Sea salt: food or treatment?"

There were times when sea salt was appreciated more expensively than gold. Many scientists of former eras called natural salty crystals a source of beauty and health, deeply believing that sea water has the curing force against different diseases. Stars of modern medicine are also solidary with Euripedes, Platon and Hippocrates who experimentally confirmed identity of salts in the sea and human blood. What special is in this natural substance as it can treat, and for whom it is useful — we will tell about all this further in article.

Such different sea salt

Water which fills the seas and oceans is globe blood. Many researchers of the curing phenomenon of sea salt explained it with the fact that deep reservoirs of the planet are a source of life and, respectively, a new civilization.

Not for nothing each earthling feels insuperable thirst for the sea coast sooner or later.

Whether you know? At the beginning of the XIX century, sea salt was 4 times more expensive than some beef. It made a considerable part of goods turnover in many countries.

Main types and their characteristic

Sea salt is different in taste, color, the sizes and a form of crystals and also salinity degree. These characteristics directly depend on specifics and the chemical composition of sea and oceanic waters in which it contains.

The technology of preparation can consist only in drying, and can — in freezing, evaporation, recrystallization, etc. Proceeding from it, all sea spice can be divided on:

• sadochny which is got in the natural way from waters Black, Azov, Caspian, Mediterranean, Dead and other seas by evaporation of moisture under the sun;
• boiling out which is got on technology of evaporation of water in a vacuum.

But, if not to take process of development of saline soils and calibration of the extracted raw materials into account, then all the same the nature surprises with a variety of sea salts.

Whether you know? The Japanese and Korean cuisines widely uses bamboo salt which is baked on bamboo stalks.

For today the following types of sea salt are known to mankind:

• Fleur de sel — in large numbers is in the waters washing the French island Re. Represents the crystal flakes which are formed at edges of salinas. When under the influence of the sun water from a reservoir gradually evaporates, on that place there are flickering outgrowths. They are collected manually. This only place in the world where salt is collected still by primitive methods by means of ladles.
• Maldon — its field is the area of the same name in the southeast of Great Britain. Differs in large crystals of a flat form which at hit on language as if are broken off on a set of small salty sparkles.
• Black Lava — differs from other types in a hydrosulphuric smell and dark color. If to look narrowly at sides of crystals, in them it is possible to see dark brown and saturated violet shades. The salt called in the people "black pearls" received these characteristics thanks to inherent sulfites of iron and sulphurous connections in sea waters. Black salinas are near the Himalaya archipelago, India, Nepal. This spice — the integral ingredient of Asian cuisine. Mineral substance has unique aroma, soft taste and contains more than 80 minerals and elements, useful to health, in the structure.
• Pink Himalaya — represents mineral substance with a non-standard saturated pinkish color that is caused by impurity of chloride potassium, iron oxide. It is characteristic that as a part of this salt the scientists found up to 5 percent of different additives and about the 90th vital to the person of minerals and minerals. Extract such salt near the Indian coast and also in the Pakistani Khevra mine.

Important! Every day the healthy person has to consume about 4-6 grams of salt.

And initially cut big salt pieces, and then process them on small crystals. In some interiors it is possible to meet jewelry from salt blocks, but often such salt is used in cookery for decoration of dishes.

• Alaea Hawaiian Sea Salt are the sedimentary outgrowths which are located along the Hawaiian Islands and California. They possess bright purple shades which are caused by impurity of red volcanic clay. On flavoring characteristics the product possesses sweetish notes and ferruterous taste. It is considered especially valuable to health, than its high price is caused.
• The Iranian and Persian blue — belongs to the most rare versions in the world. Their bluish crystals have gentle taste, they can be used in all dishes. This salt received the name thanks to optical effect which appears at light refraction.
• Salt Kalahari — is characterized by a white color, strong structure and taste, akin with a cooking version. Get a product in the South African underground lakes located near the Kalahari Desert. It is considered that to these lakes more than 280 million years, and outgrowths formed in them are qualified as the cleanest in the world a salt product.
• Kala Namak (Sanchal) — represents the crude natural raw materials which are extracted from volcanic breeds on sulfuric lakes near India and Pakistan. Its distinctive features are the smell of sulfur and sourish notes in taste. "Kalla Namak" recommend at failures in work of a cardiovascular system and kidneys and also at obesity.
• The pink Australian — differs in gentle taste and rich structure. It is got from the Murray River under which basin in the earth salty reservoirs lie. Scientists claim that more than 5 million years ago these waters represented the inland lake, but over time it was completely covered by a thick layer of clay. Such historical feature affects a shade of crystals. Gentle apricot-pinkish impregnations are peculiar to them.
• Sel gris — is got in coastal areas of France. Differs in the pleasant, strongly concentrated aroma, a gray-pinkish shade and specific taste.

