Editing Traditional Chinese medicine (section)

=== Pregnancy ===
Traditional Chinese medicine's dealings with pregnancy are documented from at least the seventeenth century. According to Charlotte Furth, "a pregnancy (in the seventeenth century) as a known bodily experience emerged [...] out of the liminality of menstrual irregularity, as uneasy digestion, and a sense of fullness".<ref name="nzFZzH" /> These symptoms were common among other illness as well, so the diagnosis of pregnancy often came late in the term. The ''Canon of the Pulse'', which described the use of pulse in diagnosis, stated that pregnancy was "a condition marked by symptoms of the disorder in one whose pulse is normal" or "where the pulse and symptoms do not agree".<ref name="BddYV">{{Citation|chapter=Diagnosis for Pulse-Taking and Pulse Subtlety|date=March 2019|pages=69–77|publisher=WORLD SCIENTIFIC|isbn=9789813273573|doi=10.1142/9789813273580_0017|title=The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Medicine – Essential Questions|s2cid=241372790}}</ref> Women were often silent about suspected pregnancy, which led to many men not knowing that their wife or daughter was pregnant until complications arrived. Complications through the misdiagnosis and the woman's reluctance to speak often led to medically induced abortions. Cheng, Furth wrote, "was unapologetic about endangering a fetus when pregnancy risked a mother's well being".<ref name="nzFZzH" /> The method of abortion was the ingestion of certain herbs and foods. Disappointment at the loss of the fetus often led to family discord.<ref name="nzFZzH" />