The Classic of Difficulties (Nan Jing)

Huang-fu Mi’s Systematic Classic of Acupuncture & Moxibustion (Jia Yi Jing)

Hua Tuo’s Classic of the Central Viscera (Zhong Zang Jing)

Wang Shu-he’s Pulse Classic (Mai Jing)

Tao Hong-jing’s The Divine Farmer’s Materia Medica (Shen Non Ben Cao Jing)

Li Dong-yuan’s Treatise on the Spleen & Stomach (Pi Wei Lun)

Zhu Dan-xi’s Extra Treatises Based on Investigation & Inquiry (Ge Zhi Yu Lun)

Zhu Dan-xi’s The Heart & Essence of Dan-xi’s Methods of Treatment (Dan Xi Xin Fa Zhi Yao)

Li Shi-zhen’s The Lakeside Master’s Study of the Pulse (Bin Hu Mai Xue)

Fu Qing-zhu’s Fu Qing-zhu’s Gynecology (Fu Qing Zhu Nu Ke)

Wang Qing-ren’s Correcting the Errors in the Forest of Medicine (Yi Lin Gai Cuo)

The Classic of Difficulties (Nan Jing)

Huang-fu Mi’s Systematic Classic of Acupuncture & Moxibustion (Jia Yi Jing)

Hua Tuo’s Classic of the Central Viscera (Zhong Zang Jing)

Wang Shu-he’s Pulse Classic (Mai Jing)

Tao Hong-jing’s The Divine Farmer’s Materia Medica (Shen Non Ben Cao Jing)

Li Dong-yuan’s Treatise on the Spleen & Stomach (Pi Wei Lun)

Zhu Dan-xi’s Extra Treatises Based on Investigation & Inquiry (Ge Zhi Yu Lun)

Zhu Dan-xi’s The Heart & Essence of Dan-xi’s Methods of Treatment (Dan Xi Xin Fa Zhi Yao)

Li Shi-zhen’s The Lakeside Master’s Study of the Pulse (Bin Hu Mai Xue)

Fu Qing-zhu’s Fu Qing-zhu’s Gynecology (Fu Qing Zhu Nu Ke)

Wang Qing-ren’s Correcting the Errors in the Forest of Medicine (Yi Lin Gai Cuo)

Blue Poppy’s Statements of Fact in Chinese Medicine (Third Edition) is created especially for students to help them memorize and become familiar with the key statements of fact in Chinese medicine. This expanded, updated, and annotated edition includes all Chinese characters, pinyin, and explanations of each statement.

Five movements & six qi

Liu Zheng-cai’s A Study of Daoist Acupuncture discusses all four methods of chronobiology used in Chinese medicine. Collectively, these are referred to as the five movements and six qi ( wu yun liu qi ).

Yin fire

Four examinations

Pulse diagnosis

Blue Poppy is especially strong in the field of Chinese pulse examination. Bob Flaws’s The Secret of Chinese Pulse Diagnosis is a basic introduction to this subject which is used as a textbook at numerous acupuncture colleges. This book includes a Free Teacher’s Manual for any school that adopts it as a required text and meets the minimum purchase quantity.

Tongue diagnosis

Pattern discrimination

Bob Flaws & Daniel Finney wrote A Handbook of TCM Patterns & Their Treatments specifically for students. This book discusses more patterns than any other English text as well as all the commonly seen multi-pattern presentations left out of other books. If one really wants to build a strong foundation in Chinese medical pattern discrimination, this is the book to buy.

Channel & Point Location

To aid students learn the most important information on the most important 100 points of acupuncture, Blue Poppy has created our Acupoint Reference Pocketbook. Accompanied by illustrations of point location, this little book easily fits inside one’s shirt pocket for constant referral and study. It is based on the acupuncture course taught at the Shanghai University of Chinese Medicine.

Bob Flaws & Zong Xiao-fan’s Pronunciation Guide to Acupuncture Point Names is a CD designed to help students recognize and pronounce Chinese acupoint names that are used by teachers in the classroom.

