Path of Pregnancy (vol. 1): A Handbook of Traditional Chinese Gestational and Birthing Diseases

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.