The bulk of the people at the word “salt” is what is poured into the salt shaker standing in the kitchen. And I mean it, table salt, so it is properly called. Specifically-sodium chloride, because for a chemist the word “salt” means a class of chemical compounds. For example, superphosphate also belongs to the class of salts.
We do not think much about its role in our lives, but we apply it in very different areas. Let’s see.
Saline solution in the medicine Cabinet
Saline is a solution of sodium chloride at a concentration of 0.9%. In the drugstore it is sold sterile in vials or flasks of 200 ml Saltiness of our blood is due to the presence in the blood plasma of sodium chloride in such concentration. That is, it is native to our body solution.
In our home (especially the garden) the Cabinet must be saline. This is the only liquid other than ordinary water, which can wash the eyes in case of contact with a foreign body or a burn with a chemical substance. You know, tears are salty, too. However, the salinity of tears — about 1.5%.
Rinse eyes with water or saline
In their vegetable-garden Affairs we have to spray, dilute, watered, using drugs, instructions to which is written: to protect the eyes. But if you are saved, remember: no other substances eye wash not!
In the old instructions for first aid in the event of an accident, there are still recommendations that you can use baking soda or something else. No! The modern concept of first aid prohibits the use of anything other than saline or potable water to wash the eyes. Except that you will have at hand distilled water, but it is unlikely. Rinsing the eye with saline also helps with the dry eye syndrome.
The physiological solution has a hemostatic effect and is perfect for capillary bleeding (abrasions, scratches), while disinfecting them. Another property of the physiological solution is its analgesic effect, which it has on the eyes and on the wounds. Of course, if the pain is quite uncomfortable or even intolerable, you can not do without analgesics, but sometimes it is enough to impose on the wound bandage impregnated with physiological solution.
This drug can wash the nose in case of purulent rhinitis. The pharmacy sells a variety of sprays with solutions of table or sea salt, very easy to use. If you periodically irrigate the nasal passages, it is easy to get rid of crusts, which inevitably form in the dry air.
Another application of the physiological solution — inhalation cough, sore throat, dry whistling breath. But this if you have a special inhaler, for example, ultrasonic with a nozzle in the form of a mask. You can make a separate procedure that is salt, and when protracted course of the disease is possible after the course go to drug salt inhalation.
Don’t you have saline solution in your medicine Cabinet yet? Go to the pharmacy and buy it. One is home, the second — in the country.
Physiological solution for the skin
The second name of the physiological solution is isotonic. For some necessities it can be cooked at home, just it will be non-sterile. In this case, the allowable concentration is not as accurate, you need to take in about 1 g per 100 ml of water (you probably do not have chemical of scales to measure out 0.9 g). Water is better to use boiled.
Tubs
Human skin is a large organ that breathes, absorbs and excretes. And sometimes it does not function properly, and then there are dryness, rash, pimples and other unpleasant manifestations of diseases. One way to improve skin condition is to take a course of salt baths.
One way to improve skin condition is to take a course of salt baths
For this purpose it is necessary to make isotonic solution. Most of our baths have a volume of about 200 liters, For the preparation isotonic bath needs the bath, pour 2 kg of salt and stir well until dissolved. Take 8-12 baths course every day or every other day, and you will see the result is obvious, or rather, on the skin. It absorbs the necessary amount of salt and water.
You can measure the volume of your bath more precisely, maybe you have a large, 300-liter, then it will need to add 3 kg of salt. Well relieves fatigue foot bath. Pour salt into the basin with water and lower legs there for 15 minutes.
If you add in the bath is not table salt and sea, the skin absorbs also trace elements that it contains, and it is potassium, magnesium, iodine. Potassium and magnesium are good for the heart, sometimes they are prescribed in the form of tablets, and I take them with leather from a bath with sea salt. The importance of iodine for the body also known to all, this chemical element is important for thyroid function.
Sprays
In winter, the apartments with Central heating humidity is always reduced, the air is dry, the skin suffers from it, dried out. In this case, the spray can be sprayed on the face. This method also helps at high heat to avoid heat stroke, lower the temperature. Periodically irrigate the head, face, neck.
I have noticed that at normal humidity (40-60%) and even in high summer, the face looks much better than in winter. And visually the difference can reach up to 10 years, for which the person is aged in the cold period. And summer again getting younger. Therefore, it is not necessary to neglect such a simple facial skin care as its moisturizing.
The disadvantage of purchased sprays is that they are quite expensive. After emptying the container it is necessary to buy a new, re – “fill” it will not work. But there is a way out: in hardware stores sold 50 or 100-milliliter bottles with nozzle-sprinkler, whose lid is unscrewed. Make the solution yourself, pour into a bottle, put it in a bag and use as needed. For the same purposes, you can use mineral water.
Hypertonic solution
Hypertonic solution is called table salt in a concentration greater than physiological. This can be both 2% and 20%. Although the hypertonic solution, which doctors say is-10%. The circulatory system responds to the highly saline environment of rupture of the capillaries, therefore it is not necessary at home to make their own bath or make a lotion with the solution in a concentration of more than 10%.
Hypertonic solution is used for lotions in the treatment of ulcers. The handle can not be turned into a compress, that is, do not close the polyethylene film. Fasten it with a bandage or attach it with a band-aid.
Salt bandages fix a bandage
When stretching, bruising or even headache or toothache, salt bandages are made: moisten the tissue with a hypertonic solution and apply to the skin of the patient. If the head hurts-on the forehead, if the tooth-on the cheek, if the hand is aching-on the hand.
