beneficial effects. The minor AHT is easy to perform, atoxic, inexpensive and, if we could perform a controlled clinical trial, it could become a very useful tool in some affection. So far we have only anecdotal data in patients with herpes I and II, acute herpes zoster and post-herpetic neuralgia (Konrad, 2001). A similar approach has been publicized by Cooke et al., (1997), who claim great advantages in Raynaud’s disease, by using a particular formulation in which blood is treated with ozone, heat and UV light; a similar methodology was proposed by Garber et al., (1991) and uselessly tested in AIDS patients. I feel that we should test seriously only ozone before complicating the problem with the seemingly superfluous addition of heat and UV irradiation. During the last year, in almost all patients, I started to perform both major and minor AHT at the same time and I have noted a marked improvement of the therapeutic response suggesting a synergistic effect and ABSOLUTELY NO ADVERSE EFFECTS. The problem of new vaccines is becoming urgent and I would like to propose the use of ozone as an agent able to eliminate the infectivity, while enhancing the immunogenicity of a pathogen. Once we have demonstrated the ozone capacity to inactivate a virus, the idea of a possible autovaccination, by heavily ozonating small volumes (3-5 ml) of infected plasma with ozone at high concentration (100 or more mcg/ml per ml of plasma) does not seem farfetched. The oxidation of viral components may represent an effective immune stimulant in several chronic viral diseases, from herpes to cytomegalovirus, HIV, HCV, just to cite a few because there are many pathogenic agents. Infected blood may even be better because it may well contain intracellular pathogens as well and displays an adjuvant activity. The autovaccine can be either injected via IM or SC or intra-epidermal injections for facilitating the uptake by Langerhans cells. For some pathogens we could also use the oral route. I HAVE 43 Chapter 6 APPLIED THE SAME REASONING FOR CANCER PATIENTS and I use the minor AHT as a sort of autovaccine. The minor AHT has no record of side effects. This corresponds very well with my experience. However I cannot omit to report the excellent paper by Webster et al. (2000), who described the careless and unforgivable performance of some incompetent operators in a naturopathic clinic in London (!!). They were treating patients by using the old minor AHT, WITHOUT OZONE, and they were diluting blood (WHY?, WAS IT NECESSARY?) WITH SALINE COLLECTED ALWAYS FROM A CONTAMINATED BOTTLE. In this way they infected more than 70 patients with HCV!!! It is most unfortunate that incompetent mass media, when they heard about this misdeed, which occurred with autohaemotherapy, attributed the fault to ozonetherapy when clearly ozone was NOT GUILTY and actually, if present, might have blocked the infection!

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Payr and Aubourg, in 1936, were the first to suggest the insufflation of this gas mixture into the colon-rectum and today this approach has been adopted world-wide because it is easy to perform, is inexpensive, practically risk-free, often beneficial and because most people, recognising the advantage, do not object to rectal medication. Even in several states of the USA, where ozonetherapy, owing to misuse by quacks, has been prohibited,