Course Overview

Please Note: This is an Audio Course. In this four-part course, Bob Flaws explores the diagnoses and Chinese medicine treatments for a variety of common Western medical conditions. In Part One, Bob will teach you how to treat acute asthma attacks as well as how to prevent repeat attachs using treatment during the remission stage. Using the techniques taught in this class, you will gain new levels of assurance and success with this commonly seen condition. With the aging of the Baby Boomers, high cholesterol is also an increasingly common problem in clinical practice. Unfortunately, the books dont tell the real story on this condition. In Part Two, learn the keys to treating this disorder successfully with acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine. Part Three details the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension from both a Western and Chinese medicine perspective. In Part Four, Bob illuminates the Chinese disease mechanisms that cause osteoporosis and how these disease mechanisms evolve over time as the result of the aging process. Bob details four main treatment principles for preventing and treating osteoporosis. He discusses how these principles are applied in real life using Chinese herbal medicinals and explains the role of diet, exercise, and psychology in the prevention and treatment of the disease.

Course Objectives

• Participants will learn Western and Chinese medical descriptions of Asthma, High Cholesterol, Hypertension, and Osteoporosis
• Participants will learn Western and Chinese medical treatments for the four stated conditions
• Participants will learn Chinese Medical Disease Mechanisms
• Participants will learn treatment of the four conditions based on pattern discriminations
• Participants will learn effective Chinese medicinals and formulas

Course Outline

0 hrs - 1 hrsThis part of the course covers treating both acute asthmatic attacks and how to prevent repeat attacks using treatment during the remission stage. Using the techniques taught in this class, you will gain new levels of assurance and success with this commonly seen condition.

1 hrs - 2.5 hrsHigh cholesterol is an increasingly common problem in clinical practice. In this discussion Bob Flaws teaches the keys to treating this disorder successfully with acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine

2.5 hrs - 3.5 hrsThe Western medical etiology, pathophysiology, differential diagnosis and treatment of essential hypertension is covered in this class. Also covered is the Chinese medical disease causes, mechanisms, patterns, and their treatments. This portion of the course provides both acupuncture and Chinese medicine treatments.

3.5 hrs - 5 hrsThis discussion explains the Chinese disease mechanisms causing osteoporosis and how these disease mechanisms evolve over time as the result of the aging process. There are four main treatment principles for preventing and treating osteoporosis and the course discusses how these principles are applied in real life using Chinese herbal medicinals. It also explains the role of diet, exercise, and psychology in the prevention and treatment of this disease.