Welcome to the world of hyperbaric oxygen therapy
Helping
AIDS, Cancer and MS with Oxygen
Feature article from Alternative Medicine Magazine, Issue 23, May 1998, Pages 62-66
NOTE: EDITING COMMENTS AND CLARIFICATIONS BY HbOT of AZ WILL BE IN THIS COLOR. AGR
Oxygen can heal, especially when you put the patient in an environment filled with 15 times more breathable oxygen than normal air.
THEY CALL IT DIVING, (actually it is a treatment) you get into a cylindrical chamber that resembles a miniature one-person submarine, and the door is sealed shut. (At HbOT of AZ we have a large six person chamber in which folks sit comfortably, breathing the 100% oxygen through a mask or hood, while the chamber is safely pressurized with filter whole air.) Slowly the inside air pressure increases to the equivalent of being almost 50 feet under water. Now the medicine is introduced 'into the chamber-after all, the reason you're inside this strange capsule in the first place is for healing.
That medicine is pure oxygen, pumped in under pressure for the purposes of maximum, therapeutic absorption by your system. You lie there for up to an hour awash in life-restoring oxygen, from 10 to 15 times higher concentration than in the outside air.
The chamber's pressure, stronger than the normal atmosphere, forces oxygen into your body fluids and tissues; this oxygen begins to restore circulation where blood flow was reduced or blocked, leaving tissue diseased or nearly dead. Many physicians now contend that the under-oxygenation of tissue may be a prime cause of a great many health problems.
It's called hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). The method and its technology was originally developed in the 1930's by the military for diving operations, decompression sickness, and air embolism, but it has been used in hospitals since then for the treatment of bums and wounds and carbon monoxide poisoning. However, there is documentation that the therapy of breathing pressurized air, in however crude a manner, was experimented with as early as the 1660's. Long used in Europe for broader applications, HBO therapy has met with political and financial opposition by conventional medicine. Despite this opposition, pioneering alternative physicians have extended its use in recent years to include regeneration of stroke damaged brain tissue, relief from head and spinal cord injuries, migraine headaches and tinnitus (ringing in the ears), improvement of cerebral blood flow, and restoration of speech and mobility for multiple sclerosis patients.
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