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Why Sea Salt Body Scrub?
Beware of "Sea
salt" Labels
Salt Facts
What are tissue salts?
What do animals know
that we don't? Listen to nature
Salt in medicine
Salt Deficiency: the
cause of all serious diseases?
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Why Sea Salt Body Scrub?
Our bodies contain three internal oceans that closely resemble the ionic
balance of ocean water. Each one
of these complex solutions surrounds and circulates throughout our bodies:
1. Blood Plasma
2. Lymphatic Fluid
3. Extra cellular Fluid
Comparative analysis shows that these fluids are very similar to sea water
in their chemical composition.
Medical and biological facts indicate that humans need salt in order to
perform basic physiological
functions. Ocean salt contains all of the minerals our bodies require. These
minerals make salt a vital
necessity. In the salt environment of amniotic fluid the human embryo grows
over 3 billion times in weight.
From the moment of conception on, humans are never without the need for
salt!!
Sea salt is considered to be a strong alkalinizer and to provide renewed
energy. An acidic body condition is
believed to contribute to many sicknesses and alkaline foods are considered
powerful remedies for a variety of
ailments from hemorrhaging, server burns or deep emotional stress. In
conditions like these, our body’s
need for extra potassium was traditionally met by administering small doses
of an isotonic salt solution
made from natural sea salt dissolved in water. Salt, the universal
necessity, was appreciated as an effective
medicine, used alone as an energizer, detoxifying agent, or in conjunction
with healing plants. ( Mythologia
Aesopi, 1501)
External applications of natural sea salt can kill invading bacteria and
other potentially damaging
organisms. Salts have long been used to keep serious wounds from becoming
infected long before
modern medicine. Use Natural Sea Salt Body Scrub to kill bacteria and other
organisms
before they invade your body.
Precious Metals working together:
Proper electrolyte balance in the body is achieved by maintaining a
relatively high potassium content inside
the cell and a high sodium concentration in the fluid outside the cell (
extra fluid). Though potassium and
sodium are the two electrolytes found in the greatest concentration in the
human body, many other elements
are required for normal physiological function. Trace elements, found in
ocean water and in natural sea
salt, work to maintain proper function of the body’s systems. This unique
combination of nutrients plays an
important part in safeguarding good health. If any element is left out or
diminished, a link in an important
chain will be missing and the whole organism will suffer. These elements to
regulate optimum body
function by ensuring that our internal oceans are never shortchanges of
trace nutrients.
About the Mineral and Trace elements:
Although certain body processes are attributed to certain minerals, each
mineral needs one or more other
minerals to properly function. For instance, a proper calcium-phosphorus
balance is necessary to the the
body in that an imbalance reduces resistance to disease, increase fatigue,
weakens the intellectual faculties
and leads to premature aging. Magnesium can only be used if calcium and
phosphorus are in proper
balance. An overabundance of one mineral can result in a deficiency of
another. Obtaining minerals from
whole food sources provides the body with the wide variety of minerals it
need. Supplementing with one or
more minerals is rarely a good idea unless it is under the supervision of a
doctor or nutritional counselor.
Beware of "Sea salt" Labels
On the labels of many packaged food, in supermarkets as well as health food
stores the name "sea salt" appears often. Reading this, we feel safe and
reassured, thinking that when it comes to the salt part of the ingredients.
This supermarket or health food store "sea salt" has been totally refined.
At its origin, it may have come from the sea, but:
It has been harvested mechanically from dirt or concrete basins with
bulldozers and piped through metal conduits; put through many degrading
artificial processes; heated under extreme heat levels in order to crack its
molecular structure; robbed of all of its essential minerals that are
essential to our physiology; these elements are extracted and sold
separately to industry. Precious and highly prized by the salt refiners,
these bring more profits than the salt itself. Further adulterated by
chemical additives to make it free- flowing, bleached, and iodized. To call
what remains "sea salt" would be quite misleading. In addition, harmful
chemicals have been added to the processed, altered unnatural substance to
mask and cover up all of the impurities it has. These added chemicals
include free flowing agents, inorganic iodine, plus dextrose and bleaching
agents. Standard salt additives: Potassium-Iodide (added to the salt to
avoid Iodine deficiency disease of thyroid gland), Sugar (added to stabilize
Iodine and as anti-caking chemical), Aluminum silicate.
Real-unrefined-unheated-untreated-natural-sea-salt
Long before the earth knew pollutants of any kind, a huge, ancient sea
covered what is now North America. Pure, natural salt was the main
ingredient of this sea, and over millions of years, the water in the sea
evaporated, leaving the salt in undisturbed deposits. At some point during
the earth's Jurassic era, a range of volcanoes erupted around the ancient
sea bed, sealing the salt with thick volcanic ash, protecting these precious
deposits against the pollution that man would eventually introduce into the
environment. Near the small town of Redmond, in central Utah, approximately
200 miles south of Salt Lake City, they carefully extract this salt from
deep within the earth, and bring it to you in its pure, natural
state–without any additives, chemicals, or heat processing. This is Real
Salt, full of flavor and natural goodness–the way salt was meant to be
savored. The product of Utah is kosher certified and is endowed with more
than 50 natural minerals including iodine.
Salt Facts
Salt has become an inexpensive and readily available commodity that is taken
for granted by most people. But in older times, wars were fought over salt,
and huge taxes were also levied on it. In some places, salt was in such high
demand that it was minted into coins that were as valuable as gold and
functioned as the basic currency for ancient civilizations.
Where salt was scarce it was traded ounce for ounce with gold–for as the
Roman stateman Cassiodorus observed, "Some seek not gold, but there lives
not a man who does not need salt."
Because everyone, rich and poor, craves salt, rulers going back at least
as far as the Chinese emperor Yu in 2200 B.C. have tried mightily to control
and tax it. Salt taxes helped finance empires throughout Europe and Asia,
but also inspired a lively black market, smuggling rings, riots, even
revolutions.
Pure salt consists of the elements sodium and chlorine. Its chemical name
is sodium chloride and its formula is NaCl. Its mineral name is halite.
