High shear application in medical therapy

A method comprising:

• mixing one of a therapeutic gas, a therapeutic liquid, or a combination thereof, and a liquid carrier in a high shear device to produce a dispersion;
• and
• administering the produced dispersion intravenously to a patient;
• wherein the produced dispersion contains nanobubbles of said therapeutic gas or droplets of said therapeutic liquid with a mean diameter of less than about 1.5 μm;
• wherein said therapeutic gas is selected from the group consisting of ozone, sulfur based gases, carbon monoxide, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, an anesthetic gas, a noble gas, and mixtures thereof;
• and
• wherein said therapeutic liquid is selected from the group consisting of sulfur, a sulfate, an organo metallic, an antibiotic, a steroid, a vitamin, an organosulfur compound, allyl propyl disulfide, diallyl disulfide (DADS or 4,5-dithia-1,7-octadiene), allyl trisulfide (DATS), S-Allyl cysteine (SAC), a vinyldithiine, a sulfonyl compound, an antioxidant, a lipid, a chelating agent, and combinations thereof.