Method and Device to Inactivate and Kill Cells and Organisms that are Undesirable

Abstract

A method, means, and apparatus to prevent and treat infections and disorders using germicidal light to inactivate and/or kill the organisms or cells that cause infections and other disorders. The method of treatment comprises irradiating the area to be treated using electromagnetic radiation of a germicidal nature. The method utilizes a previously unrecognized ability of germicidal light to penetrate the skin, nails, and other membranes sufficiently to successfully treat and prevent disorders. The electromagnetic radiation damages the organisms and cells that cause disorders such as skin and nail infections and renders them substantially incapable of reproducing. Without the ability to replicate the organism cannot continue to infest the skin and nails. The damage inflicted can also be sufficient to kill the organism outright. An infection is thereby prevented (if organisms are present, but infection has not yet begun), and the infection is cured if the infection already exists.

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         2 . A method of treating at cancer comprising applying a dose of electromagnetic radiation that has a substantial component in a wavelength less than 280 nm capable of directly altering the DNA or RNA of cancer cells and destroying the cancer cells by geneticide. 
     
     
         3 . A method of treating at least one of warts, boils and ringworm comprising applying a dose of electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength less than 280 nm capable of directly altering the DNA or RNA of the wart, boil or ringworm and destroying the wart, boil or ringworm cells by geneticide. 
     
     
         4 . A method of treating autoimmune disorders comprising applying to the epidermis of a patient a dose of electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength less than 280 nm capable of directly altering the DNA or RNA of epidermal cells, wherein the dose of electromagnetic radiation destroys scales in the epidermis by geneticide. 
     
     
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