Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that certain illnesses can be cured or prevented by applying the artificial magnetic field to meridian, acupuncture point and lesion location. Magnetic therapy was Chinese ancient medicine and can be backdated to 2000 years ago.
Related practitioner believes that biological magnetic field can be adjusted through the external artificial magnetic field and generate induced micro-current, thus cell membrane permeability and activity of the certain enzyme will be changed, finally achieve acesodyne and detumescence by accelerating circulation of blood and lymphatic. Related practitioner consider that magnetic therapy have below therapeutic effects:
- Analgesic effect. The analgesic effect is influenced by magnetic field strength.
- Sedative effect. Improve sleep quality and relieve muscle stress.
- Anti-inflammatory effect.
- Detumescence effect. Treat is as the most important effect of magnetic therapy.
- Hypotensive effect.
- Anti-diarrheal effect.
Many different kinds of magnetic therapy products have been derived based on above effects. According to the relevant statistical data, the annual sales volume of magnetic therapy products exceed 1 billion dollars.
