Is
Ozone Therapy Safe?
Ozone Therapy is
Safest Known Therapy
Ozone has been found
to be an extremely safe medical therapy, free from side effects. In a 1980
study done by the German Medical Society for Ozone Therapy, 644 therapists
were polled regarding their 384,775 patients, comprising a total of 5,579,238
ozone treatments administered. There were only 40 cases of side effects
noted out of this number which represents the incredibly low rate of .000007%,
and only four fatalities. Ozone has thus proven to be the safest medical
therapy ever devised.
Medical
ozone is completely safe and non-toxic to humans when generated by proper
non-contaminating equipment and administered with proper protocols. It
has been shown to be completely safe even when a dosage many times greater
than the proposed human dosage is administered.
The therapeutic
use of ozone has an excellent safety record and no toxic effects have been
observed from clinical use. The use of ozone as a healing adjunct is well
established and is being vigorously pursued by many scientists and clinicians.
The benefits are predictable and without side effects.
Ozone treatment is
safe because healthy cells are surrounded by an enzyme coating, which ozone
does not penetrate. Bacteria and viruses have no such coatings and are
oxidized on contact by ozone. Ozone also promotes the production of glutathione
peroxidase, catalase, reductase and super-oxide dismutase which are the
enzymes forming the cell wall coating and therefore cellular immunity is
enhanced.
When it is incorporated
into a holistic approach of cleansing there is virtually no known side
effect of ozone treatment if it is applied properly. However, since ozone
therapy is dose-dependent, it should be administered with supervision.
It has been proven
that even direct delivery of ozone into the blood vessels has very low
risk factors. No air which contains nitrogen ever enters the body, so an
air embolus cannot occur.
From
Mark G. Lester: Ozone therapist:
Interestingly the
opponents Ozone therapy are in my experience always people or organisations
who either have not actually investigated the merits of the therapy, or
who have a vested financial interest in suppressing the therapy. As Anthony
D'Angelo put it: -"The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those
who represent the established order that your ideas will upset."
Contrary
to popular understanding ozone is not toxic to the body -
hundreds of peer reviewed published articles not only confirm this but
attest to the medical benefits of ozone. It is the contaminants
that ozone react with in the case of industrial ozone that are dangerous,
if breathed in through the lungs. Ozone therapy is safe - though
detoxification symptoms do occur in some cases as the body throws
off disease. These symptoms should be welcomed for what they are - as a
positive sign that the body is healing and throwing off substances that
do not belong there. Any substance in the body that does not belong there
is a toxin. The most common de-tox symptom is itching of the skin.
This is a result of toxins being thrown off through the skin. The itching
is temporary and ceases when the body has been de-toxified.
Initial sessions
of Ozone therapy may also occasionally cause coughing, and this can be
slightly uncomfortable. This is due to toxins being oxidised out of the
lungs and stops when the lungs have been de-toxified. As an aside, Ozone
therapy is very effective for respiratory conditions and does NOT harm
the lungs. On a personal note from Mark G. Lester: I myself coughed and
experienced slight discomfort after the first few occasions I had Ozone
therapy. However the coughing stopped within a few sessions (when my lungs
had been de-toxified) and now I do not cough even in the presence of very
high concentrations of ozone. But for those who question the safety of
ozone, please read this statement by Dr George Freibott, the leading expert
on Ozone therapy in North America. Take your advice from doctors and
therapists who have ventured into the therapy, not from scaremongers or
doctors who do not know anything about it and whose information is based
on popular myths! 29
May 1997 Re: Ozone generators By Dr George Freibott
As for the safety,
I have been using oxygen therapies, UBI, ozone therapy and many other associated
modalities for over 25+ years, our institute has been active as a proponent
of oxygen therapies and oxidative therapy for 100 years. We have all used
ozone extensively, and all I can say about ozone therapy, is good things,
as I have never seen it do harm to any patient yet.
Even the Armour Report
done in the 1950's state's the following (this is the report that most
Gov.'s and many scientist's base their HORROR stories about ozone and it's
SUPPOSED harmfulness on).
" Mice put
in an extremely high flow of concentrated ozone developed
pulmonary edema for 2 days, but by the third day the mice grew STRANGELY
RESISTANT to the ozone and NO MORE PULMONARY EDEMA WAS EVIDENT".
The reason no more
pulmonary edema was evident was because the TOXICITY or toxic elements
COATING the lungs of these mice was fully oxidised, neutralised and eliminated
by day three! The substances being fully oxidised left nothing more for
the ozone to oxidise, thus the pulmonary edema and the "sensitivity" disappeared.
We have seen it work likewise in patients that have had different respiratory
dysfunction's.
Personally, I oftentimes
work in atmospheres of ozone (in our laboratories) that exceeds the allowable
EPA and FDA standards of allowable ppms. (parts per million) by 52,000
times! I suffer no diminution in lung capacity (in fact it has increased
over the years). But, if we were to believe the FDA, EPA and the governments
that are referred to here, my lungs should be NO MORE, KAPUT, supposedly
DESTROYED by that NOXIOUS GAS----OZONE! (HAH---BS!!). Totally and unmistakably
propaganda by the system.
We have given IA,
IV, IM, and by inhalation doses of ozone and oxygen therapies to patients
for over 25+ years personally, without any untoward side effects, ever.
So, without belabouring
it further, may I say to those "worried" about ozone and similar oxygen
therapy scares: Don't let the "anti-oxidant" boogiemen scare you away,
go ahead to the Health Canada, State of California and associated web sites,
for a good laugh.
The institute, myself
or the staff here can assist you in the "proof" that you need on the safety
and efficacy of oxygen therapies. May I say we are at your disposal and
would appreciate your coming into the knowledge of the same and acquiring
the "proof" desired. We certainly have enough of that "proof" here to satisfy
anyone, save perhaps the avowed sceptic with the "nothing will convince
me" stance.
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