Herbal Remedies, Nutrition
Salty Flavor Benefits Your Health
Oct
A salty flavor is believed to support health by promoting strong digestion and maintaining body tone, according to traditional perspectives.
Throughout history, food and herbs have served as essential tools for healing and maintaining health. Enhance your well-being by understanding how to effectively use these resources for health support.
All food has at least two flavors and there are five different tastes. The five flavors are:
| SALTY | SOUR | BITTER | PUNGENT | SWEET |
SALTY food and herbs have a thermal energetic quality that is cooling to the body’s systems.
SALTY flavor assists the kidneys, urinary bladder, liver, and gallbladder.
Salt has been around for over 250 million years, and humans have been using salt as far back as 6050 BC. Salts are helpful for all biological activities and have the most “grounding” descending activity of any substance used as food.
- Salt strengthens digestion and increases the flow of hydrochloric acid
- Salt enables us to focus more clearly on the material world
- Excess salt is said to lead to greed
Food and herbs which are SALTY:
- Regulates water metabolism
- Regulates blood pressure
- Promotes blood sugar health
- Helps to reduce signs of aging because it keeps us toned
- Promotes healthy pH balance in your cells, particularly the brain
- Supports respiratory health
- Promotes sinus health
- Prevents muscle cramp
- Promotes bone health
- Regulates sleep, promotes natural sleep
- Supports sex hormones
- Promotes vascular health
- Assists in absorption of food particles through your intestinal tract
According to the Five Element and Traditional Chinese Medicine
| Taste | Salty |
| Organ | Kidneys and Urinary Bladder |
| Element | Water |
| Season | Winter the Kidney will be their strongest or weakest |
| Virtue | Wisdom and Will |
| Emotions | Kidneys and Urinary bladder in harmony enjoys life, is calm and grounded. Kidneys and Urinary bladder imbalanced is fearful, anxious, scattered and has a hard time staying focused. |
Salt…is a grounding crystal that takes us down into the body/mind where well-centered concentration of matter attracts a clear perception of its opposite: Spirit (non-matter)
– Jacques De langre, in Sea salt & Your Life
Purchase complex salts such as Himalayan crystal salt, sea salt, or Celtic Salt. Commercial table salt consists of only sodium chloride, with 97.5% sodium chloride and 2.5% of other chemicals, such as moisture absorbents and iodine. Dried at over 1,200 degrees Fahrenheit, the excessive heat alters the natural chemical structure of the salt.
Eating common table salt (sodium chloride) can cause unsightly cellulite, rheumatism, arthritis, gout, and kidney and gallbladder stones.
SALTY FLAVOR FOOD AND HERBS
| Celtic sea salt | Sea vegetables: kelp, Dulse, Kombu, Wakame, Agar, Hijiki | Tamari sauce |
| Himalayan Crystal Salt | Soy Sauce | Umeboshi Plum |