1.
Air Ions and Health
In places where mountains are situated to the
south, the south winds that blow are parching and unhealthy;
where the mountains are situated in the north, their northern
winds occasion disorders and sickness...The winds which must
pass over mountains to reach cities do not only dry, but also
disturb the air which we breathe and the bodies of men, so as to
engender diseases.2.
Data
concerning the Intervention of air Ions in Physical Exercise
This paper represents a synthesis of the investigations made by
the collective of the Hygiene Department, Medical Faculty, and
of the Hygiene Institute, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, on the effects
of the treatment with ionised air upon certain biological
processes, or upon the performance, during the physical exercise
in Man and Animal. Favourable results in physical exercise were
obtained under the action of negative air ions. The treatment by
ionised air was applied daily, for 2-4 weeks, using moderate
ionic concentrations, not more than 20-30,000 small ions of one
electric sing/ml air. The duration of the daily treatment was
15-20 mins for a seated man and 1-2- hours for animals. The
results were as follows:
3.
Artificial air Ionisation as a
therapeutic factor for patients with hypertensive disease and
Bronchial Asthma
The authors studied the capacity of a new
Bulgarian negative air ion generator designed for group
inhalation therapy. The investigations were carried out on 30
subjects with bronchial asthma and 83 hypersensitive disease.
Each treatment session lasted about 3 hours with a concentration
of 5000-15000 negative air ions/cm3. After 20 treatments the
asthmatic attacks completely disappeared in 29 asthmatic
patients; the vital capacity and forced expiratory volume
increased an average of 337ml and 405ml, respectively, and the
diffusion capacity improved by 9%.
4.
Artificial Ionisation of the air and
its Biological significance
Controlled use of negative ion emitters has
proved to benefit individuals suffering from air-borne allergies
of the upper respiratory tract. If properly harnessed,
controlled, and utilised, ionised air may become a valuable
adjunct to other established methods of treatment in a number of
disease states.
5.
Behavioural effects of Air Ions
Electrical charges of the atmosphere are called
"ions". A ion is an atom which has gained or lost an electron.
If the atom loses an electron, it becomes positive, while the
addition of an electron makes it a negative ion. Generally
speaking, air ions are classified according to their size: small
(molecules), medium (tiny particles), and large (dust). Of most
immediate concern to use here are the small ions, for it is they
that are the most mobile of the three categories and, for that
reason play a central role in atmospheric influences upon the
human system.
6.
Effect of longer-term ionised air
treatment on patients with Bronchial Asthma
Effect of long-term ionised air treatment on
patients with bronchial asthma. Seven patients with bronchial
asthma requiring continuous medication were subjected to eight
weeks of nocturnal exposure to negatively ionised air, and their
progress was followed using objective tests function and
clinical assessment. During exposure, four patients showed
significant increases in morning PEER, which in two of these
patients was not sustained when exposure ceased. In two patients
the observed increase in PEER was accompanied by subjective
improvement. From the results of all our assessments we conclude
that, although this treatment may lead to an improvement in some
patients with asthma, further objective studies are required to
determine the value of negatively ionised air in the routine
management of asthma.
7.
Asthma & Ions
Ions are small particles that take on an
electrical charge. In nature we tend to find between a few
hundred to a few thousand of these ions per cubic centimetre.
The small particles that take on this charge are either
negatively charged, positively charged or neutral. In a cubic
centimetre of air out over a grass field, we find the ratio is
almost balanced between negative ions and positive ions. In
other words we are breathing quantities of electricity.
8.
Asthma researchers wrangle over
safety of inhalers
A study which led to warnings that the most
popular asthma drugs increase the risk of a fatal attack was
strongly criticised by leading researchers this week after the
full details of the study were published. The study by Canadian
researchers identified a link between asthma deaths and the
beta-2 agonist drugs in common inhalers used to relieve attacks
of asthma. But researchers in New Zealand, who first raised the
questions about safety of the drugs, say the Canadians have
drawn the wrong conclusions and that "questionable findings on
beta-2 agonists in general are being over emphasised".
9.
Effect of Negative Air Ion Treatment
on Blood Serotonin and Well-being in Weather sensitive Patients
The use of negative air ionising apparatuses has
increased recently due to the enthusiastic reports of their
success in the lay press (Soyka and Edmonds, 1977). Negative air
ionisation has been progressively introduced in Europe for daily
use. It has also been found useful in telephone exchanges,
airplane cockpits, post offices, tunnels and buildings where air
conditioning may produce a positive ion stream which has to be
neutralised by ionisers with high negative output (Sulman,
1976).
10.
