Magnet Therapy - Shorts - Book Review

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Magnet Therapy - Shorts - Book Review

Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, Feb-March, 2003 by Jule Klotter

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Magnet Therapy, an Alternative Medicine Definitive Guide by William H.

Philpott, MD, and Dwight K. Kalita, PhD, with Burton Goldberg, explains magnetic

field therapy and gives examples of its therapeutic use for 35 health

conditions.

 

 

According to the authors, some interesting hypotheses about magnetic fields

have developed during the past three decades. The Earth, weather, and

electrical devices are known to produce magnetic fields. The human body also

produces

and maintains subtle magnetic energy; the pineal gland, the ethmoid magnetic

organ (a bone forming the nasal cavity), and neurons contain magnetite,

magnetized crystal containing iron and manganese. Bones also retain a magnetic

field.

 

In the Japanese Medical Journal (December 4, 1976), Kyoichi Nakagawa, MD,

proposed that the documented weakening of the Earth's magnetic field is

affecting

the energy system of the human body. According to the authors of Magnet

Therapy, Dr. Nakagawa believes that the weakening field is responsible for a

magnetic field deficiency syndrome in humans. Stiffness in the shoulders, back,

and

neck; chest pains, headache and heaviness of head; dizziness; insomnia;

habitual constipation; and general lassitude are signs of magnetic deficiency,

according to Dr. Nakagawa's 20 years of research. Long-term magnetism deficiency

appears to decrease the body's innate healing ability and make a person more

vulnerable to infectious organisms and environmental toxins.

 

Magnetic fields exhibit two polarities: positive in which electrons spin

clockwise and negative in which electrons spin counterclockwise. In 1974,

physicist Albert Roy Davis and W.C. Rawls published Magnetism and Its Effects of

the

Living System [sic]. They said that magnetic polarities have opposing effects

on biological systems. Negative magnetic fields are said to normalize pH,

oxygenate, resolve cellular edema, slow infection, reduce pain and inflammation,

increase relaxation, slow brain electrical activity, and evoke anabolic hormone

production. In contrast, positive magnetic fields have the opposite effect,

promoting disease and increasing pain.

 

Doctors who work with magnet therapy have also noticed a difference in the

polarities' effects. In his practice as a neurologist, Dr. Philpott, one of

Magnet Therapy's authors, has noticed that positive magnetic energy stimulates

neurons. He states, " The higher the gauss strength of the positive pole, the

higher the level of stimulation. In fact, a sufficiently high positive magnetic

field can even evoke seizures and precipitate psychosis in those so

predisposed. " Robert O. Becker, MD, also observed differences in the polarities'

effects.

He found that, at first, bodily injuries or tumors have positive

electromagnetic energy; then the body draws negative healing energy to the site.

In some

cases, the body cannot generate and maintain enough negative magnetic energy to

heal the injury; hence the reason for using an external magnet to supply a

negative static magnetic field, i.e., magnet therapy.

 

The authors of Magnet Therapy warn against using magnets containing both

polarities when cancer or any type of infection is present because the positive

polarity can encourage tumor growth and increase microbe replication. In

addition, people with pacemakers should not put magnets on their chest, and

pregnant

women should avoid putting magnets on their abdomen since the effect on the

fetus is unknown.

 

 

Philpott, William H., MD & Kalita, Dwight K., PhD with Burton Goldberg.

Magnet Therapy. AlternativeMedicine.com Inc., 2000; ISBN 1-887299-21-1

 

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