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A pretty amazing chemical….. this
salt. If you think about it, you realize it’s almost like a magic compound. Just
look at all these disconnected facts and you’ll see the common thread that runs
through them.
It is widely believed that a dip
in the Dead Sea has huge therapeutic benefits and is known to heal even very
serious illnesses. The dead sea is called the dead sea because of it’s high
salinity; It has 27% salinity against the normal 3% salinity of oceans
Goa has a ritual, where it is
believed by locals that during the month of May, a series of dips in the sea
with the sea water left unwashed over a two to three day period keeps all
illnesses at bay for the year
In Pranic healing, negative
energy that is removed from the body is dissipated through a bowl of salt water
In many Indian households, the dhishti (
removal of the evil eye) is often done with a fistful of salt
Sports folks are asked to bathe
or soak in a bucketful of salt water when their bodies are sore
Salt water gargling is the
simplest and best panacea for a sore throat
Interesting, huh?
Salt also is the component of tears.
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Salt is one of the 5 white poison to be avoided under ayurveda.
Salt is used to preserve.
There are so many proverbs world over some of which are :-
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.
Give neither advice nor salt, until you are asked for it.
However much the world degenerates, man shall never find worms in salt.
What is salt to tasteless food, what is a word to a foolish head?
Three things are good in small doses and bad in big ones: yeast, salt, and hesitation
Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
Every one of our 10,000 taste buds is wired for sugar. But we aren't born liking salt - we develop a taste for it at about 6 months.
OMG ! I was talking of salt as a cleanser of negative energy, but guess most of these fit too….for instance I can so easily see tears taking away negative energy, right?
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