Clinical Point Selection & Combination

It’s one thing to learn all the points names, locations, and indications. It’s quite another to learn how to combine these into effective point formulas. To help students master this skill, Blue Poppy has three books that are especially useful for students:

Bob Flaws’s Sticking to the Point, Vol. 1 & Vol. 2. This two volume set discusses the step-by-step methodology of creating an acupuncture formula for any patient based on their Chinese medical pattern discrimination using the treatment principles as the bridge between the pattern and the points.

Yu Hui-chan & Han Fu-ru’s Golden Needle Wang Le-ting. Wang Le-ting was one of the main acupuncture teachers in Northern China in the mid-20th century. In this book, Wang explains how to combine points to treat a number of commonly seen conditions.

Miriam Lee’s Insights of a Senior Acupuncturist. Miriam Lee was one of the most famous acupuncturists in California in the 1970s and 80s. In this book, Lee discusses how to use a single acupuncture formula to treat a host of commonly seen complaints by simply adding or subtracting one or two points. Deceptively simple, Lee’s protocols are based on advanced Jin-Yuan dynasty Li-Zhu medical theories.

Acupuncture Techniques
 
Internal medicine

Sionneau & Lu’s seven volume series, The Treatment of Disease in TCM, discusses the acupuncture treatment of hundreds of traditional Chinese disease categories based on pattern discrimination.

Flaws & Sionneau’s The Treatment of Modern Western Diseases with Chinese Medicine approaches this same subject from the point of view of Western disease categories. This book includes a Free Teacher’s Manual for any school that adopts it as a required text and meets the minimum purchase quantity.

Gynecology

Although gynecology really means internal herbal medicine in Chinese medicine, Bob Flaws includes acupuncture protocols for every pattern of every disease in A Compendium of Chinese Medical Menstrual Diseases.

Other Blue Poppy books on gynecology include Chinese Medical Obstetrics, Fulfilling the Essence: A Handbook of Contemporary Chinese Treatments for Female Infertility, Menopause & Chinese Medicine, and A Handbook of Traditional Chinese Gynecology.

Orthopedics, rheumatology & traumatology

Orthopedics, rheumatology & traumatology all fall under the general category of external medicine ( wai ke ) in Chinese medicine, and Yan Cui-lan & Zhu Yun-long’s The Treatment of External Diseases with Acupuncture & Moxibustion specifically addresses this topic. Dr. Yan is an acknowledged master of acupuncture in Northern China.

Dermatology

Dermatology also falls under the general category of external medicine (wai ke) in Chinese medicine, and Yan Cui-lan & Zhu Yun-long’s The Treatment of External Diseases with Acupuncture & Moxibustion specifically addresses this topic.

Clean Needle Technique

Materia Medica

Bob Flaws and Honora Lee Wolfe's The Successful Chinese Herbalist represents the essence of two long-time practitioners' knowledge about practicing Chinese herbal medicine in the West.

Philippe Sionneau’s Dui Yao: The Art of Combining Chinese Medicinals discusses the most common and effective two medicinal combinations in Chinese medicine.

Philippe Sionneau’s An Introduction to the Use of Processed Chinese Medicinals discusses how processing Chinese herbs prior to their decoction helps to focus and potentiate their effect.

Fred Jennes's Herb Toxicities & Drug Interactions with Bob Flaws is a complete guide to detailed biomedical and Chinese medicine information on over 100 of the most important formulas you use every day. This book includes a Free Teacher’s Manual for any school that adopts it as a required text and meets the minimum purchase quantity.

Bob Flaws & Zong Xiao-fan’s Audio CD, Pronunciation Guide to The Chinese Materia Medica, will help students recognize and pronounce 450 Chinese medicinal names used by teachers in the classroom.

Bob Flaws’s 630 Questions & Answers on Chinese Herbal Medicine is a great study aide for materia medica and formulas and prescriptions.

Formulas & Prescriptions

As with materia medica, Dan Benky & Randall Barolet’s Chinese Herbal Medicine: Formulas & Strategies is considered the standard English language textbook for this subject. However, Blue Poppy has some aides to help master this material. Bob Flaws’s Seventy Essential TCM Formulas for Beginners was likewise written specifically to help students learn a core repertoire of prototypically important formulas.

