Why does salt water reduce inflammation

Salt water has a certain anti-inflammatory effect. Normal saline is often used in hospitals. It can achieve a good anti-inflammatory and bactericidal effect. This is mainly because salt contains the element fluoride, which can inhibit bacteria. In addition to its anti-inflammatory effect, salt water also plays a certain role in preventing and treating hair loss, relieving pharyngitis, and preventing constipation. Let us learn more about this.

Why does salt water reduce inflammation?

The fluoride contained in table salt can reduce inflammation, kill bacteria and prevent tooth decay. Therefore, gargling with salt water and brushing your teeth once in the morning and evening can prevent tooth decay. If the patient has toothache due to liver fire, gargling with salt (green salt is better) can have the effect of clearing away heat and 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.

Other Uses

If you use salt water to gargle, it can eliminate bad breath and achieve a cleansing effect. It is said that drinking a glass of salt water when you have gastrointestinal discomfort can eliminate gastric acid in the stomach and achieve acid-base neutralization. In fact, the salt water may dilute the stomach acid rather than neutralize it, because the salt in the salt water is mainly neutral sodium chloride.

1. Preventing and treating hair loss

(1) Gently apply concentrated salt water to the roots of the hair. After about 5 minutes, wash it off with clean water. Do this once in the morning and once in the evening for 15 to 20 days as a course of treatment. This can prevent and treat hair loss. (2) Dissolve 100-150 grams of salt in half a basin of warm water, soak the salt in your hair, rub it for a few minutes, add an appropriate amount of shampoo and continue washing, then rinse it twice with clean water. Take it once a week, 2 to 3 times will produce results.

2. Protect your throat

The climate is dry in autumn and winter, which is a high incidence period of acute and chronic pharyngitis and tonsillitis. Salt soup can be used for treatment in the early stages of the disease. Here’s how: When you feel slight discomfort in your throat, you can use salt water as a morning mouthwash. When your throat is swollen and painful, gargle with concentrated salt water 5 to 6 times a day to achieve anti-inflammatory and bactericidal effects.

3. Natural 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. Fat removal beauty

Patients with acne can put about 20 grams of salt in a basin of hot water before going to bed at night. After it dissolves, wash your face with it while it is hot. This can not only remove facial oil and make the acne gradually disappear, but also prevent the acne from becoming infected and inflamed.