Robert S. Flaws

The first English language text on traditional Chinese pediatrics. This book is both a primer for the American practitioner of Chinese medicine and also a guide for parents in the care of their children.The text has drawn together information from many sources including previously untranslated Chinese pediatric texts and nursing manuals. Not only are there detailed discussions of over thirty commonly encountered pediatric disorders but treatment plans are given which include the use of diet, Chinese herbs, Chinese infant massage, and acupuncture.Throughout the book emphasis is placed on an energetic as opposed to a materialistic understanding of pediatric disease and the author consistently counsels the minimum and least invasive intervention necessary to correct the problem. In addition attention is pad to the long range repercussions of pediatric disorders and the possibilities of iatrogenic disease in later life due to the superficial treatment of childhood imbalances. The differential diagnoses and treatment plans given in this book will allow the American practitioner of oriental medicine to, for the first time, offer traditional pediatric care to their patients. For parent this book will teach them how to prevent pediatric problems through the balancing of the child's diet and also offers them, in many cases, simple home remedies to treat their children's minor disease.Included in this book are numerous Chinese herbal formulae, many of which have been in constant clinical use for two thousand years, a description of a number of oriental patent medicines readily obtainable at Chinese apothecaries, and step-by-step instructions on how to apply Chinese infant massage.… (plus d'informations)