Ozonum

by Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica

Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.

Ozone, Nascent oxygen.

Authorities.

1 , Dewar and McKendrick's Nature, 9, p. 104, experiments on themselves by breathing ozonized air for eight minutes, when they were obliged to desist; 2 , Hearder, Nature, 9, 182, effects of ozonized air; 3 , Dr. J. T. O'Connor, MSS., effects of inhaling Ozone.

EYE, NOSE AND THROAT

Tingling of the conjunctiva and skin of face, 1.
Sneezing, with the cough, 1.
Irritation of the fauces and glottis, 1.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS AND CHEST

The experiment was followed by violent irritating cough and sneezing, and for five or six hours thereafter by a sensation of rawness in the throat and air-passages, 1.
A considerable amount of irritation over the respiratory tract, very similar to that experienced when recovering from an attack of influenza, and I found that I could often produce the same irritation by removing the prime conductor from the cylinder of an electrical machine, and holding my face in such a position as to breathe the copious ramifications of electricity that were thrown off from it, 2.
A suffocating feeling in the chest; a tendency to breathe slowly, 1.

BACK AND EXTREMITIES

Pain excessive in whole sacral region, apparently in the articulations especially a sensation of tiredness all through the pelvic viscera, even in the perineum, 3.
The thighs and legs feel as if overworked; excessively fatigued, 3.

SKIN

A tingling of the skin of the face and conjunctivæ, 1.