Table salt is a chemically simple combination of two components, sodium
and chlorine. The basic components of salt are, by themselves, potentially
dangerous. Sodium will ignite immediately if it comes into contact with
water, and chlorine is poisonous if ingested. In combination, though, the
two elements form sodium chloride, commonly known as salt. Salt is
essential. Each of us contain from four to eight ounces of salt. In the
body, salt is as important to humans as water or air. It helps maintain the
normal volume of blood in the body and also helps keep the correct balance
of water in and around the cells and tissues. Salt plays an important part
in the digestion of food and is essential in making the heart beat
correctly. It is also necessary for the formation and proper function of
nerve fibers, which carry impulses to and from the brain. Sodium, together
with calcium, magnesium and potassium, helps regulate the body's metabolism.
The sodium in salt is an essential nutrient. In combination with potassium,
it regulates the acid-alkaline balance in our blood and is also necessary
for proper muscle functioning. When we don't get enough sodium chloride, we
experience muscle cramps, dizziness, exhaustion and, in extreme cases,
convulsions and death. Salt is essential to our well being.
For years, many researchers have claimed that salt threatens public
health, mostly by contributing to high blood pressure. Recently, though,
other researchers have begun to change salt's reputation. A recent review of
salt studies conducted over the past two decades concluded that there's no
reason for doctors to recommend reducing sodium intake for people with
normal blood pressure. It may be that most of us are protected from
excessive salt by our kidneys, which regulate the body's sodium level and
eliminate any excess.
Salt cures aren't new. In the early 19th Century, sick people traveled to
rudimentary spas such as French Lick Springs in Indiana and Big Bone Lick,
Kentucky, to soak in salt springs. Today's more luxurious spas offer salt
baths, glows, rubs and polishes to exfoliate dead skin, stimulate
circulation and relieve stress.
All salts come from a sea, but are processed in different ways. The
oceans that once covered the earth left a generous supply of salt beds and
underground deposits.
There are two basic methods for removing salt from the ground:
room-and-pillar mining and solution mining. In room-and-pillar mining,
shafts are sunk into the ground, and miners break up the rock salt with
drills. The miners remove chunks of salt, creating huge rooms that are
separated by pillars of salt. The room-and-pillar method requires that about
half the salt be left behind as pillars. In solution mining, a well is
drilled into the ground, and two pipes are lowered into the hole. The pipes
consist of a small central pipe inside a larger pipe. The brine is either
shipped as a liquid or evaporated in special devices called vacuum pans to
form solid salt.
Crystaline salt deposits are found on every continent. Oceans contained
an estimated four-and-a-half million cubic miles of it.
Only about five percent of the world's annual salt production ends up as
seasoning at the dinner table. The vast majority, however, pours into
chemical plants, where it leads the five major raw materials utilized by
industry: salt, sulfur, limestone, coal and petroleum.
Salt pickles cucumbers, helps pack meat, can vegetables, cure leather,
make glass, bread, butter, cheese, rubber and wood pulp. Salt has some
14,000 uses, more than any other mineral.
Salt is essential. In humans, it is a basic component of taste, along
with sweet, sour and bitter.
What are tissue salts?
Tissue Salts, also called cell salts or biochemic salts, are composed of
minerals which occur naturally in our
bodies and all organic matter on earth, such as plants, rocks and soil.
Dr Scheussler, a prominent 19th Century German doctor, conducted research
which demonstrated that,
when reduced to ashes, each human cell contains 12 minerals or biochemic
tissue salts and that these
minerals should be present in all living cells in perfect balance to ensure
good health.
Imbalance, or a deficiency of any of the tissue salts, causes disease and
the body begins to develop
symptoms associated with the tissue salts that are lacking.
Restoring the correct balance of tissue salts in the body will therefore
remove the symptoms and restore
health and vitality.
This system of medicine is called Biochemistry and is still practiced today
by homeopaths and naturopaths
all over the world.
Since the 12 different tissue salts are present in all organic matter, our
bodies obtain tissue salts from the
food that we eat and the water that we drink.
A healthy diet should be able to provide all the tissue salts that our
bodies need. Unfortunately, due to
modern farming methods, the food that is available to us is often deficient
in the minerals and vitamins that
are essential for health - even if we follow a healthy diet.
Added to this is the fact that many people rely on fast food or pre-packed
processed meals due to time
constraints and a stressful lifestyle.
Over time, this can lead to symptoms of poor health or even disease. This
means that the majority of people
in Western countries are deficient in essential vitamins and other
nutritional substances, and need to take
supplements on a daily basis.
What do animals know that we don't? Listen to
nature
In her marvelous book,
Wild Health: How Animals Keep Themselves Well and What We Can Learn From
Them Cindy Engles, Ph.D. documents that for millennia, humans
have observed animals in the wild eating plants and minerals and applying
naturally occurring topical antitoxins from the same sources to combat
infectious wounds, parasites and internal disorders. Herds of elephants risk
injury and death in a perilous journey to hidden salt caves where they
supplement their sodium deficient diets. Monkeys rub poisonous
millipedes on their fur to repel biting, disease-carrying insects. Birds
line their nests with parasite-resistant herbs. Engel details a world where
nature is the pharmacy and every animal is its own practitioner.
Alert:
don't supplement your animal's diet with sodium chloride (common table
salt); all of the other beneficial elements have been removed. Animals need
unrefined, unprocessed real salt. Major producing
companies dry their salt in huge kilns with temperatures reaching 1200
degrees F, changing he salt's chemical structure, which in turn adversely
affects the human body. Avoid the common refined table salt.
Domesticated animals need the right kind of salt
One way to provide salt to your hors is to provide two
separate water bowls. One bowl with
real-unrefined-unheated-natural-sea-salt and one bowl without salt, so that
the animals can consume as much salt as they require. They will drink from
the bowl that contains salted water, however once they have had enough salt,
they will drink from the bowl that has plain water.
Salt in medicine
"There must be something sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the
ocean." (Khalil Gibran)
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Is human life without salt imaginable? Probably not. Salt symbolises life
itself . Basic physiological
functions depend on a balance between salts and liquids in the body. When
the balance is upset, disease
may occur.
Salt has been an essential, virtually omnipresent, part of medicine for
thousands of years. It has been used as
a remedy, a support treatment, and a preventive measure. It has been taken
internally or applied topically
and been administered in an exceedingly wide variety of forms.
We shall take a journey through the history of the use of salt in medicine
and discover that empirical
knowledge of the benefits - and sometimes drawbacks of salt - has been a
hallmark of many civilisations.
