The information below is presented by permission of Natural
Resources, Inc., publisher of the book, Water&Salt, The Essence
of Life by Dr.Med Barbara Hendel and biophysicist Peter Ferreira.
General Information:
• What is Himalayan Crystal Salt?
• Salt - Mediator Between Energy &
Matter
• The Structure of Salt
• The Power of Salt to Transform
• No Thoughts, No Actions Without Salt
• The Conductivity of Salt
• From White Gold to White Poison
• How Salt Became Sodium Chloride
• How Common Table Salt Burdens the Body
• The Consequences of consuming Common Table
Salt
• The Difference between Rock Salt
& Crystal Salt
Health Benefits:
• Healing Effect of Crystal Salt
• The Neutralizing Effect of Salt
What
is Himalayan Crystal Salt?
Himalayan Crystal Salt is more than sodium and chloride. Himalayan
Crystal Salt can actually be viewed as food. When we speak of salt,
and as we scrutinize its properties in the following text, we mean
salt in its original form: holistic, wholesome, unaltered, natural
salt, as it has crystallized in the Earth over millions of years.
When we speak of “table” salt that is sold in the supermarket,
we refer to it as sodium chloride with additives, which is what it
really is.
Natural Himalayan crystal salt contains all the elements of which
the human body is comprised. From the periodic table of elements we
are familiar with 94 natural elements (stable as well as unstable).
Apart from inert gases, all of these elements can be found in crystal
salt. Hence, crystal salt contains all natural minerals and trace
elements that are found in the human body. We perceive crystal salt
as being the totality of all natural elements. This may not be entirely
correct according to chemistry, however we will continue to use the
term crystal salt in this context. The number of the respective elements
contained in the crystal salt is biophysically irrelevant to this
study.
The
Meaning of the Word Salt
The word salt comes from the Latin term sal, which again comes from
the word sol. Sol is synonymous with the “sole,” the water
and salt solution and is the Latin word for sun. Mythologically, and
from its definition, sole means “liquid sunlight,” the
liquid materialization of the sun’s energy, liquid light energy,
bound into a geometrical structure, capable of creating and sustaining
life. This literally explains where life on Earth came from: from
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The Celtic word for salt, “hall” has the same roots as
the German word heilig meaning “holy” which also comes
from the word heil meaning “whole,” Further, hall also
signifies sound (German schall). The schall is a sound with a long
hall, which means echo or reverberation in German, involving vibration.
If we knew of these correlations today, we would be asking our neighbor
at the table to “Please pass me some vibration,” rather
than “Please pass me some salt.” We have to ask, “Were
the Celts conscious of the fact that salt contained all the frequency
patterns of the elements?” And, that “hall” was
the basic vibration for “heil” (German “health”)/
“wholesomeness”? They definitely knew how to cure illnesses
and rebalance the energy deficit in the body through “hall,”
their salt. From an energetic, as well as from the biophysical point
of view, an energy deficit can be balanced with salt, regardless of
the missing frequency pattern, or the missing information/energy/life-force.
Pure crystal salt is still geologically defined as “halite,”
in which we can recognize the Celtic words “hall” for
salt and “lit” for light. Loosely translated, crystal
salt or halite means, light vibration.
Natural Himalayan crystal salt consists not only of two, but also
of all natural elements. These are identical to the elements of which
our bodies have been built and originally found existing in the “primal
ocean” from where all life originated. Interesting enough, our
blood is a sole, containing the same salty solution as that of the
primal sea; that is, a fluid consisting of water and salt.To
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Salt — Mediator between Energy and
Matter
Salt is that which remains after matter has dissolved and transformed
into subtle matter. The founder of the Schüssler Salt Therapy,
Dr. Wilhelm Schüssler, already proved, over 100 years ago, that
the ashes remaining after a corpse is cremated are nothing but the
salts of which the human body is made. The byproduct of the modern
waste burning plants is salt. Needless to say, no one would want to
eat this salt, but the fact remains, it is salt. Our prehistoric ancestors
were already aware of the crucial necessity of salt. Wherever they
found salt they guarded it like a treasure. Later in history, salt
was called “white gold” and was the subject of political
power plays, which oftentimes resulted in war. Roman soldiers were
actually paid with salt, which is reflected in the word “salary.”
Salt was more important for survival than gold. Throughout Europe,
the salt routes over which the white gold was transported emerged.
The names of many German cities bear testimony to this time, with
such names as: Salzgitter, Salzburg or Bad Salzuflen for instance.
