Salt Therapy and its European well-known beneficial effects in respiratory disea

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Salt Therapy and its European well-known beneficial effects in

respiratory diseases

The benefits of salt therapy (also called Halotherapy) or

speleotherapy are well known and documented in Europe. Halotherapy

uses dry aerosol micro particles of salt and minerals to treat

respiratory diseases and seeks to replicate the conditions of

speleotherapy (from Greek speleos=cave), a treatment that has been

practiced in old salt mines of Eastern Europe since the early 19th

century.

In the mid 18th Century a Polish health official Felix Botchkowski,

noticed that the workers of salt mines did not get ill with lung

diseases. He wrote a book about the effects of salt dust in 1843.

His successor M. Poljakowski founded a Salt Spa in Velicko near

Krakow, which is still in operation. During the Second World War

salt mines were often used as bombproof shelters. After spending

time there many people who suffered from asthma felt that their

health had gotten better! Today there are many salt sanatoriums in

Europe (Austria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia …).

The Halotherapy belongs to the category of the physical therapies

non-drug and non invasive treatments of diseases. In the former

Soviet Union, medical researchers engaged in a concerted effort to

develop physical therapies in order to avoid the costs and side

effects of drug therapy as well as microbial and tumour resistance.

Russia has become the world leader in developing and testing new and

increasingly effective physical therapies. Many of the clinical

trials have focused on Halotherapy as a treatment of asthma and

chronic bronchitis and also very effective as a main or adjuvant

therapy across the entire range of upper and lower respiratory tract

diseases.

Respiratory diseases are a major cause of morbidity and mortality

worldwide. Most drug therapies of respiratory diseases have only

palliative effects, and many have significant side effects,

especially those with corticoids or steroids. So, a physical therapy

like Halotherapy is greatly needed.

Speleotherapy also makes a great demand on patients' time. The mines

are not conveniently located for most people and the total cost is

fairly significant.

The effectiveness of speleotherapy is not acknowledged in all

countries of the world, but in countries like Romania (Praid,

Tg.Ocna, Seiged, Sovata, Slanic, Ocna), Poland (Wieliczka), Germany

(Teufelshöhle), Austria (Hallen, Solzbad-Salzeman), Armenia,

Belarus, Bulgaria, Hungary, Russia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Nakhichevan

mines in Azerbaijan, the salt aerosol plays an important role in the

treatment of chronic respiratory diseases, working well with or

without medical treatment and without any known side effects.

Because of these, pregnant women with asthma or other respiratory

diseases could use this therapy without any harm to the child. Very

well known and appreciated in these middle-eastern European

countries, this therapy is covered by the public health care system.

In Romania there are also many salt lakes - Sovata with 7 salt

lakes, Ocna Sibiului with 52 salt lakes in S-W of Transilvania, very

well known in the treatment of infertility, metabolic diseases, skin

diseases. These salt lakes were usually formed by collapsing of salt

caves ceilings. All these salt lakes have different salinity,

increasing with deepness – from 9g/l to 320g/l.

This salt therapy being very well known for its beneficial effects,

a Romanian inventor put his mind at work and developed a device that

is able to reproduce a speleotherapy micro environment in your home

in an affordable and convenient way. Internationally recognized,

with Gold and Silver medal at " Salon International des Inventions " ,

Geneva and " World Exhibition of Innovation, Research and New

Technology " , Brussels, this Romanian invention brings new hopes in

the natural treatment of chronic respiratory diseases.

The inventor thought this device as an air salinizer that uses

forced ionization of the indoor air by salt sublimation creating a

micro climate of dry aerosol salt therapy in your living space. He

used a natural process of salt crystallization to obtain salt micro

crystals under 5µm in diameter, invisible to human eyes, being able

to penetrate deep into the lung. The device uses only natural salt

from within the mountain of salt, untreated or touched by the human

processing technology.

Based on clinical studies, the inhaled saline has bactericide,

mucokinetic, hydrophilic, anti inflammatory properties, reducing

inflammation in the whole respiratory tract, absorbing edema from

the mucosa lining the airway passages leading to widening of the

airway passages, restoring the normal transport of mucus and unclog

blockages in the bronchi and bronchioles leading to rapid

elimination of the residual tar and foreign allergens, all of these

in a natural process.

Edema of the nasal mucosa and the oropharynx and soft palate,

causing nasal obstruction and snoring is diminished, leading to

widening of the airway passage in the nose and the tubes of the

sinuses and improving the sinuses drainage and reducing snoring.

In the auditory tube, edema of the Eustachian tube causing ear

infection, is also diminished, leading to widening of the airway

passages, better drainage and better aeration behind the tympanic

membrane.

The salt therapy was found to have beneficial effects in the

treatment of:

• Asthma and Chronic Bronchitis

• COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease)

• Allergic Rhinopathy or Hay Fever

• Cystic Fibrosis

• Sinusitis

• Ear Infections

• Smoking Cough

• Various acute or chronic respiratory disease

• Reduce snoring and activates better sleep by clearing the

airway passages in oropharyngeal region

• Increased resistance to Cold & Flu by opening and clearing

the nasal airway and improving the drainage of the sinuses

• Humidifies the bronchial secretions reducing broncho-spasm

and facilitating elimination of the smoke residual tar, phlegm expel

and other allergens

• Improves the quality of the indoor air by eliminating the

dust, cigarette smoke, bad odours, mould and mites, having

bactericide reduction properties.

The salt therapy is a natural method of therapy and does not involve

any risk and is finally adapted to the living space. However, this

is NOT a substitute for medical treatment and should only be used as

an adjuvant helping to improve the quality of patients' life,

reducing the antibiotics and corticoids or steroids intake, reducing

the rate of annual hospitalizations and decrease the frequency of

respiratory diseases attacks.

For more information, clinical studies and testimonials you can

visit the web site.

LTiba

WebSite: www.salinetherapy.com

+1 / 519.641.SALT

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