"So even the Feds don't think it's "woo" unless they are coughing up one of their canned statements as they raid the latest dispensary"
To put it more bluntly: All of the words in the patent are written by the inventor (or its agent) - not the government - all the government cares about is whether the invention is new.
You could link to a million patents issued by the government - and it still wouldn't support your commentary that "the Feds don't think it is "woo" - because when the government grants a patent it doesn't ask, or care, if the invention being patented is safe and effective - or even that it works.
Here - go search for homeopathy (or anything else you categorize as woo) - you'll almost certainly find a bunch. There are, for example, 117 patents on homeopathic remedies.
ETA: Since I now see the first patent you cited has been assigned to the US government - Even having an employee of the US govt invent something isn't evidence that it believes anything other than that they were the first to invent it. I've written patent applications as outside counsel to a government agency. All it means is that the inventor thought it was new & the agency decided it was work a few thousand dollars to pay someone to draft a patent application. The inventor (employee) likely provided the bare bones information to the patent attorney who filled in the rest. Although the work I did no govt. patents wasn't in the medical field - there were no working models for the invention (there aren't required to be any). It was all theory.
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