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Second Edition
By
Zita West, Midwife, and Acupuncturist, Banbury, Oxfordshire, UK
Description
ACUPUNCTURE IN PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH is a concise highly illustrated and practical guide to using acupuncture to treat women throughout
their pregnancy and labour. Drawing on an unparalleled wealth of experience as a midwife and an acupuncturist, the author has produced
a book accessible to both acupuncture students and practitioners covering physiology related to pregnancy and childbirth, illuminating
links between Western knowledge and acupuncture approaches and suggesting points and point combinations for particular stages and actions
during pregnancy and labour.
Audience
Acupuncturists (particularly non medical), midwives, acupuncture and physiotherapy students
Contents
Western Medical Glossary
1. Planning for a healthy baby
2. Pregnancy
3. Nutrition in pregnancy
4. Antenatal
care explained
5. First trimester: 1 to 12 weeks
6. Second trimester: 13 to 28 weeks
7. Third trimester: 28 to 40
weeks
8. High risk pregnancies
9. Abnormal positions of the fetus
10.Preparation for labour
11.Labour
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First stage of labour
13. Second stage of labour
14. Third stage of labour
15. Postnatal period-the fourth trimester
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Classical Five Element acupuncture and its use in postnatal depression
Appendix Standard international nomenclature for the 14
meridians
Index
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 272 pages, publication date: JAN-2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-443-10371-1
ISBN-10: 0-443-10371-2
Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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