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Ozone Therapy – Is it safe or not? What are its benefits and how does it act?

Ozone therapy is using of ozone and oxygen mixture for the benefits of human body. Ozone therapy is proved to be safe and yield good results in osteo arthritis of knee joint, Parkinson’s disease, pimples, diabetic foot, non healing wounds, fistulae, psoriasis, eczema, asthma, stroke, diabetes, cancer etc.
Bombay hospital has a wide experience in using ozone therapy for herniated disc. Ozone therapy is given as a complementary therapy in addition to standard conventional treatment. It is a very good supportive treatment in cancer care. It produces its effects by immune activation. It reduces the side effects of conventional methods and create a sense of well being. It also reduces pain.

HOW DOES IT HELP CANCER PATIENTS

- Ozone is able to stimulate anti-oxidant defense system and therefore promoting a preconditioning effect.
- The anti-oxidant defense system deals effectively with free radicals generated during radiation and chemotherapy.
- Ozone stimulates synthesis of various cytokines. This leads to up regulation of immune system.
- Liver activation by ozone therapy improves enzyme function and detoxification.
- Free radicals generated by ozone, induces apoptosis in cancer cells.
- Ozone leads to new vessel formation inside the tumor, increasing oxygen supply. This leads to anaerobic cancer cell death.
- Ozone is a powerful germicidal agent; it helps fight infections.

HOW DOES OZONE ACT

- Ozone attacks the lipids in the bacterial cell membrane forming variety of oxidants.
- These bacteria lack the anti oxidant defense enzymes and that is why they are destroyed.
- Ozone increases and activates body’s own antioxidants and radical scavengers.
- Ozone is able to stimulate body’s anti oxidant enzymes.
- Lower life forms like bacteria, virus, fungi and parasites lack anti oxidant enzymes. Therefore, they just cannot survive in presence of powerful oxidant like ozone, however much they try and mutate.
- Ozone activates cellular metabolism.
- Ozone modulates the immune system.

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Palpitation or Irregular Heartbeat – Causes, Symptoms, Remedies and Diet

Heart beats occur at normal pace and are regular in nature. When heart beats become irregular and strong or forceful, they are known as heart palpitations. The person becomes aware of the action of his heart. It is common in all age groups.

CAUSES FOR PALPITATION

- Stress and mental tension.
- Anything that increases load of the heart.
- Overfull stomach.
- Flatulence.
- Constipation.
- Excessive smoking and drinking.
- Avoid taking coffee, tea, chocolates and drugs that contain caffeine.
- Unhealthy lifestyle.
- Too much physical activity.

SYMPTOMS OF PALPITATIONS

- Thumping feeling in the chest.
- Discomfort feeling in front of the chest.
- Pulse rate may become faster than normal.
- Irregular heart beat.
- Dizziness and fatigue.
- Chest pain.
- Excessive sweating.

REMEDIES TO CURE PALPITATIONS

- Juice of grapes reduce palpitations and it should be taken at frequent intervals.
- Eat a ripe guava everyday empty stomach. It provides calmness.
- Before going to bed, drink one glass of water by adding one teaspoon of honey and half cup lemon juice to it.
- Prepare a paste using some snake gourd leaves and water. Put the paste in the cheesecloth and squeeze the juice out of it. Intake this 1 to 2 tablespoon about thrice a day.
- Take 2 or 3 grams of Indian spikenard with the addition of a pinch of camphor and cinnamon three times a day.
- Take aniseed, jaggery and coriander seeds in 1:1:1 proportion and consume 6 grams of it three times every day.

DIET FOR PALPITATIONS

- Avoid drinking too much tea, coffee and soft drinks.
- Diet should include fruits and vegetables.
- Exercising on a regular basis is also must but be careful and don’t over do any exercise in your excitement.
- Instead of eating overcooked vegetable, cook them lightly and then eat them. In this way, the nutrients remain intact.
- Eat wholewheat chapatis and a glass of buttermilk for lunch in afternoon.

Relaxation Exercises : Progressive Relaxation

Progressive relaxation will help to relax the entire body. It will help you to create a mental image of this relaxed state that can be recreated instantly whenever it is needed.
This exercise can be done while lying in bed, face up and arms at your sides.
- Make fists with both hands. Clench your fingers although not so tightly as to be uncomfortable. Your wrists should feel tight and even in the forearms. Hold this tension for few seconds and then relax. You will feel heaviness and limp in your hands.
- Like in the previous example, make your fists tensed again, such that the muscles start quivering. Now relax. This should make your hands feel more warm and heavy, and this would extend to your lower arms.
- Now concentrate on your upper arms. Focus on your biceps, making them tense, and your hands should remain relaxed and heavy. Quivering will start, and then relax again. Now do this again, tense, hold and then relax.
- Now that you have a hang of this, this process of tensing, hold, relaxing should be done for as many muscle groups as possible. Once you are done with your arms, do the same for stomach, buttocks, thighs, calves, feet, chest, shoulders, neck, jaw and eyes.
- Once you have started doing this a couple of times, one of the prime advantages you will learn from this is being able to get relaxed. Without doing much of these relaxing, you will be able to easily distinguish between muscles that are tensed or relaxed, and be able to focus on the tensed muscles.