According to recent reports, hospitals, like the one in Vanderbilt, Tennessee are using therapeutic grade essential oils in their emergency room to boost productivity and health. Over 50 hospitals nationwide are using oils for increased healing benefits such as germ-fighting and the well-known mood-lifting properties of these amazing natural tools. Fox news originally reported on the phenomenon that is spreading across the country- as word gets out that essential oils can not only improve the smell of hospitals, relieving patients of that ‘bad smell association’, but also raise the morale of workers and ward off infections.
Essential oils are powerfully concentrated plant essences distilled from the flowers, leaves and bark of plants. In the case of lemon oil, it takes 150 lemon rinds to create one single ounce of essential oil. The distilled essence of most plants have been shown to carry anti-microbial, antiviral and antibiotic properties as well as smelling amazing and elevating mood.
In Vanderbilt Hospital they monitored the results from running several essential oil diffusers throughout the emergency room area with astonishing findings. Before the essential oils, 41% of E.R. workers reported stress on the job, after the essential oils -numbers dropped to just 3%. Over 60% were frustrated on the job prior to diffusing the oils and afterward only 6% reported job frustration.
Here is the Fox news report video feed on Vanderbilt Hospital:
Essential oils are also being used at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York city for the relaxation and pain relief benefits assisting cancer patients. The properties of essential oils are being recognized more and more as antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria are challenging health providers. According to Annie Wong-Beringer, Pharm.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy at the USC School of Pharmacy, “Inappropriate antibiotic use may kill beneficial bacteria, opening the door for harmful bacteria to establish themselves in their place. It also may toughen up some bacteria by encouraging them to mutate and develop drug resistance.” Where essential oils can actually reduce germs and are not ‘recognizable’ by bacteria due to their complex nature.
The following hospitals nationwide are now using essential oils to boost productivity and increase health and healing:
Alegent Health Bergan Mercy Medical Center, Omaha, NE
Aurora Healthcare System, Foxpoint WI
Banner Health, Mesa AZ
Benedictine Hosptial, NY
Beth Israel Complementary Care Center, NY, NY
Children’s Healthcare, Roseville, MN
The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, NY NY
Elk Regional Health Hospital, PA
Fairbanks Memorial Hospital, AK
Florida Hospital Medical Center, Orlando, FL
Goshen General Hospital, Goshen, IN
Heather Hill Hospital, Chardon, OH
Ingham Regional Medical Center, Landing, MI
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Oakland, CA
Manilaq Hospital, Kotzebue, AK
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY, NY
Mercy Holistic Health, Cincinnati, OH
Pinnacle Health, Harrisburg, PA
St. Barnabas Healthcare System, Toms River, NJ
St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford, CT
St. John’s Riverside Medical Center, Yonkers, NY
St. Luke’s Medical Center, New Bedford, MA
Sentara Healthcare, Wilmington, DE
The Valley Hospital, Ridgewood, NJ
University of Michigan Hosptial, MI
Wishard Memorial Hospital, Indianapolis, IN
Essential oils are well documented for their powerful anti-microbials effect against infections like MRSA, VRE, Hepatitis, and many more. Not only do they smell good, removing that unfriendly ‘hospital odor’ that seems to turn everyone off, but they are healing and stress reducing as well. Both patients and workers alike are welcoming the use of essential oils in hospitals everywhere in order to boost morale and productivity as well as speed healing and prevent the spread of disease. After experiencing oils in the hospital environment, many workers and patients decide to take the idea home and start using essential oils for personal use. However you approach it, essential oils are big news for everybody’s nose and immune system.
Written by: Stasia Bliss
Sources: Fox News 17
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This article is about dõTERRA essential oils, it is the only oils that is used in these hospitals. Jot all oils are created equal!
@Wendy Selvig …I have looked on the Young Living Web-site and I don’t see that they test for heavy metals. Would you kindly share the link with me that shows their testing protocols, especially heavy metal testing please? Thank you!
dōTerra Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils have saved my life! I’ve had chronic pain for 2/12 AFTER my triple laminectomy, with no pain meds! I have been opiate free for 2 years, and I have Mother Nature and God to thank for it all.(Frankincense and Marjoram, plus more).
No such thing as certified pure therapeutic essential oils. That’s a marketing tactic.
Just because they made it up to describe their purity, doesn’t mean it isn’t valid. The fact is, they are the only company third-party testing every single batch of oils and sharing that information publicly. Johns Hopkins is using doTERRA for various studies, because it is the only oil with dependable, repeatable quality. If there is no standardized measure of describing quality and no one is holding these companies to the accuracy of their claims, I don’t blame doTERRA for creating their own and vigorously and publicly testing their product for purity.
I totally agree with you. Purer than any other at this point not.
you are sadly misinformed
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I am a certified aromatherapist… and have researched many companies. Unfortunately, most essential oil companies have to buy their oils from vendors who originate from the perfume industry. That is all fine until you know that the perfume industry distilleries were not designed for a person’s health or for their oils to be taken internally. They often are made of aluminum or metals that leach into the oil – again, for perfume, not a huge deal. For aromatherapy… big deal. I know it is a MLM, but 95% of the people in the company only buy for themselves and it’s a pretty no-pressure MLM… I only recommend Young Living oils because their vats are made from surgical stainless steel, all the plants are more than organic, and each batch of oil is put through a battery of 11 tests to guarantee purity and that the right constituents are in the oil for therapeutic value.
Good to know. I went to young livings web page and I don’t see any testing for heavy metals. Would you kindly post that for me please? Thank you!!!
Young Living does 15-20 different chemical analyses on every oil, 3 times before bottling and 3 times after bottling. They went over every test which find synthetics, heavy metals, other impurities, GCMS peaks in the right amounts, etc. They just rejected 7000 kilos of Peppermint because it tested positive for mercury. Scary thing is another company bought it.
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How the hell did U of M Hospital make the list? They almost killed my mother with their malpractice (esophageal perforation that was blatantly ignored) and use of antibiotics that caused heart issues ( long QT syndrome, 55% drop in heart function, 40 lb weight gain from bags of sodium chloride, hypernutremia when they diureesed her to quickly) plus the FIVE ANTIBIOTICS NEVER WORKED and her white count still rose to 39,000 in 10days! When she had less than a 50 % chance of survival I was allowed to administer my blend of VRE,strep, and MRSA killing essential oils – tea tree/ lavender/frankincense/bergamot, and pneumonia busting fir balsam/eucalyptus and it dropped her WBC to 8,000 in less than 10 days! She was there for 76 days and even after all those antibiotics she never got Cdiff because of the essential oils.
But, i would not say I was encouraged to use the oils. I got pressure from the nursing staff because the oils “smelled up the hallways”. I ignored them because they were saving my mother’s life and reducing the edema around her heart.
U of M SHOULD have trained aromatherapists on staff but they are still in the dark ages!
Thanks for a great article on essential oils. I believe they are just beginning to be accepted in the main stream for the true benefits they offer. The olfactory sense is a very powerful sense controlled by the brain. Just relate how the smell of good food makes us want to eat, or the memories it triggers when you smell something familiar. Many essential oils, when blended together can offer other beneficial properties as well other than “feel good” but can actually provide some therapeutic results. I came across a small company called Elanveda that actually does some great blends for just this.
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