European Studies

Ozone Therapy

Have you ever noticed the peculiar smell of a thunderstorm? The cause of that smell is ozone.

Even though it was discovered a long time ago — in 1840, it remains the subject of multiple arguments and disagreements. It protects us as an ozone layer around the Earth from ultraviolet radiation. We would be dead without ozone over there. On the other hand ozone as a component of smog is damaging to human’s lungs. It is like people: there is no absolutely good or absolutely bad person. Each individual has his own good and bad features.

Even though ozone is not endorsed for medical use by any of the English speaking medical societies or official agencies, it is believed to be beneficial in many countries by many doctors and this is why: Soon after its discovery in 1956 in Europe they started using ozone to sterilize surgical instruments because of its antibacterial and antiviral properties. Later, Europeans began using it to sterilize drinking water.

What about US? Was it behind Europe? Not at that time.

1885 – Jacksonville, Florida. A local Florida medical association published “Ozone” by Charles J. Kenworthy, M. D., M.R.S.V.. What it meant was this: At the time, doctors in the US had been widely using ozone medically without any restrictions. What was once the subject of publication in prestigious medical journals, and what was being used to treat people a mere 60 miles from Florida in almost every Cuban hospital, is now cause for arrest in the state of Florida. In 1999, Kenneth R. Thiefault and his wife, Mardel Barber (formerly of Jupiter Florida) were sent to jail for a total of 8 years for marketing and selling ozone generators. But it was in 1999. Fortunately or unfortunately doctors a hundred years earlier did not know about it and continued to treat people with ozone. Read the rest of this entry »