Using Magnetic Jewelry to Restore your Body's Balance

Magnetic Jewely can help to restore balance to your body. A person in balance gets sick less frefuently and heals faster.

Your body generates electrical energy and is affected by electro magnetic fields - such as magnets. The magnetism can come from the earth itself or from your magnetic jewelry.

Many of us live in buildings that don't allow the full natural magnetic power of the earth to reach us. Wearing magnetic jewelry gives us some of that natural power.

Using Magnetic Dots

First gently explore around the painful area, especially in any depressions, to find the places that are most painful. These are the places where the bio-north pole of the dot magnets should be placed. Mark them with a felt tip pen if you need to to remember where they are.

Attach the bio-south pole of your magnetic dot to a bandaid and place it on those points. Now the bio-north is facing your skin.

Remove the magnets at least once a day to wash and dry the skin and to let it breath for a short while. Then wash the magnets in warm soapy water, rinse and dry them and attach them to the same points again, with once again the bio north facing the skin.

It can be amazing how well they can reduce swelling and relieve pain if they are placed in the right position and with the bio north facing the skin. I always use 2500 gauss magnets for this myself.

Magnetic Bracelets for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

One thing that magnetic jewelry is really good for is reducing swelling.

Carpal Tunnel Syndrom is caused by repetative movements. We weren't designed for hammering in nails all day, or typing on a keyboard for hours on end etc.

It would be best to try to reduce the repetative movements, but sometimes that doesn't seem so practical. Maybe it's our job, that is giving us a living! Hard to try to find a new way of earning a living wage sometimes!

Wearing a magnetic bracelet, especially a magnetic bangle where the magnets are close to the veins in your wrist can help a lot to reduce the swelling and pain.

Using Magnets to Speed up the Healing of Broken Bones

Sometimes bones fractures heal quite fast and sometimes they don't. Using magnets close to the break in the bone can speed up the healing process.

A theory is that sometimes the two broken ends will have the same magnetic pole. Both north or both south. Like poles repel each other.

And that using magnets close to the fracture will make one side of the fracture one polarity and the other side of the fracture the other polarity. Opposite poles attract one another.

I think this is just a theory - that no experiments have been done to prove or disprove it.

But for sure bones do heal faster using magnetic fields close to them. That has been proved. It was the FDA's first endorsement of using magnetic therapy - to use a magnetic device close to the fracture.

Sports Injuies Heal Faster with Magnets

This is an important use of magnetic jewelry, and electro-magnetic wands which heal injuries even faster.

Of course, most of the studies have been done on using the wand but the speed up in recovery is impressive.

In the Iraq way the medical doctors used themagnetic wand that I sell to speed up healing on sprained ankles. The results were spectacular.

Calvin Smith tore his hamspring just before an Olympics. He was treated with the magnetic wand that I sell and here is his experience:
"It is my great pleasure to relate my experience with EMpulse technology. Just prior to the Los Angeles Olympic Games in 1982 I tore a hamstring so badly I thought the Olympics were history before they started.

I made arrangements to visit Dr Gordon's clinic, and underwent treatment with this new EMpulse device. We treated several days, two or three times per day as I recall, but the results I remember very well; they were spectacular. I'd never seen a hamstring injury recover with such speed.

I was on the 4 X 100 team with Ron Grady, Kirk Baptiste, and Carl Lewis. After finding I could put the nitro to my hamstring I was primed for the 4x100. We smoked the competition and set a new world record at Los Angeles.'

Almost Magical Magnetic Wand

Magnets Reduce Bruising and Swelling

If you ever have a bad fall or bump where you think your skin is going to bruise, try putting a magnet on that place.

If you don't have a large enough magnet you may well find that the spot that the magnet contacted has no bruise but all around it the skin is bruised! The shape of the magnet is there clear to see!

It's very funny to see a perfect rectangle of unbruised skin in the middle of a large bruise!

Magnets can also help swelling to go down much faster than it otherwise would.

