In those clinical applications which make use of external or body cavity application of Ozone, inactivation of microorganisms, bacteria, viruses or fungi, proceeds by a variety of different methods. The treatment of burns, superficial infections, ulcers and abscesses is approached by this method, which is the absorption of Ozone through the skin and the mucous membranes. Since very little free Ozone remains in the solution due to its high reactivity, its products interact with circulation as well as tissue-bound viruses, thus inactivating them. Although unproven to be an outright curative for any viral illness, Ozone blood treatment, as reported in several studies should lessen clinical severity or duration. Thus, therapeutic benefits have been noted in hepatitis, acute and chronic, and herpes.
Ozone is reported to be an immunostimulant in low doses.
It was for this that Warburg won the Nobel Prize in 1931. Some authors report a peroxide intolerance in tumor cells. The authors postulate that cancer cells are less able to compensate for the oxidative challenge of Ozone than normal cells. T here are many clinical and anecdotal reports of Ozone usually major or minor autohemotherapy, at times prescribed on a daily basis for several weeks, applied to the treatment of various cancer conditions. Several researchers have focused their efforts on using ozone as an adjunct to radiation or chemotherapy.