Seventy Essential TCM Formulas for Beginners

This book is a beginner's primer on the study of Chinese medicinal formulas and prescriptions. In it, Dr. Flaws describes 70 essential TCM formulas - one, two, or three formulas from each of 20 or so categories of TCM formulas. Using this core repertoire of formulas, the beginning practitioner will be able to treat the majority of patients they encounter. Rather than presenting hundreds of different formulas in an encyclopedic fashion, Dr. Flaws focuses on understanding the composition, indications, and modification of a limited number of Chinese medicine's most famous formulas. Thus this book is similar in content and design to textbooks used in the formula and prescriptions classes at TCM colleges in the People's Republic of China. Bob Flaws is the managing editor of Blue Poppy Press and the author and translator of over 20 books on Chinese medicine as well as articles too numerous to mention. Dr. Flaws is a frequent lecturer on Chinese medicine at conferences and at various colleges of acupuncture and Chinese medicine both nationally and internationally. He maintains a private practice in Boulder, CO.