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When Lot's wife looked back to catch a last glimpse at the burning city of
Sodom, she turned into a pillar of
salt. Roman priests scattered salt where the city of Carthage once stood to
prevent any return of life. These
allegories contradict what we know about salt today. Dissolved common salt
(sodium chloride) isipresent in
all the human body and plays crucial physiological roles in life-sustaining
processes (a). Life cannot exist
without salt. But when did salt become associated with healing powers? And
what are its healing powers?
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
Our journey through the history of medicine will illustrate how the
properties of salt have been viewed with
time.
Salt in Egyptian medicine
Salt is mentioned as an essential ingredient in medical science in some of
the oldest medical scripts. The
ancient Egyptian papyrus Smith, which is thought to refer to the famous
master-builder and doctor Imhotep
of the third pre-Christian millennium, recommends salt for the treatment of
an infected chest wound. The
belief was that salt would dry out and disinfect the wound (b). The papyrus
Ebers (1600 B.C.) describes
many salt recipes especially for making laxatives and anti-infectives. They
were dispensed in either liquid,
suppository or ointment form. For instance, there was a suppository
containing honey, vegetable seeds and
ocean salt that was used as a laxative and one with incense, vegetable
seeds, fat, oil and ocean salt against
anal infections. Salt-based remedies were also prescribed for callous skin,
epidemic diseases, to check
bleeding, as an eye ointment, and to accelerate childbirth (a vaginal
suppository).
Salt in Greek medicine
Both sea salt and rock salt were well known to the ancient Greeks who noted
that eating salty food affected
basic body functions such as digestion and excretion (urine and stools).
This led to salt being used
medically. The healing methods of Hippocrates (460 BC) especially made
frequent use of salt. Salt-based
remedies were thought to have expectorant powers. A mixture of water, salt,
and vinegar was employed as
an emetic. Drinking a mixture of two-thirds cow's milk and one-third
salt-water, in the mornings, on an
empty stomach was recommended as a cure for diseases of the spleen. A
mixture of salt and honey was applied topically to clean bad
ulcers and salt-water was used externally against skin diseases and
freckles. Hippocrates also mentions
inhalation of steam from salt-water. We know today that the antiinflammatory
effects of inhaled salt provide
relief from respiratory symptoms (c). Thus, 2000 years ago, Greek medicine
had already discovered topical
use of salt for skin lesions, drinking salty or mineralized waters for
digestive troubles and inhaling salt for
respiratory diseases!
Roman salt-containing recipes
The Roman military doctor Dioskurides (100 A. D) is regarded as one of the
most important medical
authors of Antiquity. His work Materia Medica summarises the botanical and
pharmacological know-how
of his time. Dioskurides considered "honey-rain-ocean water" to be an
excellent emetic. Salty vinegar was
helpful against "binging and rotting callosities" and bites (dogs and
poisonous animals), to check bleeding
after surgery, as a gargle to kill leeches and to get rid of "scab and
crust". Salt added to wine and water was
a laxative.
Both sea and rock salt were used in remedies but rock salt was considered to
be the strongest. The salt was
generally mixed with other ingredients (e.g. vinegar, honey, fat, flour,
pitch, resin) and could be dispensed
in several forms (drink, suppository, clyster (enema), ointment, oil). The
main recommended indications
were skin diseases, dropsy, infections, callosities, ear-ache, mycosis,
digestive upsets, sciatica.
The inheritance of classical Antiquity
The Greek doctor Galen from Pergamon (129–200 A.D.), physician-in-ordinary
to the Roman emperor
Marcus Aurelius, summarised the medical concepts of antiquity and left his
mark on western medicine for
over 1000 years. His medical system also made use of salt (sea salt, rock
salt, salt foam) in recipes against
many diseases: infectious wounds, skin diseases, callosities, digestive
troubles. His list of salt-containing
remedies also included emetics and laxatives.
Salt in the Arab world
Eight hundred years later, the medical precepts of the well-known Arab
doctor and scientist Avicenna (Ibn
Sina, 980–1037 A.D.) laid the foundations of modern scientific medicine. His
recipes also used salt. He
emphasised the presence of iodine and iron in coastal sea salt. The Jewish
doctor Maimonides (1135–1204
A.D.), physician-in-ordinary to the caliph in Persia, wrote in his Dianetic
for soul and body that only bread
with enough salt was healthy food.
Salt in medicines of the Middle Ages
The School of Salerno (11th -13th Century A.D.) founded western European
academic medicine in the
Middle Ages. It is seen as the first European university to bring together
medical knowledge of Greek and
Arab origin and transcribe it in latin. Its writings reveal an awareness of
the use of a mixture of salt, oil and
vinegar as an emetic and of suppositories of salt and honey as an effective
remedy against constipation (see
Egyptian medicine above). Powdered and roasted salt was said to have a
pain-killing effect and rock salt
was considered to be a good remedy against fever.
The School published a book on The Art of Staying Healthy which was a
collection of sayings and poems
providing Crusaders with life regimens they could understand. It was in fact
one of the first popular medical
manuals for people versed in latin and for academically trained physicians.
The book explicitly
recommended salted bread and food. Salt not only made food tasty but drove
off toxins. However, it also
warned against too much salt: "Too salty food diminishes semen and eyesight
– salt burns, makes one
fretful, shabby, scabby and wrinkly."
Salt in Renaissance medicine
The doctor and alchemist Paracelsus (1493–1541 A.D.) introduced an entirely
new medical concept. He
believed that external factors create disease and conceived a chemically
oriented medical system which
contrasted with the prevalent herbal medicine. Only salted food could be
digested properly: "The human being must have salt,
he cannot be without salt. Where there is no salt, nothing will remain, but
everything will tend to rot." He
recommended salt water for the treatment of wounds and for use against
intestinal worms. A hip-bath in salt
water was a superb remedy for skin diseases and itching: "This brine - he
said - is better than all the health
spas arising out of nature." He described the diuretic effect of salt
consumption and prescribed salt
preparations of different strengths that were used for instance against
constipation.
Salt in 16th-19th century pharmacies
The pharmacies of the 16th century continued to relate the various uses of
salt to its external aspect (rock
salt, sea salt, refined salt and roasted salt). Respect for salt was as deep
as prices were high. Until the 18th
century, the preferred and most common pharmacy salt was rock salt which, in
Germany, came chiefly from
the Carpathian Mountains, Transylvania, the Tyrol, and Poland. Rock and sea
salt were still listed
separately in the 1833 chemical-pharmaceutical handbook but, as from 1850,
the origin of the salt was no
longer specified.
