MAGNETS EFFECT FOR HUMAN BODY

The influence of magnets on the body is remarkably all-inclusive: they affect all systems—circulatory, digestive, nervous, respiratory and urinogenital—and show quick results in all types of pain, swelling, inflammation, ulcers and diseases of the bowels and the uterus.


Magnet effect for human body
There are usually magnetic materials in human body, which formed magnetic field. In medical field, people use Cardiac magnetic map to diagnose ventricle obesity, cardiac muscle lacking blood, Premature combating and so on. The chief function of magnetic field for human body is usually by way of biological effects, when the magnetic field acts on human body, it will cause a series of reactions:

Effects to Neural system
Chiefly reflect in nerve centre system and botanic nerve system, the conclusion after experiment is that lower magnetic field will increase human excitability, while stronger magnetic field will reduce it, this is restraining reaction. At the same time, unchangeable magnetic field has obvious restraining reaction to people's neural system.

Effects to heart function
Medical research indicated that magnetic field has cure effect to the imbalance of pathologic cardiac function; also has certain cure effects to coronary heart disease and angina that caused by abnormal heart function, which is mainly because magnetic field expands cardiovascular, improves the blood circulation of heart as well as oxygen supplying and nutritional status of heart.

Effects to blood component
After experiment, we found magnetic field can enlarge the volume of erythrocyte in blood, enhance the ability of catching oxygen, in this way, it can improve supplying situation of blood and oxygen as well as system's nutritional status, and accelerate metabolism.

Effects to blood vessel system
Magnetic field has good effect to micro blood vessel, by force of which, blood vessel expanding, width of blood vessel is enlarging, blood stream accelerating and blood stream situation changing. In addition, this function is not simple mechanical expanding of blood vessel, but adjusting systolic and diastolic function of micro blood vessel. Therefore, the slim blood vessel will get thick, also, it makes stasis of blood flowing. The improvement of micro blood vessel will certainly bring the result of accelerating of microcirculation.





The improvement of magnetic field for microcirculation shows in four facets:
　* To adjust blood vessel nerve through merdian and point.
　* To arouse blood vessel expanding reflexly through the Stimulation of
human skin's feeling organ.

• Blood contains large quantity of negative ions, such as calcium, natrium,
calcium and ion, under the strength of magnetic field, these ions speed
in moving, which also causes erythrocyte speeding in moving, and reduce
the chance of aggregation.
*　Tepidity reaction under the strength of magnetic field.

The effects of magnetic field to blood fat
Blood fat refers to the fat material in blood. The high or low of blood fat means the high or low of cholesterol in blood, triglyceride, high density and low density esters albumen. Clinic proved that magnetic field can reduce blood fat, this because the long chain and branch chain of cholesterol become short chain under the strength of magnetic field, which is beneficiary to decomposing and metabolizing. Moreover, magnetic field has infection on enzyme, and affects the composing of fat.

The effects of magnetic field to hemorheology
Abnormality of blood stream will lead to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Clinic experience indicates that magnetic has effects to help the indication of hemorheology, such as whole blood viscosity, plasma viscosity; restoring viscosity, blood aggregation, erythrocyte accumulation to back normal. This because under the strength of magnetic field, negative charge of erythrocyte surface increasing, and mutual electrostatic exclusion increasing, reduce the chance of accumulation and increase mobility, thus reduce viscosity.

The effects of magnetic field to immunity function
Low immunity ability of human will easily lead to disease, while magnetic field can help, to improve immunity ability. Under the force of magnetic field, lymphocyte increasing, swallowing cell also increasing, at the same time, swallowing ability of leucocytes obviously increasing, thus immunity y ability of human improving simultaneously.

The effects of magnetic field to incretion function
Through medical experiment, the effects of magnetic field to incretion function mainly embodied in activating adrenals gland function, and increasing the 11 oxygen corticosterone of adrenal organizing in blood plasma. At the same time, embodied in the effects to thyroid gland function, under the force of magnetic field, the iodine and Plasma protein combining and iodine obviously increase.

