The ancients said: All tastes salty first.
As a nation on the tip of the tongue, we are naturally addicted to salty things. Don’t believe you look around, are there always a few people with heavier and heavier tastes?
In addition to maintaining the normal physiological function of the body, salt has also been developed by many unusual people, such as-
Are these wonderful uses true or not? Dr. Clove will take a look with you today.
Soak your feet and add some salt to treat beriberi easily?
Saline soaking feet can remove beriberi, which has been circulating for a long time, but the source is difficult to verify.
The logic may be this:
- Human beings have long discovered that the concentration of salt to a certain extent can inhibit the growth of microorganisms. Therefore, before the refrigerator was invented, people have been using pickling methods to preserve food. The pickled food can be kept at normal temperature and is not easy to be damaged by bacteria, moldy and deteriorated. And beriberi happens to be caused by fungal infection…
Sounds like it makes sense to soak your feet in salt water. It’s perfect…
Wait a minute, do you want to soak your feet or marinate them?
Obviously, it is unrealistic to kill fungi on your feet by soaking your feet in salt water for three reasons:
First, it can be seen from pickled food that the concentration of salt needs to be high enough to be effective. A little salt in foot washing water cannot reach the effective concentration.
Second, even if you make up your mind to put your feet directly into the salt, I will ask you how long you can stick to it. Can’t you go to work the next day with your feet in the salt bucket… … …
Third, and most importantly, antifungal ointment carefully developed by people usually costs about 10 yuan, which is really not expensive.
There is no need to use these ointments with definite and safe curative effects. It is totally unnecessary to go to great lengths to marinate your feet.
Besides, the feet are already very salty (I don’t believe you can try it). Add some salt and it will really become pork trotters with sauce!
Add some salt to the bath to make the skin better?
Another trendy saying is that bathing with salt can exfoliate and make skin smooth and tender.
If anyone hears this and runs to the kitchen to take a bath with a bag of salt, it would be a bit silly.
In fact, this is an unfinished sentence. The salt that can be used for bathing is not absent, but not edible salt in the kitchen, but specially prepared [bath salt].
The main component of bath salt is also sodium chloride, but at the same time it often contains low concentration tannic acid or salicylic acid, and the particles are much larger than edible salt.
Bathing with this bath salt can gently promote the exfoliation of dead keratinocytes through chemical exfoliation and physical grinding, thus making skin smooth and tender.
Generally speaking, bath salt is actually a bit like toothpaste, which can make your bath effect better and deeper.
However, we should note that not everyone is suitable for bath salt.
In the first edition of China’s “Skin Cleaning Guidelines” released in 2016, dermatologists only recommend bath salts for people with oily skin, while other skin types are not suitable.
Especially for people with dry skin and sensitive skin, excessive cleaning and mechanical stimulation of bath salt should be avoided.
Add salt to mouthwash, sterilize and prevent ulcer?
Saline gargling may be a more popular concept.
When your oral ulcer is very painful, people will probably tell you to rinse your mouth with saline out of kindness.
But in fact, it is useless.
As before, because the concentration is not high enough and gargling is a short-term action, the bacteriostatic effect of saline gargling may be much weaker than expected, or not at all.
Speaking of which, smart students must also see that during the [SARS] period, everyone rushed to buy salt for the function of [salt can kill bacteria], but it was only a little psychological comfort (not to mention that it was the virus rather than bacteria that caused [SARS]… the key clove doctor thought your money was wasted).
However, although saline gargling does not have the legendary [sterilization] effect, it is not a bad thing in what, because the really useful action is [gargling].
Especially after eating, it is inevitable that food residues will remain in the mouth. No matter gargling with what water, it is good for oral health.
It’s just that the salt water tastes a little strong. If you don’t mind, gargling is OK.
Because of salt, food can be preserved and human beings can reproduce and live better. As a result, salt has been endowed with various meanings in Chinese and Western cultures: eternity, cleanliness… The derived meanings are even more multifarious.
However, in today’s highly developed science and technology, we no longer need salt to do those extraordinary things.
Doctor Clove felt that as long as he could eat it, it was a pack of good salt, and everyone should not put too heavy a burden on it.