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AroMed Vaporizer 4.0 FAQ's
How long does it take until I can use the AroMed
when switched on?
With its unique heating system, the AroMed takes
two minutes to heat up. Other hot air vaporizers
need from eight to eighteen minutes to reach vaporizing
temperature.
What kind of substances can be used and vaporized
in the AroMed Vaporizer 4.0?
The AroMed vaporizer extracts aromatic and/or therapeutic
ingredients of herbal materials. Even chemicals, to
some extent, become inhalable.
research&experience work together with experts
since more than seven years to field test plants
of use. The manual to the AroMed vaporizer describes
more than forty different phyto-pharmaceutical herbs
which can be used.
In Germany, research&experience has edited
the first ever standard publication about vaporizing
herbs (“Phyto-Inhalation”, ISBN 3-922708-36-6)
How about the use of liquids with the AroMed
Vaporizer 4.0?
We have developed a special glass foam pellet that
can take 1 ml of fluids. Liquids of Traditional Chinese
Medicine as well as other potions, including Marinol™
and Dronabinol can be inhaled using FoamPellets.
How exact is the temperature setting of the
AroMed Vaporizer 4.0?
Vaporizing temperatures in the AroMed can be selected
in 1°C/2°F steps from 60°C/152°F to
235°C/455°F. Inhalation of about any active
agent, from essential oils to components boiling at
high temperatures is possible.
Like in all other vaporizers, the hot air temperature
is measured where originated, but only the AroMed
has a built in processor, that calculates exact
temperatures inside the herbal materials.
A comparison: Another vaporizer is temperature
controlled by an electric iron thermostat with a
measuring tolerance of +/- 15°C/59°F. Fluctuation
ranges of 30°C/86°F are most likely. It
has a knob to choose temperatures between 1 and
9.
Why does only the AroMed Vaporizer 4.0 produce
its hot air flow with an electric halogen bulb?
The editor of our book “Phyto-Inhalation” uses to
say: “The eye likes to inhale as well..” The light
just looks nice. But really:
We have good reasons to heat our system with a
halogen bulb: it is ultraviolet-free and provides
heat without setting free any dangerous gases. Other
devices are built of materials which gas out medically
unwanted substances, e.g. the brass holder of a
glass bowl vaporizer.
In case of another vaporizer, the heating element
is constructed of aluminium. Well known is the “aluminosis
syndrome”, a lung disease common with aluminium
smelting personal. Another vaporizer has a strange
plastic smell while heating up.
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Different from other vaporizers, the AroMed Vaporizer 4.0
has a water filter. How about condensation of active ingredients
in the water?
Some active ingredients condensate in every vaporizer’s system,
meaning they are deposited on the vaporizer’s surfaces rather
than in the user’s lungs.
We feel that water filtration is necessary, especially when very
fine grinded material is used. Fine dusts are inhaled and lead
to irritations of the user’s bronchial system. If firm and compact
materials are used, the filter can be used without water.
The same if oily or watery solutions are vaporized.
A comparison : When vaporized with the AroMed, the active ingredients
are led through a narrow hose and through the water filter with
high speed. Only during the inhalation process ingredients evaporate,
because no fan is involved like in other vaporizers.
Therefore up to nothing condensates in the hose, and only 2-3%
in the water filter. The total surface of the AroMed’s system
is an estimated 150 square centimetres.
Other vaporizers use Glass bowls or plastic balloons which are
first filled with vapour. The vapour stays inside the system and
is inhaled frequently, until the system is emptied by inhaling
the vapour.
With this method, the vapour has contact with the systems surface
for a much longer period. On the surface of the glass bowl or
the plastic balloon the vapour is cooled down to temperatures
that make it condensate on the balloon’s surface. The total surface
of those systems is up to an estimated 750 square centimetres.
Just calculate: other vaporizers have a condensation loss 3-4
times higher than the AroMed Vaporizer 4.0.
Why is there no fan included in the AroMed Vaporizer 4.0?
With the AroMed, in breathing pauses no ingredients are vaporized,
as with all the fan models. The user can dose the inhaled substances
to his liking. No fan induced hot air flow forces the user to
inhale constantly. In pauses the AroMed does not have to be switched
of or “standby”, no waist will occur as with fan driven models.
Is the AroMed Vaporizer 4.0 classified as a medical device?
Not yet, until our field research has not ended. A scientific
conclusion (double blind tests are to be repeated, but till now
medications seem to be very successful when used against symptoms
of bronchial diseases) will be published.
Still, in Europe some six medical insurance companies have, after
thorough single evaluations, decided to refund the AroMed 100%
when bought.
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