The pharmacists of the 19th century recommended internal use of salt against
digestive upsets, goitre,
glandular diseases, intestinal worms, dysentery, dropsy, epilepsy, and
syphilis. Externally applied salt (e.g.
cold or warm hip-baths) was said to be locally stimulating but acerbic to
skin and mucous membranes at
high doses. External application was advised in cases of rash and swelling
and, in ophthalmology, to drive
off stains and stain-obscurations of the cornea. A clyster (enema) of salt
was even supposed to work for
patients who were "seemingly dead and apoplectical".
Salt in encyclopaedias and popular medicine in the 18th and 19th centuries
The encyclopaedias of the 18th century published extensive treatises on
salt, in particular rock and sea salt,
and referred to current knowledge on the healing powers of salt. A
particularly infamous book was the Dirty
Pharmacy by Paulini (1734) which held a collection of the nastiest
imaginable mixtures for diseases of all
kinds. Salt was a frequent ingredient. For instance, red watering eyes could
be treated by covering them
with a mush of fresh manure from a black cow, beer-vinegar, and half a
knife's tip of salt.
Medical practitioners of the 19th century paid particular attention to the
effects of natural salt. In 1860, in
eastern Bavaria, a sodium chloride solution was used as a compress against
inflammation. Further west,
inflammations of the belly button of children were washed with salt water.
Warts were removed by
spreading the juice of a snail that had been sprinkled with salt. Hot
foot-baths containing salt and ashes
were used to alleviate headaches. Burns were treated with brandy, vinegar or
salt water.
Salt in 20th century medicine
As indicated above, salt was an important ingredient of remedies in Europe,
on a par with natural products
such as herbs, until the late Middle Ages. From then onwards, it became an
item in the medicine chest of
popular rather than academic medicine. It was not until spa therapy gained
popularity in the 19th century
that its healing powers gradually began to be investigated scientifically
and not until the 1950s that its
effects were studied in any detail.
Today, salt is a natural healing principle used in the form of inhalations,
salt-water baths and in drinking-
therapy. An important discovery of 20th century medicine is that salt water
- in the form of an isotonic
sodium chloride (saline) solution - has the same fluid quality as blood
plasma. This has led to the use of salt
solutions as intravenous infusions. However, salt solutions are also used
subcutaneously, intramuscularly, as
an enema or externally.
Infusing saline
In 1832, the English doctors R. Lewins and T. Latta used a sodium chloride
infusion successfully against
cholera for the first time. Nowadays, isotonic sodium chloride solution
(saline) has many uses:
- as a "replacement fluid" in emergencies. Saline can temporarily replace
large amounts of lost blood and
thus often saves the lives of accident victims. It can palliate prolonged
loss of gastric juices.
as a "tool and washing liquid". Chilled saline is used to determine
cardiac output per minute, for medically
founded forced drainage, to wash red blood cells for blood transfusions,
and, at body temperature, to
irrigate organs (e.g. gastro-intestinal tract, bladder).
- as a "carrier" solution for drugs.
From applying salt to bathing in salt
Our journey through history has revealed that the antiseptic action of salt
on the skin and mucous
membranes has been known for a very long time. Scientific studies have now
confirmed the effectiveness of
salt therapy in several indications. The antiseptic and bactericidal
qualities of dental salt (sea salt) help
remove plaque which is a cause of gingivitis and caries. Salt is being
increasingly used as support treatment
for skin diseases. Chronically inflamed skin is treated with medical bath
salt from the Dead Sea (d) or table
salt. The salt peels off dandruff, reduces inflammation, itching and pain,
and helps regenerate the skin. Salt-
baths are frequently used to treat psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, chronic
eczema as well as arthritis. Sometimes
(as in psoriasis), this therapy is followed by ultraviolet light
radiotherapy under strict medical control so that
the combination of salt water and UV light does not expose patients to an
increased risk of skin cancer.
The ancient Greeks had already recommended seaside health resorts to cure
skin diseases and Paracelsus
mentioned the effectiveness of "salt brine". Sea-water baths later led to
salt-water baths in regions closely
linked with the extraction of salt (salt mines, springs and works) but it
was not until 1800 that doctors from
the German town of Bad Nauheim introduced a methodical salt-bath therapy
(6). They tried to obtain
scientific evidence for claims regarding the healing effects of the waters.
Current medical indications for
salt-bath therapy rest, as a matter of principle, on the empirical
traditions of centuries. They include support
treatment for skin diseases due to the anti-inflammatory action of salt.
Patients suffering from rheumatic
conditions often experience relief from joint pain when moving about in a
salt bath.
Finally, common or Dead Sea salt can be used as an additive especially in
body care products (ointments,
shampoos, gels, washes and body lotions).
Inhaling salt
Steam from salt water is inhaled in chronic diseases of the upper and lower
respiratory track (pharynx,
paranasal sinuses, and bronchial tree) or to ease the discomfort of a common
cold. Let's not forget that
Hippocrates had already recommended this treatment! The age-old method is to
heat a salt solution to
obtain steam but modern ultrasound atomising can now transport minute salt
particles directly to tiny
bronchia. The main effects of salt on the bronchial system are to stimulate
secretion, loosen and help
eliminate viscous secretions, inhibit inflammation, reduce irritation
causing cough, clean the mucous
membrane of the kinocilium, and contract (bronchoconstriction) or extend
(dilatation) the respiratory ducts.
Drinking salt water
Salt water when drunk has an expectorant effect in the stomach and increases
gastric juice secretion. It
raises the level of stomach acid, hastens its production, impedes or
stimulates stomach motricity and
emptying-rate (depending upon the salt concentration), increases the
secretion of the pancreas, and at higher
salt concentrations stimulates the formation of bile acids.
Salt as a vector
Rock salt is of higher purity than sea-salt which can be contaminated with
many minerals and other
substances. Some of these contaminants, such as iodine, can be beneficial to
health. Iodine deficiency is a
major health risk. It gives rise to a thyroid gland disease characterised by
hormonal disturbances causing
cretinism and by a goitre which can be so large that it may blocs airflow
through the throat or reach
externally right down to the collar bone (7). Goitre used to be endemic in
regions far from the sea such as
the Alps but was rarely encountered in countries of southern Europe
bordering the Mediterranean.
