What does ozone therapy involve?
Ozone (O3) is a highly active form of oxygen. Most people are familiar with the ozone layer, a component of the upper atmosphere that plays an important role in absorbing certain forms of harmful radiation from the sun. Similar to hydrogen peroxide, another oxygen-rich compound, ozone has been advertised as a cancer remedy. Ozone is administered in five different ways: external application, intramuscular (IM) or subcutaneous (SC) injection, intra-arterial or intravenous injection, rectally or as autochemotherapy. External application involves passing a stream of ozone over open lesions or tumors inside a plastic hood. The IM or SC administration involves injections of twenty to fifty milliliters of an ozone/oxygen mixture and may be made into the immediate vicinity of a tumor. With the intra-arterial or IV injection, promoters claim that only unhealthy or diseased tissue is affected, and no side effects occur because bubbles in the blood dissolve readily. Autochemotherapy involves remo