Also, names including the word “hall,” the Celtic word
for salt, emerged, with city names like Bad Reichenhall, Friedrichshall
and Hallein, indicating salt deposits at these locations.
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The Structure of Salt
Similar to water, salt has its individual crystalline structure. In
contrast to the structure of water, which is tetrahedral in shape,
the grid structure of salt is cubic in form. This cube is constructed
from light quanta, also called photons, which are pure light energy.
The light/heat energy of the sun evaporated the primal oceans more
than 250 million years ago and the energy expended for this dehydration
is stored in the platonic body of the salt’s crystalline grid
as potential energy. By adding water, the force of the grid can be
overcome, so that the energy it holds is liberated. In this process,
the elements within the crystal salt are ionized, allowing them to
penetrate the body’s cells. This creates an ocean of energy,
a powerful potential, waiting only to create and sustain life. To
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The
Power of Salt to Transform
From a scientific point of view, salt has a very unique property.
In contrast to all other crystalline structures, the atomic structure
of salt is not molecular, but electrical. This fact is what makes
salt so transformable. When we submerge a quartz crystal into water
and remove it after 10 minutes, it is still the same quartz crystal.
It did not change molecularly, though it has a crystalline structure.
Although the crystal can give its energy, its frequency pattern into
the surrounding water, which is effortlessly absorbed, the quartz
crystal remains the same. The crystal is too rooted in matter to be
dissolved or disassociated from its polarity.
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When we submerge a crystal of salt into water, it dissolves, and the
sole is created. Sole is neither water nor salt. It is a higher energetic
dimension than either the water or the salt alone. When the sole evaporates,
the salt is left behind. This transformability of salt ensures that
it does not have to be metabolized in our body. Starch is transformed
into sugar, protein into amino acids and fat into glycerin and acid.
But salt remains salt. It is directly available to the cells in its
ionized form as sole. All other foods must be separated into their
components in order for the body to make use of them. But salt always
remains in its original form. It even accesses our brain directly.To
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No Thoughts and No Actions Without
Salt
Even the simplest processes in our body need salt or its inherent
elements in ionized form. For example, it is the task of our nervous
system to transmit the stimulation that has been recorded via sensory
input to our brain, which in return passes this information back to
our muscles in order for us to react to the respective stimuli. An
electric potential occurs on the membrane wall of the cells when the
positively charged potassium ions leave the cells and the positively
charged sodium ions cannot enter due to their size. The outside becomes
positively charged and the inside negatively charged. When a nerve
cell is stimulated, its membrane suddenly becomes polar opposite and
consequently is permeable for the sodium ions. In one-thousandth of
a second (1/1000th), the electrical potential is transformed and releases,
with every nerve impulse, 90 mill volts of energy. The received stimuli
are now being converted into thoughts and actions. Without the elements
potassium and sodium in the salt, this process is not possible. Not
even a single thought is possible, let alone an action, without their
presence. Just the simple act of drinking a glass of water requires
millions of instructions that come as impulses. In the beginning there
is the thought. This thought is nothing but an electromagnetic frequency.
The salt is responsible for enabling this frequency to transmit commands
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The Conductivity of Salt
Most of us are familiar with experimenting with the conductivity of
salt from science class. We attach two ends of an electric current
to a light bulb and submerge it into a glass with distilled water.
Because this water is not conductive, the bulb does not light up.
But when we add a little bit of salt into the water, the bulb slowly
starts to glow. It is the same with our body. When we lack the natural
elements of the salt, we are suffering from a chronic loss, a chronic
energy deficit, or deficit of information. Salt cannot be labeled
as a medication, because that would imply that apples too were a medication.
Salt is a core essential nutrient with exceptional abilities and qualities
fundamental for keeping us alive. And we can find that which we are
lacking, the respective frequency pattern, as well as the necessary
bio-chemicals, in natural crystal salt. To Top
White Gold to White Poison
As common as salt shakers are to our kitchens, so are the numbers
of diseases associated with salt’s daily use. Life is not possible
without salt. But our consumption of salt is killing us. Why is that?
Because our regular table salt no longer has anything in common with
the original crystal salt of which we’re talking about here.
