Halotherapy : with this word we generally mean therapies with salt. With this article I would like to let you know my opinion about the salt caves and what my choices were in this regard. Free, at the end of reading, to think of it as me or otherwise.

Meanwhile: salt is not sodium chloride, salt is a harmonious combination of mineral salts. Sodium chloride is just fine cooking salt, which really hurts. On this same site you already find important news about it.

Therefore, in my opinion, the first characteristic that those who choose which cave of salt should ask for is to enter a room built with natural rock salt.

Some manufacturers (I, for example, did not want to go to a franchise) explain that they use a certain machine where they micronize "medical salt". Well: what is medical salt? In my opinion ... sodium chloride. But maybe calling it differently is more interesting or more useful for grabbing an Italian audience, which, let's face it, is used to prefer drug therapies. But if it is "medical" salt then what do you go to do in the caves? You might as well get an aerosol with classic drugs!

But let's get to the choices I told you: the first motivation that should lead you to take Halotherapy sessions is because you will breathe in an environment rich in negative ions. The urban environment, our homes, our cars ... all are more or less polluted environments rich in positive ions that are harmful to our health. This is why discharging from these ions is essential for getting better over time. Personally I had the need to prove the existence of these negative ions and I equipped myself with a meter for bioarchitecture, remaining very satisfied as measuring the negative ions out on the road, the indicator went almost to zero against the thousands of the cave.

The negative ions are the same as those you will find at the sea (especially in places where the water breaks on the rocks) or near natural waterfalls in the woods, and are the motivation for why everyone is getting better at the sea.

If the formation of negative ions in the air is given by an exchange of electrons between water and salt, from here you will understand the choice of an important quantity of Himalayan salt and an aerosol that nebulizes a physiological solution of salt with the addition of essential oils. The properties of the latter is a topic worthy of treatment on this site. My choice is therefore to integrate aromatherapy with halotherapy. But there will be chromotherapy and music therapy. By doing so, and it is just an example, I can also treat nausea by spraying ginger essential oil.

There is a treatise on Halotherapy written by Dr. G. Bartolomucci that explains very well the reason why to undergo therapies with salt is fundamental in counteracting respiratory problems of various nature and even skin. And above all because they prefer heated rooms equipped with a nebulizer.

What has most stimulated me to create a cave with totally natural characteristics is the fact that the caves, the ones that are truly natural, have inside them: rock salt, air currents and humidity .

What characterizes the days of the sea in summer is above all the heat and so we are forced to stay with the skin in contact with the air and we give it a way to breathe. We walk barefoot and unload positive ions on the ground. Hence the choice of a heated cave and the possibility of going barefoot. If you let people in with shoes and shoe covers to avoid dirtying the salt ... how would they discharge harmful ions?

If I used a TV to distract children, wouldn't I be at odds with the theory of negative ions?

If you used an air conditioner to cool the air in summer? Wouldn't it be the same in contrast to what was said above?

Moreover, so much Himalayan salt, summer transforms the room into a cellar so fresh that it is the envy of any conditioner and, if in winter the heat in the cave is a refuge from the cold outside, the natural coolness of the cave, d summer is able to give a real relief from the heat of the city. Pink salt, in such a quantity, in a room built without the use of any toxic substance, is a place full of energy, containing bacteriologically pure air that helps to find again, really an incomparable psycho-physical well-being.

If the proposed natural halotherapy has no contraindications, it means that expectant mothers, small children, children and adults can enter without any problem even with fever and therefore also in the acute moment. The entrance to the cave will not be recommended, but rather proposed in order to speed up the recovery.

An example of all are the cases of otitis: some children (including mine) who attended the cave morning / afternoon / morning ... for several days, they are so well cleaned, that the ear ache has completely disappeared and for a long time. In this way children also enter with fever, with the foresight that, in that case, the session is exclusive.

Furthermore, comparing ourselves daily with the properties of salt, we also tested the saline solution in many ways ...

But this is another story!