Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Salt Therapy to Cure Asthma

For the circulatory system of blood vessels, salt has a negative side because it can lead to hypertension if taken to excess. But for the respiratory system, the salt can cure asthma through haloterapi or salt therapy.

Haloterapi an alternative treatment methods of Eastern Europe are made using mineral halite or rock salt, especially sodium chloride. Minerals are not eaten or drunk but inhaled with the air being pumped.

Patients sit in a room covered with salt crystals, and breathe air that is pumped salt mixed with a tool called halogenerator. Similar spas in general, it's just not that exhaled aromatherapy steam but mineral salts.

In the region of origin, haloterapi available naturally in the caves and salt lakes like the Dead Sea on the border of Jordan, Israel and the West Bank. Once developed with modern touches, this therapy is started worldwide and is now quite popular in Europe, America and Canada.

The manager claimed this therapy potent respiratory problems ranging from asthma, allergies to pneumonia. Not many studies that prove its worth, but some literature says steam salt does have the effect of the airway.