Product Description
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.

From the Author
One of the very first books I ever wrote on Chinese medicine was about Chinese medicine and pregnancy. At the time, I cobbled together whatever scanty information was available in English. Much of that information was out-dated and incomplete if not actually erroneous. After I taught myself how to read Chinese and thereby gained access to the full length and breadth of the Chinese medical literature, I realized that I had an obligation to redo this earlier effort. The fruit of that obligation is this vastly improved and expanded version which is easily comparable to a professional Chinese medical OB/GYN text in the People's Republic of China. It took me more than 15 years to reach this state of the art. Having done so, I hope this book can cut more than a decade off other students' and practitioners' development