Can saliva be disinfected

Saliva is the saliva secreted by the salivary glands around the mouth. It lubricates the oral mucosa, dissolves food and facilitates swallowing. It also contains amylase and lysozyme, which can help digestion and has a bactericidal effect. Therefore, saliva is a physiological substance secreted by the human body.

Saliva is called golden fluid in traditional Chinese medicine. It is said in Suwen (Suwen) that body fluids enter the stomach, where they circulate and are transported to the spleen. The spleen disperses the essence and returns it to the lungs, where it regulates the water channels and is transported to the bladder. The essence of body fluids is distributed to all four directions, and the five meridians run parallel to each other. This means that body fluids pass through the stomach, spleen, and lungs and are distributed to all blood vessels throughout the body. Saliva contains natural anti-cancer factors. If a person has some conditions that promote the growth of cancer cells, saliva can threaten or even kill the cancer cells. Therefore, this is the reason why traditional Chinese medicine has attached great importance to saliva health care since ancient times. There is a proverb: "Swallow saliva 300 times a day and you will live to be 99." Saliva has such effects. As long as people follow the instructions every day and persist in doing so, they can stay healthy and beautiful forever.

The role of saliva

1. Moisten the mouth and food to facilitate speaking and swallowing;

2. Constantly remove food particles from the taste buds so that you can continue to taste the flavor of the food;

3. Clean and protect the oral cavity;

4. Antibacterial effect;

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5. Convert starch in food into maltose.

Advantages of saliva: The carbonates, phosphates and proteins it contains can provide chemical protection for teeth; the amylase it contains can aid digestion; its ingredients can fight bacteria; it can clean the mouth; cancer and AIDS can be detected by testing saliva.

Disadvantages of saliva: Saliva can also spread diseases through the human body carrying germs.

The health-preserving function of saliva has been valued and recognized since ancient times. When the ancients first created characters, they used water from the side of the tongue to represent the character "活", meaning that the water (saliva) on the side of the tongue can maintain the vitality of the human body. In order to emphasize its importance, medical scientists and health experts of all generations gave it such beautiful names as "Jinjin", "Yuye", "Qiongjiang", "Ganlu", "Yuli" and "Huachi Shenshui".

"Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "When a person is sick, the heart and kidney are not connected, and the kidney water cannot rise, so the body fluids dry up and the true qi is depleted." Li Shizhen pointed out: "Body fluids are transformed from a person's essence and qi." Ancient medical scientists believed that "body fluids" were transformed from "essence". When the essence is full, the kidney water rises and turns into body fluids. The body fluids are then swallowed to moisten the heart and prevent the heart fire from being excessive. The water and fire complement each other, and the yin and yang are balanced, which is called "drinking the elixir of life". Therefore, the ancients often swallowed saliva to achieve the effect of curing diseases, strengthening the body, and prolonging life.

A normal person secretes about 1000 to 1500 ml of saliva every day, which is a mixture of fluids secreted by the three pairs of larger salivary glands in the mouth: the parotid glands, submandibular glands, and sublingual glands. Normal saliva is colorless, odorless, and nearly neutral (pH 6.6-7.1). Its main component is water, which accounts for 98.5% to 99%. The rest is salts containing sodium, potassium, calcium, chloride, sulfur ions, as well as amylase, lysozyme, mucin, etc.[3]