>From "Seasalts Hidden" Powers by Jacques de Langre. To order all the Grain & Salt Society at 916-872-5800 Salt and Healing "Celtic sea salt has countless medicinal uses. It can help in correction excess acidity; restoring good digestion; relieving allergies and skin diseases; and preventing many forms of cancer. Natural salt provides a steady boost in cellular energy and gives he body a heightened resistance to infections and bacterial diseases. Lima Ohsawa, macrobiotic healer in Japan, has emphatically stated many times: "If you cook your vegetables without salt, you will never cure any illness." Refined salt has lost its ionic, electrolytic, positive and negative charge properties. It is that particular bio-electronics quality which makes Celtic ocean salt a healing element and a vital, necessary added ingredient in any vegetarian diet. Natural sea salt dried by the sun's rays contains elements that enhance the human organism by their radioactive properties. It is possible to follow the path of radio calcium as it heads straight to the site of a bone fracture or lesion of an organ upon entering the body. Other radioactive isotopes work in the same manner, such as radio-manganese, radio-phosphorus, or radio-magnesium. These simple isotopes are led, ironically and electronically, in straight pathway through the body to their required destination, unerringly reaching the spot where they are needed most. They not only perform such mechanical tasks as bone fracture mending, but are also able to totally restore chronic organic malfunctions and correct aberrant mental conditions. The 70-plus trace elements have definite triggering actions on the body's various functions, feeding the organs with a specific amount - measurable in parts per million - of elements that help to eliminate or prevent disease. Biomedical research has, for years, recognized that a number of illnesses are directly preventable by the action of metallic ions in the organism such as magnesium, calcium, iron, sodium, and potassium. Isolating and administering these elements in the form of mineral supplements is a popular method of treatment whenever a deficiency is diagnosed by hair, nail, body fluid, or decal analysis. Minerals work in conjunction with each other, and they cannot work to heal when their concentration is increased disproportionately beyond the level of parts per million. Even in a dosage that consists in taking just one tablet of mineral supplementation, the effect can be toxic by upsetting the balance of minerals rather than beneficial. Micro-dosages such as the magnesium salts, as they exist in naturally sun-dried sea salt, which average about .75% of the total ocean solids, are essential for the electrical breakdown of nutrients. As enzyme activators and controllers of energy transfer in living cells, magnesium salts are also catalysts for carbohydrate metabolism and chemical reactions in the body. They regulate bone and brain development, blood plasma, and dissolve calcium oxalate deposits, more commonly called kidney stones. If, as in boiled salt, the magnesium salts are lacking or insufficient (less than one half of one percent), kidney stones will form. Taking a salt containing between half and three-quarters of 1% of magnesium salt prevents the formation of kidney stones, dissolves those already formed. Magnesium salts in excess of 3% of total solids in salt will, on the other hand, create hardening of the joints and extreme arthritis. Phosphorus is present in natural sea salt also in micro-amounts, that of a period followed by four zeroes and then four sixes (0.00006666). Phosphorus salt compounds initiate and renew bone material which in turn maintain ionic blood composition. They regulate hydrogen ion concentration and vitamin absorption in tissue, and prevent rickets and osteoporosis. When is it necessity to take in more salt than a normal dose? In the case of hemorrhage, severe burns, violent physical trauma, acute infection, shock from an illness, surgical intervention, or if very deep emotional turmoil occurs, there is an immediate requirement for extra potassium. This is best met by a salt solution made directly from a natural light gray Celtic sea salt. This restores the potassium in the inner cell through the process of transmutation from sodium. Proper balance in the body is achieved by maintaining a relatively high potassium content inside the cell and a relatively high sodium concentration outside the cell. When these elements are in excess, this re-establishment of balance can occur in many ways; through urine, sweat, tears, or even vomiting." Radiation Fallout Protection " The daily use of natural gray Celtic sea salt protects the user by neutralizing fallout radiation exposure because it supplies organic iodine to the entire glandular network. The new science of microchemistry has proven that several specific trace elements protect the internal organs from artificial radiation, and that these oligo-elements are most effective at micro-doses. In life-threatening situations such as direct exposure to atomic radiation, potassium iodide tablets are prescribed in an attempt to quickly saturate the thyroid. It is hoped that this massive and sudden supplementation can save lives by competing with and serving to clear the radio active iodine that concentrate in the thyroid after exposure to an atomic blast. The prescribed potassium iodine forces the radioactive iodine to leave the body. This medical theory speculates that, as the tablets flush the endocrinal system, the lethal effect of radioactive iodine will be checked. Dr. William Weston, while an official in the United States Department of Public Health, stated that the organically bound iodine of foodstuffs (land-based algae, seaweeds, crabs, oysters, lobsters, shrimps, etc.) is far more effective because it is slowly released in the body. Artificially supplemented iodine is worthless because it passes too quickly into the urine within as little as twenty minutes. A better way to prepare against the eventuality of atomic fallout is to build a strong immune terrain ahead of time by simply using real sea salt daily since it alone supplies the highest possible level of organic iodine. The fixing capabilities of the clay stabilize the iodine level at 800 parts per million, which is more than half of the iodine of sea water. While iodine is volatile and some of it escapes into the atmosphere, the loss is minimized because crystallization is completed in less than 12 hours. In the industrial exploitation of salt, the salty brine stagnates from a few months to as much as three years in the ponds and all of the iodine is already evaporated in the crude stage well before further loss is inflicted before the refining process is even begun. It takes 30 liters (8 gallons) of sea water to produce one kilogram of natural Celtic salt crystals. In the original liquid form of those 30 liters, the iodine content is on the order of 1500 parts per million. Soil and crops near coastlines are richer in organic iodine than those inland. Eating seaweeds, shore-grown vegetables or tideland saltwort will supply as much as 100 milligrams of iodine per serving. The latest findings in biology demonstrate that natural Celtic ocean salts contain not only organic iodine compounds but that those levels are reinforced by the presence of iodine-bearing microscopic algal and phytoplankton organisms that add organic quality iodine to these salts. If the natural moisture in salt is forced-out or if it stored in too hot an area, the salt will lose both of these iodine forms. Therefore, it is always wise to purchase natural Celtic ocean salt, a moist salt and to protect its humidity by always storing it a cool and dark place". Best, Peter [log in to unmask]