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Aerosol Salt Therapy and the 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 were engaged in a concerted effort to develop physical therapies
in order to avoid the costs and side effects of drug therapy. 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 chronic bronchitis and asthma treatment 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 has been 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
• Reduces snoring and activates better sleep by clearing the airway passages
in oropharyngeal region
• Increases resistance to Cold & Flu by opening and clearing the nasal
airway and improving the drainage of the sinuses
• Increases the immunity of the whole respiratory system against infections
and sensitivity to allergens
• 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 asthma attacks.
For more information, clinical studies and testimonials click on natural
asthma treatment. The salt therapy device could also be available in some
health stores.
LTiba
WebSite: www.salinetherapy.com
Phone: +1 / 519.641.7258
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