The magnet helps the antioxidants to neutralize the free radicals far more efficiently that they would otherwise do so. Check out the chart on this page for a better description of why that is so: dragonstonemagnetics.com/AlmostMagicalMagneticWand.htm

I use the magnetic wand on myself for any swelling now, but using regular magnets has the same effect, it just takes a little longer.

The Main Reason People Wear Magnetic Therapy Jewelry - Pain Relief

There are lots of good reasons to wear magnetic jewelry, but usually people start when they are in pain.

Whether the pain is from arthritis of from martial arts, wearing a magnetic bracelet often helps the pain to be more manageable or even go away all together.

For some people the pain goes away in half an hour or so. And for some people it takes a week or two. But lots of people have told me how they forgot to put on their bracelet at some time and the pain came back. Plenty of people who didn't notice they didn't have their bracelet on until they felt the old familiar pain again.

Well, this isn't 'scientific' and I do wish that there would be more scientific studies with different sorts of magnets and different polarities facing the wearer and different strenths and different lengths of time. But until these studies are done we just have to do the best we can.

People Create Magnetic Fields

Magnetism is created by electrons spinning in alignment within living or inert matter. If the spin of enough electrons in living or inert matter is aligned then that matter is magnetic.

Iron is magnetized easily because it has many spare electrons. But just about all matter can be magnetized.

Natural magnets such as hematite contain iron, and they have been magnetized by the earth's magnetic field.

But not only does the earth have a magnetic field. You generate magnetic fields too!
The magnetic field given off by the heart can be measured by a magnetocardiogram and the magnetic field given off by the brain can be measured by a magnetoencephalograph.

Using Magnets for Acupuncture

Traditional acupunture uses 'needles' on specific acupuncture points along the body's meridians to balance the person's Qi or electromagnetic energy.
Amazing results are possible with a skilled acupuncturist. Surgery can be performed with no other pain killing drugs.
Many acupunturists also use little 'dot' magnets instead of needles on the same places that the needles would go. The magnetic field from the dot magnet affects the person's Qi in the same way that the needles do. And it's often far more pleasant to have a little magnet attached to your body than to have a needle stuck into you!

Energy Healing

The earth has a natural magnetic field which is presently getting weaker. In the past when the earths magnetic field has become very weak the north and south poles have reversed. Maybe that is what will happen in the reasonably near, in geographic terms, future.

Life evolved so far as we know when there was a fairly strong magnetic field from the earth.

There are places in the world where healing miracles are said to take place. Lourds in France for instance. These places all have a higher than average strength magnetic field from the earth.

Every human body also has a natural magnetic field.

By wearing magnetic jewelry on the body we work with this energy and can feel the benefits.

Many people are convinced that magnets have helped them with pain or in other ways.

Is Magnetic Jewelry's Healing Power all in the Mind?

Well, as you might guess, I personally definately don't think so! I think that our bodies electomagnetic system is very subtle and that when we have health problems sometimes the very small magnetic field of a therapeutic magnet can help enormously. For instance I believe that antioxidants neutralize free radicals far faster in a magnetic field.

But just suppose I am wrong. Suppose that you wear a copper magnetic bracelet because you have painful arthritis and when you wear a magnetic bracelet the pain goes away. In that case, do you care if it's in your mind that the pain has gone or whether it's due to the magnetic field aiding the body to do what it does best - heal itself.

Myself, so long as the pain is gone, well, that's what I want to happen. the why is interesting to speculate on but western civilization doesn't understand much about the electomagnetic part of people. They have been used to study things more as if a human was just an inert pile of chemicals.

Eastern cultures have always payed a lot more attention to the 'qi' or 'karma' or life force inherant in everyone.

Who shouldn't wear magnetic therapy jewelry?

Pregnant women shouldn't. I don't think young children should.

People with pacemakers - the magnet could interfere with the device causing it to malfunction.

In the studies that found benefits from using magnetic therapy the benefits have often been very quick to show. If a magnet is going to work for you it will probably be evident within a month or so. Sometimes almost immediately.

North Pole and BioMagnetic North Pole

Which pole is the biomagnetic north pole?

