What is the salt therapy (Halotherapy) good for?

Halotherapy can be especially helpful in treating respiratory problems:

  • if you live in a polluted city (such as New York) and your lungs get abused daily by exhaust from cars, factories, buses and other forms of urban air pollution.
  • if you smoke or are an ex-smoker recovering from years of cigarette use
  • if you have asthma, bronchitis or respiratory allergies
  • if your sinuses are constantly clogged and you cannot breathe freely
  • if your vocal cords are damaged and you have a hoarse voice
  • if you have freaquent ear infections
  • if you are prone to catching the colds or the flu, and you need to boost your immune system

Salt Therapy also helps with skin diseases such as:

  • psoriasis
  • eczema
  • seborrheic dermatisis
  • acne

Salt Therapy yet has a positive impact on whole body system and some of the recorded effects include:

  • immune system resistance to common diseases such as flu and sore throat
  • helps resolve digestion problems
  • improves blood circulation 

 

 

The Halotherapy belongs to the category of the physical therapies non-drug and non invasive treatments of diseases. Respiratory diseases are a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Most drug therapies of respiratory diseases have only palliative effects, and many have significant side effects, especially those with corticoids or steroids.

The salt therapy was found to have beneficial effects in the treatment of:

  • Asthma and Chronic Bronchitis
  • COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease)
  • Allergic Rhinopathy or Hay Fever
  • Cystic Fibrosis
  • Sinusitis
  • Ear Infections
  • Smoking Cough
  • Various acute or chronic respiratory disease
  • Reduce snoring and activates better sleep by clearing the airway passages in oropharyngeal region
  • Increased resistance to Cold & Flu by opening and clearing the nasal airway and improving the drainage of the sinuses
  • Humidifies the bronchial secretions reducing broncho-spasm and facilitating elimination of the smoke residual tar, phlegm expel and other allergens
  • Improves the quality of the indoor air by eliminating the dust, cigarette smoke, bad odours, mould and mitHypo function of thyroid gland
  • Indigestion, stomach ulcers, duodenum ulcerses, having bactericide reduction properties
  • Chronic pneumonia