MAGNETIC THERAPY

THE HEALING OF MAGNETS INTRODUCTION

We all are striving to either maintain our health or to get healthy. We eat and exercise properly. When traditional medicine does not work, we seek other alternatives. Magnets can be made, bought or used by anyone for whatever reasons. There are no patents and you can't make medical claims. There is no big money to do research in this field. We can't endorse, embrace, incorporate, or nurture any new idea or therapy that is unfamiliar. You always meet resistance when you try to change or disturb something that is established. We fear the unknown unless we are clinically mature professionals. We discover things that were appreciated long ago. If it works don't knock it. We shall attempt to explain how magnets work, what magnetic energy is, and what we know about it relieves pain.

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HISTORY

Legend has it that in 500 BC a fellow from the city Magnesia in Asia Minor was walking with nails in his sandals and attracted minerals from the soil (magnetite). Around 2000BC Hindu scriptures of the Vedas described the ability to heal disease with instruments of stone (lodestones). The ancient Greeks called them love stones (Lapis Vivus); they contained magnetite oxide and magnetite.

In ancient Egypt, Cleopatra wore a small magnet on her forehead (the pineal gland was thus stimulated to secrete melatonin. In ancient Rome, eels were used to produce electrical charges to treat arthritis. In Greece, Galen in 200 BC used magnets to purge illness. The Chinese in 100AD had invented some form of compass with magnets.

Magnets were used to alleviate spasms in 1000AD by a Persian Ali-Abbas. In 1269, Mairocurt discovered the polarity of magnets and differentiated the north and south pole. A Swiss Paracelsus treated gout and jaundice with magnets in 1550. That same year the first map of the world was described by Mercator (Flemish) by using magnetic needles. Ten years later, Pare, the father of modern surgery, used magnets to heal open wounds with powdered magnets and honey. Gilbert, an Englishman in 1600 wrote a book " De Magnate" summarizing all the knowledge about magnets and was the first to see electricity and magnetism as separate forces.

Not much happened till 1730, when Leyden stored electricity in a jar line with two foils inside and outside. These storage devices were later called capacitors. Our own Ben Franklin's kite was used to describe magnetic energy in 1747. In a thunderstorm he flew a kite with a metal tip attached to wet hemp line (which conducted electricity) and held a metal key attached to the line. It was held in the hand by a silk rope that wrapped around the key and resultant sparks flew. Galvani coined the term animal magnetism in 1791 (really an electrical chemical phenomena). Eight years later the term animal magnetism was replaced by Biomagnetism by a Dutchman, Brigman, after noting the reaction of organisms to the earth's magnetic field. In 1800 Volt made the first battery.

The nineteenth century produced many advances in magnetism. In 1820, Orsted showed electric current flowing through wire produced its own magnetic field. Five years later Sturgeon developed electromagnets that lifted up to one ton. He used a horseshoe iron bar wrapped in bare electric wire insulated with varnish The next year Ampere discovered the galvanometer. In 1831 Faraday discovered the first electric motor after 6000 experiments. Maxwell showed light is an electrical phenomena (in 1865) and discovered the law of gravitation. Hertz in 1880 discover short radio electric waves and named them Maxwellian waves. Marconi discovered the first radio transmission in 1896, and two years later Paulson recorded magnetic sound. At the same time Curre showed elements take on charges or opposite charges of a magnetic field and each substance has a critical temperature where it loses its ferromagnetic properties. In 1900 Thomson discovered the electron.

In 1911, Onner who invented an instrument to measure low intensity biomagnetic signals in the heart and body espoused the theory of superconductivity. Ten years later the magnetic properties of atoms were discovered. Campbell in 1935, and Bingenheimer in 1936, showed the effects of magnetic fields on small animals and living organisms. After WWII, with the discovery of cortisone, magnetic treatment was pushed to quackery. Pauling in 1954 showed the magnetic properties of hemoglobin which is important in cell metabolism.

