Fun facts about salt
Some of the medical websites I checked when I had a friend with high blood pressure said that eating up to the equivalent of 1 teaspoon of salt a day was safe. The sites never addressed the amount of salt in milligrams that we get from the food we eat. Because of these websites, my friend was tricked into believing that the salt wasn’t hurting him (since his blood pressure went up a notch or two every month). He began to salt everything. One morning he put so much salt in our oatmeal that I choked and almost vomited. I knew this information was wrong, but had nothing to corroborate my instincts, until I read The Hidden Powers of Sea Salt, then everything turned out fine for me. Hope it helps you too.
Fun facts about salt:
o Refined salts even in saltwater concentrations kill saltwater fish. So what is the fate of our internal organs when fed commercial salt?
o Fruits and vegetables have almost no salt. This means that a vegetarian diet will eventually create an anemic condition and other salt starvation diseases. This is why many vegetarians crave salty snacks. Only when salt is added to fruits and vegetables can saliva and gastric secretions easily break down carbohydrates.
o The modern intravenous fluid, Lactated Ringers, is a reproduction of “Quinton’s Plasma”, a potable sea water used by the French alchemist Rene Quinton.
o Salt towns: Towns that end in “lamer”, “que” and “saal” are towns that were founded due to the availability of salt.
o Human consumption of salt represents only 7% of total salt production, the rest (93%) is used by the chemical industry and in manufacturing for things such as the manufacture of explosives, gaseous chlorine, agro-fertilizers and in the plastics industry.
o Magnesium is extracted from common table salt: Because the chemical industry needs pure sodium and chloride, vital magnesium is extracted to make it flow more smoothly, which means it can be sold for better profits in the chemical market.
o Added fluid agents: To prevent moisture from being reabsorbed, salt refiners also add sodium aluminosilicate or soda yellow prusside as bleaching desiccants. This salt is then sold in stores for human consumption. The problem is that this adulteration makes the salt unable to combine with human body fluids, thus causing health disorders.
o Ocean salt alone possesses the power to restore the integrity of the human inner seas, our bodily fluids.
o Each of the 92 essential minerals in the body is found in the ocean.
o Salt Refining: When most salts are collected, they undergo a series of harsh steps that crack the molecular structure, steal its essential minerals, and adulterate the salt with chemical additives to make it flow freely. It is then bleached and iodized. This refining process makes the salt poisonous to your body because it removes the essential nutrients and vitality present in sun-cured sea salt.
o True sea salt should be moist to the touch with its prism-shaped “mother liquor” or bitters surrounding it. Grinding the gases produced a slightly violet smell.
o The mother liquor has health benefits: biologists can attest that this mother liquor restores the water and electrolyte imbalance, a disorder that causes the loss of the immune response, creates allergies and causes many health problems.
o Celtic sea salt is the lowest in sodium of all the salts available and the richest in precious beneficial elements available in any salt.
o Once redissolved in water or moisture from food while cooking, Celtic sea salt bears an uncanny resemblance to human blood and bodily fluids.
o The late French scientist Dr. Alexis Carrel kept a chicken heart alive for over 37 years by having the heart beating in a solution of sea salt. Dr. Carrel voluntarily terminated the experiment after a third of a century, having shown that living cells can have physical immortality. Incredible, huh?
The healing properties of Celtic sea salt:
Celtic sea salt has countless medicinal uses. For example, it can help correct excess acidity, restore good digestion, alleviate allergies and skin conditions, prevent some types of cancer, increase cellular energy, and increase resistance to bacterial infections and diseases.
Resource:
The Hidden Powers of Sea Salt by Jacques de Langre, Ph.D
© 2005 by Dr. Denice M. Moffat
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