The safety of injected ozone and its long-term toxic effects are unknown. There is no reason to believe that if ozone is found safe for use in water or blood products outside the body it can be safely injected directly into the body. There are no credible scientific reports showing benefit of ozone. Since ozone, like hydrogen peroxide, produces highly reactive, oxygen-containing radicals, the same cautions should apply as with peroxide compounds. Each of these combines with intact oxygen to form the triatomic ozone, O 3 .
Ozone is a highly active form of oxygen.
Joachim Varro, MD, another German physician, has used ozone as an adjunct to conventional treatment of cancer. The Ozone Institute, located in Miami, maintains a nation-wide network of physicians who treat cancer and other diseases with oxymedicine. The institute is headed by Lucas Boeve, a former US Army major who has an engineering degree from West Point and an MBA from Adelphi University. Two other organizations that promote ozone therapy are the International Ozone Association and the Medical Society for Ozone Therapy. These single oxygen atoms, according to oxygen therapy advocates, provide oxygen that the body uses both to prevent diseases from starting and to fight diseases already present in the body.