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.
Bob Flaws is the most prolific writer on Chinese medicine in the English language. He is author, translator, or editor of over 80 books on Chinese medicine and scores of articles published in both professional journals and the popular press. Among his other credits, Bob is a past president and lifetime fellow of the Acupuncture Association of Colorado, a fellow and director of the National Academy of Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine as well as a past editor of that association's quarterly journal, a founder of the Council of Oriental Medical Publishers, and the founder of Blue Poppy Enterprises. Bob is also the co-author and co-director of an NIH-funded research project working with AIDS-related peripheral neuropathy.
