People need salt

[tara]

INTERESTING FACTOID... in historical times, Himalayan Crystal Salt was called "The King of Salt" because it was reserved for Royalty. The common citizen only had access to rock salt.

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 ANTI-INFLAMMATORY 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!

"In recent years there has been much publicity about the need to reduce salt consumption in societies where salt is added to many processed foods (Denton 1984, 584-7).

It has tended to be forgotten that SOME SALT INTAKE IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY; THAT PEOPLE NEED SALT, SODIUM CHLORIDE, TO SURVIVE: THE CHEMICAL REQUIREMENTS OF THE HUMAN BODY DEMAND THAT THE SALT CONCENTRATION IN THE BLOOD BE KEPT CONSTANT. If the 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."

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.

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 and freckles.

http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/salt.htm#1

[tara]

... from an advanced psychology lecture in college in which the professor loudly stated: "The difference between a violent, aberrant mental patient and you people sitting here is two cents worth of lithium."

Bipolar patients are often prescribed lithium, however, the side effects of this medication can be nasty. C

Celtic Sea Salt® Brand contains natural lithium salts. Unlike supplementing with medicinal lithium, the lithium in Celtic Sea Salt® Brand is absorbed naturally, in quantities nature intended, and they are untreated, unprocessed, and as natural as the earth itself.

http://www.mnwelldir.org/docs/nutrition/salt.htm

[carla]

Tara, I agree with your veiws on salt.When they tested to see if salt was bad for us they only used refined salt.What idiots run these health services.I am a vegeterian and the most dangerous diet is a salt free vegeterian diet as there are natural salts in meat. I love the taste of celtic sea salt in my food now.and feel so much better since i started on the salt/vit c .The last time i was doing this I was using sea salt ,thinking it was healthy but this is also refined.Celtic Sea Salt (the brand) or Himilayan salt are the best we could use. Carla xxxxxx

[tara]

Thank you, Carla. I am with the cows on this one as I love salt too and eat only the Himalayan salt. .

...cows somehow beat Lyme disease. We considered, why cows,why not other animals? Cows love salt. Humans consume less salt today than they ever have. Early Americans consumed approximately 20 grams a day. The consumption has been drastically decreasing with each decade. Could it be that the decrease in salt consumption has allowed these new illness, such as Lyme, Chronic Fatique Syndrome,Fibromyalgia, Alzheimer's Disease, and Gulf War Syndrome to flourish. Now just lately, the whole salt scare has reversed and the researchers admit that they were wrong. So go ahead and shake that salt! http://www.lymephotos.com/lastword/index.html

Well, salt is an ancient remedy and bactericide that is for sure. I have been using black salve [www.blacksalveinfo.com] on my moles. I had a reaction to one irregular shaped mole where it made a hole about the size of a dime on my finger and it went down so far you could see the bone. It is said there will only be a reaction where skin cancer is present; if there is healthy skin tissue it will only slightly redden the skin. Still and all it is common sense not to use black salve on any moles or brown spots on your face. I made a spray out of 1/3 colloidal silver [ASAP], 1/3 hydrogen peroxide and 1/3 Himalayan salt and that dime-sized hole healed within a week.

[ladycolorado]

wow, this is great information. i will say, for many years i escewed salt, my diet was virtually absent of it. my reasoning was strokes run in my family. so i ate very little salt. sea salt is less processed, yes. i think why so many sick folks in our society too many things are overly processed. a long time ago chatted on phone with a knowledgable lady who had morgellons had mentioned the himilayan salt. and salt is one of the few blessed things the disease cannot adapt to. here is a cool link can even get salt in bulk: http://www.saltworks.us/shop/products.asp . also ca put into clear unsalted broth to get your salt internally. start out slow or you will get diharrea. like 1/4 to 1/2 dose, build you way up. i gram for every 10 lbs of bodyweight, 1 tsp = 5grams. (LC).

[hurtin1]

The salt institute.org has GREAT reading,,,,,(info).I dont ever remember being taught in school the importance of salt,,,I wonder if it was a slow fade out to keep doctors busy..
I looked at some sites about "cow licks",,to see properties,,but not much info so far...
For most of my life ,,all I heard was,,,"OH DONT EAT SALT,,,ITS BAD FOR YOU.."
Molasses is one of the main ingreds. in cow licks ,,and also have sulfer..........

[Keavy]

That's a great article, I read it before.
I absolutely agree. I use dead sea salt a lot in my therapies.
I also have a new type. It.s from Utah and it's natural sea salt from an Ancient Sea called the Sundance Sea that covered the Western U.S. about 400 -700 million years ago.
It was completely untouched until recently. It isn't real pretty and it's marketed as RealSalt by the company that mines it, or Utah Red Sea Salt.
I use it both in Spa Baths, and as a table salt, it is rich in minerals.

I sell it by the pound too, but I get it from San Francisco Bath Salts. They have decent sales most of the time and free shipping on some items.
I just got 10 lbs of it, and 5 lbs of Himalaya. I don't remember the price but it was reasonable. They are worth checking out.