This is not so easy as you might think.

The best way to think of it is 'like poles repel each other' and 'opposites attract'

So if your magnet was floating or hanging on a string, the end that faces the earths south pole is the biomagnetic north.

That sounds easy enough! Until you come to another very common convention that has the north and south poles the other way round! If you own a compass, the end that points to the earths North Pole is considered to be the north pole of the compass.

The biomagnetic north pole is the end of the magnet that attracts the arrow of the compass needle.

Magnetic Jewelry may help you or someone you know who has pain.
You probably do know someone who has arthritis or wrist or other pain!

Magnetic therapy jewelry aids in relieving pain and speeds up recovery because of the increase in blood flow and oxygenation of the blood that magnetic therapy provides.

Magnetic therapy jewelry has been used for centuries to help lessen pain, improve circulation, reduce swelling and relieve stiffness.

Cleopatra is said to have worn a loadstone (a naturally occuring magnetic stone) on her forehead to preserve her good looks and keep her looking younger.

Vanderbilt University Researchers use magnets successfully to treat chronic pain

Holcomb said the magnetic field therapy has so far been successful in a high percentage of pain cases.

In animal models as well as in patients with chronic pain, the new technology is proving to be as potent as drug therapy, but without the side effects, said Dr. Michael J. McLean, associate professor of neurology, who is collaborating with Holcomb on the study of the magnetic field technology.

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/News/register/Nov17_97/vr8.htm

Magnets to be prescribed by medical doctors in England

Sunday Times Newspaper in England states that the National Health Service has given permission to medical doctors to prescribe magnetic therapy treatment devices. For now they are able to prescribe magnets for the treatment of chronic leg ulcers. The magnets speed up the rate at which ulcers heal. They also speed up new cell and skin growth.

A personal story

I wore the wrist-band for a few days and the first thing I noticed was a kind of mild trembling sensation in my hands and legs. I also felt very thirsty and began to drink copious amounts of water. I didn’t know at the time, but these reactions are quite normal when you first wear a magnetic band. I mentioned it to my physio, who told me she too had heard about these magnetic bands from other patients. Surprisingly, she also pointed out that I was walking better and asked me about the pain. I had to think for a minute! What pain?
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Anecdotal evidence - in general.

Because not many double-blind studies have yet been done on magnetic therapy using static magnets, for now we have to rely on the overwhelming number of personal stories of people who have used magnets and found that they had less pain afterwards.

Sometimes it was just a small annoying pain that went away and sometimes a life-changing experience where a pain that was preventing them from living a normal life just dissapeared.

Of course, this can't be considered scientific proof, but until the proper scientific studies have been done, the sheer quantity of people who feel that wearing a magnetic bracelet for just a few days has helped their quality of life is overwhelming.

We can't guarantee that wearing a magnetic bracelet will help you. But at least there are no known harmful side effects. For a few dollars, you can try it out for yourself and tell your friends about your experience using magnetic jewelry. Did the pain go away? Did it come back again when you stopped wearing the bracelet? That's what a lot of people have experienced.

Gauss - What is it?

Magnetic flux density is the strength of the magnetic field a magnet produces. Will it pick up a paperclip or will it pick up a car.

The most widely used unit of magnetic flux density is the tesla (T) ;
A gauss is 1/10,000th of a tesla.

A fridge magnet probably has a magnetic field of 10 to 15 gauss.

The internal strength of the magnet may be far more gauss than that, but the surface gauss is what is useful to you in a practical sense. When someone states that a magnetis is so many gauss it might be useful to ask if that is the surface gauss or the internal gauss that they are measuring. If it's the internal gauss, then you need to know what the external gauss is.

If you have two magnets with a surface gauss of 3000 and they are stuck together, they may be quite hard to pull apart.

Magnetic therapy jewelry usually uses magnets from five hundred to two thousand gauss at their surface. Stronger magnets can penetrate deeper. Usually you are trying to get the magnetic field to penetrate your blood at a pulse point.