Salt nowadays is mainly sodium chloride and not salt. Natural crystal
salt consists not only of two, but also of all natural elements. These
are identical to the elements of which our bodies have been built
and originally found existing in the “primal ocean” from
where all life originated.Interesting enough, our blood is a sole,
containing the same salty solution as that of the primal sea; that
is, a fluid consisting of water and salt. It also has the same ratio
of concentration as existed in the days when life left the primal
sea. This sole flows through more than 56,000 miles of waterways and
blood vessels throughout our organism with the forces of gravity and
levity and regulates and balances the functions of our body. To
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How Salt Became Sodium Chloride
With the advent of industrial development, natural salt was “chemically
cleaned” and reduced to the combination of sodium and chloride.
Essential minerals and trace elements were removed as impurities.
However, sodium chloride is an unnatural, isolated, unwholesome substance
having nothing in common with salt. Similar to white, refined sugar,
salt, once regarded as white gold, was converted into white poison.
However, there is a higher reason for salt having been endowed with
all the natural elements found in our bodies. Sodium chloride is an
aggressive substance, which biochemically, is perpetually seeking
an equalizing counterpart so that the body’s pH can always remain
neutral. Sodium chloride needs its natural counterpart in order for
it to produce its effect. The natural counterparts, such as potassium,
calcium, magnesium and other minerals and trace elements, demonstrate,
from a biophysical standpoint, specific frequency patterns. These
patterns ensure the geometric structures in our body. When these structures
are missing, we are without energy and are lifeless. Salt should not
be used just to add flavor to our food, but for its vibration pattern,
which is similar to our body! To Top
How Table Salt Burdens the Body
While our body only requires the minute amount of 0.007 ounces of
salt per day, most of us suffer from a lack of salt, even though we’re
over-saturated with sodium chloride. When our consumption of salt
is less than 0.007 ounces per day, salt craving kicks in. The average,
per capita, daily consumption of table salt in the U.S. is between
0.4 ounces and 0.7 ounces. However, our body is only able to excrete
0.17 ounces to 0.25 ounces a day through our kidneys, depending on
our age, constitution and sex. The body recognizes table salt as an
aggressive cellular poison, an unnatural substance, and wants to eliminate
it as quickly as possible in order to protect itself. This causes
a constant overburden on our organs of excretion. In almost every
preserved product, salt is used as part of the preservation process.
So, by adding salt to the already-salted food, the body receives more
salt than it can get rid of. The body now tries to isolate the over-dose
of salt. In this process, water molecules surround the sodium chloride
in order to ionize it into sodium and chloride to neutralize it. For
this process, the water is taken from our cells as the body sacrifices
its most perfectly structured cell water in order to neutralize sodium
chloride. With this, the dehydrated body cells die.To
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The Consequences of Consuming
Table Salt
The result of consuming common table salt is the formation of overly
acidic edema, or excess fluid in the body tissue, which is also the
cause of cellulite. That’s why doctors tell us to avoid salt.
For every .035 ounces of sodium chloride that cannot be eliminated,
the body uses 23 times (23x) the amount of its own cell water to neutralize
the salt. If the sodium chloride is still too high, re-crystallization
of the table salt occurs as the body uses available non-degradable
animal proteins (as those found in milk), which also have no value
and cannot be broken down and eliminated. The body uses these proteins
to produce uric acid in order to get rid of the excess salt. As the
body cannot dispose of uric acid, it binds itself with the sodium
chloride to form new crystals that are deposited directly in the bones
and joints. This is the cause of different kinds of rheumatism such
as arthritis, gout, and kidney and gall bladder stones. This re-crystallization
is the body’s band-aid solution for the cells and organs in
order to protect the body from irreparable damage of irresponsible
food intake. But in the long run, it poisons the system because those
substances cannot be disposed of.To Top
The Difference Between Rock Salt
and Crystal Salt
The elements in rock salt are not integrated into the salt’s
crystal grid, but cling to the outside surface and crevices of the
crystalline structure. This is the fundamental difference between
rock salt and crystal salt. A salt crystal manifests a superior structure.
Due to this sublime form, the elements are biochemically available
for our cells as are the individual frequencies or vibration patterns.
