Discusses 38 common paediatric diseases and their treatment using Chinese medicine and alternative therapies

"With her brilliant mastery of the Chinese Five-Element System, as well as her compassionate understanding from her own experiences as a parent, Robin Ray Green is the perfect guide to show you how to read your child’s individual map. This book is a wonderfully practical and comprehensive ‘user’s manual’ for your child’s optimal health!” — Jean Haner, author of The Five Element Solution, and The Wisdom of Your Child’s Face: Discover Your Child’s True Nature with Chinese Face Reading Drawing from the ancient wisdom of the Five Elements of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Robin Ray Green, L.Ac., MTCM, offers simple solutions for creating a natural healing program that is as unique as your child. Questionnaires and quizzes help you gain an understanding of your child’s 5-Element type —whether it’s Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal or Water —to allow you to diagnose imbalances within the body that create health issues. Once you’ve gained a solid understanding of the 5 Elements and how health conditions are affected by elemental imbalances, nutrition, and lifestyle, you’ll learn simple techniques —such as acupressure, massage, and meditation —that will help your child achieve vibrant health. Ultimately, empowered with this knowledge and a new, holistic perspective on health, you’ll be able to augment Western treatments with time-tested natural solutions to help your child, and your whole family, heal naturally.

This textbook is a comprehensive guide to diagnosis and treatment in paediatric acupuncture. Ill health related to modern lifestyles is discussed, as is the role of family dynamics in childhood disease. Rebecca Avern examines treatment of children from both a TCM and a Five Element perspective. Throughout, she highlights how diagnosis and treatment should be tailored depending on the age of the child. The book includes information on a wide variety of treatment methods, including needling and pediatric tui na. The book covers all the conditions that children commonly present with in modern practice, including food allergies, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, issues relating to Autism Spectrum Disorder, and teenage depression, anxiety and eating disorders.

An introductory guide to the application of this therapeutic technique.

Chinese medicine has effective answers for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of headaches. This book explains the benefits of Chinese medicine and covers self-care and home remedies, including self-massage, magnet therapy, moxibustion, aromatherapy, Chinese patent medicines, and herbal teas.

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a disorder that affects one out of five Americans, with such symptoms as diarrhea, constipation, bloating, nausea, indigestion, and gas. This book is directed to those who suffer from IBS and provides a whole, holistic, and centuries-old theory about its cause and treatment. Based on this theory, this book provides free or low-cost therapies for relieving or even curing maladies through the wisdom of Chinese medicine. Emphasis on understanding acupuncture, moxibustion, and mind-body interactions in a positive light is refreshing for those who want to improve the quality of their lives naturally.