Make saline yourself - instructions for manufacturing
- Why saline "> A" bit of stimulating climate for the home "
- Which concentration?
Saline solution is a blessing for clogged colds. But saline (and salt at all) can do much more than you realize - betting?
Saline solution is so easy to make on your own that the "How to Make" guide is almost more about what you do not do well with the saline solution. But you will also learn why saline solution is so good at catching a cold that there are many ways to use it and that you can do a lot with saline and salt.
Why saline?
If you wonder if we want to kid you (saline = common salt + water + stir)
1. No, or did you know that you would die if you ate a few tablespoons of salt (do not worry, will not work)?
2. No, or did you know that you do not need to buy liquid in the pharmacy for the liberating nasal douche?
3. No, or did you know that saline and salt in the home can do much more than season?
4. No, or did you know that normal table salt (table salt = table salt + boiled water) differs from 20 to 50 times as expensive Himalayasalz only in insignificant shades for us?
If you did not know all this, do not fret. In an unleashed consumer society, we get a lot of information from people who want to sell us something. And they may recommend us Himalayan salt, but certainly no normal table salt, that costs cents. Since this game has been going on for a couple of decades, grandma's natural everyday knowledge has been forgotten in the meantime. But it's being rediscovered thanks to many informative platforms - here's where it's going, with the currently ubiquitous saline solution for the nose, but Talu would not be Talu if we did not give you a few more salt applications:
A "bit of stimulating climate for the home"
The climate around us affects our health - sometimes negative, it can make breathing so difficult that two English ladies just make money with "English country air in the glass" - sometimes positive, as a healthy climate, known as stimulating climate or climate.
Even for our grandparents, it was natural to treat chronic and / or inflammatory diseases of the respiratory system with a cure in a stimulating climate at the sea. In case of asthma, chronic bronchitis or even a long-delayed cold, the journey went on a North Sea island, for the hardened as possible in winter:
The stay of several weeks in the North Sea can cause small miracles, even if the mucus gets stuck, because the inhalation of the salty sea air permanently dissolves the mucus in the respiratory tract. In chronic bronchitis and / or asthma, the attending physician will have many other therapies in his pocket, and with saline as a replacement for the North Sea cure, it is never done here.
Unlike common cold: antibiotics have been prescribed for the treatment of colds in recent decades often - no more announced today, because the emergence and spread of resistance to existing antibiotics has already become a global public health problem.
In the case of the "completely normal cold", antibiotics usually do not help at all, because the respiratory tract infection is usually caused by viruses.
The normal cold heals with and without treatment, annoying is in addition to cough and runny nose, especially tight, nasoconstricting mucus. And you can tackle it very well with a saline solution, the "stimulating climate for the home, " when there is no time for a trip to Sylt. Table salt is better than martial whistling, which can help in the short term, but otherwise rather spread cold viruses in the area.
The solution of water and salt dissolves blocked noses in the long term, this is how it works:
- Saline solution consists of common salt (sodium chloride, NaCl) and water
- The water moisturizes the mucous membranes of the nose and dissolves with sufficient duration of action (in addition equal) and tight mucus residues
- Sodium and chloride are important minerals for the human body, which are also "replenished"
- And the saline also disinfects a bit
Even if saline solution does not replace the spa holiday on the North Sea, if you nebulise your whole apartment - the sea air contains substances from the sea water, natural antibiotics also formed by marine organisms, germ-inhibiting substances.
Common salt or sea salt ">
If saline information promotes the salt ingredients themselves, sodium and chloride, to "strengthen the local defense system, " you should not be tempted to happily overwhelm your breakfast egg with a saltberg. Rather the opposite is the case and our daily average 10g are ample. About the basic physiological effects of salt in the body it goes here: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speisesalz#Physiologische_Bedeutung.
Prepare saline solution and use
Making saline is not one of the hardest things in the world. The usual saline solution contains 1% salt.
For a saline solution, you need 0.1 liter of boiled water (boil water for 5 minutes), in which you sink 1 g of table salt (a pinch, 1 Tl are 5 g), stir once, please.
No more - better always stir your saline fresh, in the household do not work sterile.
Work clean and sterile as much as possible, especially if you want to inhale this solution.
You can not do any of it, there are enough videos about how fast the salt is out again, if an underemployed teen drank a sip of salt water in a test of courage (denied you for aesthetic reasons).