Whether you know? To this day the most expensive salt in the world the manual work by the French masters — gerandsky salt is considered. Raw materials for it are collected only in the summer. During heat at windy weather moisture from the Atlantic waters which got to special ponds evaporates, and on this place crystals, similar to flowers, are formed. From 27 kilograms of the crude raw materials only 1 kilogram of a ready-made product turns out. It is characteristic that for a hundred-gram portion the manufacturers ask from 70 to 100 euros.

Whether it is possible to eat

Cooks seldom use sea salt in pure form. According to experts, it, though is rich with vital useful substances, but is very rough food. Often after special cleaning it is used as a decorative or flavoring element to main courses. Many national Aesculapians advise the recipes based on types of sea salt for disposal of all illnesses. Take into account that sea salt is more economic as, in comparison with stone, differs in more expressed flavoring characteristics. It is added to house saltings, canned food and marinades. At the same time, depending on a kind of the used spice, the taste and a color shade of a dish can change.

We advise to read about such spices and spices as: asafoetida, coriander, black caraway seeds, anisetree, carnation, cinnamon, marjoram and fenugreek.

By the way, the mankind opened unique curative abilities of these natural crystals many millennia back. There is an opinion that people who extract salt are never ill. The modern medicine considers that sea salt is an important component of a daily diet of everyone. And the product is recommended to the same extent, both for internal, and for external application.

In what differences from cooking

There is an opinion that all salt which is extracted from the depths of the globe today has sea origin. Just owing to geological changes some fields appeared in open oceanic and sea waters, and others — in underground.

Important! Upon purchase of usual sea salt pay attention to appearance and the structure specified on packing. The natural product is characterized in grayish color that is explained by particles of sulfur and seaweed. And among its components for 98 percent sodium chloride has to prevail. The rest — different impurity of chemical elements which are irreplaceable for full activity of the person.

Differences between that and other salt are obvious on flavoring, color characteristics and content of minerals. Scientists explain this phenomenon with the fact that people receive sea salt by natural evaporation from reservoirs. Such product is favourably allocated with the naturalness, it does not contain the additional reducing the price impurity in the form of chalk, sand, stony breeds and plaster. Contains in it not to exchange of 40 useful minerals (though in rare instances this indicator can reach 80 and above). Table salt, as a rule, is not sold without artificial additives which prolong a goods lezhkost. Because of such additional ingredients it becomes less useful to human health.

Whether you know? In the world of only 6 percent of all salt the mankind uses for cooking, another 17 percent — for processing of highways in winter time and another 77 percent — for the production purposes.

We study structure

For the ordinary reader the subject of curative qualities of salt crystals can seem very disputable. Therefore before speaking about advantage or harm of sea salt, it is worth glancing in its structure. In a natural product which did not undergo cleaning were found:

• sodium (well influences work of heart, strengthens walls of vessels and cleans them from slags);
• chlorine (plays an important role in the course of formation of blood);
• calcium (without this element the formation of connecting, bone and muscular fabrics is impossible);
• potassium (participates in exchange processes, regulates water balance);
• phosphorus (is irreplaceable elements at formation of cages);
• magnesium (contributes to normalization of digestive processes and digestion of useful vitamins and minerals);
• manganese (possesses immunomodulatory function, promotes formation of bones);
• zinc (well influences cages that affects a condition of skin, also stimulates sexual activity and protective functions of an organism);
• iron (influences work of all systems and single bodies as is responsible for transportation of oxygen to them);
• selenium (is the most powerful antioxidant destroying cancer cells);
• copper (influences processes of formation of blood and a lymph);
• silicon (is responsible for elasticity of blood vessels and muscle tissues);
• iodine (well influences work of a thyroid gland and a hormonal background in an organism).

