Alternative Treatment Library Available

The Jon Greenberg Library of Alternative Treatments for HIV
Disease, more than 2,000 pages of information on dozens of
alternative treatments, is available from AIDS Project Los
Angeles (APLA).

The collection was compiled by Stephen Korsia, D.V.M., who
for three years has been treatment advocate for APLA, where
he edited I Heard It Through the Grapevine, "our newsletter
about the best and the worst of underground HIV treatments."
Korsia worked closely with Jon Greenberg, collecting the
information while editing the newsletter. Greenberg urged
that the information be made more widely available.

Jon Greenberg died on July 12, 1993. Stephen Korsia recently
left APLA to accept a job in France, his native country.
Before leaving, he organized the information, and arranged
for APLA to provide it free to nonprofit organizations, and
at cost to others.

In a cover letter, Korsia urged caution -- since some of the
proposed or promoted treatments listed below are certainly
not recommended. "As you will realize as you go through this
library, most of the information is pretty raw and requires a
certain amount of independent analysis. It is the way Jon and
I had intended this to be. No profound analysis, no
pontificating judgment, no Truth, just a bunch of information
from varied, but often unreliable sources... It is up to you
and each person who will read those to make his or her own
opinion about the validity of each of these therapies."

The collection includes information on: * AL-721; * Aloe vera
and acemannan; * Anabolic steroids; * Antineoplastons; *
Antioxidants (general information); * Astragalus; * Bitter
melon (Momordica charantia); * Cancell; * Carnivora; *
Castanospermine; * Cat's claw (Uncaria tomentosa); *
Colloidal silver; * Compound Q (trichosanthin, GLQ-223); *
Curcumin (turmeric); * DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone); DNCB
(dinitrochlorobenzene); * Echinacea; * Essiac; * FLV-23A; *
Garlic; * Herbs (general information); * Homeopathy; *
Hypericin; * Immunostimulatory mushrooms (reishi, shiitake,
maitake); * Levamisole; * Licorice (glycyrrhizin); * Low-dose
oral alpha interferon (Kemron, Immunex); * Malariotherapy; *
Melanins; * Mistletoe (iscador); * NAC and glutathione; *
NUC-ZM; * Nutrition (general information); * Ozone and oxygen
therapies; * PCM-4; * Polio vaccines; * Prunella vulgaris
(heal-all); * Pycnogenol; * Qi-gong; * Resist!; * Reticulose;
* Ribavirin; * Dr. Roka's treatment; * Shark cartilage; *
Siberian ginseng (Eleutherococcus sentiocosus); * Solutein; *
Spirulina (blue-green algae); * Swainsonine; * Thioctic acid;
* Toxic side effects of herbs; * Traditional oriental
medicine; * Transfer factor; * Viroxan (VX-1, VX-2); *
Vitamin B12 (cyanocobalamine); * Vitamin C (ascorbic acid); *
Vitamins (general information).

Copies are free for nonprofit organizations, $30 for others.
To obtain a copy, call the Treatment Education Program at
AIDS Project Los Angeles, 213/993-1482.

Comment: AIDS TREATMENT NEWS is suspicious of a number of the
treatments listed, and/or of the promotion behind them.
Others on the list might have value, and are certainly worth
further study. We publish this list without in any way
endorsing treatment ideas, because of the need for
information about what has been proposed as "alternative"
treatments, both good and bad. We value this compilation
because it was put together by people with good judgment, and
with no ax to grind for or against any particular approach.