Hi,

This evening my Dad made an ionic foot bath from stainless steel kitchen utensilies. He is very handyman so he did it all in 10 minutes. I placed the cutting board where the two metals were mounted in a plastic tub filled with enough warm water to cover my feet up to my ankles. I put 1 tsp of Sea Salt and turned the unit on. I immediately saw bubbling between the metals specially at one of the plates (My dad said it was the positive one). This is what happened:

--around 1 minute I felt some tingling in my toes
--around 5 minutes my feet was tingling but it was more than just tingling, I could feel a pressure.
--around 10 min, suddenly felt a jolt in my left calf and then I felt this rush of current go up my legs. Nothing uncomfortable, actually it was very interesting to feel all these sensations.
--around 15 minutes I could feel it in my ears and then my head. The sensation totally bypassed my middle body and jumped from my legs to my neck and ears. Then I felt this very slight pressure in my head for about 1 minute and then it calmed down.

Meanwhile the water went from yellow to orange, to have brownish flakes on the top. At 20th minute, the water was deep brown but I did not see any black sediments. at 25 minutes I see some frothing, but not much. Then at the 30 minutes, the froths got this hue of black around them as if someone has poured some black acrylic paint in the water.

I stopped at 30 minutes.

My mom's was very interesting. She suffers from bad circulation, at night she cannot sleep well because of restless legs,....so she places her feet in a clean tub. the color goes from yellow to orange to have some flakes but nothing else. but this was not the most interesting part. What amazed us was that her tingling sensation and pressure although started like mine, it was all concentrated in the feet. it never went pass the ankles. She then started getting uncomfortable saying that it was the same feeling she would get when she would come home from school after walking in snow, she would be all cold and when her mom would wash her legs with warm water she would feel like needles were going in. So I go and prepare her a cayenne tea with some honey and lemon. She starts sipping it, we are now at 25 minutes in and still the only place she feels the tingling and pressure is in her feet. She is not used to cayenne so her mouth is burning. Suddenly after she finishes her tea, we are now in 29th minute, she felt a rush of current o through her left calf. It was as if the circulation has come back. We stopped at 30 minutes because this was our first foot bath and we had no idea how it would affect our sleep later.

My Dad is a smoker, he is healthy but like all smokers his lungs are very bad. His again started like mine, the colors changed but again no black deposits. His tingling sensation was what we found interesting. His traveled fine from toes to feet to legs, then it moved to his right groin area where he gets sciatica pain sometimes. From there moved directly to his left arm. Never uncomfortable. He asked me if I felt it in my arms, I said no. His was now in the left arm but never went to his ears and head like it did with mine.

I do not know what happened here but for me more than the color of water, how it made us feel was what I found interesting.

My mom definitely has some circulation issues so I am going to see whether the tingling sensation moves up her legs next time by giving her some cayenne tea beforehand.

has anyone else felt this tingling sensation going through his body and be concentrated more in the individual's problem areas?

One interesting note, first it did not do much for me but after I came home, I felt much limber. I bend to pick up my daughter's toys and I just could bend over and pick up the toys without the need to even bending my knees. I also did not feel this heavy sensation like I had before - I forgot to mention that for the past 4 days I have had a very nasty cold and had to spend most of the last two days in bed, so my body felt heavy from laying down so much. But suddenly I was, I do not know, energized.

Well I guess I am energized since now it is 3:07am and I am still sitting here. :)

I will ask my parents how they slept last night since they do not sleep well and will report back.

Sorry for this long post but I wanted to give you an idea of how we all 3 reacted differently to this.

take care
Sami