Bob Flaws

Although sports medicine is a growing specialty in contemporary western medical practice, Chinese "hit" Medicine, developed by and for professional martial artists over several centuries (if not thousands of years), is the repository of a number of techniques of remarkable efficacy which are also low cost and low in iatrogenic impact. Such techniques are the province of the so-called Barefoot Doctor of the Peoples Republic of China. They are easy to learn, have few contraindications, and do show more not require elaborate apparatus or equipment. In addition, Chinese medicine has an important perspective on the long range effects of seemingly minor traumatic injuries which should be healed as speedily and as completely as possible. show less

Fu ke or gynecology is one of the most widely practiced and effective specialties of TCM. Fu ke itself is divided into several traditional sections: yue jing bing or menstrual diseases; dai xia or abnormal vaginal discharge; chan hou or pre and postpartum diseases; and za bing, miscellaneous diseases. Because of the connections between the uterus and all the other organ, channels, influences, and substances of the female organism, most diseases suffered by women typically cause some show more abnormality in menstruation. Therefore, if one can diagnose and treat such menstrual irregularities, such treatment can have an ameliorating effect on a woman's entire health and well being.This book is an in-depth discussion of the TCM diagnosis and treatment of yue jing bing or menstrual diseases. Written by Bob Flaws, internationally known practitioner of and author on TCM, it is a record of his more than twelve years of study and practice of Chinese gynecology. Based on both contemporary Chinese texts and premodern classics, Dr. Flaws presents the TCM etiology, disease mechanisms, and pattern diagnosis of menstrual diseases more fully than any other book available in English. show less

Recently, the traditional Chinese diet has been proven scientifically to be healthier than the modern Western diet. This book explains the theory behind the traditional Chinese diet and how to apply two thousand plus years of Eastern dietary wisdom to our modern Western eating habits.

One out of five Americans suffers from some kind of migrainous headache. Some suffer only occasionally; others are bedeviled by constantly recurring and debilitating attacks. This book explains the mechanisms of migraine according to the 2000 years of wisdom and clinical experience of TCM in terms which the layperson can understand. The insights in this book will both enlighten and empower migraine sufferers since it contains a comprehensive and holistic approach to the management and cure show more of migraine headaches. show less