Table Of Contents
Foreword
Chapter 1: Introduction To Magnetic Healing
Chapter 2: More About The Magnets
Chapter 3: How Magnets Help Heal Our Bodies
Chapter 4: How Magnets Help Pain
Chapter 5: About Putting Magnets To Work
Chapter 6: Conditions That Are Said To Be Helped By Magnets
Chapter 7: How Magnets Help Stress
Chapter 8: What To Look For
Wrapping Up
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Chapter 2: More About The Magnets
Synopsis
Magnetism is produced principally by the spin of electrons inside a substance. If the spin of sufficient numbers of electrons is lined up, the substance turns magnetic.
While iron is readily magnetized because of its numerous surplus electrons, just about all substances may be magnetized. Natural magnets – lodestones – were produced when iron-containing lava cooled and was magnetized by the globes magnetic field.
Behind The Magnets
Most magnets are now made by passing a heavy surge of direct-current (DC) electricity through an iron bar. Their intensity has been greatly expanded by combining iron with additional elements.
Curative Uses
Magnets may be found in a wide-range of materials, forces, and shapes: midget BB-size utilized by acupuncturists, dime-size, neodymium (a rare-earth element metal) of over-the-top power, domino, rectangular block, and elastic magnets of whatever size and shape.
Curative magnets are frequently cased in ceramic or embedded in an elastic patch or pliable strip. They’re integrated in wrist and back supports, seat and mattress pads, jewelry, and clothing-related particulars, like shoe insets and belts.
A lot of medical applications and scientific fields of study have utilized pulsed electromagnetic fields. In these fields, the electric current yielding the magnetic field is switched on and off at an assigned frequency.
As magnetic fields decrease rapidly with distance, the nearer the magnet is to the skin the more beneficial. Although effectiveness might wear off as the body adjusts, magnets might be worn as long as desired.
Force
A magnet’s curative force is a function of magnetic flux – assessed in gauss – and physical size. For a point of reference, Earth’s magnetic field is 0.5 gauss, an icebox magnet holding a grocery list approximately ten gauss, and a cupboard-door latch magnet approximately four hundred. Curative magnets range from two hundred to over ten thousand gauss.
Magnet size is likewise therapeutically significant. For instance, little neodymium magnets might have force in excess of ten thousand gauss.
All the same, because their fields may only penetrate a couple of inches into the body, they’re utilized for treating focalized conditions. In contrast, a big block magnet of much lower flux force might penetrate through the body. Given the importance of size, the heavy influence Earth’s small 0.5-gauss field has on life is more promptly understandable.
Mutual Opposition
While understudied, a magnet’s poles seem to exert different curative effects. The north one (the side that pulls in the north-pole-seeking end of a compass needle) calms, sedates, and brings down inflammation. In counterpoint, the south pole excites and advances healing, growth and action.
Chapter 3: How Magnets Help Heal Our
Synopsis
Scientists are starting to come across the wide-ranging effects of magnetic force on the body.
The Healing
Additional research is called for, but particular physiological effects have been reported:
Magnets appear to improve the quality of the blood circulation. This may in turn step-up the nutrient carrying likelihood of the blood.
Blood flow is a central aspect in health and disease; this is likely one of the main healing advantages of utilizing magnets. Bettered blood quality results in a decrease in inflammation, cut back calcium deposits, lactic acid and additional toxins. Tissues detoxify and the mending procedure starts.
Ions in the blood convey either a negative or positive charge. As they draw thru a magnetic field they’re either pulled in or forced back which causes them to speed up.
The ions pull against the vessel walls dilating, or opening them which provides for expanded blood flow. Heat is yielded by the increase in motion therefore enhancing circulation.
Oxidation is a spin-off of ion collisions which carries toxins away from the discredited area so that it might be filtered. Energized and oxygenated cells help mend the damaged tissues. Bio-magnetic therapy is thought to be a way of getting at the body’s own electric and magnetic fields via points on the skin. A few researchers think that particular sorts of illnesses are affiliated with imbalances in the body’s biological and magnetic fields.