1962 was the birth of biomagnetism with the first magnetic cardiogram by Baule along with McFee. This led to the MRI, and other medical magnetic resonance instruments, as we know today.

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COMMON QUESTIONS WHAT IS A MAGNET?
WHAT KINDS OF MAGNETS ARE THERE?

Magnets are anything that attracts iron.

Ceramic and graphite synthetic magnets are used commonly. They are difficult to demagnetize and are stable to tiny charges. They weigh 605 less than the metallic and are cheaper to make. They are more shock resistant. The are used for speakers, mikes, computers, car radios, tape recorders, doorbells and magnetic games.

Artificial magnets are a mixture of aluminum, nickel, iron and cobalt. This alloy is called ALMICO. Its main component is iron and it is cheap. Neodymium a rare element discovered in 1885 is the most powerful magnet, not readily available and used for cancer treatment.

Electromagnets are made of iron and are used in scientific laboratories. They cannot produce a desired polarity. They provide a uniform magnetic field when continuous electric current passes through a solenoid. Stop the current and the effect is a magnetic field. They quickly activate and deactivate the magnetic field.

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WHAT CAUSES MAGNETISM?

Millions of minuscule units that have atoms that assemble in groups called domains. When domains align in the same direction, as a magnet the effect is induced residual magnetism.

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HOW CAN YOU MAKE A MAGNET?

Pass a strong purge of DC electricity through an iron bar.

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WHAT MAKES A NATURAL MAGNET (LADESONE)?

Bacteria that need iron in their diet convert to magnetite that make the stones magnetic.

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WHAT MAKES THE EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD?

The earth is a giant magnet with two magnetic poles. These poles continuously shift and are close to the geographic poles. They move 15km per year to the geographic North Pole. The earth has a highly conductive solid inner core of iron with a radius of 1280 km wide. This is heavier than the moon. It has a temperature up to 5000degrees centigrade. The outer core is 2000 km thick and is covered by rock in state of fusion. The rock is covered by marble of 2800km thickness and a crust only 40 km thick. The external core is in a state of fusion. This core spins slightly faster than the earth itself. The earth's magnetic field was 1.0 gauss in 1500AD. Now it is 0.5 gauss. It has decreased 90% over the last 4000 years. The magnetic field decreased 5% each 100 years and may disappear within 2000 years. This field continuously affects plants, animals and humans. Many electric currents interact with local magnetic fields. Well water, and streams are naturally charge by the earth's 0.5 gauss magnetic field. This charge is dissipated as it is transmitted through the city water pipes.

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ARE WE TODAY DEPRIVED OF MAGNETISM?

We are deprived of the earth's effects by a blockage from cars, steel, iron, and buildings. Some think we are short of magnetism and this is the cause of various symptoms as high blood pressure and digestive problems. We actually are not spending adequate time in contact with the earth's magnetic field. Seasonal affect disorder is a common illness. Decreased magnetism may be the cause of persistent pain and stiffness that is resistant to treatment. We may get excess magnetism by MRI and x-ray machines. The MRI is up to 15 tesla (150,000-200,000 Gauss). Originally the MRI was called nuclear magnetic resonance and this scarred people so the name was changed. Today we surround ourselves with extremely low frequencies (ELF). There is electromagnetic pollution. Power lines, home appliance, electric blankets, computer, cell phones, all expose us to radiation and interfere with our normal biologic functions.

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WHAT IS MAGNETISM?

Magnetism refers to the electrons orbiting around their atoms. The electrons act as minimagnets with north and south poles. It is not confined to iron or even metals. Iron has extra electrons that easily line up anyway you want. (This makes iron easy to magnetize.) All matter is magnetic. Each of us has magnetic energy characteristics. There is some magnetic properties even in salt, copper, glass and plastic. Magnetism is a property of the metal and not of the metal. Some elements Fe,N,Co, O2, line up in a magnetic field as long as the long axis of their molecular structure is parallel to the lines of force.

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WHAT IS CURRENT?