Nowadays, Germany is the only industrial nation where goitre due to a lack
of iodine is still common. This is because, despite the known health risk,
part of the German
food industry still uses the cheaper iodine-free salt for economic reasons.
No legal measure makes the use
of iodised salt compulsory in Germa ny. The health authorities must rely on
public information campaigns
promoting the benefits of salt with iodine.
Homeopathic salt
N. H. Schüßler (1821–1898), a German doctor, developed a special
"biochemical" therapy based on 12
mineral salts which he considered crucial for cell function. This therapy is
still used today. For Schüßler,
health resulted from a balance among these salts, disease from a
disequilibrium. Common salt (sodium
chloride) was one of his 12 salts. He administered the salts in homeopathic
doses in an extremely wide
range of indications (anaemia, loss of appetite, loss of weight, common
cold, stomach and intestinal
disorders, watery diarrhoea, constipation, haemorrhoids, rashes, rheumatic
troubles, headaches, fatigue) and
externally against lip blisters, acne, comedo, skin fungus and sores.
A flip side to the coin?
In the Middle Ages, the School of Salerno warned against the excessive use
of salt (see above). The subject
of excessive salt use has been a matter of great controversy over the last
three decades. Scientific medicine
has found that a high salt intake from food, especially by people with an
inherited sensitivity to salt, might
increase the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Extensive studies have
indicated that too much salt in
food may lead to arterial hypertension. There are those who forbid the
addition of any salt at all to food and
those who suggest that consumption should be limited to around 5 or 6 grams
a day. There are
epidemiological studies that indicate that populations such as the Japanese
who consume vast amounts of
salt have a high incidence of CVD but no direct causal link has yet been
definitively established between
salt consumption and high blood pressure.
The cumulative past experience of our human ancestors and an increasing
volume of current scientific
evidence indicate that salt is a major life-preserving substance and
effective healing principle. As often,
therefore, the question is one of balance. When do possible health risks
override the beneficial and vital
effects of an adequate salt intake? The answer probably depends on the
individual (e).
Notes
(a) Science and medicine have tried to define the precise roles of salt in
the healthy and diseased human
organism. Blood, sweat, and tears all contain salt, and both the skin and
the eyes are protected from
infectious germs by the anti-bacterial effect of salt.
When salt is added to a liquid, particles with opposite charges are formed:
a positively charged sodium ion
and a negatively charged chloride ion. This is the basis of osmosis which
regulates fluid pressure within
living cells and protects the body against excessive water loss (as in
diarrhoea or on heavy sweating).
Sodium and chloride ions, as well as potassium ions, create a measurable
difference in potential across cell
membranes. This ensures that the fluid inside living cells remains separate
from that outside. Thus, although
the human body consists mainly of water, our "inner ocean" does not flow
away or evaporate.
Sodium ions create a high pressure of liquid in the kidneys and thus
regulate their metabolic function. Water
is extracted through the renal drainage system. The body thus loses a
minimal amount of essential water.
Out of 1500 litres of blood which pass daily through the kidneys, only about
1.5 litres of liquid leave the
body as urine.
Salt is "fuel" for nerves. Streams of positively and negatively charged ions
send impulses to nerve fibres. A
muscle cell will only contract if an impulse reaches it. Nerve impulses are
partly propelled by co-ordinated
changes in charged particles.
(b) According to modern scientific research, salt does indeed have weak
disinfectant properties when
applied topically.
(c) Inhaling steam from salt water has become an established treatment for
acute and chronic respiratory
diseases in spa-, balneo- and thalasso- therapies
(d) The mineral composition of Dead Sea salt is slightly different from that
of common sea salt . Dead Sea
salt is considered to be particularly useful in chronic skin diseases such
as psoriasis.
(e) I acknowledge with thanks Johanna S. Gordon's help in translating the
German draft of this article.
References
1. Cirillo M, Capasso G, Di Leo VA, De Santo NG. A history of salt. Am J
Nephrol 14, 426-31, 1994.
2. Denton D. The hunger for salt. An anthropological, physiological and
medical analysis. Springer Verlag,
Berlin, 1982.
3. Ritz E. The history of salt - aspects of interest to the nephrologist.
Nephrol Dial Transplant 11, 969-75,
1996.
4. Wormer EJ. Heilkraft des Salzes. Suedwest Verlag, Munich, 1995.
5. Wormer EJ. Salz in der Medizin. In: Treml M, Jahn W, Brockhoff E (eds.):
Salz Macht Geschichte
(Collection of essays and catalogue). Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte,
Augsburg, 1995, p. 48-55
6. Porter, Roy (ed.). The medical history of waters and spas. Wellcome
Institute for the History of
Medicine, London 1990.
7. Merke F. Geschichte und Ikonographie des endemischen Kropfes und
Kretinismus (History and
Iconography of Endemic Goitre and Cretinism). Verlag Hans Huber, Bern, 1971.
Salt Deficiency: the cause of many serious diseases
An eight-year study of a New York City hypertensive population stratified
for sodium intake levels found
those on low-salt diets had more than four times as many heart attacks as
those on normal-sodium diets –
the exact opposite of what the “salt hypothesis” would have predicted.
(1995). Dr. Jeffrey R. Cutler
documented no health outcomes benefits of lower-sodium diets. Both sea salt
and rock salt were well known
to the ancient Greeks who noted that eating salty food affected basic body
functions such as digestion and
excretion (urine and stools). This led to salt being used medically. The
healing methods of Hippocrates (460
BC) especially made frequent use of salt. Hippocrates mentions inhalation of
steam from salt-water. We
know today that the antiinflammatory effects of inhaled salt provide relief
from respiratory symptoms (c).
Thus, 2000 years ago, Greek medicine had already discovered topical use of
salt for skin lesions, drinking
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"In recent years there has been much publicity about the need to reduce salt
consumption in societies
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body does not get enough salt, a hormonal mechanism compensates by reducing
the excretion of salt in the
urine and sweat. But it cannot reduce this output to zero. On a completely
salt-free diet the body steadily
loses small amounts of salt via the kidneys and sweat glands. It then
attempts to adjust this by accelerating
its secretion of water, so that the blood’s salt concentration can be
maintained at the vital level. The result is
a gradual desiccation of the body and finally death." Roy Moxham
The past president of the American Heart Association, Dr. Suzanne Oparil of
the University of Alabama-
Birmingham, said her personal view is that the government may have been too
quick to recommend that
everyone cut back. "Salt restriction as a solitary recommendation for the
population for the prevention or
the treatment of hypertension. An eight-year study of a New York City
hypertensive population stratified for
sodium intake levels found those on low-salt diets had more than four times
as many heart attacks as those
on normal-sodium diets – the exact opposite of what the “salt hypothesis”
would have predicted. (1995). Dr.
