Table 1

Specifically approved Complementary and Alternative Medicine Procedures*

Diagnostic Procedures
Therapeutic Procedures

holistic anamnese (up to 1 hour)
acupuncture
decoder
electric acupuncture (except: according to Voll)
„Lüscher" test
neuraltherapy
regulation thermography
homoeopathy
electric acupuncture (not by Voll)
colon therapy

oxygen therapies except: oxyon-, hyperbaric oxygen- and oxygen multistep-therapy

manual therapy

reflexzone therapy

orthomolecular medicine

isotherapy

symbiosis regulation

* Especially for this project approved procedures, most of them outside of the regular health insurance reimbursement system. Further procedures like phytotherapy, face time were regular procedures regarding reimbursement at that timenot needing special approval.

Moebus et al. BMC Public Health 2006 6:28   doi:10.1186/1471-2458-6-28