A portable halotherapy device includes a housing, a grinding chamber with a grinding blade that breaks apart dry granular salt into salt particles small enough for halotherapy, an air duct routing air to the chamber, a fluid conduit, and a high-speed exhaust fan. Ambient air flows through the air ducts into the grinding chamber to produce a first air current. Air is diverted from the first air current upward, in a second air current, through the fluid conduit and the fan. The first air current helps move dry granular salt around and against the grinding chamber, breaking it into small salt particles. The second air current is arranged relative to the first air current such that small salt particles, but not larger pieces, are carried as salt aerosol upward through the fluid conduit and fan for distribution to the environment, thereby facilitating a halotherapy session.

A portable halotherapy device includes a housing, a grinding chamber with a grinding blade that breaks apart dry granular salt into salt particles small enough for halotherapy, an air duct routing air to the chamber, a fluid conduit, and a high-speed exhaust fan. Ambient air flows through the air ducts into the grinding chamber to produce a first air current. Air is diverted from the first air current upward, in a second air current, through the fluid conduit and the fan. The first air current helps move dry granular salt around and against the grinding chamber, breaking it into small salt particles. The second air current is arranged relative to the first air current such that small salt particles, but not larger pieces, are carried as salt aerosol upward through the fluid conduit and fan for distribution to the environment, thereby facilitating a halotherapy session.

A portable halotherapy device includes a housing, a grinding chamber with a grinding blade that breaks apart dry granular salt into salt particles small enough for halotherapy, an air duct routing air to the chamber, a fluid conduit, and a high-speed exhaust fan. Ambient air flows through the air ducts into the grinding chamber to produce a first air current. Air is diverted from the first air current upward, in a second air current, through the fluid conduit and the fan. The first air current helps move dry granular salt around and against the grinding chamber, breaking it into small salt particles. The second air current is arranged relative to the first air current such that small salt particles, but not larger pieces, are carried as salt aerosol upward through the fluid conduit and fan for distribution to the environment, thereby facilitating a halotherapy session.

A portable halotherapy device includes a housing, a grinding chamber with a grinding blade that breaks apart dry granular salt into salt particles small enough for halotherapy, an air duct routing air to the chamber, a fluid conduit, and a high-speed exhaust fan. Ambient air flows through the air ducts into the grinding chamber to produce a first air current. Air is diverted from the first air current upward, in a second air current, through the fluid conduit and the fan. The first air current helps move dry granular salt around and against the grinding chamber, breaking it into small salt particles. The second air current is arranged relative to the first air current such that small salt particles, but not larger pieces, are carried as salt aerosol upward through the fluid conduit and fan for distribution to the environment, thereby facilitating a halotherapy session.

A system for operating an inhalation device including an inhalation device that has been configured to store at least one substance and dispense the substance in a predetermined manner, wherein the inhalation device is configured to gather usage information from the inhalation device and transmit the gathered usage information to a location remote from the inhalation device and to receive operational commands from a location remote from the inhalation device; a controller in communication with the inhalation device, wherein the controller is configured to receive usage information from the inhalation device and to transmit operational commands to the inhalation device; and a remote server in communication with the controller, wherein the remote server is configured to receive queries from the controller, and transmit information relevant to the queries back to the controller.

A system for operating an inhalation device including an inhalation device that has been configured to store at least one substance and dispense the substance in a predetermined manner, wherein the inhalation device is configured to gather usage information from the inhalation device and transmit the gathered usage information to a location remote from the inhalation device and to receive operational commands from a location remote from the inhalation device; a controller in communication with the inhalation device, wherein the controller is configured to receive usage information from the inhalation device and to transmit operational commands to the inhalation device; and a remote server in communication with the controller, wherein the remote server is configured to receive queries from the controller, and transmit information relevant to the queries back to the controller.

A micronization unit for a solid active agent, such as a salt, preferably table salt (NaCl), for inhalation, is described.

The micronization unit includes a closed rotary drum containing a solid active agent having a grain size, preferably 0.1-4 millimeters (mm). Wall surfaces of the micronization unit are made at least in part of a material having a filtering capacity of 0.1-1000 micrometers (m). The material preferably is a mesh-like or microperforated material. The rotary drum dispenses particles of reduced size as it rotates.

An indirectly heated capillary aerosol generator comprises a capillary tube adapted to form an aerosol when liquid material in the capillary tube is heated to volatilize at least some of the liquid material therein and a thermally conductive material in thermal contact with the capillary tube. The indirectly heated capillary aerosol generator provides substantially even and uniform heating across the heated length of the capillary tube.

A portable, hand-held electrospinning or electrospraying apparatus and system, method, and portions thereof, comprised of a durable portion of the hand-held apparatus and a consumable portion of the hand-held apparatus. The consumable portion of the hand-held apparatus, which may contain the solution to be output in electrospin or electrospray fashion, may be replaced in whole or in part to provide additional or alternative solution. A base station may be provided, and can output high voltage and communication signals to the hand-held apparatus to enable the electrospin or electrospray operation by the hand-held apparatus.

An apparatus that vaporizes a substance. The apparatus comprises a pod and a vaporizing device that removably connects to the pod. The pod includes a unique identification number and stores the substance to be vaporized and a carrier of the substance. The vaporizing device includes a memory that stores unique identification numbers and temperatures for each of the unique identification numbers, a reader that reads the unique identification number of the pod, and a controller that selects one of temperatures assigned to the unique identification number from the memory, and a heating element that heats the substance and the carrier to the one of the temperatures to vaporize the substance into a vapor for inhalation to a user.