Chinese medicine offers a range of therapies for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of insomnia. This book describes these therapies and includes self-care and home remedies, such as self-massage, magnet therapy, moxibustion, Chinese aromatherapy, Chinese patent medicines, and herbal teas.
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.