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When organic, unrefined salt is lacking in your diet, weakness and sickness
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Refined Salt: White Poison The problem with salt is not the salt itself but
the condition of the salt we
eat! Our regular table salt no longer has anything in common with the
original crystal salt. Salt now a day is
mainly sodium chloride and not salt. With the advent of industrial
development, our natural salt was
"chemically cleaned" and reduced only to sodium and chloride. Major
producing companies dry their salt in
huge kilns with temperatures reaching 1200 degrees F, changing he salt's
chemical structure, which in turn
adversely affects the human body. The common table salt we use for cooking
has only 2 or 3 chemical
elements. The seawater has 84 chemical elements. For our body to be healthy
we need all those elements.
When we use the common salt, we are in deficit of 81 elements which means we
are somehow contributing
to becoming weaker, imbalanced and more susceptible to diseases. Use the
seawater salt.
Salt is a vital substance for the survival of all living creatures,
particularly humans. Water and salt
regulate the water content of the body. Water itself regulates the water
content of the interior of the cell by
working its way into all of the cells it reaches. It has to get there to
cleanse and extract the toxic wastes of
cell metabolisms. Salt forces some water to stay outside the cells. It
balances the amount of water that stays
outside the cells. There are two oceans of water in the body; one ocean is
held inside the cells of the body,
and the other ocean is held outside the cells. Good health depends on a most
delicate balance between the
volume of these oceans, and this balance is achieved by salt - unrefined
salt.
When water is available to get inside the cells freely, it is filtered from
the outside salty ocean and
injected into the cells that are being overworked despite their water
shortage. This is the reason why in
severe dehydration we develop an edema and retain water. The design of our
bodies is such that the extent
of the ocean of water outside the cells is expanded to have the extra water
available for filtration and
emergency injection into vital cells. The brain commands an increase in salt
and water retention by the
kidneys. This is how we get an edema when we don't drink enough water.
Initially, the process of water filtration and its delivery into the cells
is more efficient at night when the
body is horizontal. The collected water, that mostly pools in the legs, does
not have to fight the force of
gravity to get onto the blood circulation. If reliance of this process of
emergency hydration of some cells
continues for long, the lungs begin to get waterlogged at night, and
breathing becomes difficult. The person
needs more pillows to sit upright to sleep. This condition is the
consequence of dehydration. However, you
might overload the system by drinking too much water at the beginning.
Increases in water intake must be
slow and spread out until urine production begins to increase at the same
rate that you drink water.
When we drink enough water to pass clear urine, we also pass out a lot of
the salt that was held back.
This is how we can get rid of edema fluid in the body; by drinking more
water. Not diuretics, but more
water!! In people who have an extensive edema and show signs of their heart
beginning to have irregular or
very rapid beats with least effort, the increase in water intake should be
gradual and spaced out, but not
withheld from the body. Naturally, salt intake should be limited for two or
three days because the body is
still in an overdrive mode to retain it. Once the edema has cleared up, salt
should not be withheld from the
body.
The doctor and alchemist Paracelsus (1493–1541 A.D.) introduced an
entirely new medical concept. He
believed that external factors create disease and conceived a chemically
oriented medical system which
contrasted with the prevalent herbal medicine. Only salted food could be
digested properly: "The human
being must have salt, he cannot be without salt. Where there is no salt,
nothing will remain, but everything
will tend to rot." He recommended salt water for the treatment of wounds and
for use against intestinal
worms. A hip-bath in salt water was a superb remedy for skin diseases and
itching: "This brine - he said - is
better than all the health spas arising out of nature." He described the
diuretic effect of salt consumption and
prescribed salt preparations of different strengths that were used for
instance against constipation. Salt-
based remedies were thought to have expectorant powers. A mixture of water,
salt, and vinegar was
employed as an emetic. Drinking a mixture of two-thirds cow's milk and
one-third salt-water, in the
mornings, on an empty stomach was recommended as a cure for diseases of the
spleen. A mixture of salt
and honey was applied topically to clean bad ulcers and salt-water was used
externally against skin diseases
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When water and Himalayan Crystal Salt connect, the negative poles of the
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Himalayan Crystal Salt is an all natural salt with therapeutic properties,
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Salt has many other functions than just regulating the water content of the
body. Here are some of the
more vital functions of salt in the body:
1. Salt is most effective in stabilizing irregular heartbeats and, Contrary
to the misconception that it
causes high blood pressure, it is actually essential for the regulation of
blood pressure - in conjunction with
water. Naturally the proportions are critical.
2. Salt is vital to the extraction of excess acidity from the cells in the
body, particularly the brain cells.
3. Salt is vital for balancing the sugar levels in the blood; a needed
element in diabetics.
4. Salt is vital for the generation of hydroelectric energy in cells in the
body. It is used for local power
generation at the sites of energy need by the cells.
5. Salt is vital to the nerve cells' communication and information
processing all the time that the brain
cells work, from the moment of conception to death.
6. Salt is vital for absorption of food particles through the intestinal
tract.
7. Salt is vital for the clearance of the lungs of mucus plugs and sticky
phlegm, particularly in asthma
and cystic fibrosis.
8. Salt is vital for clearing up catarrh and congestion of the sinuses.
9. Salt is a strong natural antihistamine.
10. Salt is essential for the prevention of muscle cramps.
11. Salt is vital to prevent excess saliva production to the point that it
flows out of the mouth during
sleep. Needing to constantly mop up excess saliva indicates salt shortage.
12. Salt is absolutely vital to making the structure of bones firm.
Osteoporosis, in a major way, is a
result of salt and water shortage in the body.
13. Salt is vital for sleep regulation. It is a natural hypnotic.
14. Salt is a vitally needed element in the treatment of diabetics.
15. Salt on the tongue will stop persistent dry coughs.
16. Salt is vital for the prevention of gout and gouty arthritis.
17. Salt is vital for maintaining sexuality and libido.
18. Salt is vital for preventing varicose veins and spider veins on the legs
and thighs.
