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Providing a clear understanding of infertility, this practical resource analyzes and describes the diagnoses and treatment of infertility - both male and female - with Chinese medicine. It includes Western medical information with explanations of physiology, reproductive biology, and modern infertility treatments to expand the understanding of patient options. Content discusses all aspects of achieving a successful pregnancy, including pre-conception care, conception, pregnancy and miscarriage, and modern medical treatments.Detailed and clear Chinese medicine treatment strategies are described.Information on reproductive biology and Western physiology are included to provide an understanding of the complexity of a patient's symptoms and conditions.Western treatment options that may impact Chinese medicine treatment are described, along with details about how these two perspectives can work together.Clinical approaches to supporting the early stages of a pregnancy and preventing miscarriage are included.Advice is offered on pre-conception help and the optimum diet and lifestyle choices for preparing for a pregnancy.The author is a well-known specialist in this field.
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CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE An imprint of Elsevier Limited © 2004, Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. is a registered trademark of Elsevier Limited The right of Jane Lyttleton to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without either the prior permission of the publishers (Permissions Manager, Harcourt Health Sciences, Robert Stevenson House, 1–3 Baxter’s Place, Leith Walk, Edinburgh EH1 3AF), or a licence permitting restricted copying in the United Kingdom issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P 0LP. First published 2004 ISBN 0443 06640X British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress
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Foreword
The practice of Chinese medicine is maturing in the West. In the quarter century since it began to be known outside of the communities of overseas Chinese, we have watched it move into mainstream Western culture, seen the establishment of high-level education in Chinese medical studies at a number of unversities around the world, and welcomed an increasing recognition of both its limitations and its benefits. This book marks the beginning of a new phase: the publication of the fruits of the long-term personal experience in clinic, by non-Chinese physicians specialising in one of the various departments of Chinese medicine. Gynaecology is certainly an appropriate beginning, for both its relevance and effectiveness, but we should soon be seeing books recounting the personalised techniques, tools and theories developed over decades of use in Western settings by workers in other departments of Chinese medicine, such as dermatology, paeadiatrics, orthopaedics, and ophthalmology. This, of course, is only a new thing for us in the West. The tradition within China extends back well over 700 years, following the establishment of distinct specialties in separate departments of Chinese medicine by the imperial court of the Song dynasty. Since that time, texts from the brushes of a multitude of specialists with 30–50 years of experience in a given department have done much to inform, improve and even revolutionise the practice of their time and peop