Infectious diseases treated with UV-light
It’s currently used to treat asthma, joint disease, AIDS, cancers, along with a number of other persistent and terminal diseases. It healed polio inside a Los Angeles hospital many years before a vaccine was identified. It's helped physicians in under-funded Russian clinics successfully treat contagious illnesses and serious traumas without the use of expensive antibiotics. Yet the medical establishment in the United States is almost completely ignorant of UV light therapy and individuals are suffering and dying due to that lack of knowledge. The idea behind light treatment isn't any fantastic secret. We’ve known for years that UV light has antimicrobial qualities. It’s even been used to sanitize medical tools. At one point, equipment suppliers even advertized automatic washers with built-in UV light beams.
Niels Ryberg Finsen was the first to confirm the curative properties of Ultraviolet light. During the 1880s, Finsen started administering UV light therapy to patients that suffered from infections associated with the epidermis and mucous membrane. Finsen and his supporters handled two thousand plus individuals and accomplished a cure rate of ninety eight per cent. Finsen won the Nobel Prize in 1903 for work in UV treatment. Succeeding investigators all around the world from the United Kingdom to New York accomplished incredible success curing diseases, like mumps, with external ultraviolet light application.
But in the nineteen thirties, UV treatment took a huge leap forward. It became a new blood treatment procedure. Once yet again, the idea behind this particular therapy was fairly simple. A Doctor draws a small amount of blood from a medical patient, irradiate it using ultraviolet radiation (eradicating the infection within the blood system), and re-injecting it. The purifying effect would lessen the amount of infection within the patient’s body. Then something incredible transpired. Utilizing a procedure that isn’t fully understood today, the irradiation actually heightened the patient’s immunity and assisted in eradicating all the pathogens in the patient, independent of the type of microorganism.
In 1944, researchers from Washington State whom had treated more than 6,500 individuals with their UV blood therapy published their findings about blood irradiation. Their clinical studies indicated there existed an advantageous energy stored in the irradiated blood when immediately delivered back to the bloodstream would emit secondary irradiation producing a positive benefit to the patient. Data showed that numerous individuals with life-threatening issues having failed to respond to conventional therapy responded well to treatment. The UV therapy proved helpful in essentially every situation, and triggered no damaging unwanted effects.
At about the same time, UV treatments were performing a small miracle in a Los Angeles medical center. The facility was responding to a steady stream of polio victims who had little chance of any type of recovery. Two physicians started administering UV radiation to the blood for the most desperate cases. The results were incredible, of the 58 people treated, only one died. Most of the others treated experienced rapid relief from toxic symptoms.
In another case a young patient was hospitalized suffering from bulbar polio having a temperature of 104. Doctors informed the parents that he had a 1 in 20 chance of surviving. The resident Doctor irradiated 44 cc of the boy’s blood and by midnight, the the fever had disappeared and his pulse and respiration returned to normal. He was discharged two weeks later. Patients with spinal polio, an extremely damaging disease characterized by rapid muscle and respiratory deterioration responded to light therapy dramatically within 48 to 72 hours. Five patients receiving UV treatment recovered when all hope of recovery had faded.
Doctors tried the technique on a 23-year-old pregnant woman on the brink of death being sustained on a respirator. She began to recover 24 hours after her third UV treatment and went on to deliver a normal infant at term.
Within two years medical professionals started to abandoned UV therapy in favor of newly introduced antibiotics. But a few continued to explore the potential of this alternative therapy.
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Studies in Philadelphia proved UV’s ability to treat severe bronchial asthma. One report on five patients noted that pain and tenderness eased rapidly within 24 to 48 hours after treatment (and all the patients had previously failed to respond to antibiotic treatment). Even researchers at Yale University began using UV irradiation of blood to treat cancer patients.
But the most striking developments in photo-luminescence recently have come from an unexpected source, Russia. From what is known, medical practice in Russia and other former Soviet-bloc countries have tended to lag several decades behind Western medicine. But on visits to St. Petersburg in 1991 to investigate the use of light therapy there, Doctors expected to find a practice in its infancy. They expected to spend time enlightening backward Eastern colleagues. But they were in for a surprise! At St. Petersburg’s Pasteur Institute (which is a government agency, not an affiliate of the Pasteur Institute in France), scientists have been pioneering new medical uses for photo-therapy for 20 years and passing their findings along to physicians throughout the country.
Surgeons in Russia have used UV blood irradiation therapy on more than 100,000 patients…and reduced postoperative complications by 50 percent. By drawing blood from a patient, irradiating it, and injecting it back into the patient in a process of auto-transfusion, surgeons have eliminated the patient’s risk of developing compatibility problems with donor blood. Likewise, emergency physicians have successfully used UV therapy on thousands of Russians suffering from severe trauma or third degree burns. For the Russians, light therapy is much more than a fascinating new medical technique. It’s a way to treat patients without the use of expensive antibiotics. And in a country where drugs are costly and hospital budgets are meager, low-cost light therapy can help physicians heal a lot more patients and end a lot more suffering.
Unfortunately, Americans have limited access to photo-luminescence. The obstacles are multiple: ignorant, uninterested or antagonistic doctors; an oppressive medical system at the state and federal level; and collusion, that borders on the criminal, between the FDA and the drug industry (which, of course, wants to protect its monopoly over treatments). You are not totally without options, however. Contact the American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM) and ask for the names of doctors who use this treatment or who might be willing to try it.
The American College for Advancement in Medicine
23121 Verdugo Drive, Suite 204
Laguna Hills, CA 92653
Phone: (800)532-3688 Fax: (949) 455-9679
Web site: www.acam.org
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