19. Salt is vital to the communication and information processing nerve
cells the entire time that the
brain cells work - from the moment of conception to death.
20. Salt is vital for reducing a double chin. When the body is short of
salt, it means the body really is
short of water. The salivary glands sense the salt shortage and are obliged
to produce more saliva to
lubricate the act of chewing and swallowing and also to supply the stomach
with water that it needs for
breaking down foods. Circulation to the salivary glands increases and the
blood vessels become "leaky" in
order to supply the glands with water to manufacture saliva. The "leakiness"
spills beyond the area of the
glands themselves, causing increased bulk under the skin of the chin, the
cheeks and into the neck.
21. Sea salt contains about 80 mineral elements that the body needs. Some of
these elements are
needed in trace amounts. Unrefined sea salt is a better choice of salt than
other types of salt on the market.
Ordinary table salt that is bought in the super markets has been stripped of
its companion elements and
contains additive elements such as aluminum silicate to keep it powdery and
porous. Aluminum is a very
toxic element in our nervous system. It is implicated as one of the primary
causes of Alzheimer's disease.
22. Twenty-seven percent of the body's salt is in the bones. Osteoporosis
results when the body needs
more salt and takes it from the body. Bones are twenty-two percent water. Is
it not obvious what happens to
the bones when we're deficient in salt or water or both.
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Are We Also Deficient in Magnesium Chloride?
Magnesium chloride is nothing short of a miracle mineral in its healing
effect on a wide range of diseases
as well as in its ability to rejuvenate the aging body. We know that it is
essential for many enzyme reactions,
especially in regard to cellular energy production, for the health of the
brain and nervous system, for healthy
teeth and bones and is also an impressive infection fighter. A french
doctor, A. Neveu, cured several
diphtheria patients with magnesium chloride within two days. He also
published 15 cases of poliomyelitis
that were cured within days if treatment was started immediately, or within
months if paralysis had already
progressed. Neveu also found magnesium chloride effective with asthma,
bronchitis, pneumonia and
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whooping cough, measles, rubella,
mumps, scarlet fever; poisoning, gastro-enteritis, boils, abscesses,
whitlow, infected wounds and
osteomyelitis. In more recent years Dr Vergini and others have confirmed
these earlier results and have
added more diseases to the list of successful uses: acute asthma attacks,
shock, tetanus, herpes zoster, acute
and chronic conjunctivitis, optic neuritis, rheumatic diseases, many
allergic diseases, Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome and beneficial effects in cancer therapy. In all of these cases
magnesium chloride had been used
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Dr. Batmanghelidj MD - "Use 1/4 tsp. of sea salt for every quart of water
you drink. Use a good sea
salt, one with at least 80 minerals, liberally with food. As long as you
drink the water, you can use the salt. Some
put it in their water, some lick it off their hand, some season their foods
after cooking. It's up to you. Make
sure you take potassium daily (banana, orange juice,etc) "
Salt water when drunk has an expectorant effect in the stomach and increases
gastric juice secretion. It
raises the level of stomach acid, hastens its production, impedes or
stimulates stomach motricity and
emptying-rate (depending upon the salt concentration), increases the
secretion of the pancreas, and at higher
salt concentrations stimulates the formation of bile acids.
The Mayo Clinic had pronounced Lloyd Palmer, of Minnesota, as incurable.
Since 1965 he had suffered
from excruciatingly painful arthritis of his spinal column -- ankylosing
spondylitis. His spine twisted and
lost movement until, he says, he became a "walking comma." He suffered pain
for 31 years, until he started
to drink water and take salt. He writes: "I continue to be pain-free with my
ankylosis spondylitis one year
after starting the water/salt regime. My blood pressure is normal as well. I
thank God every day for allowing
me to finally be pain-free." Lloyd Palmer's story is so incredible that Paul
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Water therapy has been used for centuries to heal the sick Hydro- and
hydrothermal therapy are
traditional methods of treatment that have been used for the treatment of
disease and injury by many
cultures, including those of ancient Rome, China, and Japan. Water therapy
has been around for centuries.
The ancient Greeks took therapeutic baths. Water is an important ingredient
in the traditional Chinese and
Native American healing systems.
Salt water hydrotherapy has been used for centuries to heal the sickSalt
Water Hydrotherapy Studies have
shown that you can achieve the best results taking a sole bath during the
change of the moon cycle. The
minerals and energies stored in the sole can optimally be absorbed during a
full moon. The body’s healing
potential is at its peak and bioenergetic weak points are harmonized and the
body’s own energy flow
activated. During a new moon, the cleansing effects are optimized because
the body’s capacity for
detoxifying is at its peak. The bath will have a detoxifying effect similar
to a three-day fast.
A sole bath is a sheer ocean of energy. Bioenergetic deficits are rebalanced
and weak links become
strengthened, reactivating our body’s electric current. The organs’
functions start to resonate with the
natural frequency patterns of the sole. This activates the natural
regulatory mechanism of the body and its
self-healing powers. A 30 minute sole bath has the cleansing effect of a
three-day fast. In contrast to a
normal bath, in which moisture is extracted from the skin, a sole bath
allows salt to be stored in the upper
callous layer of the skin and binds water. This maintains the natural,
protective film of the skin and the skin
does not dry out. This is the reason why sole baths are good for dry skin as
well.The cleansing effects of a
30-minute sole bath equal that of a three-day fast. The toxins are released
into the bath water through
osmosis, while the minerals from the sole are absorbed through the skin.
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Water Cure - Hydrotherapy A Bavarian monk, Father Sebastian Kneipp helped
re-popularize the
therapeutic use of water in the 19th century. There are now many dozens of
methods of applying
hydrotherapy, including baths, saunas, douches, wraps, packs, and colon
hydrotherapy
Hydrotherapy: Principles and Practice Essential reading for physiotherapy
students at all levels
Hydrotherapy: principles and practice will be invaluable as the basic
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Results of a comprehensive, scientific research project studying the effects
of water and salt on a myriad
of body functions reveal some impressive indicators about the affect that
drinking Fiji Water and taking
Himalayan Crystal Salt™ can have on the body.
