variety of jing xing (i.e. menstrual movement) disorders which can occur before or during menstruation.

Chinese dietary therapy is one of the most important aspects of Chinese medicine. The Tao of Healthy Eating illuminates the theory and practice of Chinese dietary therapy with emphasis on the concerns and attitudes of Westerners. Commonsense metaphors explain basic Chinese medical theories and their application in preventive and remedial dietary therapy. It features a clear description of the Chinese medical understanding of digestion and all the practical implications of this day-to-day diet. Issues of Western interest are discussed, such as raw versus cooked foods, high cholesterol, food allergies, and candidiasis. It includes the Chinese medical descriptions of 200 Western foods and similar information on vitamins, minerals, and amino acids.

This book is the second, revised edition of a practical handbook of Chinese medical patterns with their disease causes and mechanisms, signs and symptoms, treatment principles, guiding formulas, main modifications, and acupuncture treatments. It is meant for both the student and the clinical practitioner. The authors have included numerous patterns previously not described in the English language literature as well as many complex patterns which are commonly seen in real-life practice in the West. It also includes a symptom-sign index and a formula index for easy reference. All medicinal names in this new edition conform to Bensky et al.'s Chinese Herbal Medicine: Materia Medica 3rd edition, and all Chinese medical terminology corresponds to Wiseman and Feng's A Practical Dictionary of Chinese Medicine. Ingredients in Chinese medicinal formulas begin with their pinyin names and are listed down for easier reference. In addition, this new edition contains a number of case histories for use in problem-based learning (PBL) along with suggested answers, thus making it even more useful in the classroom

Based on exhaustive review of dozens of pre-modern and contemporary Chinese gynecological texts and hundreds of articles appearing in Chinese medical journals as well as the author's more than 18 years of experience specializing in Chinese medical gynecology, this new book is unparalleled in its scope and depth. If a practitioner wants to understand how to diagnose and treat women's complaints in Chinese medicine, this book is an absolute necessity. Filled with easy-to-reference charts and diagrams, this book also includes acupuncture and moxibustion and individulally prescribed standardized desiccated extract Chinese herbal treatments.

This book describes the step-by-step process of composing a TCM herbal formula. It describes a simple, straight- forward methodology of moving from disease diagnosis to pattern discrimination to treatment principles and, from there, to choosing a guiding formula and modifying it with additions and subtractions to make it more perfectly fit each individual patient. This book fills in much that is left unsaid by other books on Chinese medicine and formulas and clarifies what other authors have left obscure. In China, the information in this book is absorbed by osmosis in supervised clinical practice under mentors with decades of experience. Therefore, most Chinese books do not feel it necessary to explain all this information. The second half of the book is devoted to discussing approximately 150 variations of the formula, Si Wu Tang (Four Materials Decoction), in the light of the material presented in the first half.

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Chinese doctors have used pulse diagnosis as one of their four main methods of diagnosis for at least 2,000 years. Even today, this art is integral to the correct identification of traditional Chinese medical patterns. Although most practitioners of acupuncture and Chinese medicine talk about the importance of the pulse in their practice, few practitioners in the West truly feel competent in this art. In this book, Bob Flaws, one of the most famous Western practitioners of Chinese medicine, shares his secret for learning how to do Chinese pulse diagnosis. Bob has identified a single key secret technique which will unlock Chinese pulse diagnosis for everyone who applies it. Using this technique, anyone can feel the 27 or 28 classical pulses.

Written for parents, this guide to Chinese medicine covers all the most common pediatric diseases. Beginning with an overview of Chinese, it then discusses 38 of the most common pediatric complaints in chronological order, based on when children typically develop them. This book includes everything from colic and croup to whooping cough and hyperactivity. Under each disease, the reader will find a brief discussion of the different types of patterns typically encountered, what acupuncture and Chinese medicine have to offer, and tips on diet and home remedies.