Ultraviolet Irradiation of Blood: "The Cure That Time Forgot"?
Our Ozone-UBI IVs consist of withdrawing 200-300 mL of blood using an infusion pump into a large sterile bag. As the blood travels to the bag for ozonation, it travels through a specialized glass tube with turbinates for maximal blood exposure to UVA, UVB and UVC rays inside a light box made specifically for this purpose. The entire procedure takes about an hour.
4 Hamblin MR. Ultraviolet Irradiation of Blood: "The Cure That Time Forgot"? Adv Exp Med Biol. 2017;996:295-309. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-56017-5_25. PMID: 29124710; PMCID: PMC6122858.
Ozone benefits and mechanism of action are discussed at length on our 10-pass Ozone IV page. The UBI offers unique benefits which have fallen out of favor with the advent of antibiotic and other drugs in the early and mid 1900’s.
Ultraviolet blood irradiation (UBI) was extensively used in hospitals in the 1940s and 1950s to treat many diseases including septicemia, pneumonia, tuberculosis, arthritis, asthma and even poliomyelitis. (Dr. Barter has seen one of these UBI devices with her own eyes!) However with the development of antibiotics, UBI use declined and it has now been called "the cure that time forgot".
Microorganisms, whether bacterial, viral, protozoal or fungal have no resistance to UV irradiation. This includes Multi-Drug Resistant organisms, which are an increasing challenge in modern medicine. Low doses of UV kill microorganisms by damaging the DNA. Human cells can rapidly repair DNA damage by DNA repair enzymes, but microbes have no such repair enzymes. Interestingly, the use of UBI to treat septicemia (sepsis, or fulminant systemic infection) cannot be solely due to UV-mediated killing of bacteria in the blood-stream, as only 5-7% of blood volume needs to be treated with UV to produce significant benefit and resolution of symptoms. UBI may enhance the phagocytic capacity of various phagocytic cells (White Blood Cells such as neutrophils, macrophages and dendritic cells), inhibit lymphocytes, and oxidize blood lipids. The oxidative nature of UBI appears to have mechanisms in common with ozone therapy and other oxygen therapies. UBI tends to stimulate the immune system.