It has in addition to that been reported that magnets may help block when nerve fibers are subject to a magnetic field, perhaps producing endorphins, which are the body’s own instinctive pain killers.
Magnetism may help heal nerve tissue and bones by speeding up the migration of calcium ions.
Melatonin output might in addition to that be influenced by exposure to magnetic fields; this internal secretion helps boost restful, sound sleep.
Chapter 4: How Magnets Help Pain
Synopsis
Pain is a social issue of enormous proportions. For instance, eighty percent of people have severe back pain onetime in their lives, forty million suffer from arthritic pain, and forty million have repeated headaches. Habitual pain alone costs the economic system nearly $100 billion yearly.
Painkilling drugs don’t appear to be the answer. Their affectivity is limited, the body constructs tolerance, and side effects hospitalize over 76,000 individuals yearly.
As of the need, pain has been the most emphasized magnetic-therapy practical application. Numerous fields of study support its efficaciousness.
Pain Relief
A Trust in the healing power of magnets has been around since ancient Greece, extending to a $5 billion a year global industry that furnishes millions of worshipers with magnets for everything from arthritis to cancer to depression.
That’s in spite of the fact that numerous scientific fields of study have been either inconclusive or not able to find evidence to support the claims of their healing energy. Till now.
Fresh research at the U of V demonstrates that there is at least a little truth to the oft-cited claim that magnets may step-up the flow of blood, therefore supplying more oxygen and nutrients to wounded tissue.
Research workers have demonstrated that a mild magnetic field may cause the littlest blood vessels in the body to enlarge or constrict, thus increasing the blood flow and conquering inflammation, a vital factor in the mending process.
Thus far, the findings are based on experimentations with rats, but the researchers hope to start human clinical trials in the near future, while that could prove to be a major challenge.
What sets this work aside from most research into the alleged curative effects of magnets is the fact that the research workers were able to measure their results by measuring the changes in the blood vessels to ascertain the affect on inflammation.
It’s the beginning direct measurements that demonstrate the reduction in swelling. Their determinations don’t lend credence to the wild claims of a lot of manufacturers of magnetic panaceas. Rather, their work was really precisely centered on the claim that magnets may increase the flow of blood.
The investigators utilized anesthetized rats for their work. The rats’ paws were handled with inflammatory agents to imitate tissue damage, and a little magnet, approximately ten times more powerful than a common refrigerator magnet, was bound to their paws.
The swelling was cut back by approximately fifty percent, apparently because the magnetic field altered the diameter of the blood vessels. The magnet only had to stay in place for fifteen to thirty minutes. If the investigators waited till after the paw was amply inflamed, the magnet caused no effect.
If magnets work that well in mortal trials, the affect may be dramatic, as in a lot of cases reducing inflammation is crucial to a rapid recovery.
Let’s suppose it takes you 4 or 5 days to recuperate from a given trauma and get back to work, or back on the playing field. If by forestalling the swelling you recuperate after 2 days, you’ve cut the curative time by a factor of 2. That’s enormous savings worldwide in worker productivity and the caliber of life.
Naturally, like results may also be accomplished by implementing an ice pack and compression, but that’s not all of the time convenient.
A magnet, of simply the correct power, may be carried with more ease and is always be available within moments of an injury. However at this point no one knows precisely the correct dosage, or in this case the essential magnetic force, to match up with which trauma.
One size will not work for everyone. It would require a much more potent magnet, for instance, to deal with a thigh muscle than a sprain in the little finger. And, frequently no one recognizes yet if it will work at all in human beings.
However researchers are optimistic based on a lot of years of experience in a comparatively narrow field. The really small blood vessels are in all the tissues in your body and that’s where the action is. That’s where oxygen gets handed over, and it’s where waste material gets transferred from your tissues.
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