The effects of magnetic field to enzyme activity
Physic experiment shows that magnetic field could improve the activity of super oxide dismutase, but this improvement has very important significance, as super oxide dismutase could catalyze human's super oxide dismutase (that is free-radicle), and make Micro disproportionate H 202 and 02,and thus is good for the deleting of free-radicle. The increase and decrease of free-radical will cause many kinds of diseases.

Selected Scientific Studies: Magnet Therapy

Natural Standard has reviewed all of the currently available medical literature to prepare the professional monograph from which this version was created.


Some of the more recent studies are listed below:


Alfano AP, Taylor AG, Foresman PA, et al. Static magnetic fields for treatment of fibromyalgia: a randomized controlled trial. J Altern Complement Med 2001;7(1):53-64.
Basford JR. A historical perspective of the popular use of electric and magnetic therapy. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2001;82:1261-1269.
Bown CS. Effects of magnets on chronic pelvic pain. Obstet Gynecol 2000;95(4 Suppl 1):S29.
Carter R, Aspy CB, Mold J. The effectiveness of magnet therapy for treatment of wrist pain attributed to carpal tunnel syndrome. J Fam Pract 2002;51(1):38-40.
Chandi DD, Groenendijk PM, Venema PL. Functional Extracorporeal magnetic stimulation as a treatment for female urinary incontinence: 'the chair.' Brit J Urol 2004;93(4):539-541.
Collacott EA, Zimmerman JT, White DW, et al. Bipolar permanent magnets for the treatment of chronic low back pain: a pilot study. JAMA 2000;Mar 8, 283(10):1322-1325.
Jacobson JI, Gorman R, Yamanashi WS, et al. Low-amplitude, extremely low frequency magnetic fields for the treatment of osteoarthritic knees: a double-blind clinical study. Altern Ther Health Med 2001;7(5):54-59.
Madersbacher H, Pilloni S. Efficacy of extracorporeal magnetic innervation therapy (EXMI) in comparison to standard therapy for stress, urge and mixed incontinence: a randomized prospective trial (unpublished abstract). International Continence Society, Florence, Italy, 2003.
Pinzur, MS, Michael S, Lio T, et al. A randomized prospective feasibility trial to assess the safety and efficacy of pulsed electromagnetic fields therapy (PEMF) in the treatment of stage I Charcot arthropathy of the midfoot in diabetic individuals [abstract]. Diabetes 2002;51(Suppl 2):A542.
Quittan M, Schuhfried O, Wiesinger GF, et al. [Clinical effectiveness of magnetic field therapy: a review of the literature]. Acta Med Austria 2000;27(3):61-68.
Segal NA, Toda Y, Huston J, et al. Two configurations of static magnetic fields for treating rheumatoid arthritis of the knee: a double-blind clinical trial. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2001;82(10):1453-1460.
Ünsal A, Saglam R, Cimentepe E. Extracorporeal magnetic stimulation for the treatment of stress and urge incontinence in women. Scandinav J Urol Nephrol 2003;37(5):424-428.
Weintraub MI, Wolfe GI, Barohn RA, et al. Static magnetic field therapy for symptomatic diabetic neuropathy: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2003;84(5):736-746.
Wosko PM, Eisenberg DM, Simon LS. Double-blind placebo-controlled trial of static magnets for the treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee: results of a pilot study. Altern Ther Health Med 2004;10(2):36-43.
Yamanishi T, Sakakibara R, Uchiyama T, et al. Comparative study of the effects of magnetic versus electrical stimulation on inhibition of detrusor over-activity. Urology 2000;56:777-781.
Yokoyama T, Nishiguchi J, Watanabe T, et al. Comparative study of effects of extracorporeal magnetic innervation versus electrical stimulation for urinary incontinence after radical prostatectomy. Urology 2004;Feb, 63(2):264-267.


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MAGNETIC THERAPY INFORMATION

Magnetic Therapy: A natural method used to relieve pain, restore energy and enhance sleep. It has proven to be a safe, effective, economical, and simple to use form of alternative therapy. Magnetic therapy is thousands of years old yet holds great promise for the future. Magnets have been scientifically proven to enable the body to regain its self-healing electromagnetic balance naturally. Strong evidence suggests that magnetic therapy may help to: Relieve Pain, Reduce inflammation restore natural energy, increase blood circulation, prevent or reverse infection, promote metabolic processing of toxins and support the healing process. Magnetic therapy is a non-invasive treatment method with a very high success rate and has much to offer in both prevention and treatment of chronic ailments.

