| Researcher |
Country |
Area of Study |
Results |
Terman &
Terman |
USA |
Winter
Depression |
The severity of depressive symptoms, decreased selectively for the
group receiving high-density treatment...There were no side effects attributable
to the treatment, and all subjects who responded showed subsequent relapse
during withdrawal. Treatment with a high-density negative ionizer appears
to act as a specific antidepressant... |
Krueger &
Smith |
USA |
Cigarette Smoke
Effects of Cilia
on Rabbits |
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 and cigarette smoke lowered the ciliary beat
three to ten times faster than in normal air. Negative ions however counteracted
the effects of the smoke. Dr. Krueger: "The agent in cigarette smoke
that slows down the ciliary beat is not known. Negative ions raises the
ciliary beat in a heavy atmosphere of cigarette smoke as they do in fresh
air." |
| Minkin |
Russia |
Physical
Performance
of Humans |
After 15 minutes of daily exposure to negative ions for 25 days, significant
improvements to the state of health, appetite, and sleep of male subjects
were noted. After 9 days, their work capacity increased 50% and showed
87% increase by the 25th day. |
| Kornblueh |
USA |
Hay Fever
& Asthma |
Of hundreds of patients treated, 63% experienced total or partial relief.
"They come in sneezing, eyes watering, noses itching, worn out from
lack of sleep and so miserable they can hardly walk. Fifteen minutes in
front of a negative-ion machine and they feel so much better they don't
want to leave." This relief lasted for about two hours after returning
to un-ionized conditions. |
| Hansell |
USA |
Humans |
Experiments suggested that exposure to negatively ionized air might
help in reducing body weight and in overcoming insomnia. |
| Krueger |
USA |
Plants |
Plants growing in a negative ion atmosphere show a marked increase
in size and growth rate. |
Hawkins &
Barker |
England |
Human
Performance |
On tests with 45 humans, negative ionization gave a significant increase
in performance of psycho-motor tasks. |
| Hansell |
USA |
Humans |
Hansell observed positively-charged air made a co-worker feel physically,
mentally, and emotionally depressed, whereas negatively charged air brought
a physical, mental, and emotional lift. |
| Tromp |
Holland |
Humans |
Reported that high density of positive ions produced symptoms of dryness,
burning and itching of the nose, nasal obstructions, headache, dry scratching
throat, dizziness, difficulty in breathing, and itching of the eyes. Further
experiments showed that exposure to positive ions resulted in a rise of
blood pressure, decrease of blood albumin, and increase in 17 ketosteroids. |
| Sulman |
Israel |
Humans |
Even healthy people showed a decreased in alertness when exposed to
positive ions. With high quantities of positive ions in the air, people
complained of depression, irritability, insomnia and tension. While undergoing
negative ion treatment 80 out of 129 reported relief from serotonin complaints
of tension, migraine, swellings, palpitations, dyspepsia, asthma, flushes,
vasomotorhmitis, hyperperistalsis and pollakisuna. Over a 5-year period
of treating more than 500 patients, negative ionization cured 45% of hyperthyroid
cases. |
| White & Froeb |
USA |
Cigarette Smoke |
Showed a beneficial effect on nonsmokers who worked with smokers. |
| Sulman |
Israel |
Bacteria |
After exposing bacteria of escherichia, protons, pseudomonas, klebsiella,
staphylococci, steplococci, and candida to a negative ion atmosphere, germ
counts were reduced by 50% within 6 hours, and 70% within 24 hours suggesting
that negative ionization is a way of controlling disease. |
| Boike, et al |
USSR |
Humans |
Reported on use of ionization to disinfect the air. This has far-reaching
implications for doctors' offices, children's schools and any other places
where germs are known to spread. The Russian tests involved spraying bacterial
cultures in aerosols then treating Vie same air for sixty minutes with
high concentration of negative ions. Boiko reported that in such a test
with a culture of M. pyogenes, the viable cell count of the bacteria was
so reduced that there were no survivors at all among the cells. |