When it comes to clogged noses, the saline solution has to be on the nasal mucosa, and that's where it comes from:
- By direct inhalation: warm and inhale the vapors with a towel over your head for about 15 minutes
- By "indentation" (snuff inhalation): A little solution with a nostril pull in and immediately sniff out again
- "Professionals" even manage to sniff out of the other nostril - nose shower without a device, so to speak
- Per spray or trickle inhalation: When filled into a spray bottle or pipette, the saline solution can be dribbled or sprayed into the nose in small doses.
- In the pharmacy you will find a variety of nasal douches, with which you can let the stuff in one nostril in and out of the other
- This is supposed to work for every person, with the exact right dislocation
How it feels "> Further saline applications
If you have ever prepared saline, you could try even more:
1. You can also use the one percent brine for gargling . For example, to relieve pain in the inflamed neck, saline (or sage tea) is good simply because it moisturizes the mucous membranes. They disinfect the pharynx but also gently, so it is worthwhile in the cold period for people with many contacts with others and the preventive gargling to protect themselves from infection.
2. Isotonic concentrated saline solution can be used for eye rinsing, in a glass eye bath from the pharmacy. Dry and overstrained eyes should feel fresh again when bathed in the eye bath for 30 seconds. Fill the eye tub, press firmly against the eye, place the head backwards, open and close the eye.
3. Saline solution as a dentifrice should protect against tooth decay and calculus. The teeth should be thoroughly cleaned, inflammation in case of periodontal disease should heal. For this purpose, you should a few drops of saturated saline solution (359 g of sodium chloride per liter at 25 ° C, de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salzwasser, or 3.5 g - about half a Tl - per tbsp. Water) on the toothbrush and clean normally. Certainly only after consultation with your dentist, and you would not have to make a saturated saline solution, but could buy Sole toothpaste (it should be from the companies Weleda and Dr. Hauschka).
4. The salt pillow (pillow filled with dry salt) should be an ancient home remedy that is used warm or cold. Like any other heat or cold pad, salt should store heat / cold well and make it even and pleasant. For warm applications, the salt pad should be heated in the oven at 50-60 ° C, cold salt cushions produced the refrigerator compartment.
5. A salt scrub with saturated saline solution is intended to cleanse the facial skin and remove dead skin cells. Apply, massage in, leave on for 5 minutes, rinse with clean water.
6. The body scrub with a mixture of 50 g of ground salt and 50 g of oil (jojoba oil, macadamia oil or sesame oil) to detoxify. Rub the body after a steam bath with the salt and oil mixture, wrap in a cloth, allow to act for about 45 minutes, rinse off the salt. Dab lightly to keep the oil on the skin. Should be recommended for skin problems, stress and recovery, as fasting as several days. Although people bathe in the Dead Sea and in brine baths, you should certainly discuss such a medical application only with a doctor.
7. Brine bath (1 kg salt in the normal filled tub, water temperature approx. 37 ° C, without bath products for approx. 20 min and under no circumstances bath for longer than 30 min, then let brine dry on the skin and rest) 1 up to 2 times a week should help with many health problems, but should first be discussed with a doctor.
8. Other uses of salt or saline include salt pads, salt wraps, salt shirts, salt socks. The brine drinking cure with droplets to 1 Tl of saturated brine in a glass of water daily to detoxify, invigorate the digestive system and balance the acid-base balance. For rheumatic complaints and osteoarthritis, this helps as well. However, since the body actually balances its acid-base balance (if it did not, it would be bad if our blood pH drops by 0.33 units, from 7.33 to 7.0, we are dead dead ), an initial initial deterioration with diarrhea and skin irritation in the brine drinking cure should be normal and drinking salt as described above can be quite unhealthy, you should always ask a doctor before you do salt experiments.
Salt can do more in the household
.... This can not be described in detail in the context of this article, but with salt you can do a lot of useful and less useful:
- With saturated salt solution and food coloring you can breed beautiful colorful salt crystals
- Salt crystals look great even in front of colored light
- When salt crystallizes in a glass (on the heater), it climbs up the glass. Interesting crafts, z. For example, for a lantern, salt does not burn and melts only at 800 ° C.
- With salt and ice, you can cool water (mixing ratio 1: 1: 1) to below 0 ° C, and the sparkling wine in this mixture is also cold in a few minutes.