A Brief History of Magnetic Therapy: The association between magnets, health and well-being is currently enjoying a revival, but the approach is not new. Magnetic therapy possesses an ancient heritage and has occupied a central role in Chinese medicine for over 2000 years. Magnetic therapy is mentioned in some of the earliest writings in Egypt, India and Greece. Until recently the scientific explanation of magnetic action was not available. Magnetic therapy utilizes the natural energy of magnetism that is important to human existence and overall health. A magnetic field provides a (natural) way to assist the body’s normal healing processes as it passes through all tissues and cells. Studies show that magnets can be an effective therapy for the relief of pain by blocking pain sensations. Applying magnetic fields to an injured area improves blood flow and oxygen to enhance the body’s natural healing process. The improved blood flow and fluid exchange to the injured tissue helps reduce pain and inflammation.

Clinical Trials completed in the USA.
Arthritic Pain: In 1997, Dr. Carlos Valbona of the Baylor College of Medicine, published a study that reported 76% of treated patients using permanent magnets reported a decrease in arthritic joint and muscle pain compared to 19% of placebo patients.

Diabetic Foot Pain: Dr. Michael Weintraub of New York Medical College released a study that showed a significant rate of reduction in foot pain that afflicts millions of diabetics. Using magnetic insoles, nine out of ten diabetics reported a decrease in painful burning sensations, numbness and tingling compared to 22% reporting improvement in the placebo group.

Fibromyalgia: Magnetic Mattress Pad Use in Patients with Fibromyalgia, A Randomized Double-blind Pilot Study, conducted by Agatha P. Colbert, M.D., Clinical Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA. Conclusions were "Sleeping on a magnetic mattress pad provides statistically significant and clinically relevant pain relief and sleep improvement in subjects with Fibromyalgia. No adverse reactions were noted during the 16-week trial period."

Others - There are hundreds of other clinical trials that prove the efficacy of magnetic therapy some are reported in Gary Null’s book Healing with Magnets, and in the excellent work, Magnetic Therapy in Eastern European Research, by Jiri Jerabek, M.D., PHD and William Pawluck, M.D., MSc.

Magnetic Therapy Today - Today in Japan and other Asian countries, therapeutic magnets are licensed as medical devices. Magnetic therapy has found favor in Australia, Russia and many European countries, especially Germany where medical insurance covers some of the costs. Contemporary western medicine uses magnetic energy for diagnosis with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and, as a method to accelerate the healing of bone fractures. Magnetic therapy is becoming increasingly popular among progressive health care practitioners, veterinarians and professional athletes as well as the general population. It is a fact our population is aging and the cost of traditional health care is spiraling upward. magnetic therapy, for reasons of simplicity, effectiveness and economy, will become an important form of alternative therapy in the future.

According to the World Health Organization the type and Gauss strength of magnets used in magnetic therapy offer no health hazard. Consult your health care professional before using any new type of therapy. Most magnetic products carry warning labels indicating the following:

Do not use magnets or magnetic therapy if using a pacemaker, implanted medical device or insulin pump as they may interfere with the delicate electronic equipment. Magnetic products are not recommended for use during pregnancy. They are not proven beneficial nor detrimental. Be on the safe side, do not use. Keep magnetic products at least six inches away from objects such as credit cards, computers, diskettes, audio and videotapes, and similar items, as loss of data may result.

Excerpts from - MAGNETIC THERAPY - A Factual Guide for Consumers © ISBN - 0-9681900-1-4 © 2000


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MAGNETIC APPEAL

By Dipankar Das

Trust your feelings and toss your GP's ragtag hoard of mystifying medicines into the trash bin. Instead, welcome the world's simplest curative implement—the modest magne with its supernatural healing powers.