A nine-week double-blind university study undertaken in 2003 at the
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Salt Crystal Lamps
According to research, the heated salt crystal lamps can be referred to as
natural ion generators. When
the sun heats up our largest natural salt solutions, the oceans, it
generates the natural energy vibration that
our entire global environment consists of. The Translucent salt crystal
creates exactly the same natural
energy field. Scientifically speaking, this natural ionization process takes
place millions of times, invisible
to the eye, and without any influence of the quality of the crystal. Similar
to the concept whereby tree leaves
absorb dangerous dioxides and transform them into essential oxygen, without
damaging the plant.
Crystal salt is one of the few minerals whose atomic structure is bound
electrically, not molecularly. This
characteristic of the mineral structure enables the crystal to change back
and forth from crystalline to liquid
state. This natural ionization creates an electric charge, a pure natural
energy vibration.
The crystal salt lamp can help neutralize the positive ions and
electromagnetic field frequencies.
Therefore, our human energy field will be balanced through the harmonizing
energy vibration of the crystal.
This can help with relaxation, strengthen the immune system, the heart, the
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The Essence of Life, by Dr. Barbara Hendel MD
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The Essential Health Benefits of Sea Water
Sea water has a history of therapeutic use. Its application to the body,
warmed and usually combined with
massage, is referred to as Thalassotherapy, originating from the Greek word
thalassa. Both the Greeks and
the Romans recognised the therapeutic effects of sea water. The immediate
general effects of warm sea
water application (it can penetrate the skin more easily when warm, and
enter into the blood) is relaxing,
regenerative and stimulating. The American Indians who resided in the Utah
area near the Great Salt Lake
regularly drank small quantities of the inland sea water. They discovered
that this practice enhanced the
effect of their herbal remedies. It was based on this folk use that Hartly
Anderson set up a company to
extract the exceptionally pure and concentrated form of sea water and to
market it for health purposes. more
Speleotherapy - Salt Therapy for respiratory illnesses
Several research reports the benefit of Halo/Speleo therapy that can
improve a condition of people
suffering in chronic and allergic diseases of respiratory system such as
asthma, allergy, rhinitis, bronchitis
and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Skulimowski (1965) reports an
improvement of salt therapy
with the group of 100 COPD and asthma patients after applying the treatment
of speleotherapy 4 hours a
day for 6-8 weeks. Hovarths (1986) conducts a medical reserch and shows
successful results in salt therapy
in a group of more than 4000 patients in a 10-year period in a hospital-cave
complex in Tapolca, Hungary.
He shows that a sharp and long-lasting clinical improvement and a
significant recovery from airway
obstruction could be observed in the overwhelming majority of patients.
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An abundance of the ingredients in unrefined real salt are as synonymous
with life today as they were a
billion years ago before single cells appeared here. Lack of them is
synonymous with birth defects, organ
failure, decay, diseases, premature aging and death at a young age.
The problem with salt is not the salt itself but the condition of the salt
we eat - refined! Major producing
companies dry their salt in huge kilns with temperatures reaching 1200
degrees F, changing he salt's
chemical structure, which in turn adversely affects the human body. The
facts are that in the heating process
of salt, the element sodium chloride goes off into the air as a gas. What
remains is sodium hydroxate which
is irritating to the system and does not satisfy the body's hunger and need
for sodium chloride.
Sodium chloride is one of the 12 daily essential minerals. In countries
which do not alter their salt supply,
heart disease and arthritis are so rare that many doctors have never seen a
case. Their salt is dried from the
ocean by the sun. Many people believe that salt is harmful to the human
body. The truth is we cannot live
without salt (sodium chloride). From salt the body makes hydrochloric acid
which is one of the essential
digestive fluids. There is not enough natural salt in our foods, so we must
supplement our diet. When salt is
withheld, weakness and sickness follow. Try this experiment: Mix a spoonful
of salt in a glass of water and
let it stand overnight. If the salt collects on the bottom of the glass, it
has been processed. NATURAL
SALT DISSOLVES! Salt that will not dissolve in water cannot disolve in your
body. Any foreign substance
that collects in the body organs and tissues will eventually result in
malfunctioning of essential body
processes: heart disease, arthritis, hardening of the body tissues and
arteries, calcium deposits in the joints,
etc. Natural organic salt (saline) will not cause calcification in your
body. Natural, unprocessed salt can
dissolve damaging calcium deposits in the body.
Science and medicine have tried to define the precise roles of salt in the
healthy and diseased human
organism. Blood, sweat, and tears all contain salt, and both the skin and
the eyes are protected from
infectious germs by the anti-bacterial effect of salt. When salt is added to
a liquid, particles with opposite
charges are formed: a positively charged sodium ion and a negatively charged
chloride ion. This is the basis
of osmosis which regulates fluid pressure within living cells and protects
the body against excessive water
loss (as in diarrhoea or on heavy sweating). Sodium and chloride ions, as
well as potassium ions, create a
measurable difference in potential across cell membranes. This ensures that
the fluid inside living cells
remains separate from that outside. Thus, although the human body consists
mainly of water, our "inner
ocean" does not flow away or evaporate. Sodium ions create a high pressure
of liquid in the kidneys and
thus regulate their metabolic function. Water is extracted through the renal
drainage system. The body thus
loses a minimal amount of essential water. Out of 1500 litres of blood which
pass daily through the kidneys,
only about 1.5 litres of liquid leave the body as urine.
Salt is "fuel" for nerves. Streams of positively and negatively charged ions
send impulses to nerve fibres.
A muscle cell will only contract if an impulse reaches it. Nerve impulses
are partly propelled by co-
ordinated changes in charged particles.
"Fish from the ocean will die quickly if placed in a solution of refined
salt and water. The sodium
chloride, in its form as it comes from the refinery, is actually poisonous
to them. Bottom line, is that yes it
can be harmful to consume too much refined salt, but you cannot consume too
much natural unrefined salt."
SALT IS VITAL FOR OUR ANIMALS TOO! Herds of elephants risk injury and death
in a perilous
journey to hidden salt caves where they supplement their sodium deficient
diets. Our pets also suffer from
sodium deficiency.
Salt Deficiency: the cause of all serious diseases
An abundance of the ingredients in unrefined real salt are as synonymous
with life today as they were a
billion years ago before single cells appeared here. Lack of them is
synonymous with birth defects, organ
failure, decay, diseases, premature aging and death at a young age.
Himalayan Crystal Salt is an all natural salt with therapeutic properties,
talked about in Water and Salt,
The Essence of Life, by Dr. Barbara Hendel MD
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Disease is a symptom of one or more body systems in distress. When you
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