Bob Flaws’s 630 Questions & Answers on Chinese Herbal Medicine is a great study aide for materia medica and formulas and prescriptions.

Prepared (Patent) Medicines

Chinese Medical Internal Medicine

Sionneau & Lu’s seven volume series, The Treatment of Disease in TCM, discusses the Chinese medicinal treatment of hundreds of traditional Chinese disease categories based on pattern discrimination.

Bob Flaws, Lynn Kuchinski and Robert Casañas' Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus with Chinese Medicine.

Simon Becker, Robert Casañas, and Bob Flaws' Treatment of Cardiovascular Diseases with Chinese Medicine

Flaws & Sionneau’s The Treatment of Modern Western Diseases with Chinese Medicine approaches this same subject from the point of view of Western disease categories. This book includes a Free Teacher’s Manual for any school that adopts it as a required text and meets the minimum purchase quantity.

Chinese Medical Gynecology/Obstetrics

Chinese Medical Obstetrics. This book is both a study text and clinical manual on the Chinese medical treatment of obstetric conditions, or diseases women may experience during pregnancy, childbirth, and shortly thereafter.

Because Blue Poppy’s founder, Bob Flaws, is himself a Chinese medical gynecological specialist, Blue Poppy is particularly strong in this area of Chinese medicine. Our main titles in this area include:

Bob Flaws’s A Compendium of Chinese Medical Menstrual Diseases covers all the traditional Chinese menstrual diseases in unparalleled depth.

Lifang Liang's Acupuncture & IVF, Increase IVF Success by 40-60% can improve your results of In Vitro Fertilization patients by up to 60% with the protocols in this book!

Bob Flaws’s Fire in the Valley discusses the Chinese medical treatment of abnormal vaginal discharges and other vaginal diseases.

Bob Flaws’s Chinese Medical Obstetrics discusses the Chinese medical treatment of 70 gestational and postpartum conditions.

Bob Flaws’s Fulfilling the Essence discusses both traditional and contemporary Chinese medical treatments for female infertility.

Liu Feng-wu’s The Essence of Liu Feng-wu Gynecology is example of a contemporary Chinese master of this specialty. Comprised of both essays and case histories, this book bridges the gap between theory and practice.

Bob Flaws’s A Handbook of TCM Pediatrics is a basic textbook on this specialty which covers 45 common pediatric complaints in longitudinal (chronological) order.

Chinese Medical Dermatology

Liang Jian-hui’s A Handbook of Traditional Chinese Dermatology is a basic textbook on Chinese dermatology covering 90 different dermatological conditions.

Chinese Medical Psychiatry

Bob Flaws & James Lake’s critically acclaimed Chinese Medical Psychiatry is the first English language textbook and clinical manual on this specialty within Chinese medicine. According to at least one reviewer, it is destined to become a classic.

Chinese Medical Hematology

Simon Becker’s A Handbook of Chinese Hematology discusses the Chinese medical treatment of a host of Western hematological conditions, such as anemia, esinophilia, hemophilia, mononucleosis, and leukemia.

Chinese Medical Traumatology

De Qian’s Secret Shaolin Formulas for the Treatment of External Injury is not exactly a textbook of contemporary Chinese traumatology. However, it includes hundreds of Chinese medical formulas for the treatment of all manner of external injury.

Yan, Cui-lan & Zhu, Yun-long's Treatment of External Diseases with Acupuncture and Moxibustion

Chinese Medical Geriatrics

Bob Flaws, Lynn Kuchinski and Robert Casañas' Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus with Chinese Medicine and website

Simon Becker, Robert Casañas, and Bob Flaws' Treatment of Cardiovascular Diseases with Chinese Medicine

Yan De-xin’s Aging & Blood Stasis is a basic Chinese medical geriatric textbook and clinical manual by one of the greatest living Chinese geriatrics specialists.

Adult Tuina

Fan Ya-li’s Chinese Self-massage Therapy is meant as a textbook and clinical manual of adult tuina. Dr. Fan was, for many years, a professor of tuina at the Shandong College of Chinese Medicine in Jinan.   

Pediatric Tuina

Likewise, Fan Ya-li’s Chinese Pediatric Massage Therapy is meant as a textbook and clinical manual of pediatric tuina.