When electrical charges transmit form one place to another this is called flow of electricity or currents. Any electric charged conduction generates two kinds of invisible fields: electric and magnetic. High energy are short wavelength forms of radiation called "ionizing radiation" (x-rays). Low frequency ELF waves are longer wavelengths. These ELFs are generated by TVs, videos, electric appliances, and cell phones. They involve alternating or pulsed direct current at 60 cycles/sec. These waves do not resonate with our human frequencies of 12 cycles/sec. (Can you see now why the body balance is disrupted?)

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WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AN ELECTRICAL FIELD AND A MAGNETIC FIELD?

Both are present wherever electricity is present. Electromagnetic fields (EMF) are generated only when the current is flowing through a wire. A plugged light produces an electric field while a plugged light turned on produces an electromagnetic field. Electricity has lines of force and magnetism has induction lines.

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HOW DO THE NORTH AND SOUTH POLE DIFFER?

Magnetic poles are in pairs. A positive electric charge is at the south pole of the magnet and the negative charge is the North Pole. The North Pole is negative, alkaline, attracts, and reduces (like yin, earth, water, electron). It closes blood vessels, causes muscles to contract, slows the heart, improves concentration, has a sedative effect and slows cell growth (good in infected areas) The South Pole is positive, acid, excites, and activates, and repels (like yang, fire, proton). The South Pole improves circulation while the North Pole offers pain relief and fights infections. The South Pole increases energy, raises red blood cells, opens blood vessels, and relaxes muscle. It must not be used in the presence of infection(because bacteria grow in acid media).

HOW CAN YOU TELL A MAGNET'S POLARITY?

Tie a thread around the middle of the magnet and it will spin and stop with the end facing you being the North Pole. You can also use a compass by turning the compass so the needle points to the north. Bring one edge of the magnet up on the compass needle. If the needle does not move it is the North Pole. If it spins 180 degrees the side facing the compass is the south pole. The Chinese found when a mineral was tied to a piece of wood and floated in the water it always turned in the same direction.. this led to the invention of a compass The earth's magnetism is the force that acts on the compass needle.

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WHAT ARE THE PROPERTIES OF MAGNETS?

1. A MAGNETIC FIELD A magnet or electric wire both have current passing through and are surrounded by a field that attracts objects. It has induction lines parallel to the magnet. It goes in one end and comes out another (no beginning nor end). It passes through water, paper , and clothes. Magnets over 2000 gauss can be felt through a hand.

2. MAGNETIC INDUCTION Magnetic field with vectors of various lengths and dimensions

3. INDUCTION LINES Number of lines per surface area perpendicular to them is proportional to the field intensity

4. MAGNETIC STRENTH The number of lines per surface determines the magnet's strength. Magnets in the hardware store are sold in pounds not gauss. A 5 cm magnet has 25 lb strength (can lift 25 lbs of nails). Twenty-five lbs is equivalent to 2000 gauss; a 5 lb strength is equivalent to 1000 gauss. Gauss (G) or Tesla are units of measure: 10,000G=1 Tesla.

5. FLUX Flux is the flow of magnetic energy that circulates. It is also known as magnetic field strength or surface field strength.

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WHAT ARE THE SHAPES OF MAGNETS?

The shapes of magnets impact on their strength. Hardware stores sell flat, round magnets with holes. Magnets also are also rectangular, cylindrical, horseshoe, star shaped, curved, or taped (both polarities on same side).

Acumagnets exert a powerful influence at an acupuncture point but because of their small mass, have minimal effect on non-acupuncture points. Compare for example the effect on localized back pain of a 5"x4" body magnet with a manufacturer's rating of 3950 G to a 1/8 inch magnet of the same Gauss strength used on the low back. Unless the acumagnet were placed precisely on an indicated acupuncture point or trigger point it would have an obvious effect.

