Millions of Americans suffer from the debilitating symptoms of fibromyalgia, which may include sleep disturbances, fatigue,depression, and digestive complaints, as well as generalized body pain and stiffness. This book is the first to discuss this common disorder from the point of view of Chinese medicine. In addition to the Chinese medical viewpoint on fibromyalgia, this book gives a host of safe, simple, low-or-no-cost home therapies to help prevent or heal this all-too-common problem.
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.