Speleotherapy, the Rock Salt Crystal Lamp, and Negative Ions
These days we have been conditioned to "medicate" as a primary means of treatment, thanks to the powerful pharmaceutical companies lobbying and advertising (the medical community is not innocent either). Pharmacotherapy offers quick, convenient relief but at what possible cost and what side effects?
Speleotherapy - widely acknowledged as being a very effective and medication-free method of treatment for a variety of health issues. Underground climatotherapy in natural salt caves (speleotherapy) has been known centuries through Europe and parts of Asia. Speleotherapy is still muddled in obscurity in the US however.
The effects and results of speleotherapy are associated with the dry salt cave microclimate created by the natural sodium chloride aerosol occuring within these underground chambers- which is a result of "convective diffusion" formed by the salt walls of the caves. The air is dust-free, hypoallergenic, hypobacterial, low in moisture, and energized with natural, beneficial negative ions.
Halotherapy, from the Greek "halos" or salt, is a similar mode of treatment employing a controlled air medium simualting the microclimate of these therapeutic and natural salt caves.
A Polish doctor, F. Bochowsky, first suggested that air saturated with saline dust, and what would be later known as negative ions, created a curative effect with persons suffering from respiratory diseases in the year 1843.
All over the globe, salt mines are well-known and used for therapeutic treatment. Countries such as Pakistan, Poland, Austria, Romania, Azerbaijan, Ukraine have substantial mines of varying degrees. After my own studies, frankly, not all salt is the same; all have effect, yet our most noticeable effects came from the Himalayan foothills region of Pakistan.
Try a salt lamp...your wellness will thank you.
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