Bath Salts
Bath salts are soluble, usually
dead solid products intended to be added to a bath, either to improve cleaning,
provide a medical improvement, to improve the experience of bathing, or to dish
up as a vehicle for makeup agents.
Examples of bath salts include:
Magnesium sulfate (Epsom salts)
Sodium chloride (table salt)
Sodium bicarbonate (baking soda)
Sodium hexametaphosphate
Sodium sesquicarbonate
Borax
Interested in knowing the effects
of bath salts??
Scientific research has presented
the following benefits:
Bath salts affect the muscles and
nervous system.
Bath salts provide a diversity of
benefits to a bather.
They change the osmotic balance
of water so that fewer salts are leeched from the skin via osmosis
Bath salts actually reduce the
wrinkling effect of long-drawn-out contact of skin
Some bath salts such as
phosphates have a detergent action which softens calloused skin and aids in
exfoliation.
They also increase the exact
gravity of the water and add to cheerfulness which makes the body feel lighter
in the bath.
They are often used to take off
the assets of natural mineral baths.
Interested in a discovery?
Do you want to discover the
curative powers of bath salts?
Bath salts provide real delicious
delight and cleanse your body if long placed in a tub.
It also has a remedial effect on
your mind, heart, and soul whether you have sore, tired feet from standing all
day, or a stiff back from working at your desk.
Bath salts can help improve the
way you feel and alleviate away the tension.
Adding a little bath salt in
water surprisingly helps improve your circulation
People with back pain, arthritis,
muscle tension or spasms, and minor work and sports injuries can use bath salts
to get rid of all these pains.
Bath salts open the pores to
purify the skin and cleanses away dirt and sweat and makes you feel fresh and
healthy
Bath salts also softens you skin
by removing dryness and helps improve certain irritations like insect bites or
calluses
On the whole, bath salts have a
too much to offer. They absolutely give you fresh look and feel which keeps you
active throughout the day. These salts are crucial to use everyday or might as
well twice a day. Whenever you feel tired after an exhausting gym hour or
working day, feel free to take shower using bath salt you will certainly feel
different.
Speleotherapy or underground
climatotherapy is an alternative treatment for asthma used in Eastern Europe10.
It involves spending 2-3 hours a day underground in subterranean caves or salt
mines over a 2-3 month period. This rather old therapeutic modality without a
scientific explanation seems to give some benefit to patients with COAD and
asthma.
10. Karakoca Y, Demir G, Kisacik G et al. Speleotherapy in asthma
and allergic diseases. Clin Exp Allergy 1995;25:666-667.
Ukrainian allergologic hospital
(UAH) - is the greatest in the world speleotherapeutic clinic, where for more
than 30 years is successfully applied the unique microclimate of salt mines in
treatment and rehabilitation of patients with all forms bronchial asthma and
other chronic nonspecific lung diseases (CNLD).
During this period about 60000
patients were cured with high efficiency. The hospital is designed for
simultaneous reception of 260 persons. Annually more than 2000 adults and 1000
children improve their health in the clinic. UAH is located in the foothill
zone of Ukrainian Carpathians in the valley of the river Tisa with soft
climatic conditions.
Medicinal factors
To umprove patients' health three
basic medical factors are applied: Specific microclimate of salt mines, water
of salt workings, brine and mud of salty lake (with high content of bromine
ions). The original complex of medical factors on the base of UAH allows to
provide health improvement not only for patients with CNLD, but also for
patients with psoriasis, neurodermitis, allergic dermatitis, conditions after
burns, patients with disfunctions of nervous system, diseases of sexual sphere
and organs of support and motion.
Infrastructure
UAH has a department of
speleotherapy (underground treatment); a surface complex, which includes 3
therapeutic departments for the adults, pediatric department, wards of
intensive therapy and reanimation, X-ray, stomatological and allergological
consulting rooms, ORL-room, laboratory-diagnostic department, department of
physiotherapeutic treatment with a cabinet for acupuncture, halls for medical
physical training and consulting room for functional diagnostics. Besides at
UAH there is a comfortable zone of rest on salty lakes.
Such structure of UAH allows
ensuring a complex individual approach to diagnostics, treatment and
rehabilitation of each patient.
Medical process
During the initial period (after
arrival to the clinic) every patient undergo diagnostics to reveal
peculiarities of the phase, duration, severity of the disease and associated
pathology. After that the patient is offered a complex of medical measures
according to his individual features, directed on the achievement of maximal
effect and duration of remission.
To increase the effect of
speleotherapy in UAH is widely used various nature-therapeutic methods for
health improvement - thermal- and electro-treatment, inhalation and drinking
phytotherapy, various forms of massage, laser-therapy, aromotherapy,
traditional Chinese medicine, medical physical culture. Qualified personnel
with application of modern methods of treatment and rehabilitation allow
carrying out the whole process of treatment on high level.
The experience of UAH confirms,
that speleotherapy is one of the simple and highly effective methods of
non-medical treatment and rehabilitation of patients with various chronic
nonspecific lung diseases
Negative Ions clean the air of:
Dust
Pollen (grass, weed and tree
pollen)
Dust mites
Animal dander
Mold spores
Hay fever
Asthma
Air purifying and freshening
Odor reduction
Smoke elimination
Seasonal affective disorder
Depression
Chronic fatigue