Negative ions
OF MAJOR SIGNIFICANCE TO YOUR HEALTH IS THE AIR YOU
BREATHE
Negative ions can have a positive effect on people.
But positive ions can have a negative effect on people.
An atom that has one of its normal orbiting electrons
removed is called a positive ion. (Doesn't "positive" imply
that something has been added?)
But an atom that has an extra electron added is called
a negative ion. (Doesn't "negative" imply that
something has been removed?) So you see, it's really
kind of backwards; the terms Negative and Positive are
actually reversed, in this
context. It's a misnomer that we can blame on Benjamin
Franklin (so we hear) who lived in the 1700's. Back
in his time, electrons (with a "negative" charge)
and atoms were not understood correctly. But the word
negative is still being used this way; to this day,
an atom with an extra electron is still called a negative
ion.
So, we're all still stuck with this 18th century terminology,
and that's why they're called "negative ions".
| The human body is surrounded by ions; therefore,
the function of electrons inside and outside the
cells has significant influence on the human body.
It makes the body strong if good ions are taken.
When the amount of Negative Electric Ions contained
one cc of air inhaled reached 5,000 to 50,000, it
strengthens the body's resistance and immunity; and
when the amount of Negative Electric Ions contained
in one D.C. of air reached 100,000 to 500,000, it
relieves illnesses. Negatively Charged Electric Ions
in our body are essential in sustaining and improving
our health. . (quoted from page
56 of Negatively Charged electric Ion Treatment,
issued by Youth Publishing) |
"Remember that feeling you've experienced
near a waterfall or high in the mountains? Those are
two places
that thousands of negative ions occur. They create an
effect on human biochemistry."
" The normal Ion count in fresh country air is 2,000 to
4,000 negative Ions per cubic centimeter (about the size
of a sugar cube). At Yosemite Falls, you'll experience
over 100,000 negative Ions per cubic centimeter. On the
other hand, the level is far below 100 per cubic centimeter
on the Los Angeles freeways during rush hour."
Depression and mood- Negative ions also have been shown
to help lift mood, alleviate depression and seasonal
affective disorder (winter depression or SAD). There
is even a patent by a prominent researcher and institution
for the treatment of depression with negative ions.
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The following detailed article about negative ions
has been reprinted from Reader's Digest.
Ions Can Do Strange Things To You
Researchers believe that through control of the electrical
charges in the air we breathe, our moods, energy and
health can be markedly improved.
One sweltering day in Philadelphia this summer a man
sat before a small metal box resting atop a hospital
file cabinet. It was plugged into an ordinary wall socket.
A doctor flipped a switch. Inside the box a small fan
whirred; the box hummed distantly, like a high-tension
wire, and gave off a faint, sweetish odor. Soon the man
felt alert, magical, refreshed, as though he had been
taking deep gulps of sparkling October air. The doctor
turned the machine off, switched on another that looked
just like it. The air grew quickly stale. The man's head
felt stuffy. His eyes smarted. His head began to ache.
He felt vaguely depressed and tired.
With this simple experiment, the scientist, Dr. Igho
H. Kornblueh, of the American institute of Medical Climatology,
demonstrated the effect that atmospheric ions can have
on human beings. The first machine generated negative
ions; the second positive ions.
The air around us is filled with these electrically
charged particles. They are generated in invisible billions
by
cosmic rays, radioactive elements in the soil, ultraviolet
radiation, storms, waterfall, winds, the friction of
blowing sand or dust. Every time we draw a breath they
fill our lungs and are carried by the blood to our body
cells. They appear to have a lot to do with such varied
things as our moods, why cattle grow skittish before
a storm, why rheumatic joints "tingle" when
the barometer falls, and how ants know in advance that
it's going to rain, in time to block their tunnels.
