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Aromatherapy

Now available and free to patients at Calumet Medical Center, Mercy Medical Center and St. Elizabeth Hospital.

Discover the benefits of aromatherapy!

Improve your physical and emotional well-being by unlocking the therapeutic power of essential oils.  Aromatherapy is available and free to our hospital patients.  Please see your nursing staff for details.

Potential benefits of aromatherapy include:

  • relieve stress
  • ease pain
  • promote relaxation.

What is aromatherapy?

Aromatherapy is the use of essential oils from plants for healing purposes. Essential oils have a wide variety of uses and are extracted from various parts of the plant such as: flowers, leaves, bark, wood, roots, seeds and peels. Affinity Health System uses only 100 percent pure therapeutic grade essential oils.

Note:  Aromatherapy may not be appropriate for everyone.  Talk to your nurse to find out if aromatherapy is right for you.