Oxygen-ozone therapy : a critical evaluation /

This book represents the first serious attempt to explain the fundamental basis of ozonetherapy and is a relevant step towards achieving further progress. Ozone is now considered a real drug and, after reacting with body fluids, releases messengers and activates several mechanisms which are able to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bocci, Velio
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; Boston, Mass. : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.
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Table of Contents:
  • Brief historical review
  • How I came to study ozonetherapy: an odyssey with no end in sight
  • Ozone in nature
  • Physico-chemical properties of ozone
  • Ozone toxicity: biological risk, toxicology and first aid
  • Ozone generator
  • How to check ozone concentrations
  • Solubility of ozone in water and preparation of ozonized water and oil
  • Preliminary basis for understanding ozone reactivity and the potential risks of ozonetherapy
  • How is oxidative stress assessed?
  • Is there any justification for using ozonetherapy in human pathologies caused or worsened by free radicals?
  • Antioxidant system and the defence system against ozone
  • How does ozone act?
  • What happens in the intracellular environment after blood ozonization?
  • Are blood lipoproteins oxidized after ozonization?
  • How is ozone administered?
  • Extracorporeal blood circulation versus O₂-O₃ (EBOO)
  • Quasi-total body exposure to O₂-O₃ (BOEX)
  • Rectal insufflation of O₂-O₃ (RI)
  • Potential toxicity and mutagenicity of ozone
  • Side effects and contraindications of ozonetherapy
  • Adaptation to chronic oxidative stress (COS)
  • How to evaluate ozonetherapy?
  • Ozonetherapy in various pathologies
  • How important is the placebo effect in ozonetherapy?
  • Ozonetherapy in dentistry
  • Ozonetherapy in cosmetology
  • Ozonetherapy in veterinary medicine
  • Ozone as doping in athletes
  • Ozone as a rejuvenating agent!
  • Ozone as a drinking water disinfectant
  • Ozone disinfection to prevent nosocomial infections
  • Can ozone be useful for banked blood or fresh frozen plasma?
  • Is there any way to substitute ozonization of blood?
  • Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HOT) versus ozonetherapy
  • Acute care during or after ozonetherapy
  • Orthodox medicine versus complementary medicine: a conflict that may be resolved with appropriate research
  • Does ozonetherapy have a future in medicine?