In the article entitled “Inpatients' Preferences, Beliefs, and Stated Willingness to Pay for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Treatments,” Lori Montross-Thomas, PhD and coauthors from University of California, San Diego (UCSD), UCSD Moores Cancer Center, UCSD Center for Integrative Medicine, and True Wellness Acupuncture, San Diego, CA identify the complementary and alternative services a group of adult patients perceived to be the most helpful. The authors also report on which integrative services the patients would agree to pay for and how the patients believed the treatments would benefit them. SUMMARY  ·        While complementary, alternative, and integrative medicine treatments such as acupuncture and massage therapy...

Research demonstrates that clinical-grade inhalation therapy can decrease both anxiety and depression during hemodialysis treatment. Read the article in its entirety on Medium.com.

The latest essential oils global market report was recently released that foreshadows what could be potential shortages in many oils due to Chinese factory closures. The Chinese government has recently started to re-examine how factories are run in terms of worker safety and pollution concerns. At this time, the closures are affecting factories in and around Jiaxing Province in particular, which is an area of the country that processes many different kind of essential oils, leading to what may be less availability and/or increases in prices for affected oils. Please click the link below to read the Prinova report in its entirety: August Essential...

A recently released marketing report from Prinova contained some especially relevant points of interest for those in the essential oils space. For instance, they are seeing strong demand for essential oils/naturals in the wider market, with a special emphasis on transparency in terms of product origins and purity.  This trend appears to be driven by Millennials, who want to understand where things are from and how they are produced. For Aeroscena, these findings are especially relevant and serve as yet another confirmation that as consumers become more educated, they will demand to know everything they can about a product, especially as these...

Aeroscena® was founded 6 years ago with the purpose of exploring the science behind aromatherapy and legitimizing its use in the most demanding environments. Essential oils, for inhalation or otherwise, have been neglected by the traditional medical establishment and generally unregulated by the FDA. We hoped to prosper by applying clinical rigor to this promising class of new therapies, but the lack of regulatory guidelines gave us virtually no framework from which to work. So we did it ourselves.In collaboration with the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute, we have worked to create a set of standards for essential oils, with the...