Unrefined Sea Salt: Nutrient-rich Condiment For Better Health
Ancient cultures all over the world have prized unrefined sea salt for its incredible worth. The word for salt in the Celtic language also implies 'holy ' or 'sacred'. The Sumerian God Enlil once decreed that Gods and human rulers should not taste food prepared for them before it is sanctified by salt. In the Egyptian, Greek and Roman cultures, salt was thought of as a divine endowment and regularly used in religious ceremonies.
The Romans assigned a similar high value to salt which was used as a form of cash or money. Roman armed forces were often paid a 'salary' with salt; the Chinese had a particular God for salt, named Phelo.
On a practical level, unrefined sea salt is one of the most vital sources of trace minerals on this planet, assisting with allergies, rheumatism, heart conditions, asthma, digestive disorders, high blood pressure, kidney function, water retention and more.
The viewpoint of modern medicine that salt is a general poison, similar to tobacco and alcohol. People have been indoctrinated since adolescence that "salt causes high blood pressure". Books on salt-free cooking are more popular than ever. If you call the British Heart Organisation they will send you leaflets on the dangers of salt. Fortunately modern science now evidences the amazing health advantages of unrefined salt.
What they do not tell you is:
- Trace Minerals in unrefined sea salt include magnesium, sulphur, calcium, potassium, iodine, indium and more
- The healing powers of unrefined sea salt equal those of Vitamin C, Vitamin E and plenty of other necessary nutrients.
- Unrefined Sea Salt is full of the necessary minerals many of us lack from foods in the Western diet.
- A low salt diet for the treatment of high blood pressure conditions is a massive countrywide disgrace, based totally on dogma, not evidence.
- A salt-restrictive diet can really raise your blood pressure and cause accelerated ageing, cellular degeneration and biochemical starvation.
- An absence of salt can literally cripple your health and cause liver (renal) failure, kidney malfunction and massive adrenal fatigue syndrome.
- On a salt-free diet, the heart muscle valves can become tired, tear and result in a fatal heart attack.
Recommended Unrefined Sea Salt
Fleur de Sel (organic table salt) and Gros Sel Guerande (organic cooking salt)
How commercial salt is 'made '
The corporate food producers buy unrefined salt in massive quantities. This vital nutrient is subjected to a degrading industrial process that involves heating it to 2000 degrees Fahrenheit to break the molecular structure. This allows the extraction of minerals and trace elements and all of the goodness which is then carefully separated and repackaged as individual sources of potassium, selenium, calcium, selenium and magnesium and so on then sold to us to supplement the lack of minerals in our food. Now we know why!
What's leftover is primarily sodium chloride. Instead of being utilised for more suitable purposes, it is first bleached; dextrose is added to boost the flavor, as is inorganic iodine and an aluminium-based substance to give it a free flow. This is packaged and labelled as SALT and sold to the naive public.
It should be clearly labeled POISON as this is not salt. It is sodium chloride, or to the human digestive system a slow kind of poison. In almost every medical study conducted, sodium chloride is the 'salt ' that is harmful for you, not unrefined sea salt. Beware the corporations leaping onto the health bandwagon; you want unrefined sea salt, not natural sea salt, which is never natural by any leap of the imagination.
Thyroid malfunction
Lack of iodine in food can bring about thyroid malfunction. The malfunction is caused by a deficiency of minerals instead of by a specific lack of iodine. There's irrefutable research that iodine-enriched salts have little benefit to thyroid conditions as they are based essentially on industrial salts. Inorganic iodine, added in a synthetic way that passes through the urine inside 20 minutes and the body within a day.
Jacques de Langre the 'Salt Doctor' writes:"The healing properties of iodine-rich marine products were known and used extensively for treating goitre before iodine was isolated and discovered. Around 1500 B.C. The Greeks ate charred sea sponges and drank seaweed teas; later both these remedies were prescribed for the handling of goitre by a Chinese doctor Ke-Hung, who lived A.D 281-361. The Chinese pharmacopoeia in the eighth century A.D. Listed no less than 27 different prescriptions for the treatment of goitre, each one of them using types of sea algae and other products of the sea. Modern medicine discovered that iodine was a prime constituent of the thyroid gland in 1895, and the thyroid hormone, thyroxin, was first isolated in 1914. In the first enthusiasm of discovery, all sorts of foods were bolstered with quantities of iodine, totally out of proportion to the needs of the human or animal thyroid gland. Today the salt refiners, misguided by the medical establishment, continue this practice. Seventy-five years later, such overdoses continue unabated
(an average of 30 to 1200 times the dose that occurs in natural Celtic sea salt). Iodine supplementation in inorganic form (such as through iodised table salt or pills) is responsible for the obscure glandular "borderline" symptoms without tangible pathology. A surplus of iodine in any diet is as detrimental as the lack of it."
Some years ago I hired a beach-side home in Kingscote on Kangaroo Island, Australia. In the kitchen was a tank containing half a dozen lethargic looking fish. I took a healthy pinch of Fleur de Sel and sprinkled it on top of the water. It wasn't long before these fish showed a new lease of life. All they needed was the minerals!
"If you change anything in your kitchen, change your salt"
Jacques de Langre.
From a family of Clydeside Scots, Graeme was born and brought up in Hong Kong. He lived for 35 years there, as well as in Borneo and Indonesia. Intrigued by the way in which the different Asian cultures approach their health and well-being, he studied aspects of Traditional Chinese Medicine and became familiar with many other ancient healing methods, from the traditional Jamu herbal medicine healers of Java to the body balancing mechanisms of Jin Shin Jyutsu, from Japan.
Together with his wife Phylipa, Graeme runs Resources For Life, a natural health business in Chichester, West Sussex. Much of what is available on their website has origins steeped in ancient wisdom.
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