Suggestion for Great TCM Pregnancy book?

[Guest guest]

Hello again,

 

I'm starting to get in quite a few pregnant women, and always feel a bit limited

in what I can

do for them. Any opinions on your favorite TCM Gynecological/Pregnancy book

would be

greatly appreciated!

 

Many thanks,

Jenn Holley

[Guest guest]

Hi,

 

Debr Betts's book The Essential Guide to Acupuncture in Pregnancy and

Childbirth is the best seller in this topic area, see

http://www.chinesemedicinetimes.com/product/193/171/the_essential_guide_to_acupu\

ncture_in_pregnancy_and_childbirth

 

Attilio

 

Chinese Medicine , " Jenn Holley "

<glam70 wrote:

>

> Hello again,

>

> I'm starting to get in quite a few pregnant women, and always feel a

bit limited in what I can

> do for them. Any opinions on your favorite TCM

Gynecological/Pregnancy book would be

> greatly appreciated!

>

> Many thanks,

> Jenn Holley

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Jenn,

 

If you are looking for an herbal text, I don't think there is a good one yet.

One of my

teachers, Dr. Qiu Xiao-mei, was an experienced and well known traditional

Chinese

medical obstetrician. I have translated most of her text though it is not

published yet.

The translated material is available as part of a dvd course I have taught on

the treatment

of women during pregnancy and postpartum. The translated chapters are excellent

and

full of clinically valuable techniques and case studies. It includes chapters

on morning

sickness, oppressive feelings during pregnancy, pre-eclampsia, prevention of

miscarriage,

excessive amniotic fluid, premature rupture of the placenta, postpartum

episiotomy failing

to heal, and much much more. Altogether it really is a rather complete text.

I've worked

with her methods for about 17 years and find them to be very effective. You can

download

it from the dvd. You can order the dvds here:

 

http://www.whitepinehealingarts.com/seminars/seminars_distance.htm

 

Best

 

Sharon

 

 

 

Chinese Medicine , " Jenn Holley " <glam70

wrote:

>

> Hello again,

>

> I'm starting to get in quite a few pregnant women, and always feel a bit

limited in what I

can

> do for them. Any opinions on your favorite TCM Gynecological/Pregnancy book

would

be

> greatly appreciated!

>

> Many thanks,

> Jenn Holley

>

[Guest guest]

> Chinese Medicine , " Jenn Holley "

<glam70@>

> > I'm starting to get in quite a few pregnant women, and always feel

a bit limited in what I

> can

> > do for them. Any opinions on your favorite TCM

Gynecological/Pregnancy book would

> be

> > greatly appreciated!

 

I agree with Sharon that we don't yet have one really perfect book for

the combined topic of OB/GYN in Chinese medicine. That said, I used

to teach the OB/GYN class at PCOM, and by far the best books available

are Blue Poppy's Compendium of Chinese Medical Menstrual Diseases and

their Chinese Medical Obstetrics text. If you are mostly into

obstetrics, obviously the latter is better, but the two books together

essentially form a pretty complete OB/GYN core curriculum.

 

I also have a bunch of class notes that I translated while I was

teaching the class, but most of my translated notes cover GYN diseases

rather than diseases of pregnancy (all my notes are organized by TCM

disease category, but there are a few that are organized by WM).

Email me off list if you need the notes.

 

Eric Brand