The History of Magnet Therapy

Magnet therapy is both an ancient practice and a frontier science. What is now being investigated by our scientists and physicians was first put into practice at least four thousand years ago.
Historical records track the use of magnets for healing our bodies’ ills back to around 2000 B.C. It was then that the oldest known medical treatise. The Yellow Emperor’s Book of Internal Medicine was penned. In what would become the bible of traditional Chinese medicine, Houang-Ti laid out approaches to treating internal body imbalances by introducing external energy.
One such way of doing so was the insertion of needles in energetically charged points—a practice was know as acupuncture. Another therapeutic way of influencing these points and their associated energy channels (meridians) was through the application of lodestones. One ancient text describes how to treat deafness magnetically by simultaneously placing a mixture of herbs in the patient’s ear and a piece of iron in the patient’s mouth. A contemporary Chinese veterinary medicine text indicates that magnets were traditionally used to treat horses as well as people.
It is believed that the Vedas, the religious scriptures of the Hindus, came into being around the same time as the Yellow Emperor’s treatise. The Vedas’ extensive teachings included descriptions of treatments for a wide variety of ailments using ashmana or siktavati—instruments of stone that many suspect were lodestones.
Interestingly, both traditional Chinese and Indian medicine (Ayureda) are based on the concept of health’s being dependent on the unimpeded flow of life force. The Chinese call it chi or qi, while the Indians call it prana. Both systems also speak of channels connected with energy distribution. In Chinese medicine, these are the meridians, while the Indian esoteric literature speaks of nadis.
The ancient Egyptians viewed all forms of illness as imbalances between the patient and the cosmos. Like the Chinese and Indians, the Egyptians believed that physical disease was a result of energetic imbalance. Gemstones were a very important part of their culture, and many believe that knowledge of the unique healing properties of these various minerals and crystals originated with the Egyptians healer priests. As noted, it is widely claimed that Cleopatra wore a lodestone on her forehead to maintain her youthfulness and beauty. Temple and tomb paintings are replete with images of Egyptians communicating and healing (electromagnetically) through their hands.
When we look at the seventh century B.C., we find Thales of Miletus, a Greek mathematician and philosopher who preceded Hippocrates (The Father of Medicine) by a couple of hundred years, connecting lodestones with some type of animated spirit. Some feel that Hippocrates fifth-century B.C. writings indicate that he used magnets to assist the body in its self healing process. And Aristotle is reputed to have spoken of the therapeutic properties of magnets.

The products that we sell at Magnet Emporium stem from the original theories of 15 century B.C., magnetic jewelry, magnetic bracelets, magnetic bangles, magnetic necklaces, magnetic earrings, magnetic rings and magnetic watches, magnetic mattress pads, magnetic beauty products, magnetic dog collars, magnetic plasters, magnetic massage products, magnetic carpal tunnel syndrome products, magnetic back wraps, magnetic knee wraps and magnetic elbow wraps. All type magnetic supports. The Chinese, Egyptians, and Greeks enabled us today to have these magnetic therapy products.