AQUAZONE (OXYGEN WATER)
Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry
Aquazone is stated by the Aquazone Laboratories, Inc., Los Angeles, California, to be a supersaturated solution of oxygen in water, carrying approximately five and one-half times as much dissolved oxygen as ordinary water. In an advertising booklet, it is suggested that Aquazone is of value in the treatment of influenza, pneumonia, typhoid, Bright’s disease and kindred disorders. It was also stated therein that in the treatment of fevers it lowers the temperature, and that the administration of three bottles of Aquazone (representing 0.033 gm.—11⁄2 grain—of oxygen) is of value for “preventive and tonic purposes.”
The evidence which the Aquazone Laboratories submitted did not show that the effects were other than those which might be obtained from the administration of ordinary potable water. The Council declared Aquazone inadmissible to New and Nonofficial Remedies, because the therapeutic claims made for it were unwarranted, and because its use is irrational for the reason that oxygen given by stomach in this way is of little or no value.—(Abstracted from Reports of Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry, 1920, p. 50.)