Ozone therapy has helped control/ prevent diseases and alleviate symptoms that were not helped by conventional modes of treatment alone. It has succeeded in successfully treated patients with diabetic foot and open leg ulcers, which would have otherwise needed immediate amputation.
Ozone therapy can be useful in treating more than 200 diseases caused due to oxidative stress. Its therapeutic properties aid in slowing the progress of diseases, but do not offer a cure for the disease itself. For instance, it is helpful in curing the lesion in the diabetic foot, but not diabetes.

HOW IT WORKS?
Ozone acts as an antioxidant, fights toxins in the body, aids in detoxifying the system and thus enhances immunity. Ozone could also prevent the onset of certain chronic diseases. If you have a family history of diabetes, taking ozone therapy may help you prevent its onset. In case of arthritis pain, where ozone injections were used to treat it, the effects lasted for 4 to 6 months. Continuous usage prolonged the relief. A study shows that when ozone therapy was used as an adjunct to radiation and chemotherapy to treat 83 oral, breast, lymphoma and throat cancer patients at the Tata Medical Research Center, positive effects seen included better appetite, increased energy level and

Medical grade oxygen is converted into medical ozone through a device called ozonator. Ozone is neither inhaled by, nor injected directly into the patient. Instead the ozone-oxygen mixture is infused into the body through an IV syringe. Ozone may also be given externally through ear insufflations or by bagging to heal open infections and wounds. Once inside the system, the mixture, according to ozone therapy proponents, acts like a powerful antioxidant to induce the RBCs to release more oxygen at tissue level, which helps in detoxification of the body. It also relaxes blood vessels, open up small capillaries and improve circulation, and thereby control High Blood Pressure.  Ozone therapy kills light infections by killing all sorts of bacteria, virus and fungi and burn toxins and provides more oxygen to cells that helps in treating diseases like cancer. Ozone proponents claim the therapy has minimal side effects, and reduces treatment time and improves quality of life for the patient.

SOME SIDE EFFECTS
However ozone therapy did induce unwanted side effects in some cancer patients including general weakness, heavy breathing, loss of appetite and loss of sleep. In cases of slipped disc problems where the disc bulges out pressing on the nerve, an injection of ozone shrinks the disc to stop the pain. There is not any scientific method to explain how ozone therapy works. Claims of improved well being are vague and don’t offer concrete proof of its effectiveness. Instead, if before and after MRls of the patients taking the therapy were presented, it would help doctors to understand whether and what (if any) difference the therapy makes.

All new things be it technology scientific research etc. have certain limitations and criticism and so does ozone therapy. There are many questions which are still in the minds like is there any clinical study that shows how ozone therapy can aid in neurological diseases? Is there any follow up on the patient’s performance after it is given? One needs to have results from a long term clinical study of the therapy to accept it with faith, to understand whether it really works or not.