At present, 30%-40% of adult women have different kinds of breast diseases at different levels, and the incidence rate keeps rising. Therefore, the prevention and treatment of breast diseases have become an important issue for the maintenance of women's health. Chinese medicine has a history of over two thousand years on the treatment of breast diseases, thus accumulating abundant experience in fundamental theory, treatment modalities, prevention and regulation of breast diseases. Notably, a diagnosis and treatment system with integral theory, confirmative efficacy, marked advantages and distinguished characteristics has been shaped over postpartum hypogalactia and breast hyperplasia.
This book is one of the well-organized and comprehensive series of The Clinical Practice of Chinese Medicine which aims to guide the reader through the complexity of clinical practice. This book discusses, in detail, the clinical experience of ancient and modern-day renowned physicians and enables the practitioner to become more adept at using Chinese medicine in the diagnosis and treatment of postpartum hypogalactia and breast hyperplasia.

Features:
Pattern differentiation and treatment with herbs & acupuncture
Clinical experience of distinguished physicians
Famous physicians case studies
Relevant contemporary research on pattern differentiation & formulas
Selected quotes from classical texts
397 pg

This well-organized and comprehensive clinical series is characterized by important diseases, it provides detailed western disease information and Chinese clinical treatment effective for each specifi c disease. These books also discuss, in detail, related quotes of classical TCM iterature and clearly narrate the modern clinical experience of renowned physicians, thus enabling the practitioner to become more adept at using Chinese medicine in the diagnosis and treatment of common diseases.

Authors
Professor Lin Yi serves as chief physician at the Second Teaching Hospital of the Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine. She has been engaged in clinical practice of Chinese external medicine for more than 40 years, from which she has gained accomplishments in the study of surgical disease, particularly pertaining to mastopathy. Dr. Lin normalized the pattern differentiation of breast hyperplasia, brought forward the research approach of normalization of pattern differentiation on the basis of phase-division of breast cancer, built up a systematic theory of Chinese medical periodical treatment for breast hyperplasia, created the characteristic therapy of hole type wound-cauterization with fire needles for the treatment of breast mastitis and combined the midday-midnight point selection theory with the principle of tonifying the kidney, invigorating the spleen and regenerating the marrow in the treatment of medulla suppression caused by chemotherapy for breast cancer. She also created 14 kinds of Chinese medicinal formulae with confirmed efficacy in clinical practice.