How Does Himalayan Salt Help With Chronic Respiratory Illness

N othing is more essential to life than Oxygen. And yet, for millions of people with chronic respiratory illness, the simple act of breathing is a taxing ordeal. Whether it be asthma, allergies or a respiratory infection, Himalayan crystal salt can help. Salt therapy otherwise known as halotherapy, has been around for hundreds of years but it's not until relatively recently that modern science has taken notice of it.

Before describing how halotherapy works lets first talk about respiratory infection causes. This is a pretty easy one, the same thing that cause most every other type of infection, virus, and bacteria are what cause respiratory infections. The only difference is where the infection is located. As you might imagine, a respiratory infection is localized in the respiratory tract.

The tract is divided into three segments: upper tract, airways and lungs. The upper tract is made up of the nose and nasal passages, the paranasal sinuses and the throat; the airways are comprised of the voice box, trachea, bronchi and bronchioles and the lungs encompass the respiratory bronchioles, alveolar ducts, alveolar sacs and the alveoli. That may seem a little complicated but what you should take away from it is that the process of breathing is more complicated than one might think. Now, when people say they have a respiratory infection they are usually talking about the lungs (even though, technically, a sinus infection can be called a respiratory infection). Respiratory infection symptoms range from mild to severe: heavy chest, trouble breathing, pained breathing, cough and inability to breathe. There are just a few of the symptoms, but you can see that at their worst these types of infections can lead to death.

As stated above, the link between respiratory infections and salt has long been known, but it's only recently that modern science has caught up with that knowledge. Respiratory problems and salt therapy were first linked by Western medicine around World War two, when people using salt caves as bomb shelters found that their asthma, allergies, bronchitis and other chronic respiratory illness problems were miraculously cleared up after many hours spent in the caves. Scientists deduced that it was the natural salt mixed in with the humid air that was clearing up the infections. How does it work? Salt has antibacterial and antiviral properties, not table salt mind you but natural salt like Natural Home Cures Himalayan crystal salt. When the salt mixes with humid air it can be breathed in, where it is imbedded deep within the lungs. Once in the lungs, the salt works its magic and clears up any infection present.

You can mimic the environment of salt caves at home by simply making a brine solution with hot water and placing it in a humidifier. Once the room is saturated with the salty air, sit in a comfortable position, relax (put on some relaxation music if that helps) and breath deeply. Repeat this process every day for an hour (or more if you have the time) and your respiratory problems should start to fade away. Don't have a humidifier? You can achieve close to the same effect by taking a small container of brine solution into a hot shower and breathing in deeply as the salt mingles with the humid air.

If you think you'll have trouble relaxing, think again. An added benefit to using Himalayan crystal salt is that it balances your body's  energy field which, in turn, puts you in a calm and peaceful state of mind. A word of warning with halotherapy, you MUST use good quality, non-refined salt such as Himalayan crystal salt. Table salt will do nothing for your condition and, in fact, may make it worse. This is because table salt has been refined and processed to such a degree that the body actually treats it as a poison. For example, when you ingest table salt, your body surrounds the salt with water and binds it, then sends it through the kidneys and into the bladder where it passed out of you body as urine (some of it is passed via sweating but I won't get into that here). Contrast this with Himalayan crystal salt which when consumed is not contained or bound by the body in any way and therefore doesn't require the use of excessive amounts of water to process. In fact, crystal salt will actually balance your body's fluid levels as opposed to depleting them! So now you can see why, if you are going to try salt therapy at home and I strongly suggest you do if suffering from respiratory illness of any kind you need to make sure that you use high grade, all natural, Himalayan crystal salt.

Source References

• (3 December 2005), Ukrainian salt mines reinvented as a haven for asthma sufferers, The Guardian
• (30 Apr 2007), Caves offer asthma relief for tourists, The Slovak Spectator
• (1968), "The microclimatic effect of the subterranean chambers of the Wieliczka Salt Mine in the treatment of bronchial asthma", Annals of Allergy 26 (2).
• (3 Jan 2006), Ukrainian mine helps asthmatics, BBC
• (August 7, 2007), Remedy that's a pinch of salt, Manchester Evening News
• Salted: A Manifesto on the World's Most Essential Mineral, with Recipes. Ten Speed Press. ISBN 978-1-58008-262-4.

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