Book excerpt: The Complete Self-Care Guide to Holistic Medicine is the most comprehensive mainstream guidebook available on holistic healing. Unlike any other health guide, it presents alternative and mainstream therapies side by side, providing full treatment programs for more than sixty-five illnesses and health problems --ranging from backaches to migraines, from arthritis to common colds. The book features an easy-to-follow wellness program and covers every possible range of illness that can be treated from home.Robert Ivker, D.O., is currently designing some of the first accredited courses in holistic medicine at our nation's medical schools. Ivker and his coauthors, Robert A. Anderson, M.D., one of the founding pioneers of board-certified holistic medicine in America, and medical writer Larry Trivieri, Jr., senior editor of Alternative Medicine, have crafted an essential guide that belongs in every home.