Use of Ozone Therapy in Anxiety Depressive Disorder

Abstract

Introduction: The biological actions of ozone therapy support a set of therapeutic properties as an effect on oxygenation and regeneration processes, stimulate the antioxidant defense systems of the body, and modulate the immune system and the biological response, so they act on the nervous system.

Objective: Describe the use of ozone therapy in anxiety depressive disorder.

Methods: A documentary review type research was carried out, with a qualitative paradigm and an exploratory investigative level. The bibliographic database PubMed/Medline was consulted to identify the documents that would be reviewed. The search strategy was mainly based on the use of keywords in Spanish in the Health Sciences descriptors.

Result: The systemic effects of ozone therapy, as well as most of the local effects on tissues, must be achieved through the products of the main reactions on metabolism, that is, through the ozone metabolites, which are the products of ozone reactions and/or the decomposition of ozonides under physiological conditions. Such metabolites come from chain breaks in unsaturated fatty acids.

Conclusions: Many research address the role of ozone therapy and its relationship with dissimilar diseases due to its restorative effect on the health-disease process. The use of this treatment in mental illnesses can have a wide range of recovery in mental health; its rectal use improves oxidative stress of the intestinal microbiota, and influences all aspects of physiology, including brain function and behavior.