Car Air
Ionizers
What about the air you breath in your car? Car
Air Ionizers can improve air quality, create wellness,
reduce airborne Bacteria, and promote a more positive
state of mind. Car Air Ionizers increase the concentration
of negative ions in the air, refreshing the air
by removing Mildew, Dust, and Smoke. A Car Air
Ionizer can help maintain a Naturally Beneficial
Environment inside your car allowing you to stay
more Alert and Relaxed helping you become a Safer
Driver. It is very easy to install. Just push the
Ionizer into the Cigarette Lighter Adapter . The
Car Ionizer will create a smell the same as in
Nature
after a Thunder Storm |
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Falling barometric pressure and hot, dry, seasonal winds,
such as the Alpine Fohn and the Rocky Mountain Chinook,
for example, pack the air with an excess of positive
ions. Not everyone is affected; healthy young people
swiftly adapt to the change. But countless others are
distressed. The aged come down with respiratory complaints,
aching joints; asthma sufferers wheeze and gasp; children
grow cranky and perverse; crime and suicide rates climb.
On the other hand, a preponderance of negative ions
spices the air with exhilarating freshness. We feel on
top of the world. Dr. C. W. Hansell, research fellow
at RCA Laboratories and an international authority on
ionization, illustrates the effect with a story about
his ten-year-old daughter. "We were outside, watching
the approach of a thunderstorm. I knew that clouds of
negative ions were filling the air. Suddenly my daughter
began to dance across the grass, a radiant look in her
face. She leaped up on a low boulder, threw her arms
wide to the dark sky, and cried. 'Oh, I feel wonderful!'"
At the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate Hospital
and at Northeastern and Frankford hospitals in Philadelphia,
Dr. Kornblueh and his associates have administered negative-ion
treatments to hundreds of patients suffering from hay
fever or bronchial asthma. Of the total, 63 percent have
experienced partial to total relief. "They come
in sneezing, eyes watering, noses itching, worn out from
lack of sleep, so miserable they can hardly walk," one
doctor told me. "Fifteen minutes in front of the
negative-ion machine and they feel so much better they
don't want to leave."
It was RCA's Dr. Hansell who, in 1932, stumbled upon
the behavioral effects of artificially generated ions.
He notice a startling swing in the moods of a fellow
RCA scientist who worked beside an electrostatic generator.
Some days the scientist finished work alert and in bubbling
good spirits. On other days he was rude, ill-tempered,
depressed. Dr. Hansell investigated found that the scientist
was happy when the generator was adjusted to produce
negative ions, morose when it was producing positive
ions. A few months later, reports of ionization research
in Europe confirmed the strange experience.
A few years ago atmospheric ions became suddenly important
to military, researchers in environmental medicine. How
would they affect men locked in submarines? In space
ships? What were the possibilities of ions therapy? Research
programs multiplied, with fantastic results.
In Philadelphia Dr. Kornblueh studied brain-wave patterns
and found evidence that negative ions tranquilized persons
in severe pain. In one dramatic test he held a negative
ionizer to the nose and mouth of a factory worker who
had been rushed to Northeastern Hospital with second-degree
steam burns on his back and legs. In minutes the pain
was gone. Morphine, customarily administered in such
cases, was never necessary.
IF YOU ANSWERED "YES" TO
4 OR MORE QUESTIONS,
NEGATIVE IONS COULD BENEFIT YOU.
"All types of electronic gadgets,
from high tension power lines to microwave ovens, hair
dryers, air conditioners, furnaces, and so forth, almost
always emit positive ions. Then there are the vehicles
we drive and ride in - - the exhaust fumes from cars,
trucks, buses, subways, and airplanes generate unbelievable
tons of positive ions which poison the very air we breathe."
John Heinerman, Ph.D., Folk Medicine Journal, Summer
1993
Experiments by Dr. Albert P. Krueger
and Dr. Richard F. Smith at the University of California
have shown how ionization affects those sensitive to
airborne allergens. Our bronchial tubes and trachea,
or windpipe, are lined with tiny filaments called cilia.
The cilia normally maintain a whip like motion of about
900 beats a minute. Together with mucus, they keep our
air passages free of dust and pollen. Krueger and Smith
exposed tracheal tissue to negative ions, found that
the ciliary beat was speeded up 1200 a minute and that
mucus flow was increased. Doses of positive ions produced
the opposite effect: ciliary beat slowed to 600 a minute
or less; the flow of mucus dropped.
In experiments that may prove important in cancer research.
