The Complete Self-Care Guide to Holistic Medicine: Treating Our Most Common Ailments

by Robert S. Ivker

Book Overview

From the author of the 250,000-copy bestseller Sinus Survival, here is a complete guide to using holistic medicine to treat our most common illnesses. The Complete Self-Care Guide to Holistic Medicine... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874779863
• ISBN13: 9780874779868
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Tarcher
• Length: 502 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.9" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

Very Helpful

This book was very helpful. It's a great reference to have at home. It has everything from colds, flu and sinusitis to arthritis, etc. If you are looking for a specific topic to go in depth, you will need a supplemental book. I found it to be even more helpful when I read it the 2nd time around.

If you buy only one book on holistic health, this is it!

In writing the web content for www.WomensMedicineBowl.com I read most of the books on the market that provide an overview of holistic medicine. Dr. Ivker covers all dimensions of healing, and he also knows the pharmaceuticals that are prescribed for various ailments and advises on their effectiveness and side-effects. For our family's health questions, this is the book I continually return to. If I had to live with only three books on healthy living, this would be one of them--and the other two are specialized areas!

Every Household should have a copy

What a fantastic resource! At last, a comprehensive guide to truly holistic health. Not just dealing with the physical, but the emotional, spiritual, and environmental aspects of each health issue. Dr Anderson has spent many years of his career researching the literature to find clinically proven holistic ways of treatment; these are not just antidotal remedies as found in most other books (Docs, check out his Clinician's Guide to Holistic Medicine, from the Hazelden Chronic Illness Series, or one of his compilations of abstracts to support holistic medicine.) Dr Ivker has pulled from some of his other holistic health books to really add more to this one. (Sinus Survival, Asthma Survival, and Arthritis Survival)Even if you were to never use the information in the main body of this book, read it for the "self interview" at the beginning to help determine how healthy you are. Do you define health to be a state of "lack of disease" or one of whole person wellness? This book will help you in your discovery of true holistic (whole person) health.I'm a board certified physician who practices Holistic Medicine and am proud to recommend this book to my patients on a daily basis. I even recommend it on my office web-site.No book is all-inclusive of every ailment that we'd want to research, but this is by far one of the best I've found... I refer to it regularly.