Hospitals Using AT

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Howdy Marge,

 

> fwiw, Butch, I know of close to a dozen hospitals and hospices that either

 

> already have or are in process of setting up aromatherapy programs. It's

> the most exciting part of what we do...helping them get organized and

going.

 

Use of natural products in medicine in some Emerging Market countries has

been common for many years. I was providing Oregano Hydrosol and some other

products to Gulhane Military Hospital in Ankara (Turkish version of Walter

Reed) back in the early 1990s .. and the Besleme Uzmani (Chief

Dietician/Nutritionist) at that hospital had also instituted a program using

herbs and such in the diets of certain patients. But

alternative-complementary treatment in Turkey was standard in the rural

areas and many of the leaders in education and medicine were born in those

areas .. plus the system paid a lot of attention to the credible studies

conducted by the Medicinal and Aromatic Plant and Drug Research Center at

Anadolu University. Turkey has their versions of FDA and AMA and such but

these agencies were not out to disprove .. rather .. they promoted further

investigation.

 

For sure it is catching on now in the U.S.A. .. and I believe that we will

see even more medical personnel involved in alternative-complementary

treatments using natural products. This gives me some hope for the future

of Aromatherapy because these folks are professionals and are likely to

ensure safe and effective treatment practices. The biggest threat to the

AT industry is the con artists, the MLMs and those who have just enough

" rumor " training to be dangerous .. the biggest danger to the hospitals is

the bureaucratic structure itself .. and the American legal system.

 

As for hospices .. we've have a few customers in that area for 5-6 years or

so. I would guess that a few hospitals also have included natural products

long ago but I was not aware of it. Except for one .. my experience with

American hospitals is but a couple or three years .. we have customers

in four now and I expect there will be more trying it out in time .. its the

nurses who are making it happen. The one exception I mentioned was kicked

off maybe 6 or 7 years back ? by Paula Warren. I am not be surprised that

it is the nurses who are pushing change in the hospitals because they are

generally (with some exceptions) the only professionals working there who

operate down where the rubber meets the road .. and who have the desire to

think outside the box. ;--)

 

Y'all keep smiling. :-)

 

Butch http://www.AV-AT.com <http://www.av-at.com/>