The research fund for general medicine supports research work in the following fields: • Medical research in psychosomatics, the basis being how the psyche affects the body • Research in which a psychosomatic point of departure is expanded to include psychosocionomic questions • Psychosomatic diseases • Blood diseases • Effect of mental factors on blood and blood circulation, effect of mental factors on other bodily systems and the related mechanisms that transmit the effects to the body • Psychodynamics, which studies psychosomatic symptoms and attempts to describe their psychosomatic relationships The Steiner fund supports medical research on the following topics: • Anthroposophic medical research as signified by Rudolf Steiner • Psychosomatics from the point of view of Rudolf Steiner • Augmentation of the knowledge existing about people’s mental, spiritual and physical structure and understanding the significance the self • Effect of moral values on people’s health • The continuing interaction between the aforementioned factors and thorough holistic research on humans • Research on palliative treatment • Research on biodynamic cultures as well as grants for professional training and projects