Ions Free Nursery / Infant school
group of "Snotty-Nosed Kids"
Mrs McDonald has experience of ionisers both at
the school and at her home. She has used them for the past two
winters. She says: "The ioniser in the schoolroom has really
kept the children clear of the usual, expected infections during
the past winters. In a small group of children such as ours, we
expect colds to do the rounds during the winter. But since we
got the ioniser, the absences during winter have dropped
noticeably.
11.
Negative Air Ionisation improves
memory and attention in learning disabled and mentally retarded
children
In 1984, a study was published in the "Journal of
Abnormal Child Psychology" named, "Negative Air Ionisation
improves Memory and Attention in Learning-Disabled and Mentally
Retarded Children" The effectiveness of negative ions on mental
performance was put to a test by researching the power of
negative ions to improve the cognitive abilities of mentally
handicapped children, as well as the abilities of normal
children.
12.
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
The benefits of exposure to relatively high
concentrations of negative ions produced by high density
negative ion generators have been well documented over decades.
Literally dozens of studies published in respected journals have
concluded that negative ions can have a profoundly beneficial
effect on both the mind and body. Listed here are some excerpts
from just a few of the scientific studies on the subject of
negative ions.
13.
The Effect of Ionised Air on Work
Capacity and Vitamin Metabolism
The task of hygiene, apart from sanitation of the
conditions of the external medium, is to work out measures of
active influence on the organism helping to increase work
capacity and speed up rehabilitation processes after work. In
this connection, we have conducted observations over the effect
of artificially ionised air of a negative charge sign on the
physical work capacity of healthy people, students of the
Institute of Physical Culture and Training systematically
engaging in sports (A.A. Minkh, M.A. Vytchikova, G.I. Nikiforova).
14.
Prevention of post-operative Tromboembolism by Negative Air Ionisation in a double-blind
study
A new method for avoiding post-operative
thromboembolism has been tried, employing negative air
ionisation around the clock for an average period of 10 days
during which 228 patients were hospitalised after major urologic
surgery. The patients stayed in two rooms, 5 x 5m in size in
which 4 ionising apparatuses each had been installed. This
allowed every patient to lie at a distance of 2m from a "Modulion"
ioniser emitting an average of 1 x 104 negative ions/cm3 air. In
the six control rooms, 1,232 post-operative cases were
hospitalised without ionisation. Other treatment in all rooms
was identical, avoiding anticoagulants.
15.
The
role of Ions in Body Chemistry
The harmful positive ion (kation) is a particle
that loses an electron. The healthful negative ion (anion) gains
an electron in the valency orbit; that is it increases the
ability to absorb and utilise oxygen and reduces any excess of
harmful serotonin. These two small invisible electrified
particles have an effect on our physical and mental well-being
and we are constantly bombarded with negative and positive ions
eg. polluted air. The negative ions make us feel good, they
destroy harmful bacteria. The positive ions make us feel bad
(TV. screen produces positive ions).
16.
The Treatment of Bronchial Asthma By
Negative Aeroionisation
Clinical experience and other observations
indicate that the system is sensitised by centres of infection
with seat in the respiratory system, by foreign tissue
substances and by antigenic microbes. These substances are
spread by the blood, inducing an allergic state in the bronchial
muscles, the bronchial mucous glands, the pulmonary vessels and
also the respiratory nerves system. These same toxic substances
cause prolonged irritation of the interceptors, of the mucous
membrane, the respiratory system itself and most often the
bronchi. They irritate pathological interoceptor reflexes
causing spasm in the sensitised bronchial muscles, promoting the
secretory action of bronchial mucous glands and a change in the
vascular system of the lungs. It is a typical picture of the
disease.
17.
Negative Ion Regeneration For
Youthfulness and Longevity
Approximately half-a-century ago, a certain woman
living in a large, crowded city contracted tuberculosis. Doctors
did what they could for her without any avail. They gave her a
morbid prognosis of inevitable death and she was consigned to a
gloomy existence without any hope or reason to live. Deciding
that she would at least die in more pleasant surroundings, she
moved from the big city to a humble log cabin in a pine forest
somewhere in the State of Maine. For an entire Winter she stayed
there, busying herself with things that kept her mind happy and
occupied.
18.
What are Small Air Ions?
Some reports claim that air ionisation is a vast
new field of knowledge (eg Sulman 1976), it is however a
phenomenon that Abbe Betholon observed as early as 1780.
Bertholon noted differential responses of normal individuals and
patients as a result of changes in the electrical state of the
air (Krueger 1962). Over the past two hundred years there have
been a number of upsurges of interest in the area.
Unfortunately, little effort has been made to integrate the
available information. As a result, previous research findings
provide a picture of air ionisation that is at best, fragmented.
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