Drs. Krueger and Smith also discovered that cigarette
smoke slows down the cilia and impairs their ability
to clear foreign, and possibly carcinogenic (cancer-inducing),
substances from the lungs. Positive ions, administered
along with cigarette smoke, lowered the ciliary beat
as before, but from three to ten time faster than in
normal air. Negative ions however, counteracted the effects
of the smoke. Observed Dr. Krueger, "The agent in
cigarette smoke that slows down the ciliary beat is not
known. Whatever it may be, its action is effectively
neutralized by negative ions, which raise the ciliary
beat as well in a heavy atmosphere of cigarette smoke
as they do in fresh air."
How do ions trip off our moods? Most authorities agree
that ions act on our capacity to absorb and utilize oxygen.
Negative ions in the blood stream accelerate the delivery
of oxygen to our cells and tissues, frequently giving
us the same euphoric jolt that we get from a few whiffs
of straight oxygen
Positive ions slow down the delivery of oxygen, producing
symptoms markedly like those in anoxia, or oxygen starvation.
Researchers also believe that negative ions may stimulate
the reticuloendothelial system; a group of defense cells
in our bodies which marshal our resistance to disease.
Dr. Krueger predicts that we shall some day regulate
the ion level indoors much as we now regulate temperature
and humidity. Ironically, today's air-conditioned buildings,
trains and planes frequently become supercharged with
harmful positive ions because the metal blowers, filters
and ducts of air-conditioning systems strip the air of
negative ions before it reaches its destination. Says
RCA's Dr. Hansell, "This explains why so many people
in air conditioned spots feel depressed and have an urge
to throw open a window."
Air conditioner manufacturers are designing new systems
that increase negative ionization. The American Broadcasting
Co. will equip its new 30 story New York City headquarters
with ion control. Two national concerns, Philco and Emerson
Electric, already have ion control air conditioning systems
on the market. RCA, Westinghouse, General Electric and
Carrier Corp. have similar products under study or development.
| A personal note from Guy Cramer, Ion Scientist;
These ELF fields trigger serotonin a brain hormone
now associated with cancer (see Project AIR). A negative
ion generator can convert the excess serotonin (the
antagonist for most of the problems) into a harmless
chemical called 5HA ( 5-HIAA ) |
We still have much to learn about atmospheric
ions . But researches believe that these magic bits of
electricity, under artificial control, will soon be helping
millions to healthier, happier, more productive lives.
by Robert O’Brian
Condensed from The Rotarian.
Is Air pollution
Damaging our Health Now?
Negative ions are beneficial to human body in four
major ways:
1.Strengthen the functions of autonomic nerves
2.Reinforces collagen (tissues that are resilient
and tension-related)
3.Improves the permeability of the cell's prototype
plasma membranes (improves metabolism)
4.Strengthens the body's immune system
Hundreds of studies had been conducted about
negative ions and study conclude that they are
beneficial
to our health.
Reprinted from "Economy Daily News" -
January 30, 2002
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When a neutral atom has gained an electron
(which is negatively charged), the electrons now outnumber
the positively charged protons, giving the atom a negative
charge. The now negatively charged atom is called a negative
ion, or an anion.
Article from Journal of Aviation, Space, and Environmental
Medicine (August 1982 p. 822-823)
One group of subjects served as controls and was confirmed
to the test chamber for a 6-hour period under air ion
conditions typical of an energy- efficient building.
The second group was similarly confined, but ion generators
began operating two hours before occupancy and continued
all six hours of confinement. Generators were masked
for all indications of operation, and were also present
under control conditions but not turned on. Data from
both groups were collected under double-blind conditions.
Summary of Results:
"
Subjective perceptions of psychological state, using
individual 'normalcy' as standard, reflected significant
differences between control and negative ion exposure
groups. Prominent perceptions reported were reductions
in irritability, depression, and tenseness, and increases
in calmness and stimulation associated with ion exposure.
For psychological state, negative ion exposure appeared
associated with feeling better about self, less sensitive,
and more responsive or innervated (energized)."
Authors: L.W. Buckalew and A. Rizzuto
Source: Air Force Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory,
Wright-Patterson Air Force base, Dayton Ohio
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of negative ions in the air, refreshing the air by
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