Magnet therapy, that is supposed to have a market of  $5-billion worldwide, is one of the aspects of alternative medicine therapy. The therapy claims that magnetic fields have a lot of healing powers. Magnet therapy helps in stimulating the earth’s magnetic field. It allows your body to be in an optimum environment that will allow it to to heal in itself.

The concept of magnet therapy was enhanced when a group of University of Virginia researchers, who were involved in the investigation of effects of magnetic therapy on microcirculation, came to a conclusion that magnets are really helpful in reducing swelling when applied immediately after any kind of inflammatory injury.
A lot of tests were conducted on rates. Those tests revealed that magnets dilated constricted blood vessels, and constricted vessels that were dilated.
This whole research suggested that magnetic fields are useful in relaxing relax blood vessels as well as help in increasing blood flow.

Other researches:

• The Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, a lot of researches were conducted at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. It was found that the magnet therapy is very effective in reducing and sometimes blocking the pain that is caused by post-polio syndrome.

• Researchers that were involved in a lot of studies at the Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston were of the view that the therapy is helpful in reducing the muscle pain that is caused by Fibromyalgia

• The New Your Medical College of Valhalla
study report stated that the magnet therapy is responsible for providing relief from numbness, tingling and pain that are linked with diabetes-related problems.

In Western countries, these magnetic fields are used in the process of magnetic resonance imaging, i.e., MRI. According to other theories, magnet helps in improving the circulation of blood, enhance the level of oxygen in the blood and decrease the deposits of toxic elements in blood vessel walls. But is a fact that none of these facts and theories are assessed by scientific research. But one more fact is that these things can be true also.

The therapy is also very useful in treating patients who suffer from orthopedic problems like cervical and lumbar spondilytis, slipped disc, frequent pain in the lower- back, pain in knee, sciatica, paralysis, polio and stiffness.

It is a fact that the north pole of a magnet, helps in killing the germs and helps in immobilizing malignant bacteria. The north pole is also effective for boils, eczema and skin rash. The south pole deals in reducing the  pain swelling as the ability to generate heat and energy.

Instant Pain Killers

• the therapy is very useful in curing sciatica, osteo-arthritis, and rheumatiod arthritis

• the therapy can work wonders in the cases of endocrinopathies

• the therapy is very useful as well as vital in enhancing memory, intelligence, concentration and understanding power.

• the therapy is useful in diseases like Leucoderma, Seborrhoea, Psoriasis, graying of hair, hair-falling etc.

• the therapy is useful in reducing obesity.