Magnetic bracelets are the most common magnetic therapy jewelry used. A magnetic bangle will usually have a magnet on each end, and these should be close to the two pulse points on your wrist. Here the magnetic field can affect what is happening in the blood flowing by under those pulse points.

I sell both link bracelets with 6 magnets in them and bangles with two magnets in them. My personal opinion is that the bangles are more effective - the magnets are positioned just where they need to be positioned. Magnets on the top of your wrist are likely doing nothing for you! That said, looks are important when we are wearing jewelry, so if a link bracelet style suits you better, go for it. Even if the magnets aren't in the optimum place for you, the two nearest the pulse points should definately help.

Comments on the Baylor study

Of couse, this was a pilot study - a study to see if it would be worthwhile to do further studies. A 75% positive result is very good indeed! I've seen drugs with far smaller, sometimes almost no positive results, get lauded in the newspapers and hailed as the next great cure for whatever. When I've read those studies I've wondered why the newspapers were so impressed! Say 3% positive results with several bad side effects for some drug treatment leaves me wondering.

This study was done in 1997.

Now, is it or isn't it important to help people get relief from pain such as the pain that those polio patients had?
I would say resoundingly that yes, it's very important. Helping others to have a higher quality of life is something that I would consider a very good human quality. Especially if it can be done without any bad side effects.

So now, here we have a pilot study with the most encouraging results and no follow up in 9 years! What's with that?
I think that it is a major problem in the north American health care system - Most studies are funded by the drug companies . The drug companies are businesses. They are there to make money. They are really only likely to fund studies on drugs that they are developing.
There should be a point at which the governments step in and fund studies for the general good. Of course they do at times, but not often enough in my opinion.

So this study leaves some questions.
* 300 to 500 gauss is considered very low. Myself I always use 1000 to 2500 gauss. Would the results have been better with a stronger magnet? Or would they have been the same or worse?
* 45 minutes is not a long time! Not for someone who has been in chronic pain for years. Would a longer exposure have more beneficial results?
*Did they use the bio-north pole towards the skin at all times? Or a mixture of north and south poles towards the skin?

I hope that at some time there are more reputable double blind studies done on this with different types of magnets. Especially I'd like to see it done with a little rare earth magnetic dot of about 2500 gauss against the original 300 - 500 gauss, and with attention being paid to which pole of the magnet faced the patient.

76% of participants receive Pain Relief from using Magnetic Therapy

Researchers at the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine in Houston report on a double-Blind Pilot Study to determine what effect, if any, magnetic therapy had on reliving pain in patients suffering from postpolio syndrome. (published in the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation)

Postpoilo syndrome typically produces widespread persistent pain. The only therapies that are presently reccomended are relaxation, diathermy or electrotherapy, braces and crutches, or prescription medications. These don't offer much in the way of pain management, and that was why this research was undertaken.

Fifty patients suffering from postpolio syndrome who also had muscular pain or neuralgic pain of the joints were invited to participate in the study. Half of the participants were placed in the control group and the other half was placed in the test group.
Each participant filled out a McGill Pain Questionnaire that contains different adjectives that relate to the nature and severity of the pain they experienced.

Each participant was treated with either a sham magnet (placebo) or a real permanent magnet with a flux density of 300 to 500 Gauss for 45 minutes. Then the participants were asked to re-evaluate the degree of pain felt. The degree of pain felt before the therapy was almost equal for both groups.

76% of the participants who received the real magnet had less pain, but only 19% of those who received the placebo had less pain.

The study showed that treatment with a permanent magnet of 300 to 500 Gauss that was positioned at the precise areas of the body at which manual contact or applied force was painful, resulted in a considerable and rapid reduction in pain with no observable bad side effects, in people suffering from Postpolio Syndrome.

Despite the results, the researchers were unable to account for the magnet’s amazing success in reducing pain. They felt that it may possibly be because of an alteration in the way pain is received and acknowledged or because of the release of endogenous opioids in the brain.
Magnetic Therapy possibly may be effective in the management of pain in a variety of health conditions.
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