Path of Pregnancy, Vol. 1: A Handbook of Traditional Chinese and Gestational Birthing Diseases

by Bob Flaws

This book discusses the disease causes and mechanisms, pattern discrimination, and Chinese herbal treatment of three dozen commonly seen complaints occurring during pregnancy and delivery, such as morning sickness, edema, low back pain, threatened miscarriage, premature labor, habitual miscarriage, malposition of the fetus, and delayed delivery. Numerous Chinese medicinal formulas are given for each pattern of each disease as well as acupuncture protocols for the emergency conditions treated by acupuncture in China. This book is a must own clinical reference for any practitioner treating pregnant women with Chinese medicine.

235 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Bob Flaws (born 1946) is a practitioner of and prolific author and translator on Chinese medicine. He began his study and practice of Chinese medicine in 1977 under the late Eric (Xi-yu) Tao of Denver, Colorado and continued his Chinese medical education at the Shanghai College of Traditional Chinese Medicine from 1982 to 1986. In 1982, he and his wife, Honora Lee Wolfe, established Blue Poppy Press which eventually grew into Blue Poppy Enterprises, Inc. of Boulder, Colorado.