All listed components play an important role in harmonious functioning of a human body. Salt deficiency, as well as its surplus, easily can put any body out of action that will entail for itself irreversible processes.

It is important to know value and a role of minerals in a human body.

In what advantage of sea salt

Since ancient times the sea salt crystals were used as the first remedy for puffiness of different origin, rheumatism, antritis, arthrosis, cold, toothache, heart troubles, pneumonias, poisonings and fungal infections.

Today, despite of scientific progress, physicians continue to use old recipes, practicing various inhalations, washings, bathtubs, rubbing, peelings and srubs. The efficiency of these procedures is caused by the richest composition of sea salt. Several of its crystals are enough to provide an organism with vital minerals.

From the scientific point of view sea salt has the following qualities:

• promotes activation of cell regeneration in fabric fibers;
• increases elasticity of integuments and vessels;
• it is characterized by antiseptic properties;
• removes inflammation;
• satisfies pain;
• increases vitality;
• strengthens nervous system;
• normalizes arterial blood pressure;
• well influences work of heart;
• promotes formation of blood;
• stimulates a metabolism in an organism.

Strangely enough, the modern list of diseases which are treated by sea salt much more extended. Here the milkwoman, warts, osteochondrosis, psoriasis, fractures, eczema, adenoides, conjunctivitis, disorders of a digestive tract, a hungover syndrome and many other things got. Most of experts consider this substance universal therapeutic and prophylactic. The main thing is not to exceed the resolved standard daily rate.

Important! Baths with a small amount of sea salt are shown even to newborns. Pediatricians advise to repeat such procedures daily to strengthen the immune system of the baby.

Whether it is possible for the pregnant women feeding and children

During incubation of the child future mother, as a rule, wants something salty, but similar gastronomic addictions, according to some doctors, can become puffiness reason. Long time was considered to be that salt crystals detain water in organism fibers, than interfere with updating of amniotic liquid. Modern nutritionists, on the contrary, assure that rated consumption of this spice contributes to normalization of salt balance.

The last scientific research confirmed harmlessness of a product. Its deficiency can be expressed by small appetite and deterioration in a blood count. And for the woman feeding or carrying under heart of the child it is accident.

Many future mummies are afraid to grow fat during pregnancy therefore torture themselves saltless diets. Experts do not advise it to do and, on the contrary, recommend to salt food to taste. At the same time fans of smoked products should limit themselves in similar delicacy, also the ban is imposed on dried fish. Especially it concerns children and women in the period of a lactation. You should not forget that the excessive podsalivaniye can provoke serious failures in work of an organism. Therefore all pregnant women and the feeding women should consider the following recommendations:

• If there is a wish salty, and the standard daily rate is already eaten, replace spice with parsley, a basil or fennel. The need for salty food during this period is caused by deficiency of chlorides in blood which are just available as a part of the above-stated plants. It is possible to fill up reserves of chlorides at the expense of seafood and goat milk.
• Strictly you watch an expiration date of the iodated kind of a product. In 4 months after date of production it is already unsuitable as it loses the useful qualities.
• For extraction of the maximum advantage of iodinated salt add it to dishes just before giving on a table. Remember that heat treatment destroys iodic components.

Learn what vitamins are necessary for pregnant women and the feeding mothers.

• Consider that the shortage of salt in an organism leads to blood oxidation, and at excess of norm (even if on each kilogram of weight of salt most of all on 1 gram) the probability of a lethal outcome is very high.
• And also at pregnancy course complications this product in general is contraindicated to the women suffering from toxicosis, diseases of kidneys, liver and heart failure, a hypertension.
• If there is no wish for some salty food during incubation of the child, do not force yourself beliefs as "it is useful — means it is necessary". Listen to the organism and you remember sense of proportion.

