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In
1903 Dr. Neils Ryber Finsen was awarded a Nobel Prize in the Physiology
of Medicine for successfully treating people suffering from lupus and
various skin conditions using UV light exposure to the blood. From then
on, research was conducted and it showed that UV light exposure in the
blood was also effective in treating systemic infectious diseases that
were once deadly. This therapy was a main conventional practice in
hospitals in the United States and Europe until the 1940s, when
pharmaceutical vaccines, antibiotics, and corticosteroids became the
standard of care.
However
ultraviolet blood irradiation therapy (UVBI) was still used by many
researchers and doctors to treat infections and other immune dysfunction
diseases. Since then new technology in the treatment has created a
development of protocols that now treat autoimmune disorders,
cardiovascular disease, fatigue, depression, and much more.
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