Himalayan Rock Salt

Today’s blog was a toss-up between Super-Bowl goodies and a healthy living idea, and I went for the healthy living idea. Sometimes it’s better to have a little healthy living inspiration. I was looking around some of my favorite sites and found a great break down for ideas for detoxifying and purifying with natural salts, and I had to share. I’m a big advocate for Himalayan rock salt, and have been for years. I used to sit with a bright and wonderful elderly woman years ago, as an aid, and she taught me the benefits of having a salt lamp lit in your environment at all times, and she only knew a few of the properties (that helped her daily). You can use is as bath salt, a neti pot wash, a sole elixir, an ambient lamp, or even the salt you use daily on your food.

As a bath salt: you can purchase Himalayan rock salt at most grocery and health food stores as regular, coarse salt as you would sea salt. By adding 2 cups of salt to your warm bath water, you create a rejuvenating and detoxifying spa bath. The dissolved salt draws out toxins from your body, while deep cleansing your skin and righting your energy.

As a neti pot salt: if you’re a neti pot user, you know that it is one helpful way to alleviate some of your sinus pain and congestion.  With a slightly salted wash, you can increase the benefits of utilizing you neti pot. Adding Himalayan salt to your distilled or boiled water helps to prevent and alleviate a sinus infection (as an antimicrobial agent), reduce or eliminate seasonal allergies, and clear your postnasal drip.

As a sole elixir: To start, you need to make your sole. You need a plastic container or glass container with a plastic lid (no metal). Then you just fill ¼ of your container with salt and filtered water the rest of the way. Stir with a plastic utensil or shake well, and then let it sit overnight…that’s it! There should always be undissolved salt at the bottom, that’s how you know that the water is saturated. To use your sole, take one tablespoon a day, first thing in the morning, in a full glass of water. Now for the crazy list of benefits!

-Detoxifies the body by balancing your pH

-Reduces muscle cramps by improving hydration and mineral content

-A powerful antihistamine

-Supports weight loss by balancing hormones

-Assists in balancing blood sugar levels

-Improves sleeping habits

-Supports thyroid and adrenal function

-Helps balance blood pressure through unrefined, mineral-rich salt in an ionic solution

As an ambient salt lamp: this is where my education started. The woman that I learned from kept her lamp going because the negative ions that it produced help keep her arthritis at bay, as well as helping her to breathe easier. I now know that a lot of this is because the bad things in the air we breathe (pollen, pollution, dirt, dust, etc.) have a positive energy charge. A lit lamp acts as a natural air purifier (moisture in the air lands on the salt lamp, creates a salt water mix, and then the moisture evaporates with the warmth of the light bulb, putting the evaporated Himalayan salt into the air). The lamp emits negative ions that attach themselves to the bad particles in the air, turning them neutral, which causes them to no longer be airborne.

Lastly, as your everyday salt: you can pretty much gather from the rest of the post the benefits of taking Himalayan salt into your system. Possibly the easiest way of doing so is by replacing your regular salt in your salt shaker with this rock salt and enjoy!