Old wives tale: sea salt to clear the air

Want to clear the air at work or at home???

1. Go to your local health food store or??delicatessen (not supermarket/corner store or something)
2. Buy sea salt (it can be fine or coarse, it doesn’t matter)
3. Go home/back to the office and get a chair and a few bowls
4. Find a location in a room to place the bowl of sea salt that’s up high and away from where you sleep/sit
5. Put a good decent handful of the sea salt into a bowl ensuring it’s no more than half full of salt
6. Stand on your chair (carefully now!) and place the bowl of salt up there
7. Leave it for a week, and replace with a new bowl.

Disposing of the old sea salt

• Your bowl may be full of water when you remove it – be careful not to let the water drip on you
• When disposing of the salt, leave bowl in kitchen sink and run water over it, be careful not to let the water splash your hands
• Why not let it drip/splash me? The theory is it’s full of toxins from your lungs (eughhh!)

How often do I do this?

• Repeat every week, let us know (by commenting below) if you have success.

What’s it good for?

• Apparently it can really help asthma and respiration issues.

How does it work?

• Something to do with ionising effects of sea salt.

Why are you telling us this?

• Let’s just say that it’s an old wives tale I’ve heard and usually only half remember, so I went back to the source – somebody I know very well knows a lot about complementary therapies and so on – and asked for all the details, this time committing them to memory and to this blog.

Do you have any other interesting nuggets to share?

Plenty – keep tuned in for more of these kinda tips. Here’s some interesting stuff that has been published before by the same writer: flower remedies; acupuncture and infertility??(PDF).

Please share feedback by inserting a comment below as to whether you think this works or indeed any other online resources that refer to this simple solution.