Magnetic healing: An alternative cure
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Until four months ago Ms Jane W. Allan used to suffer from many age related problems like arthritis and backaches.
The 55-year-old preacher claims to be free of these maladies since she started wearing a bracelet fitted with magnets.
She says: "My face was also wrinkled but as you can see am looking much younger."
Allan is among an increasing number of Kenyans who wear some unique and expensive jewellery for medical reasons rather than glamour.
Seventy two-year-old Josephine Wambui claims to have been suffering from asthma for decades. But she claims the disease is now under control since she started wearing a magnetic bracelet.
She claims to have also regained the strength of standing for many hours or walking longer distances without her joints giving way.
Both ladies (patients) are also selling the metal gadgets through network marketing.
Most alternative medical remedies are curious in many ways. But, magnetic therapy is perhaps the strangest of all.
Pseudoscientific form of alternative medicine
To prevent or cure diseases, you are advised to wear a thingamajig fitted with several pieces of magnets. It could be a wristwatch, bracelet, anklet or a necklace.
Nelson Oluoch, who introduced this treatment in the country in September last year, says thousands of such wares have been sold.
"To remain healthy or recover from a disease, you need to wear just one of the pieces," he says.
Oluoch is a founder member of the local sales branch of Amega Global Llc, which makes and sells the unique metal products. The manufacturer is based in Singapore.
But what is magnetic therapy? The web defines magnet therapy, or magnetic therapy as a pseudoscientific form of alternative medicine based on the concept that certain medical disorders can be effectively treated by exposure to magnetic fields.
Some believe that magnetic fields emanating from permanent magnets placed close to the body can cause bones to heal faster, relieve pain, and perform other forms of healing to the body.
How does magnetic therapy work?
Practitioners claim that magnets can cure joint disorders and back problems.
But Oluoch takes the powers of magnetic therapy a notch higher. He says using magnets, chronic diseases like hypertension, diabetes, arthritis, gouts and a few others can be prevented and managed where they already exist.
Says he: "This method is a one stop medical treatment. Wearing a magnet will keep away all diseases by enhancing the body‘s immunity. If you are under medication, the healing process will be faster with a magnet on any part of your body."
But how does magnetic therapy work? Oluoch observes that all body and mind functions are controlled by electromagnetic fields.
The fields, he says, are produced by the movement of charged electro-chemicals (ions) within the body and usually the blood stream.
A healthy organ or tissue is usually negatively charged while an injured one is positively charged.
"The pain and inflammation in an injury happens when the affected area is invaded by positively charged ions. Magnetic therapy therefore seeks to restore this electromagnetic field balance to the normal status-negatively charged," he says.
Enhanced transfer of oxygen to the injury site
A magnetic field, he argues, helps to relax blood capillary walls and surrounding tissues that are strained by the invasion of positively charged ions, thus allowing for increased blood flow.
This way, there is an enhanced transfer of oxygen and nutrients to the injury site while toxins are carried away.
When Inspiration sought testimonies from patients who have benefited from this remedy, it was established that beneficiaries also double up as sellers of the items.
"This is because we sell the magnets through network marketing," says Oluoch.
Network marketing is also called multi-level marketing (MLM) strategy.
This is a method of marketing products and services, whose value mainly is often over-exaggerated or questionable, through independent representatives who refer customers to the company.
First used by the Chinese 4,000 years ago
Actually, it is a pyramid scheme in another form. Both schemes are not legal or illegal. The only difference between the two is that when an MLM collapses, victims are left stuck with worthless items while in pure pyramid schemes you lose the full ’investment.‘
Nevertheless the Internet posts that magnetic therapy was first used by the Chinese 4,000 years ago. Many cultures, like the Greeks, Egyptians and Europeans have used magnets ostensibly to relieve pain and other symptoms. However, the size and weight of the magnets existing during that time, made them clumsy to use.
Today, stronger magnetic materials have led to a surge of modern day magnetic therapy. Since the 1960s, studies in the United States have shown use of magnetic therapy has been on a steady increase.
Japan and many eastern European countries have conducted hundreds of studies for over 30 years.
Prohibitive cost
But if these metals really have any therapeutic value, the common man may not benefit from magnetic treatment because of its prohibitive cost.
The cheapest magnet on MLM sale is a bracelet that goes for Sh12, 575. Necklaces and anklets go for about Sh17, 000 while a wristwatch is the most dear costing a whopping Sh19,000.
Still Oluoch feels, these prices are pocket friendly because the metals last a lifetime ‘if thieves are kept at bay.‘ Oluoch warns that a magnet placed on the body can have undesirable effects, if the alignment of the poles is not correct.
Says he: "Because to remain healthy or to recover from an existing condition, positively charged ions should be kept away, the north pole (positive) side of the magnet should be outside while the negative faces the body."
This way, he says, a magnet repels all positively charged ions in the atmosphere.
On the other hand, the negative side facing the body neutralises the positive ions in the body.
Is the remedy safe?
One ornament is enough to create a positively charged magnetic field around you to keep away all positive ions from the atmosphere.
Oluoch thinks modern technology is emitting too many positively charged ions into the atmosphere.
The treatment has no known side effects and the World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued a formal statement confirming that static magnetic fields pose no health risks.
No complications have been reported with its proper use. But there are certain conditions where magnet therapy should not be used, such as if you are wearing a pacemaker, defibrillator, insulin pump or any other implanted electro-medical device or if you are pregnant.
WHO standards
The strength of a magnetic field is measured in gauss. However, some unscrupulous manufacturers tend to exaggerate the strength of their products.
Oluoch says WHO standards require that no human should wear a magnet whose strength exceeds 20,000 gauss.
Manufacturers are required to engrave these details on each product.
Of course this requirement is again subject to abuse because there is no way an ordinary consumer can ascertain the strength of a magnet.
And how fast the therapy works depends on the condition and its severity.
Oluoch says some people will get well in a day or two while others will be well in hours or minutes. Chronic ailments will take a little longer.
Additional information from www.therionresearch.com
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