Question:
I see that salt is one of the five basic foods you recommend storing. Why is it so important?
The Seer:
Several reasons; Firstly: unless you get enough sodium, you can’t retain your hydration. In times of drought, you may not have as much water per person per day as you may normally have. It would be particularly important to retain what you do have — especially in hot climates.
Secondly, for disinfecting purposes. As a strong saline solution, it cleanses water bottles and thermos flasks, and cooking utensils. It flavors foods.
For medicinal reasons: gargling with warm salt water (a teaspoon full in a cup of water) is a very effective way to heal a sore throat. Make sure you have a sinus rinse bottle in your medicine cupboard. A saline solution is used to drain and heal sinuses. Salt is used in home drying and smoking fish and meats. Pets and people all crave a certain amount of salt.
Choosing the right salt: According to Dr. James Alexander, iodine-laden commercial salt is “like eating glass”. It builds up in the body and the body doesn’t know what to do with it, can’t digest nor excrete it. The iodine isn’t organic iodine and is unhealthy to consume. Choose sea salt. Food needs less sea salt than commercial salt since it’s more salty.
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WOW this Is pretty cool Dear Almine thank you Tina for posting this
We use only Himalayan pink salt. All sea salt i polluted by radioactivity now. The least polluted among sea salts, from what I’ve read, is what is called ‘fleur de sel’: flakes which accumulate on the surface of certain Atlantic salt beds off of Brittany for instance, and the Camargue. It is more expensive but delicious!
The pink salt can cover all uses: fine, corse, and rocks.
The only thing is that the Himalayas are also being destroyed to indiscriminately mine it in vast quantities for the health food industry. I don’t use it anymore for that reason, since it became obvious what was going on.
THANK YOU Ciara. I was not aware of this. I only recently noticed that the bit of the Himalayan salt I had left has been out of date for quite a long time (which Is not an area I always go by as there are extended life present in many products).
Yes, Sea Salt is less in sodium – half the normal salt amount of sodium. I use Kosher salt which is sea salt but prepared well. Because, sea salt can be dirty sometimes, depending on where you get it. I can get it at the bulk store more cheaply.
Thank you for this insight. Have always gargled with salt whenever it was needed, though for quite a while now have usied when needed the Himalayan Primal salt from the foothill zone of the Himalayas. Will definitely purchase a bigger quantity of sea salt to have on hand – another to add on my List.