Rock salt is a cheap alternative to table salt, and is at least a
natural and wholesome product. Biochemically and biophysically however,
it is of little importance to our organism. We can only receive the
resonant effects of the geometrical structure through the superior
order or structure of a crystal and our cells can only absorb those
elements that occur in an ional form. Only under considerable pressure
considerable pressure can the elements be transformed into a specific
size, making them ional, which enables them to pass through our cell
wall. This is important because our cells can only absorb what is
available organically or ionally. Therefore, we cannot absorb the
minerals from mineral water as they’re not refined enough to
penetrate our cell walls. And what doesn’t get into our cells
cannot be metabolized. Therefore, the best calcium is useless if it
cannot be available to the body’s cells. What we need is the
organic, or ional state of an element, in perfect natural symbiosis
with all its associated elements, in order for our organism to make
any use of it. To Top
Crystal Salt
Pure, natural crystal salt has been subjected to enormous pressure
over millions of years. The pressure is responsible for creating the
salt crystals. The higher the amount of pressure the more superior
or excellent the state of order within the crystalline structure.
Salt, for us, is foremost an information carrier and not a spice.
For information to be absorbed into our cells, a crystalline structure
is necessary. Chemically, a stone and a quartz crystal are both silicates.
However, the vast difference in the amounts of pressure they were
subjected to, distinguishes them. The quartz crystal embodies a perfect
geometric form, a perfect state of order within its structure. The
stone does not. Its elements are coarse, because it was not subjected
to enough pressure to create a crystalline structure. Crystal salt
layers wind through the mountain of salt, shimmering in transparent
white, pinkish or reddish veins. Only with sufficient pressure was
the salt of the salt mountain transformed into crystal salt.
The elements trapped within the crystal salt are in particles small
enough to be able to penetrate the human cells and be metabolized.
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The Healing Effect of Salt
For thousands of years salt has been known as a panacea. Alchemists
called it “the fifth element”—besides water, earth,
air and fire—because its qualities were comparable only to ether,
the actual fifth element. Why are we so drawn to the ocean? Because
our subconscious mind instinctively wants to return to the specific
vibrational state of the ocean from which we once emerged. This is
where we can return to recharge our batteries and regenerate. It was
only two-hundred-fifty years ago, with the advent of industrialization,
that we initiated our disconnection from nature and her ways. Fortunately,
we are witnessing a trend to return back to natural, holistic methods
for living and caring for our body, including a shift back to utilizing
natural salts in this process. People everywhere are reconsidering
the healing effects of natural crystal salt. We can find it in skin
care lotions and for use as bath salts, and it is even used in inhalation
or cleansing treatments for illnesses of the respiratory system and
for a variety of other indications. To Top
The Neutralizing Effect of Salt
The healing properties of salt are also known in allopathic medicine.
The largest and oldest salt works in Europe occupies the royal salt
mine of Wieliczka, Poland, just 7.5 miles outside of Krakow. Here,
a hospital was carved out of the expansive salt mountain, seven hundred
forty feet below the surface, specifically for asthmatics and patients
with lung disease and allergies. Several thousand patients have been
successfully treated in this hospital. The healing rate is astonishingly
over 90%. Recognition of the healing effects of salt chambers has
influenced the construction of a similar underground spa located in
the salt mine of Berchtesgaden in Germany. The therapeutic benefits
of long-term residency inside the healing salt chambers are allopathically
acknowledged. The healing effects were originally thought to be related
to the purity of the air within the mine’s chambers. But if
it was only a question of the purity of the air, why was the air in
the cave so healthy, and the air above-surface so unhealthy? One cause
has been determined. Our houses are charged with electromagnetic devices,
such as TVs, stereos, computers, microwave ovens and the basic electric
currents running through our walls. And, when not at home, we hold
cell phones to our ears while driving in our cars and walking through
our daily lives. This electro-smog causes an excess of positively
charged ions that disturb the balance between the positively and negatively
charged particles. Further, it creates an excess positively charged,
chemically unbound particles in the air. Only thirty seconds on a
cell phone are enough to open up our blood-brain-barrier, a natural
barrier that protects our brain from toxins, for eight hours. A Swedish
study showed that ninety percent of the women who used a copper-T
I.U.D. as their birth control method, while simultaneously using cell
phones, developed uterine cancer; the cause being that the I.U.D.
functioned as a transmitter and receiver of unnatural, dissonant vibrations.
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Crystal Salt Promotes the Excretion
of Animal Proteins
A further study showed some interesting allopathic results. All subjects
in this study drank one-teaspoon of sole daily. After four weeks,
the protein emission in the urine significantly increased for eighty
percent of the one-hundred-twenty-three subjects. This shows that
the energy pattern of the sole with its innate, natural antagonism
towards the proteins, helps and supports the excretion of animal proteins
that are difficult to break down. (This examination was done by Dr.
med. Elisabeth Scherwitz-Josenhans.) To Top
