'Have you heard of Halotherapy? What about a Salt room? No? I hadn’t either until this summer. It just so happens that I am a very lucky American to have a Salt room in my vicinity. There are more opening up all the time so you just might be too. I have tried to find a comprehensive listing of salt rooms around the country to include on here but I can’t seem to find one. Sorry you will have to google it for your own area yourself.'
' Green Smoothies and SALT Therapy Cure Salt Therapy – from History to Modern Approaches by Livia Tiba –
'Classical Homeopath 'The origins of salt therapy lie in Eastern and Central Europe and can be traced back to the mid 19th Century, when a Polish health official, Dr. Felix Boczkowski, noticed that the workers of salt mines never became ill with any lung diseases.
Since that time, many salt sanatoriums were carved out in salt mountains all across Eastern and Central Europe (the Carpathians), hundreds of feet bellow the surface, specifically for asthmatics and patients with lung disease and allergies.
The treatment of respiratory diseases by inhalation of fine rock salt particles and negative ions of sodium chloride, in salt caves or salt mines, is called Speleotherapy.'
'It might be one of the most unconventional hospital wards on Earth, except that technically it’s not on Earth: It’s hundreds of meters below the surface. For decades, the tunnels of the Solotvyno Salt Mine in Ukraine have hosted subterranean convalescents. Patients with various bronchial blockages, asthma and breathing problems are sent to the mines by the Solotvyno’s allergological hospital to suck up the curative air.'
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