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study on Using Ma—gnets to Treat Pain New " Surprises Skeptics York Times Author of Be Kind To Yourself and Who Are You, Really? ' with Vickie fSBS Koestler Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/healingwithmagneOOnull Healing WITH Magnets \. Healing WITH Magnets Gary Null, Ph.D. & Carroll Graf Publishers, Inc. New York library public boston The author would like to acknowledge Patric Jennings for a super research effort, Lois Zinn for transcribing dozens of interviews, Vickie Riba Koestler for digital editing, and Vickie Hughs for tirelessly arranging the dozens of inter- views. © Copyright 1998 by Gary Null All rights reserved First Carroll &c Graf edition 1998 & Carroll Graf Publishers, Inc. 19 West 21st Street New NY York, 10010 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data is available. ISBN: 0-7867-0530-2 Manufactured in the United States of America IV Contents Introduction vii Issues in Magnet Therapy 1 How Magnets are Used 12 Clinicians’ Reports 34 Patients’ Experiences With Biomagnetic Therapy 73 What the Future Holds 99 Peer-Reviewed Scientific Studies 101 Resources 218 Additional Reading 221 V \ I f « « V t • 1 Introduction The power of the magnet is one of the most basic powers We in nature. know that magnetism itselfwas an ingredient in the primordial soup from which the universe and our planet came forth. Magnetism is the force that keeps order in the galaxy, allowing stars and planets to spin at significant velocities. And in a sense, our own planet’s magnetic field is responsible for protecting all life on earth. This book about how we can use the power of mag- is netism to optimize health. Today, we are at an excitingjunc- ture in the evolution of health care as biomagnetic therapy fast becomes one of the most promising new therapeutic interventions. Actually, biomagnetic therapy is not new to everyone. Many veterinarians have been aware of biomag- netic benefits for years, and use magnets to heal fractures quickly, thereby saving the lives of racehorses and other animals. Doctors treating professional athletes commonly recommend magnets to speed up recovery from painful And injuries. other physicians in a variety of specialties, including dermatologists, internists, pediatricians, and sur- geons, are seeing excellent results as well. Vll Introduction That magnetic healing nothing new can be seen by is looking at early records of scientifically advanced civiliza- tions, which tell us that magnetic forces have long been prized for their restorative properties. Ancient Greece dis- covered the very first natural magnet in the form ofthe lode- stone, and Hippocrates, the father of medicine, noted its The healing powers. Egyptians, too, described the divine powers of the magnet in their writings, and Cleopatra frequently adorned herself with magnetic jewelry to pre- serve her youthfulness. Chinese manuscripts dating back thousands of years describe the Eastern belief that the life force, termed qi, is generated by the earth’s magnetic field. Today, many believe that certain places on earth, such as Lourdes, France, and Sedona, Arizona, owe their healing powers to naturally high levels of this qi, or biomagnetic energy. It should be noted that today, magnetic therapy is well established in other countries, such as Japan, China, India, Austria, and Germany. In the United States, unfortunately, many healing techniques readily accepted by other traditions are only familiar to those practitioners on the cutting edge. Although state-of-the-art American medicine uses tech- niques to monitor magnetic fields, such as electrocardio- grams, electroencephalograms, and magnetic resonance imaging, has not taken other forms of magnetic therapy it seriously. More and more American studies, however, are confirming the value of the magnetic approach. As a result, magnet therapy is gaining credibility in the United States and being applied by increasing numbers of doctors and other health practitioners to treat a wide range of ailments. Now awareness of this modality is filtering down to the gen- eral public, as increasing numbers of people are sleeping on Vlll
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