Armenia's underground salt clinic at centre of alternative medicine debate

Armenia’s unique salt mine asthma clinic faces closure as funds dry up

Armenia is home to a rare underground clinic beneath Yerevan, where asthma and allergy patients descend 235 metres into the Avan salt mine to breathe mineral‑rich air in a setting unlike any conventional hospital.

Armenia's underground salt clinic at centre of alternative medicine debate

A mining cage drops deep beneath the Armenian capital, carrying asthma patients in helmets down into a salt cave clinic -- an alternative treatment centre whose future is now at risk.

Armenia’s underground asthma clinic faces closure as universal healthcare sidelines speleotherapy

YEREVAN, April 2 — A mining cage drops deep beneath the Armenian capital, carrying asthma patients in helmets down into a salt cave clinic—an alternative treatment centre whose future is now at risk. State funding for the speleotherapy centre in the Avan salt mine was recently cut as the small Caucasus nation rolls out a new universal healthcare system that does not cover alternative medicine. The fate of the facility is a snapshot of a global d…

Speleotherapy: Armenia's underground salt clinic at centre of alternative medicine debate