How to Evaluate Ozonetherapy?

Abstract

RCTs are indispensable to prove or disprove the validity of ozonetherapy. Yet, because ozonetherapy is mostly in the hands of private physicians, very few studies have been done. There are several problems and the first is that a complementary treatment is always associated with opposite trends: most of the OPPONENTS are physicians practising orthodox medicine who are skeptical despite knowing nothing about ozone. This is the worst situation and I believe Einstein used to say that “it is easier to split the atom than to remove a skeptic principle”. On the other hand, some physicians, quite correctly, are against charlatans, who entice desperate patients to do ozonetherapy regardless of the physical, emotional and financial expense it may entail.