Mineral Salt

Mineral salts are unique because they are unrefined essential dietary nutrients that all living things utilize. Natural mineral salts include Celtic Sea Salt, Pink Himalayan salt, and Redmond salt. These salts contain over 80 essential minerals and natural elements, supplying the body with the proper balance of sodium, chloride, minerals, trace elements, and moisture.

Common table salt is “refined” and contains higher amounts of sodium and chloride than natural mineral salts. When processed, it is stripped of essential minerals and moisture, giving it a longer shelf life and a lifeless product.

“Unrefined” salt is a crystalized mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride and is processed from salt mines, evaporation from seawater (sea salt), or mineral-rich spring water in shallow pools. This natural salt helps detoxify various harmful chemicals in our bodies, including bromine, which depletes the body of iodine, a critical nutrient for preventing thyroid disorders and breast cancer.

One way to tell if your salt contains trace minerals is by color. Regular table salt is bleached and very white, but natural mineral salts come from deep within the earth, contain lots of minerals, and have a beautiful pink color with speckles of minerals.

Salt is an essential nutrient, and the amount of salt in the diet influences health. Too much salt can raise blood pressure and increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes, but using natural, “unrefined” salt does not create heat or water retention in the body.

Adding the correct type of salt to your diet can help with blood pressure, cholesterol, fatigue, headaches, sinus and respiratory issues, muscle cramps, stress (adrenal) disorders, thyroid problems, and immune system function, and can increase bone strength.

Salt is one of the six tastes (sweet, sour, salty, pungent, bitter, and astringent). Ayurveda believes mineral salt enkindles the digestive fire (Agni) and stimulates the appetite, enhancing the sense of taste. Salt helps digest natural toxins (Ama) and clears the body's channels. This salt calms the nervous system and emotions and helps ground excess Vata dosha.

Ayurvedic Energetics:

      Rasa (taste): salty, sweet

      Virya (action): cooling

      Vipaka (post-digestive effect): sweet

      Doshas (constitutions): balancing for Vata may increase Pitta and Kapha.