APPENDIX 6


Grants Awarded by the Office of Alternative Medicine


Awards of September 30. 1993

Therapy Acupuncture Massage therapy

Electrochemical treatment (ECT)

Hypnosis Massage therapy Music therapy

Energetic therapy Hypnosis Classical homeopathy Dance/movement therapy T'ai Chi Guided imagery and relaxation Imagery and relaxation Manual palpation Macrobiotic diet Ayurvedic herbals Biofeedback and relaxation Hypnotic imagery Therapeutic touch Antioxidant vitamins

Illness Unipolar depression HIV

Tumors Chronic low back pain Post-surgical outcomes

Psychological adjustment after brain injury

Basal cell carcinoma Accelerated fracture healing Health status Cystic fibrosis Mild balance disorders Asthma Immunity control Breast cancer Lumbar spine Cancer Parkinson's disease Diabetes Breast cancer Immune response to stress Tumors

Massage therapy Hatha yoga Yoga Biofeedback Ayurvedic medicine Acupuncture

Massage therapy

Prayer intervention Qi gong

Awards of September 30. 1994 Acupuncture Enzyme therapy

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM)

Therapeutic evaluation of anti-hepatitis plants

Chinese herbal therapy Acupuncture

Chinese herbs Acumoxa

Acupuncture and herbal treatment

EEG normalization therapy Transcranial electrostimulation Homeopathy

HIV-exposed infants Illicit drug use Obsessive compulsive disorder Low back and orofacial pain Health status

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Post-bone marrow transplant distress

Substance abuse

Intractable reflex sympathetic dystrophy

Osteoarthritis Mammary metastasis Premenstrual syndrome

Common warts

Post-operative oral surgery pain

Hot flashes Breech version HIV and sinusitis

Mild head trauma Chronic pain Mild traumatic brain injury



Exploratory Center Grant Awards of September 30, 1994

Center for Alternative Treatment of HIV/AIDS, Bastyr University Seattle. Washington

Funds to be used for following purposes:

  1. to describe forms and patterns of use of alternative therapies for patients with HIV/AIDS;
  2. to screen and evaluate such therapies;
  3. to train alternative medical practitioners in scientific approach to evaluation of their therapies;
  4. to educate conventional scientific biomedical community about alternative therapies for HIV/AIDS.
The Center will focus on nutrition, traditional and ethnomedicine, energetic therapies, pharmacological and biological therapies, and bioelectromagnetic medicine. The center has a clinical data section, an education section, and a bibliographic resources section.

Center to Evaluate Alternative Therapies for Addictions and Related Disorders, Minneapolis (MN) Medical Research

Funds to be used to focus on utilization, applicability, and effectiveness of certain alternative medical treatments for addictive, health, and psychological complications of substance abuse. Major activities will be:

  1. to establish linkages among alternative medical practitioners and between alternative medicine and conventional medical practitioners;
  2. to conduct field assessments of alternative therapies;
  3. to develop and promote the transfer of knowledge of alternative therapies through education and technical assistance; and
  4. to work with an advisory group, conduct peer reviews and evaluations, and maintain liaison with other alternative medical centers and interests.
Source: 1 AM 2 (Nov. 1993) (Office of Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health) and 2 id. 2 (Nov. 1994).