Sangeeta Bajaj had a frozen shoulder. It was agony. Then the unexpected happened: the offending portion began to thaw at the magnet therapy clinic, where she sits each day for 10 short minutes with her palms pressed on two chrome-plated cast alloy magnets and walks out with equal ease. There is no hesitation that is habitual to a chronic patient, no expectant surrender to an all-knowing doctor's abilities; instead there is the collected pride in being able to help herself. Bajaj has finally shed her chronic patient's timorous distrust of panaceas, a wariness cultivated over years of being callously bounced around hospitals and clinics. She has also regained a virtue as tangible and medically essential as the cessation of pain—her self-esteem. This is magnet therapy, a user-friendly curative system that is unobtrusively infiltrating the medical mainstream. The system is self-explanatory: it works on the premise that magnetism binds together all that exists, connecting everything to everything else. This is empirical Einsteinian physics, not wishful thinking for the credulous. In our immediate neighborhood are the celestial magnets, comprising the earth, sun, and moon-reining in one another's tendency to wander off, helping to keep the space-time fabric of the universe taut. It is our gentle moon that governs the push and pull of the tides, and preserves the all-important equilibrium between ocean and land. At the heart of the matter is the fact that the waxing and waning pull of the moon affects our emotions.

Magnet therapy's calling card is its utter simplicity. Dr Jiten Bhatt of Personal Care Systems, one of the pioneers of the system in India who started practicing it over 20 years ago, says about its advantages: "One, it is a painkilling system and, two, people are tired of medicines."Australia-trained Major General Pramod Anand, a career Army man and an unlikely candidate for conversion, took to magnet therapy to elude impending heart surgery, and now runs Positive Health Clinic in New Delhi, India. "It makes economic sense," he says. "At a time when medicine costs are rocketing sky high, for Rs 2,000 ( about US$ 45) you can buy your own magnets and treat yourself at home." Magnets have a full-strength life of five-six years, after which they can be recharged at nominal cost.Magnet therapy is often mistaken for a new system but there is broad evidence that it could be as old as prehistory: ancients in all societies were intrigued by "lodestones" (natural magnets). Further, it is an accepted part of mining lore that iron ore miners, vulnerable to unrelenting subterranean magnetism year after year, have always been subject to inexplicable and often unpredictable behavior patterns.Verses in the Atharva Veda allude to the amelioration of diseases with magnets. Socrates waxed eloquent about the power of magnets. Cleopatra actually wore one on her head to preserve her celebrated charms. And the Chinese, traditionally gifted with more practical acumen than the rest of the world put together, invented the mariner's compass and turbocharged the engine of human progress.Dr Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, engineered two medicines from the poles of a magnet and in his seminal treatise, the Medica Cura, listed 1,243 symptoms, which could be treated with magnets. The controversial Austrian, Anton Mesmer, the founder of hypnosis (mesmerism) therapy, put magnet therapy to good use and wasn't afraid of saying so and inviting conservative wrath.

