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About Hymalaian Salt:
There have been two main sources for salt: sea water and
rock salt. Rock salt occurs in vast beds of sedimentary evaporate minerals that
result from the drying up of enclosed lakes, playas, and seas.
Salt runs through our language, our history, and our veins! In
ancient times, salt (or the lack of it) could drastically affect the health of
entire populations. Trade in salt was very important, and salt was valuable
enough to be used as currency in some areas. Everyone must have salt, so it has
been a commodity much abused by attempts at monopoly, by individuals,
corporations, cities, and nations.
Salt runs through the English language in a thick vein; and
no wonder, since it runs the same way through history, religion, folktales,
superstitions, geology, physiology, and nearly every aspect of daily living,
from cosmetics and clothing to gasoline and our meals.
"Salt is so common, so easy to obtain, and so
inexpensive that we have forgotten that from the beginning of civilization
until about 100 years ago, salt was one of the most sought after commodities in
human history."
Mark Kurlansky, Salt, A World History
The importance of salt in our lives cannot be overstated.
Without salt, our bodies cannot perform some of the vital functions like
regulating blood and body fluids and maintaining nerve signals. Salt deficiency
leads to muscular weakness, cramps and exhaustion. Severe salt deprivation can
even prove fatal. Salt sets off an osmosis movement in the body and adjusts the
amount of fluids within and outside the cells. A healthy body processes the
amount of salt it needs, and expels the rest through the kidneys.
The two elements of salt sodium and chloride play a
vital role in body functions. Sodium helps in sending messages to and from the
brain, regulates the body fluids and helps our muscles including those of the
heart to contract. Chloride preserves the acid-base balance of the body,
absorbs potassium and helps the blood to carry carbon dioxide from respiratory
tissues to the lungs.
Natural unprocessed salt crystal is the world's oldest
antibiotic known to man. Somewhere along the way, history books have forgotten
this great medicine that bacteria and viruses offered absolutely no resistance
to it whatsoever. It is the simplest medicine I have ever known. For those
people who want an even more powerful medicine, just add one whole lemon juice
to natural salt and its antibiotic and antiviral capabilities is extended many
times.
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