Can salt water really reduce inflammation?

Salt is a common seasoning in our lives, and it is also indispensable. If we don’t use salt when cooking, we will feel that the dishes have no taste at all. In addition, eating salt regularly can also prevent diseases such as thick neck. Many people think that physiological saline is used during infusion, and that salt water made from salt can also reduce inflammation. So can salt water really reduce inflammation?

Salt water health

Table salt is the most commonly used seasoning and health product and plays a very important role in people's daily lives. However, many of the unique medical effects of table salt are little known. Salt water can be called the "little nurse" of home health care.

1. Clear stomach fire and promote digestion

Drinking a cup of light salt water on an empty stomach in the morning can not only clear stomach fire, eliminate bad breath and the sweet and tasteless feeling in the mouth, but also enhance digestion, increase appetite, and clear internal heat in the intestines. If children have severe gastrointestinal heat and constipation, drinking salt water regularly can help eliminate heat and relieve constipation.

2. Prevent and treat hair loss and protect the throat

Boil salt into concentrated brine, gently apply it to the roots of the hair, and wash it off with clean water after about 5 minutes. Do it once in the morning and evening every day for 15-29 days as a course of treatment. It can prevent and treat hair loss after recovering from a serious illness. The climate is dry in autumn and winter, which is a high incidence period of acute and chronic pharyngitis and tonsillitis. Salt water can be used for treatment in the early stages of the disease. The method is as follows: when the throat feels slightly uncomfortable, use 1 tablespoon of salt and boiled water to make 1 cup of salt water as a morning mouthwash. When the throat is swollen and painful, gargle with concentrated salt water 5-6 times a day to have an anti-inflammatory and bactericidal effect.

3. Saline hemostasis

(1) Stop gastric bleeding. After gastric bleeding stops and vomiting blood stops, the body urgently needs to be replenished with a large amount of saline solution. Before going to the hospital for treatment, you can drink 1 to 4 cups of saline solution to replenish the lack of blood in the body.

(2) Stop nose bleeding. After nose bleeding, you can soak cotton wool in salt water and stuff it into your nostrils, and drink a cup of salt water at the same time to stop the bleeding.

(3) Stop minor bleeding. If minor bleeding occurs inside the mouth (such as bleeding gums, bleeding laryngeal area, fish bone stuck in the throat, bleeding from a puncture in the throat), gargling with salt water can promote blood coagulation and play a natural hemostatic role. It is worth noting that when preparing "salt water" (either refined salt or fine salt), first use boiling water to mix it. After the salt is dissolved, add a little cold boiled water to make it "warm salt water" and then drink it. Drinking salt water can temporarily stop bleeding. Those with serious conditions need to go to the hospital for treatment.

4. Clear away heat, reduce inflammation and treat dental diseases

The fluoride contained in table salt can reduce inflammation, kill bacteria and prevent tooth decay. Therefore, gargling and brushing your teeth with salt water twice a day, morning and evening, can prevent tooth decay. If the patient has toothache due to wind-fire or liver-fire, gargling with salt (green salt is better) can clear away heat and reduce inflammation, and relieve the pain of toothache. Most of the patients' gum bleeding is caused by excessive stomach fire. If you rinse your mouth with salt water once in the morning and evening, it can clear stomach heat, stop bleeding and relieve pain.

5. Salt and fennel treat liver qi and stomachache

Liver qi stomach pain is a common symptom in patients with stomach problems. If hot compress therapy with salt and fennel is used, it can have a good therapeutic effect. The method is: take 31 grams of fennel and 16 grams of eggplant, mash them, add 1 bowl of coarse salt (about 400-500 grams), put the above ingredients into the pot together, fry them until hot, put them into a cloth bag, wrap them with a towel, and iron them on the stomach and back while they are hot. This can relax the spasmodic part of the patient's stomach and have the effect of unblocking stomach qi and relieving stomach pain.

Salt can beautify

1. Salt brightens the skin.

After washing your face, put a small spoonful of fine salt on the palm of your hand and add 3-5 drops of water. Use your fingers to carefully stir the salt and water evenly. Then apply the salt water from top to bottom on your forehead, massaging as you apply. After a few minutes, when the salt water on your face has dried and turned into white powder, wash your face with warm water, apply moisturizing lotion or continue with normal skin care steps. Continue this process every morning and evening after washing your face. This has a good cleansing and decontamination effect, and can remove oil, acne, and even "blackheads" accumulated in the pores. However, you should avoid the skin around the eyes when massaging, and be more careful if you have sensitive skin. Never get salt water in your eyes to avoid damaging the conjunctiva.

2. Salt improves eyesight.

Fill half a basin with warm water, sprinkle a small amount of salt and let it melt, soak your face in the salt water, open your eyes in the water, and move your eyeballs up and down and left and right to achieve the effect of washing your eyes with fresh water. Within two weeks, you will find that your eyes have become brighter and more sparkling, becoming truly "electric eyes".

3. Salt fights acne.

Salt is also effective for the “stubborn disease” of acne. After taking a bath, let your body warm up fully. After the pores open, apply more salt on the acne-affected areas and massage for 1 minute. Don't use too much force, just move the salt on the skin. Then use light salt water, soak and apply for 10 minutes, and wash with clean water. Wash it a few times and see that the acne is slowly being conquered.