What is magnetic field therapy used for?
People use magnet therapy for a wide range of health problems, including:
- Joint problems, such as arthritis.
- Migraine headaches.
- Pain, including mild to moderate pain after surgery as well as long-term (chronic) pain.
- Depression.
- Cancer.
- Overstretched muscles or injuries to muscles, ligaments, and tendons (strains and sprains).
Is magnetic field therapy safe?
Pregnant women should not use magnetic field therapy, because the safety of this therapy is not proved. People who have medical devices or implants with a magnetic field, such as a pacemaker, should not use magnet therapy, because it could interfere with the function of the implant.
Magnet therapy is not thought to have negative side effects or complications when it is combined with conventional medical treatment.
Always tell your doctor if you are using an alternative therapy or if you are thinking about combining an alternative therapy with your conventional medical treatment. It may not be safe to forgo your conventional medical treatment and rely only on an alternative therapy.
Summary of Beneficial Influence of Magnets
(An excerpt from Magnetic Therapy by Dr. H.L. Bansal)
The beneficial influence of magnets may be summed up as follows:
1. When a magnet is applied to the human body, magnetic waves pass through the tissues and secondary currents are induced. When these currents clash with magnetic waves, they produce impacting heats on the electrons in the body cells. The impacting heats are very effective to reduce pains and swellings in the muscles, etc.
2. Movement of hemoglobin in blood vessels is accelerated while calcium and cholesterol deposits in blood are decreased. Even the other unwanted materials adhered to the inner side of blood vessels, which provoke high blood pressure, are decreased and made to vanish. The blood is cleansed and circulation is increased. The activity of the heart eases and pain disappears.
3. Functions of autonomic nerves are normalized so that the internal organs controlled by them regain their proper function.
4. Secretion of hormones is promoted with the result that the skin gains luster, youth is preserved and all the ailments due to the lack of hormone secretion are relieved and cured.
5. Blood and lymph circulation’s are activated and, therefore, all nutritions are easily and efficiently carried to every cell of the body. This helps in promoting general metabolism.
6. Magnetic waves penetrate the skin, fatty tissues and bones, invigorating the organs. The result is greatly enhanced resistance to disease.
7. The magnetic flux promotes health and provides energy by eliminating disorders in, and stimulating the functions of the various systems of the body, namely the circulatory, nervous, respiratory, digestive and urinary.
8. The magnetic treatment works by reforming, reviving and promoting the growth of cells, rejuvenating the tissues of the body, strengthening the decayed and inactive corpuscles and increasing the number of new, sound corpuscles.
9. Magnets have exceptional curative effects on certain complaints like toothache, stiffness of shoulders and other joints, pains and swellings, cervical sponcylitis, eczema, asthma as well as on chilblains, injuries and wounds.
10. The self-curative faculty (Homeostasis) of the body is improved and strengthened which ensures all the benefits mentioned above. One feels in full vigor and can walk and work, more and more without feeling tired.