1. Long magnets
a. Retain charge longer that short ones.
b. The surface area is proportionally smaller for demagnetization

2. Heated magnets
a. Charge decrease because molecule alignment is interrupted.
b. Can always remagnetize a magnet Keep the two ends tied with a piece of soft iron to close the magnetic field.

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HOW IS MAGNETISM DISTRIBUTED ?

Energy flows form one pole to the other and induction lines come out of one pole and goes into another pole in a curved movement. The induction lines form a swirl, moving clockwise from the South Pole and counter clockwise from the North Pole. At the exact center, the magnetic field is neutral. This is called the Bloch wall.

Permanent magnets are delicate and break easily. They must be kept away from the hot sun and extreme cold. They can lose their magnetic power permanently if are exposed to temperatures above 350 degrees. Magnets can erase cassettes, credit cards. They can create health problems with pacemakers, fibrillations and pregnancy. They should be removed if nausea, yawning or tingling occurs. By connecting the two poles with a small piece of steel, iron , or tin, you create a closed circuit and strengthen the magnet.

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WHAT FACTORS MUST BE CONSIDERED WHEN USING A MAGNET?

1.You must know which pole is used. The North Pole disperses and soothes while the South Pole energizes and stimulates.

2.The length of time you leave the magnet is important. A strong magnet should be used for a few minutes, while a weak one may by be used for several hours. 500 Gauss magnets can be left on non-extraordinary meridian points for one week. A mattress pad of 3950 G (manufacturer's rating) showed no adverse effects over 16 weeks in fibromyalgia patients.

3. The strength of the magnet is important. Low intensity strengthens, while a strong magnet obstructs (500-2000 gauss). A very strong magnet over 2000 gauss destroys .

4.The number of magnets depends on the size of area needing treatment. A small area needs one magnet while a large area may need several magnets. The dosage delivered to the target tissue is difficult to measure but is a function of distance. A magnet with a field strength measuring 1000Gauss at the surface has strength of 500 Gauss at 1 cm and 400 Gauss at 2 cm. An optimal physiological response occurs when around 450 G is delivered to the target tissue.

5.The source of the magnet is important. A permanent magnet ( fixed magnetic field) with separated poles can't have the intensity regulated. Electromagnets (variable magnetic field) has an electrical field as well as a magnetic field, the poles can't be separated, but the intensity can be regulated.

6.Magnets have an effect on bacteria and plants. Bacteria are sensitive to magnetism (they have magnetite grains in them). Plants exposed to the south pole of magnets get deeper roots, ripen faster and are hardier.

7.Hormones in the body have magnetic particles. The brain itself has the same magnetic particles scattered in the brain covering (meninges). The total weight is one millionth of an ounce. MRI and strong magnets may excessively stimulate these areas. Magnetic treatment may increase the release of toxins, increase mineral solubility (dissolve kidney stones), and decrease lethargy.

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WHAT EFFECTS DO MAGNETS HAVE ON THE BODY?

All things resonate at different frequencies. Different organs in the body also oscillate at different frequencies. By varying electrical inputs, magnetic fields can oscillate at different cycles per second. All body tissues also oscillate at different frequencies. These frequencies are altered by disease.

There are 10-12 pints of blood in the body and 45% of it is red blood cells while the other 55% is fluid. The red blood cells contain iron (4 atoms of iron/10,000). This makes the red blood cell slightly magnetic.

When you magnetize the blood, you get increase oxygen uptake to the cells and hence more energy. The cell membrane is a protective shield for the cell. It is an amplifier that resonates. It has an effect on enzymes. An ionic pump governs the flow of ions in and out of the cells. Mitochondria energize the cell by making ATP. Calcium, potassium and sodium are key to these interactions.

Cholesterol, blood pressure, and white blood cell counts drop. There is an increase in cortisone, red blood cells and clotting. Since the body is 70% water and 50% blood, there is a diuretic effect with magnets. Sulfate particles are dissolved and there is an increase in the immune system.

