Ozone Therapy

We all know that ozone is harmful, and the exposure to this pale blue gas has adverse effects on your respiratory system. It affects your lungs and can trigger chronic diseases like asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), etc. accompanied by coughing and laboured breathing. However, it might sound strange that this toxic gas can be a useful tool in medical science to treat multiple diseases, including several chronic and contagious infections like viral infections. Ozone therapy is an alternative medical practice that has garnered quite a lot of attention these days.

In ozone therapy, medical practitioners administer ozonides into the patient’s body for treatment. It sounds paradoxical, but the dosage is so minimal that it actually helps treat many diseases and conditions in our body. Scientific studies reveal that ozone therapy is beneficial in several ways and is considered to be a remedy for serious ailments like cancer, Lyme disease, Alzheimer’s disease, HIV-AIDS, etc. Clinical research is still ongoing to prove its effectiveness against such radical maladies. Many researchers are of the belief that the dosage is too low to cause any effect in the human body, and if the dosage is increased then it will prove to be harmful as inhalation of ozone gas is deadly.

Ozone is blended with some other forms of gases before it is injected into the patient’s body. There are several ways to administer ozone. Usually, surgeons will choose to intravenously deliver the ozonides, but they can choose other methods like subcutaneous injection, intramuscular injection, etc.

Ozone therapy is generally used as autologous blood therapy or auto hemotherapy treatment that involves dealing with a patient’s own blood. This self-blood therapy involves the withdrawal of the blood, subsequent reinforcementof ozone, and then reinjection of the same blood back into the patient’s veins. The process is not time-consuming at all and hardly takes around 30 minutes.

Ozone therapy relieves pain. It is anti-inflammatory and improves blood circulation. The various illnesses that this alternative medical practice of ozone therapy can cure are –