Emu Oil is This Physician's Choice
by Beth Silva
Hundreds of patients who have visited Dr. Dan Dean
of Dan C. Dean D.O. & Associates in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan
are receiving relief from various ailments, thanks in part
to treatments with emu oil. A commodity acknowledged for centuries
for its medicinal purposes, emu oil is just beginning to be
touted and recognized by some in the medical field in this
country.
Typical of the medical practitioner, Dean was at first
some what skeptical about the reputed medicinal and cosmetic
benefits of emu oil. The doctor remarks that his initial research
in earnest on the oil happened on a trip to Australia several
years ago. But the physician, also an avid Thoroughbred enthusiast,
was won over only after emu oil was used to save one of his
top racers, The Rebalizer. Dean explains that the horse picked
up the Salmonella infection, was treated at the Michigan State
University, but developed an allergic reaction to all the
IV steroids, antibiotics, etc., it received and subsequently
lost all it's hair and much of its stamina.
Knowing that emu oil had a reputation to stimulate
skin and hair growth, the doctor decided to give it a try
on his favored horse. Ultra sensitive to touch, The Rebalizer
had to be stilled for the first few applications of pure emu
oil to his bare hide. But Dean says that after twice-a-day
applications for three days, the animal welcomed the employment
of the oil. Shortly after the treatments began, his horse's
health and hair returned! Dean says that after researching
the oil further, he began using it on himself, his family
and then patients, with incredible results.
Now, two years later, hundreds of the doctors patients
(as well as some patients of other physicians sent to Dean)
are realizing benefit from emu oil. On a typical day, the
doctor uses the oil on individuals suffering from burns, abrasions,
sore joints, eczema, arthritis, colitis, psoriasis, and as
a wound application immediately following surgery.
"It's all voluntary," says Dean. "I
explain to the patients what the oil is and what I'll be doing.
I've had exceptional results with the oil and we haven't had
one patient complain. Actually, many people come in and ask
for it. When surgery patients leave they are given a small
container of the pure oil to be applied to their wound three
times a day to speed up the healing process. In the office
we use the pure emu oil directly on open burns, abrasions
and ulcerations. We only use pure emu oil with no added ingredients.
It's an amazing substance."
The doctor utilizes the oil's moisturizing properties
by compounding an emu oil nasal spray and cough syrup formula
for some of his patients. "When cold and flue season
starts, we'll use the oil on a minimum of 15 patients a day,"
he says.
When asked what impresses him most about the oil's
properties as a practicing physician, Dean replies, "the
thing that's most impressive about the oil is I can actually
see (view photos on page 2) the way it affects open wound
healing, which I'm very interested in."
The doctor is also presently researching wound healing
utilizing emu oil to learn more about the oil's properties
with Dr. Leigh Hopkins, a comrade who is a clinical professor
of pharmacy with a degree in biochemistry.
"We've got the cart before the horse," says
Dean. " We know the oil works, but we want to look deeper
into the microphysiology and biology of just why it
does work."
Actually, emu oil is being utilized and researched
quietly by a growing number of individuals in the medical
field including cancer centers interested in the oil's effects
on burns sustained by patients during radiation treatments.
Dean himself has a growing number of patients being referred
to him by other medical professionals. Of this he says, "Slowly
we're getting other physicians interested in the oil. It's
a little hard to convince doctors, but I don't push the emu
oil on them, I let them come to me. Now some are asking, What
are you using? and Why did so-and-so heal so fast?"
An 80-year-old diabetic patient with gangrene of the
toes and a serious heel ulceration was recently referred to
Dean. "The surgeon who sent the patient down said it
looked like they were going to have to amputate the foot,"
relates the doctor. " But I suggested that we first try
the emu oil. And by using the emu oil we were able to completely
heal the ulceration on the heel and there's no gangrene in
the toes - they're just as pink as can be. The surgeon's comment
was, 'It looks like emu oil turned this thing around. We're
not going to amputate.' We used only pure oil in the treatment
and it saved this gentlemen's foot!"
Patients of open heart surgery also receive emu oil
on their freshly stitched incision. Dean says that when they
return to their thoracic surgeon for a follow up with a well
healed sternum incision, the surgeons always comment on how
fast the incision healed.
Convalescents of a nearby extended care facility also
benefit from the medicinal advantage of emu oil. Dean says
that he is currently using the oil on individuals with pressure
sores. "We're using the oil when the sore is actually
a grade 1 - when we just see the inflammation of the skin.
And I think because of the oil's penetrability, we're able
to prevent the sores rather than having to cure them,"
he remarks.
Dean is helping to spread the interest in emu oil.
He delivered the slide presentation "Wound Management
With Emu Oil" at the 1998 Annual American Emu Association
Convention this July in San Antonio and relates that he was
recently approached by a drug company (that usually features
a discourse on one of their own products) to deliver a presentation
on emu oil to an all-doctor audience. He mentions that he
has also been petitioned by an Alternative Medicine group
out of Chicago to speak on emu oil.
To better serve individuals requesting the oil, Dean
recently began offering a line of several specially formulated
and pretested emu oil products for medicinal and cosmetic
applications called "The Dean's List." And this
May the doctor received a Humanitarian award for his continuing
work in the field of family practice, as well as a New Product
Award for his product line from the Award Committee for the
International Hall of Fame, sponsored by the Inventors Clubs
of America Inc.
Through Rishada Emu Inc., Dean currently has available
six products which he says contain a high percentage of emu
oil and include a hand lotion, skin moisturizer, skin tightener,
body cleanser, shampoo, and 100 percent pure emu oil. "I'm
real excited about all our products and people's response
to them is amazing," says the doctor, who has additional
emu oil product on line.
Dean says that he will continue to research the oil
and use it in his practice. "I wouldn't quit!" he
says.
Dan C. Dean attended Northern Oklahoma College,
Central State University and received his Doctorate of Osteopathy
at Missouri's Kirksville College of Osteopathy and Surgery.
De. Dean has been practicing medicine for the past 28 years
and currently conducts his practice in two clinics in Mt.
Pleasant, Michigan
Emu Today & Tomorrow * Oct. 1998
(reprinted with permission)
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