Magnets increase the blood flow in tiny capillaries by 300% in 5 minutes. They relax muscles and connective tissues. Lactic acid and toxins are flushed away. Oxygen and nutrients are sent to cells. There is increase fluid exchange. An invisible motion of ions ad entering and leaving cells. Each cell is energized by an increase production of ATP. Positive charged ions (Na, Ca, D, MG, all compete to hookup with negative charged chlorine and phosphates. The injured areas are alkalinized and acidic conditions are neutralized. All of the above reactions occur also with acupuncture only to a greater degree. Acupuncture is like a shovel with magnets like a teaspoon.

Some people magnetize their water by placing a 1000gauss magnet on wood and then place a glass cup over it. Fill with water and drink the water daily. Magnetism lasts 3 days. This results in increase H ion activity and decrease in free nitrogen. There are less deposits in the water, with the calcium remaining in suspension. There is a decontaminating effect with bacteria made inactive. The same magnetizing can be done with oil but takes 15 days to magnetize because of its increased viscosity. One can use this on painful joints, insomnia, weakness, or on the scalp for balding .

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WHAT EFFECTS ARE THERE ON THE NERVOUS SYSTEM WHEN MAGNETS ARE USED?

There is an anesthetic effect on pain. When stimulated with an external charge the cell membrane opens and ions go inside the cell. The positive charge is pulled away and pain decreases. This is also true for joints and muscles. Acupuncture has a similar but more powerful effect.

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DOES THE BODY HAVE POLARITY?

Yes indeed. The upper body, right side and front of the body has a positive charge (yang). Treatment should be with the South Pole in these areas. The lower body, back, and left side have a negative charge (yin) and treatment should be with the north pole to these areas. The areas of highest voltage are at the navel, base of the skull, and the sacrum. See " charkas" for reasons for this. These physical and subtle energies result in blockage of the biological rhythms and an imbalance of the yin and yang. Acupuncture can correct these blockages. The body follows the direction of rotation of the earth. When sleeping, the head should face the north and the feet should face the south.

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ARE MAGNETS DANGEROUS COMPARED TO TRADITONAL MEDICATION?

By using magnets your are exercising your constitutional right to do whatever you determine to be appropriate for your well being. No claims are made to cure or heal and none to diagnose health conditions. Magnets are not prescribed for your health and are not used to treat for any health related conditions. Persons with pace makers or are pregnant, should not use magnets.

5 million people have low back pain. 40 million Americans have headaches with ½ of Americans having at least one headache a month. 65 million Americans have arthritis and everyone over 60 has arthritis. Arthritis results from over 100 different disorders including rh fever, TBC, Lyme disease, Reiter's syndrome, and viral and bacterial disorders. At present much of it is treated with aspirin, which blocks other medications, and can cause tinnitis, allergic reactions and stomach ulcers. The use of NAIDS, when mixed with other medications, account for 10% of kidney disorders with some leading to kidney necrosis. Cortisone use can result in infections, bone demineralization, stomach ulcers and mental imbalances. Magnetic therapy might decrease the need for the above drugs..

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HOW ARE MAGNETS USED?

Many sport athletes and golfers have used magnets. Jim Colbert and ChiChi Rodriguez claim their magnetic bracelets have improved their game. Magnets are made as shoe insoles, body wraps, necklaces, bracelets, seat cushions, mattress pads and individual disc magnets for localized pain. Many doctor now are using magnets in conjunction with pain and acupuncture therapy. Billions of dollars are spent annually on magnets.

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CONCLUSIONS

Magnets are not to replace medications. They are an adjunct to reduce the need for medication. The FDA will not allow the claim that magnets are effective for pain relief. All claims as of 1976 must pass expensive testing procedures.

Ask yourself what problem you want to correct. How long have you had this problem? If you choose to use magnets, ask yourself: why you are using magnets?, how long you have used them?, where did you place them?, what pole was touching the skin?, how long did you leave them in?, and, what improvements did you see?

Pain is a warning signal to be respected. Seek professional help if you are not getting better.

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