For muscles and ligaments there is a wonderful folk method: moisten in a hypertonic solution is not just fabric, but wool (scarf, for example, or any woolen thing) and wrap the sore spot. 10% hypertonic solution is prepared from 100 g of table salt or sea salt and 1 liter of water.
Salt for beauty
If table salt 1 tablespoon, mix with 200 ml of sour cream and in the bath rubbing it all over her body, you get a wonderful exfoliating and rejuvenating effect. Tested! The skin becomes softer, knees, elbows and heels will thank you.
Crystalline salt, necessarily dissolved in a few drops of water mixed with baking soda to RUB the face, but this should be done without enthusiasm, very carefully, so as not to harm itself in this rather harsh scrub. After that, the face becomes younger, and improves blood circulation in the vessels. The method is not for everyone. And of course, you can’t just RUB your face with salt crystals.
Dead sea
The dead sea has such a high salt concentration that it becomes uninhabitable for organisms and microorganisms. But it turns out to be an excellent disinfectant, like any concentrated salt solution.
Dead sea. Salting on the shore
Dead it is called because due to its special structure it does not get any animals, bacteria.
The dead sea cures many diseases. Due to the ultra-high concentration of salts, the solution is not just saturated, but also supersaturated, that is, the salt lies on the bottom and on the shore. To make such salt bath is allowed no more than 15 minutes every 3-4 times a day.
Increasing the time of the procedure is difficult for the heart and is fraught with many complications. But rest on the Dead sea is not only sea baths, it is being in the atmosphere of salty air. The sea is located below the level of the world ocean at 400 m, above this place is salty “smog” in the form of aerosol. Procedures useful for respiratory and skin diseases, cosmetic and rejuvenating for the skin, salt lotions on the body-all this we get just living in this place for a week. The effect is amazing!
Treatment in the Dead sea no more than 15 minutes
Salt on the table
Salt, in high doses, is white poison. The human body requires very little salt, and basically it needs the skin.
Salt in the store is small, medium, large, iodized, sea, with additives of herbs and spices from different fields. What kind of salt you buy for a meal — decide for yourself. It is believed that the salting is better to use coarse salt.
Salt, which we see in stores, sometimes contains different additives. To make up for iodine deficiency, salt for sale to the population is iodized with potassium Iodate. Is obtained where sea salt iodized. If you choose salt for your salt, take it is such.
And best of all, do not salt the dish full measure!
Sea food salt
I have been buying sea salt in the store for a long time. It is, of course, more expensive to cook, but it contains a lot of useful minerals, including iodine, potassium, magnesium. And its main advantage — it has less sodium content, which our body is more harmful than useful, but much more potassium content necessary for the heart.
A lot of people with different diseases get the recommendation to reduce the intake of salt. If you are used to salting food, you should start adding seafood instead. Due to potassium and magnesium, this salt with excess mustard, which means that you will not recalibrate, and the dose of the consumed salt will immediately decrease.
In fact, salting food is only a habit, the body’s need for salt at times less, and it is enough of that contained in the products themselves. Besides “accept” salt is healthier for the skin than the stomach. Arranging periodically salt baths, inhalations, irrigation, the body’s need for salt will be largely satisfied. And, as a consequence, the need to “eat a little salty”will decrease. And, as another consequence, will decrease arterial pressure in older age is of great importance.
By the way, if you like herbs and spices, such as pepper, the special taste of the dish is “score” the need for salting. I, for one, do not salt that pepper.
Mix salt with seasonings can be independently
For sale a large number of complex salt mixtures with herbs and spices. Of course, the matter of what to choose, but I find it easier to add a pinch of these herbs and spices with your hands. Why overpay for someone mixing salt with seasoning for you?
Salt in the blanks
As for the pickles it is recommended that the salt is coarse, it is not necessary to use very large industrial salt.
At preparations do not use technical salt
Industries sometimes use table salt in industrial processes, and this is getting technical (that is unrefined) salt. She often has a red hue. This salt contains impurities of very incomplete and even frankly dangerous chemical elements: iron, arsenic, heavy metals (cadmium, for example) and even radionuclides contained in the earth’s crust.
Take care of your health! Salt is not something worth saving.
Sea kale
Seaweed is a great substitute for food (cooking or sea) salt. It is sold frozen and even dried (not counting ready-made salads, it’s not about them). Dry can be crushed and it “salt” dish. If, of course, this does not contradict special recipes, where it is clearly inappropriate.
But I recommend to try it, perhaps you will partially replace the table salt, which will be useful. And, you can go back to the section cosmetics and make a mask of seaweed, or even a bath with it.
A bit about crystals
Crystals of any minerals have the ability to record and store information. Sodium chloride, which has a structure in the form of a crystal lattice, like other crystals, has the property of recording and storing information. Some scientists even believe that sodium chloride has a great future: it has the most capacious memory, and soon it will be based on sodium chloride is one of the practical ways of storing information. Did you introduce a flash drive of salt?
Apparently, old beliefs about the use of salt for energy purification are based on this property of sodium chloride. After all, salt solutions in the form of a shower, pouring perfectly remove energy dirt, energy fatigue and give strength and good mood.
Rock salt is a crystalline form of the usual
On the safety
Table salt is dangerous in dust form (as, in fact, all dusts are dangerous). Where salt is extracted, where it is loaded-unloaded bags or shovels, you can not work without respiratory protection (respirators) and workwear to protect the skin. Salt dust sits on the skin, inhaled into the lungs, causing disease, in severe cases, can lead to perforation of the nasal septum.
I hope you have learned something new, interesting and useful. I hope you are already using something in your healthy life or you will start using it. Health to all and good luck!
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