The influence of magnets on the body is remarkably all-inclusive: they affect all systems—circulatory, digestive, nervous, respiratory and urinogenital—and show quick results in all types of pain, swelling, inflammation, ulcers and diseases of the bowels and the uterus.Part of the reason for the system's ready medical acceptance lies in its noninvasive, non-traumatizing simplicity, virtues lost to the Byzantine complexity of modern medicine. At most, all that even a large electromagnet will give you is a mild tingle.But a mild tingle is a mammoth thing in the subatomic micro-universe. How does the dance of electrons affect something as gross as the human body? Says Dr R.S. Bansal, who took to magnet therapy in 1971 and founded the Indian Institute of Magnetotherapy with his father, Dr H.L. Bansal, in Delhi in 1981: "Magnets ionize the blood by influencing the iron contained in hemoglobin. The ionized blood starts moving more freely, avoiding blockages, clotting and deposits of calcium and cholesterol. The effect of magnetism reaches every part of the body through the flow of blood, so pain and swelling are reduced. As a result, the heart eases and blood pressure becomes regular."Simple and agreeable: magnet therapy, with not a single documented contraindication so far, is very efficacious in treating "orthopedic problems like cervical and lumbar spondilytis, slipped disc, lower- back pain, knee pain, sciatica, paralysis, polio and stiffness", adds Dr Bansal.The north pole of a magnet is said to kill germs and also immobilize malignant bacteria. It is best applied to boils, eczema and skin rash. Sangeeta Jawa, passing through an age when a pimple assumes volcanic proportions, was so embarrassed by facial eczema that the mere thought of going to school invited trauma. Today, her face is squeaky clean, thanks to treatment with magnets. The south pole, on its part, generates heat and energy, eradicating pain swelling. Says Brigadier Yash Pal Dev, 71: "After being operated upon for thromboflavitis, a pain started in my knee. I could barely walk. Now, about 10 sittings later, I can walk with ease." Take the case of Renu Khanna, a practicing lawyer: she suffers from myasthenia gravis, a rare, neuromuscular disease that causes a numbing weakness, and was bedridden for two years. "Doctors could not even diagnose it in India. They identified it in the USA, but had no treatments to offer. Then I chanced on Dr Bansal 's book, Magnetic Cure for Common Diseases." Sure enough, five months into the treatment and she is leading a normal life. Treatment now is only to pre-empt remission. Magnetic treatment is of two kinds, local and general, depending on whether the disease is localized or all-inclusive. The palms or the soles of the feet are placed on two magnets with different poles and the patient is exposed to them for 10 minutes a day, preferably in the morning before breakfast. Chronic cases take half-an-hour a day. The precautions are cursory: no ingestion of anything cold an hour after treatment, no bathing for two hours after. Strong magnets should not be applied to pregnant women and to the heart and the brain.The only internal aspect of magnet therapy was discovered by chance when Russian scientists, trying to slough off rock-hard salt deposits in pipes, poured magnetized water, as it were, down the drain. To their amazement, the deposits dissolved immediately. Subsequent research on the human anatomy revealed that magnetized water reduces acidity and bile in the digestive system and regulates the movement of the bowels.Says Dr Bansal: "One glass of water should be kept over the north pole of a magnet and the other over the south pole for 12-24 hours, Then they should be mixed and drunk. If the patient drinks half-a-cup before meals, all ailments related to the stomach can be taken care of-and in India, most ailments are related to the stomach." Magnetized water also increases appetite and improves digestion. As a preventive potion, it works like a charm. For regular use, water magnetized for about 4-6 hours is the optimum.Another reason for magnet therapy's growing popularity is that there is no paucity of therapists and teachers. Dr Jiten Bhatt has not only treated over 100,000 patients to date but has also taught the system to 25,000 students. Dr Bansal's institute has 1,500 students from India and abroad.

And you know that you have arrived when medical instruments turn into virtual fashion statements—a trend started by Japanese gizmo designers and copied the world over.A magnet can also be used without looking like an awkward prosthesis—a hearing aid, or worse still, a crutch. You can go jogging wearing a magnetic headband ("improve your memory on the run"); you can grace parties wearing magnetic necklaces made of silver and gunmetal in India, and gold in Australia—these chokers treat bronchitis and protect against an asthmatic attack. Magnetic earrings and pendants guard against an under-active thyroid. Magnetic goggles are handsome add-ons that double as cures for conjunctivitis and glaucoma, and help reduce visual defects. If you are a pretty spinster and insistent suitors are raising your BP, a magnetic ring will work like magic-ridding you of both. And magnets as gifts allow you to be idiosyncratic without being over-the-top. There is, of course, a catch to magnet therapy: outside of orthopedics, it is an unpredictable, sporadic success. It is still a system of the last resort: its patients are most often refugees from other therapies. Says Major General Anand: "Often chronic cases come to us after having tried all other systems and expect quick relief."And magnets are not always easily available. Says Meera Davar, a well-known magnet therapist in Gwalior, central India: "Since the products are not available easily in Gwalior, people depend on the exhibitions which magnet therapy equipment manufacturers from Mumbai or Ahmedabad hold off and on." What is also missing is rigor and research. Says Major General Anand: "Practitioners here lack a scientific system of analysis. We don't document our cases, which is absolutely necessary for research." So what is missing from this therapy is not magnetic appeal but the kind of scientific zealotry that attracts both funding and practitioners. For only then will it succeed in breaking the stranglehold of modern pill popping and needle-jabbing medicine.

Source : MAGNETIC APPEAL By Dipankar Das