What Is Salt Therapy?

Refers to a method of treating diseases with common salt. Table salt contains more than 30 kinds of complex chemical components, such as fluorine, sodium, iodine, boron, chlorine, sodium sulfate, phosphate, etc., and has medical effects.

Salt therapy

Refers to a method of treating diseases with common salt. Table salt contains more than 30 kinds of complex chemical components, such as fluorine, sodium, iodine, boron, chlorine, sodium sulfate, phosphate, etc., and has medical effects.

Chinese name

Salt therapy

Composition

30 kinds of fluorine, sodium, iodine, boron, etc.

Function

Medical

Use

Internal and external

Salt therapy refers to a method of treating diseases with salt. Table salt contains more than 30 kinds of complex chemical components, such as fluorine, sodium, iodine, boron, chlorine, sodium sulfate, phosphate, etc., and has medical effects.

This law is divided into two types: internal use and external use.

Oral administration is for adults to take 3 grams a day, 3 grams each time, boil water, the amount of water is about 300 ml, do not make it too salty. Children are reduced.

There are three external usages.

1. Local wet and hot compress method: apply a cotton pad of suitable size and thickness to a 1% hot salt solution, and apply it to the affected area or the corresponding part. Then put a hot water bottle on the cotton pad to continue warming, apply 30-60 minutes each time, twice a day.

2. Local hot bath method; if the lesions are on the hands or feet, they can be soaked in 1% saline solution 15-30 minutes each time, 2 times a day.

3 Hot bath method: When the patient has multiple lesions on the body or the lesion area is large, a 1% common salt solution can be used for hot water bath. The temperature is preferably 36 ° C-38 ° C, and the bath is to be taken once every other day.

1. In some patients, the pain worsened and rebounded during the first 2-7 days of treatment. But after 7-12 days, the pain can gradually decrease or disappear.

2. Due to the stimulation of gastrointestinal mucosa by salt, some people may have anorexia and increase their appetite after taking it.

3 During the treatment of a few patients with salt therapy, a small number of patients may have abnormalities in the limbs, such as ants walking, feeling heavy, and itching in the affected area.

4 Individual patients may have a rash, but it will soon resolve.

5. After taking salt, a few people have peeling on their palms and toes, and some people have hair loss, but it is not serious.

6. Some people experience diarrhea and soft stools after treatment with salt, but if you continue to take them, the stool will return to normal.

TCM Chen Jinzhu believes that taking too much salt will cause the following harm to the body:

1. Eating too much salt for a long time can increase blood pressure, while high blood pressure can damage multiple organs and even cause various fatal problems such as stroke. Patients with chronic diseases such as hypertension, heart disease, and diabetes should limit salt.

2. Eating too much salt will hurt the gastric mucosa and promote gastric disease and gastric cancer.

3. Too much salt will increase the burden on the kidneys. For those who are prone to swelling, their symptoms will be aggravated. Patients with kidney disease should strictly control salt.

4. Eating too much salt will make the premenstrual syndrome more severe and affect women's health and quality of life.

5. Too much salt will affect the health of the skin, and a light diet will bring healthy and beautiful skin.

6. Eating salt promotes appetite, and patients who lose weight should also control salt.

After talking about the dangers of eating too much salt for a long time, everyone can't help but think about how to make less salt in the ordinary diet. Here are some tips: 1. Put more salt and vinegar later when cooking , Put less sugar, limit salty food ingredients.

There are many festivals in winter, and there will be more dinners. Chronic patients such as high blood pressure, high blood lipids, and diabetes must limit their salt intake to have health while enjoying happiness. ^[1]