Whether you know? In the Roman Empire it was accepted to come on a visit with salt. Such gift was regarded as the sign of respect and friendship.

Features of application

Sea salt is how universal that without it many daily habits of people are simply inconceivable. This product can be found in kitchen, in a first-aid kit, in the bathroom and even in a locker with cosmetics. Let's consider in more detail as well as where to apply crystals and what to do for extraction of them the maximum advantage.

In cookery

Probably, you have in kitchen several types of salt too: boiled — for cooking and frying and also sea — for salads. So many modern hostesses as high temperatures reduce amount of useful minerals as a part of a product do. Especially this nuance concerns the iodated versions.

Sea salt is suitable for any dishes. Moreover, the chef at popular restaurants skillfully emphasize taste of a dish by means of the correct pickles. For example, if to salt a meat stake before roasting, receive a crispy ruddy crust. And here for gentle taste and juiciness of a dish it is recommended to salt meat in 40 minutes prior to heat treatment. But there is more to come secrets of the famous cooks. Some of them practice roasting of sea fish in special salt batter. He prepares at the rate of 200-400 grams of salt on 1 egg white. The taste turns out unforgettable.

Cooking — business thin. Words are excessive here, everything needs to be tried and tasted. Not for nothing in the people say that without salt the table of a curve and bread is not eaten.

Whether you know? Sea salt can recover the died frog. If from vessels of a reptile to produce blood and after cardiac arrest to replace it with physiological solution, "dead person" will start over again breathing, and his bodies will resume the work.

Treatment by sea salt

We already mentioned above about what can be cured by means of salt crystals, and now we will in detail stop on ways of similar therapy.

Most often sea salt is applied to washing of a nose at diseases of the upper airways. It is an inexpensive and effective way to get rid for a short time of cold, cold, antritis, tonsillitis. For this purpose it is necessary to dissolve a salt teaspoon in 250 milliliters of warm water.

When crystals are dissolved, gather solution in the syringe (without needle) and you enter it serially into nostrils. If thus it is impossible to wash out a nose cavity, you can pour out medicine in wide, but small, a bowl and to pull it in itself through a nose. This procedure thus is given some easier. To cure sharp forms of respiratory infections and also the disease of a nasopharynx, a trachea and bronchial tubes is helped by inhalations by physiological solution. Prepare liquid in a proportion 2 tablespoons of salt on 1 liter of boiled water. Mix is filled in in an inhaler and inhale curative steam. Some Aesculapians advise to use cold water and to boil mix on slow fire about 5 minutes. But, according to otolaryngologists, after high temperatures the composition of liquid changes not for the better. It is recommended to carry out inhalations to 2-3 times a day.

Whether you know? For life of people eats about a half of ton of salt.

It is possible to get rid of many skin illnesses by means of courses of medical bathtubs. It is desirable to carry out about 15 procedures (it is possible every other day). Add 2 kilograms of sea salt to a full bathtub of usual water. Lying, surely raise legs slightly above the head — it will facilitate work of heart. Water temperature can be different. Consider that hot bathtubs (up to 42 degrees Celsius) well treat arthritis, kidneys, nervous system, a liver. But similar sessions are categorically contraindicated to cores.

Use for weight loss

The salt crystals got from oceanic and sea depths help to lose excess weight. There is it due to removal from an organism of toxins and slags. Nutritionists warn that miracle dissolution of fat will not happen, but, nevertheless, metabolic processes in an organism will return to normal. Namely it also is an incentive for healthy weight loss. It is possible to lose extra kilos with the help:

• bathtubs (simultaneous use of soap and other cosmetics is forbidden and also total rejection of alcoholic beverages is required);
• salt grinding and massage of skin (becomes by means of any essential oils and sea salt, mix is intensively rubbed to problem sites);
• daily internal intake of salt solution (prepares at the rate of 1 teaspoon of salt on a glass of warm water).