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title	:	Keeping Your Child Healthy With Chinese Medicine : A Parent's Guide to the Care and Prevention of Common Childhood Diseases
author	:	Flaws, Bob.
publisher	:	Blue Poppy Press
isbn10 | asin	:
print isbn13	:	9780936185712
ebook isbn13	:	9780585116051
language	:	English
subject	Medicine, Chinese, Pediatrics, Children--Health and hygiene.
publication date	:	1996
lcc	:	RJ47.F55 1996eb
ddc	:	618.92
subject	:	Medicine, Chinese, Pediatrics, Children--Health and hygiene.

Keeping Your Child Healthy with Chinese Medicine A Parent's Guide to the Care and Prevention of Common Childhood Diseases Bob Flaws BLUE POPPY PRESS

Page ii Published by: Blue Poppy Press A Division of Blue Poppy Enterprises, Inc. 3450 Penrose Place, Suite 110 Boulder, CO 80301 (303) 447-8372 First Edition July, 1996 Second Printing March, 1999 ISBN 0-936185-71-6 Library of Congress Catalog Card #96-94842 Copyright Blue Poppy Press 1996 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transcribed in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other means, or translated into any language without the prior written permission of the publisher. The information in this book is given in good faith. However, the authors and the publishers cannot be held responsible for any error or omission. Nor can they be held in any way responsible for treatment given on the basis of information contained in this book. The publishers make this information available to readers for scholarly and research purposes only. The publishers do not advocate nor endorse self-medication by laypersons. Chinese medicine is a professional medicine. Laypersons interested in availing themselves of the treatments described in this book should seek out a qualified professional practitioner of Chinese medicine. COMP Designation: Original work using a standard translational terminology Printed at Johnson Printing Cover design by Jeff Fuller, Crescent Moon 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2

Page iii Preface This book is a layperson's primer on children's diseases according to Traditional Chinese Medicine. It is intended primarily for parents. It is not a clinical manual for professional practitioners. Rather, it contains what I regard as the most important information for parents on how to keep their children healthy and well. It includes a number of home remedies and describes to parents the kinds of treatments professional practitioners of Chinese medicine are likely to recommend for various children's diseases. The diseases covered are loosely arranged longitudinally. That means that they appear in a rough chronological order corresponding to when in the child's development that disease or condition is likely to crop up. Thus this list begins with neonatal jaundice and colic. Although the list ends with various epidemic and infectious diseases, such as measles and mumps, the reader should know that these may strike at any age. The last category of complaints are traumatic injuries which may also occur at any age but tend to occur more after the child is playing outside with other children. If your child becomes ill and simple home remedies do not result in obvious and timely improvement, my best advice is to see a professional practitioner of Chinese medicine trained in pediatrics. If your child needs to see a Western MD, any responsible professional practitioner of Chinese medicine will make that referral when truly necessary. Chinese medicine is a rising star in Western health care today. It provides great insight into many health problems not dealt with completely or satisfactorily by modern Western medicine. In particular, Chinese medicine provides simple to understand reasons for why we get sick the way we do and, based on those reasons, tells us what

Page iv we ourselves can do both to prevent and treat those diseases. Thus Chinese medicine is an enlightening and empowering medicine, returning a great deal of autonomy and the responsibility that goes with that autonomy back to the individual. As a clinician, my day to day work mainly focuses on the treatment of diseases which have already occurred. However, it is an ancient and long-standing principle in Chinese medicine that the superior doctor teaches patients how to prevent disease rather than just treating diseases which have already arisen. Treating disease after it has developed is likened in the Chinese medical classics to digging a well after one has become thirsty or forging spears after war has been declared. Therefore, I have a great desire to share the preventive and self-treatment wisdom of Chinese medicine with as large an audience as possible, and this and other books I have written for lay readers are an outgrowth of that desire. The material in this book is derived from three main sources. First is my training in Chinese medical pediatrics I received at the Shanghai College of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Second is the Chinese medical literature on pediatrics. And third is my own clinical experience as a professional practitioner of acupuncture and Chinese medicine over the last 18 years. But just as importantly, as a parent myself, I and my wife have been called on to make many of the hard choices discussed in this book. Like you parents who are reading this book, I too have lost many nights of sleep staying up with a sick child. Thus much of the information in this book comes not just from my experience of treating other peoples' kids but from applying this knowledge within the proving ground of my own home. My most sincere hope is that the knowledge contained in this book works as well for your children as it has for mine. BOB FLAWS BOULDER, CO

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