Is the Cure For Anything Salt Water?

This may be a quote you’ve heard before: “The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.” It comes from a 1934 short story titled “Seven Gothic Tales” by Isak Denisen. Salt water as a cure has been a long standing belief. A Dissertation on the Use of Sea Water in the Diseases of the Glands was published in 1760 in relation to Scurvy, Jaundice, King’s-Evil, Leprosy, and the Glandular Consumption. In the 1800s, doctors would prescribe swimming in the ocean for symptoms of melancholy (in today’s terms this would equate to depression). Today, saline water, while not the same as sea water, but is a form of salt water, is used to clean wounds.

Personally, I use saline water regularly to clear my sinuses, especially when I have post nasal drip. When I have a sore throat, I will gargle with salt water to reduce the pain and heal it faster. I also have always found the ocean to be a very healing place for my mental and emotional state. And as I mentioned in my WOTW: 7. Emotions post, I also take bubble baths for the same reason. Aside from the bath soap to make the bubbles I always put at least 1 cup of bath salts when drawing myself a bath, using Epsom salt, pink Himalayan salt or Dead Sea salt. Ideally, 2 cups of salt should be used per bath and a mixture of different salts can address multiple goals.

Epsom salt is technically not a salt because it does not contain any sodium chloride. In fact it is a crystalized form of high amounts of magnesium and sulfate. I use Epsom salts when I’m feeling aches and pain in my body such as muscle tension, spasms or injuries like a sprained ankle that results in bruising and inflammation. Epsom helps ease and relax my muscles and reduce inflammation encouraging faster healing.

Himalayan salt is mined from Pakistan originating from a sea that dried up hundreds of millions of years ago when massive deposits of salt were scattered and covered by geological shifts. This salt contains over 80 different minerals including magnesium, iron and potassium. I reserve pink Himalayan salt for baths that are taken in preparation for my spiritual practices because this salt helps me more with my mental and emotional state, especially with reducing stress. I have heard from a physical perspective using at least 1.5 cups of this salt in baths assists with detoxification and helping with skin issues, but my personal preference is to use Dead Sea salt for those purposes.

Dead Sea salt, which is a legitimate sea salt, is only ~15% sodium chloride, with the rest being other nutrients and minerals including magnesium, potassium, sulfur, calcium, and zinc versus ocean water that is ~85% sodium chloride. Since this is more expensive of the three salts I use for my baths, I use this least frequently when I want a luxurious bath. This mineral rich salt helps with the same things that Epsom and Himalayan salt does, plus noticeably improves the texture of my skin and is claimed to help eliminate any retained water in the body.

As a quick aside, I have been to the Dead Sea, which has a 33% salinity level (10 times more than regular sea water) and can testify to the physical healing properties of the Dead Sea water, the bath salts, which I bought and took back home and even the mud. My skin was completely transformed after one afternoon of floating in the water and applying the mud to my skin. The only time it probably was ever that soft and smooth was when I first was born! Floating in the Dead Sea is an experience I highly recommend to everyone and you can also go visit one of the 7 wonders of the world, Petra, in the same trip since both are located in Jordan.

While salt may not actually cure everything, this powerful crystal, is claimed to have the ability to absorb negative energy and transmute it by cleansing and releasing positive energy. This is why in Feng Shui, a salt water cure is a traditional remedy to reduce or dilute negative Flying Star energies related to health, accidents, robbery or theft, and even lawsuit issues. If you are unfamiliar with what a Feng Shui remedy or activation is, please refer to my post Feng Shui: Remedies & Activations for further information. The additional benefit of a salt cure is that it may also be used as a remedy for Mankind Luck by absorbing and reducing a person’s stress, illness or other negative energy. It is important to understand that a salt cure remedy will not eliminate all bad energies and is only intended to reduce them.

There are 2 types of salt cure remedies used in Feng Shui:

1) Permanent – This is placed in a location long term, that can be changed out every Chinese New Year, but I have heard people keeping them in place longer than that or changing them out sooner, basically whenever they deem necessary.
2) Moveable – This is placed in locations that have negative annual or monthly energies per the guidance of a certified classically trained Feng Shui consultant.

As an example how this remedy can be effective, here is a sample fabricated scenario. In Joe’s bedroom, the permanent Feng Shui Flying Star energy is inauspicious for health. In addition, the annual Flying Star energy in the bedroom is considered untimely, lending to energies related to robbery, theft, injuries from accidents and loss of money. Lastly, the monthly Flying Star energy in the bedroom, which is also untimely, brings energy of conflicts that has the potential to involve lawsuits.

Joe already had issues with health in general prior to implementing Feng Shui remedies into his home, so he made sure to set up several permanent and moveable salt cures to help reduce the negative permanent, annual and monthly energies in his bedroom. One night he’s had an especially long and stressful day working late with another colleague. Since his colleague’s car was in the shop and it was along the way, Joe offers to give the colleague a ride home instead of having them wait for someone to pick them up. Along the way Joe becomes quite light-headed with pain in his chest and immediately pulls over to the side of the road. The colleague insists on driving him to the hospital nearby where he is diagnosed with having a very mild heart attack. If no salt cure remedies were put in place, it is entirely possible that Joe may have had a more serious heart attack. That may have resulted in an accident with other vehicles causing other injuries for himself, colleague and those in other cars impacted. High medical bills that are not covered entirely by his car insurance and a lawsuit could have been another effect of his heart attack causing a car accident.

My teacher has cited at least a couple incidents where her clients believe that due to Feng Shui remedies put in place, such as a salt cure, car accidents that these clients were involved in resulted in less negative consequences, claiming that first responders even made comments incredulous that they were able to walk away virtually unscathed, insinuating they should not have come out alive from such a serious accident with cars being completely totaled and demolished.

Now it is virtually impossible to prove that Feng Shui salt cures are the sole reason of why things happened the way they did in any given situation, but I personally believe that if by implementing such a simple remedy can mitigate negative energies without any detrimental consequences, it is worth doing. This is especially the case because this is the only remedy that I am aware of through my training that has no negative ramification regardless of the layout and energies of any given home. If someone decided to put this Feng Shui remedy in place without being fully educated in Feng Shui, this is THE ONE that I can confidently say is okay to do despite any lack of knowledge. This is because a salt cure remedy will only absorb and mitigate negative energies both from a earth and mankind luck perspective and if there is none, the installation of a salt cure would virtually be benign without any other effects, negative or otherwise.