Rock Salt or Sea Salt

Adrian Wong · Jan 9, 2011

Received yet another stupid hoax mail from a relative. Check it out :

Rock Salt or Sea Salt.

STRESS RELIEF. Is salt bad for hypertensives?

What is bad for hypertension is iodized salt, which is a fake salt. It is made up of only 3 synthetic chemicals, sodium, chloride, iodine. It does not melt in water (glistens like diamonds), does NOT melt in the body, does not melt in the kidneys, gives kidney stones, and raises blood pressure. However, it is the salt favored by the synthetic drug-based doctors who say it is very clean and sanitary, pointing to how white it is and how it glistens like diamonds. The fake salt is man-made in a factory.

The true salt, which comes from the sea and dried under the sun and commonly called rock salt , has 72 natural minerals including natural sodium, chloride, iodine. It melts in water, melts in your body, melts in the kidneys, do not give kidney stones, and best of all brings down blood pressure and stops/prevents muscle cramps, numbness, tingling.

If you get muscle cramps in the lower legs at night, just take 1/2 teaspoon of rock salt and a glass of water, and the cramps with its horrific pain will be gone in 5 minutes.

The highest BP that came my way was in a woman who had a BP of 240/140 and came to my house at 10:30 pm on what she said was a matter of "life and death" because the high BP was already giving her a crushing headache, especially the back of her head. She could not walk up the 6 shallow steps to my porch. Two men had to help her, one on each side, in addition to the cane that she needed to prop herself up.

I muscle tested her and found that underlying her BP of 240/140 and the crushing pain in the head, her body's water content was only 6% (normal is 75%), salt content was zero, potassium was 96% deficient, and cardiac output (blood flow from the heart) was only 40% (normal is 100%). So the blood supply to the head was 60% deficient.

I gave her one 6" long green sili (hot pepper), 1 raw ripe saba banana, 1/2 teaspoon of rock salt and 3 8-oz glasses of tap water. The sili was to normalize cardiac output and shoot blood to the head, the saba banana was for the potassium deficiency and to have food in the stomach because pepper will give a stomach ache if the stomach is empty, and the rock salt and the water were the first aid for her severe dehydration which was causing her arteries to be dry and stiff and her blood to be thick and sticky, because they were dehydrated.

After 5 minutes, she said, "The pain in my head is gone." We took her BP, it was 115/75, and cardiac output was up to 100%.

She walked out of the house to her car without the men helping her and without the cane.

She has been taking 2.5 teaspoons of rock salt, 15 glasses of water, 6 saba bananas and 3 of the long pepper daily since then (beginning September 2009), and her BP and cardiac output have been normal since then.

Two months later, in November, at a PCAM round table forum on hypertension in Club Filipino, she gave her testimony, followed by her brother who said that she grew 2", because the salt and the water had refilled her compressed disc spaces in her vertebral column. The disc spaces had become compressed because they had become dehydrated since the fluid filling up these discs are 95% water.

Why salt? Because without salt the body cannot retain water no matter how much water is drunk. You will still be dehydrated because you will just keep urinating and sweating the water out.

This is not an isolated case. When BP is rising high but there is little or no headache but there is stiffness of shoulder and neck muscles, all you need to normalize the BP and remove the stiffness and the pain in 5 minutes is 1/2 teaspoon of rock salt and 3 glasses of water. If there is crushing pain in the head, it means blood supply to the head is lacking, and you will need the sili to normalize it and shoot blood to the head and remove the extreme pain.
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Needless to say, all that is UTTER NONSENSE. I replied to my relative :

Fake and completely inaccurate.

Salt is salt. Iodized salt is salt with a little bit of iodine, which is important for people who do not have regular intake of iodine (from seafood, etc.).

Sea salt needs to be purified as well. Otherwise, it would contain contaminants like mercury, etc. Sea salt contains iodine, so it is itself a form of iodized salt.

Rock salt is different from sea salt. Rock salt is mined while sea salt is obtained by evaporating seawater.

And no one gives salt to “cure” hypertension! That’s insane!
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Trinity · Jan 9, 2011

I love salty food!

zy · Jan 9, 2011

They sell normal salt and iodized salt here Both the same price

JTech · Jan 10, 2011

I thought this was a discussion of which was best for cooking. We use Kosher salt.

jamotto · Jan 10, 2011

What is bad for hypertension is iodized salt, which is a fake salt. It is made up of only 3 synthetic chemicals, sodium, chloride, iodine.
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I can't even get past the first sentence.

mathew7 · Jan 10, 2011

Adrian Wong said: ↑

I muscle tested her and found that underlying her BP of 240/140 and the crushing pain in the head, her body's water content was only 6% (normal is 75%), salt content was zero, potassium was 96% deficient, and cardiac output (blood flow from the heart) was only 40% (normal is 100%). So the blood supply to the head was 60% deficient.
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So water content was 6%? That means she was a stiff. According to wikipedia , lowest figure is 45% when combined with obesity. 60% is normal and 75% is reached only by newborns (who lose it in the first 10 years).
Also, I'm don't believe he managed to measure the bloodflow so quickly. The other 2 symptoms (salt and potasium) I don't know what are the correct numbers, but I'm sure if these numbers were true, the person would NOT be living......Although I can't say anything for zombies / undead. I don't think anyone has managed to get close enough to make such analysis.

PS:no, I'm not a MMORPG player, but I did play some games and see some movies, but I prefer sci-fi myself.

Adrian Wong · Jan 11, 2011

mathew7 said: ↑

So water content was 6%? That means she was a stiff. According to wikipedia , lowest figure is 45% when combined with obesity. 60% is normal and 75% is reached only by newborns (who lose it in the first 10 years).
Also, I'm don't believe he managed to measure the bloodflow so quickly. The other 2 symptoms (salt and potasium) I don't know what are the correct numbers, but I'm sure if these numbers were true, the person would NOT be living......Although I can't say anything for zombies / undead. I don't think anyone has managed to get close enough to make such analysis.

PS:no, I'm not a MMORPG player, but I did play some games and see some movies, but I prefer sci-fi myself.
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LOL! You are so right. I didn't bother with most of the pseudoscience mumbo-jumbo because the first 2 paragraphs were bad enough. The rest was "indigestible"!

Vadakyis98 · Oct 31, 2011

For the most part, the various grades of salt are all the same; chemically most are greater than 99% sodium chloride, but the structure varies widely. Simple table salt consists of small, compact cubic grains, while kosher salt has a much more irregular structure and a larger surface area. Popcorn salt is ground salt that dissolves very quickly. Rock salt is just that, large chunks of sodium chloride. These differences in structure can cause a significant change in the perceived flavor of the salt and its usefulness for particular recipes. The speed with which it dissolves is also very important, with finer salts such as pickling salt even dissolving readily in cold liquid.

Table salt also contains anti-caking agents to allow it to flow freely, and sometimes contains very small amounts of iodine.

Sea salt, which is made from evaporating seawater, also varies considerably. Because there are impurities in the water, each sea salt has a unique taste and is prized in different cuisines or for different applications. Sea salts often tend to cost considerably more than other kinds of salt; however, in areas with large seawater evaporation industries the "table salt" in local stores may actually be sea salt.

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