Ozone In Medicine Essay Research Paper Klyment

Ozone In Medicine Essay, Research Paper

Klyment TanMarch 2, 1998

Ozone in Medicine: Modern Magic

Bullet or Fatal Deception.

Ozone may be one of the most misunderstood medical achievements of this century. In this essay, facts will be filtered from politics to find the answer to this question: Ozone-the modern magic bullet or fatal deception.

First of all, what is ozone. As defined in the Encarta Encyclopedia: Ozone (Greek ozein, “to smell”), allotropic form of oxygen having three atoms in each molecule, formula O3. It is a pale blue, highly poisonous gas with a strong odor. Ozone boils at -111.9. C (-169.52. F), melts at -192.5. C (-314.5. F), and has a specific gravity of 2.144. Liquid ozone is a deep blue, strongly magnetic liquid. Ozone is formed when an electric spark is passed through oxygen, and causes a detectable odor near electrical machinery. The commercial method of preparation con-sists of passing cold, dry oxygen through a silent electrical discharge. Ozone is much more ac-tive chemically than ordinary oxygen and is a better oxidizing agent. It is used in purifying wa-ter, sterilizing air, and bleaching certain foods. Ozone formed in the atmosphere from nitrogen oxides and organic gases emitted by automobiles and industrial sources, however, is a health hazard, and it may cause serious crop damage in some areas.

Now that the scientific stuff is out of the way, I would like to outline some key compo-nents to the excerpt. Please note that ozone is magnetic and will attract to particles in turbid wa-ter. Also note that it is stated that ozone is formed by the combination nitrogen oxides and or-ganic gasses emitted by automobiles and that it may cause serious crop damage in some areas. If ozone is said to be useful, why is it considered a poisonous gas and to what extent. Let me clar-ify that above. Ozone is produced in different ways and the method of mixing organic gasses and nitrogen oxides is one method that leaves ozone in the presence of a high quantity of these sub-stances, making it poisonous.

The encyclopedia article also described the production of ozone. For all of the informa-tion in this paper, you must know the following. Ozone can be produced electrically when an electrical arc is passed through oxygen, causing normal oxygen, O2, to separate and rearrange in threes, O3. In this highly unstable state, ozone will actively pursue the opportunity to oxidize. Ozone is also produced when oxygen is struck by ultraviolet radiation with a wavelength of around 200nm. This normally occurs in the atmosphere.

Ozone may be the greatest medical discovery of this century. Ozone has been proven to cure cancer and AIDS. Other previously thought incurable diseases have been eliminated without apparent side effects. If this is the case, why is medical ozone not legal in North America. This question has mystified scientists like Gerard V. Sunnen, M.D., for years. Dr. Sunnen is a leading researcher in so called “alternative medicine.”

“Ozone has been used without encumbrance in South America, Europe, and Africa, medically, for years. People who require treatments must venture to medical facilities in the southern and eastern hemisphere where they are legal. We must bear in mind that medical ozone is only ‘not legal’ and not ‘illegal’.”

Not legal. What does that mean. It means that the governing medical force in North America, the FDA or Food and Drug Administration doesn’t know better than to listen to very powerful, politically orientated organizations, called pharmaceutical industries. That may be putting it harshly but in other words, these industries have a large influential power in the FDA, just because of their size. Without pharmaceutical companies, most of the purposes of the FDA, regulating use of medicine and medicinal practices, would not exist.

What are pharmaceutical companies so “ticked off” about ozone anyway. The issue is very logical. Ozone is a gas that is produced when an electrical charged is passed through oxy-gen or air, which also contains oxygen. The electrical charge splits normal O2 oxygen molecules and rearranges them into energized arrangements of threes. Being a very unstable state, it cannot be stored for more than a few minutes under normal circumstances and will revert back to plain oxygen. Since ozone cannot be stored, pharmaceutical companies cannot capitalize on its amaz-ing healing capability. There is no such thing as a pill of ozone and numerous pharmaceutical companies also produce stabilized oxygen products. If ozone were legalized, there would be di-rect competition for the market of the pharmaceutical companies. Therefore, it is illogical for pharmaceutical companies to support the legalization of ozone.

Being a very high profile issue in the eyes of certain groups of people, it is difficult to make the use of ozone seem logical. The following are some interesting arguments offered by pharmaceutical companies and other opposition to the use of medical ozone.

“The use of ozone by means of dialysis is ridiculous. The bubble of gas in the blood stream would quickly and easily cause death to the patient. This has been known throughout the history of medicine.”

Explanation: This is a very logical and strait-forward argument and medical practitioners have not been able to come up with a perfect scientific explanation f