It’s natural and expected that we feel good at the seaside.

Just take a deep breath of that fresh salty sea air and your breathing relaxes and opens up and everything feels good.

But is it the sea that’s responsible for that great feeling or is it the salt in the air?

One reason to suspect that it is the salt air itself is that for hundreds of years people with breathing difficulties in central Europe would visit the caves where salt used to be mined.

Spending some time in these salt caves and breathing the salt laden air would soothe them and reduce their breathing difficulties and sinus and allergy problems.

There was even a hospital built 700 feet underground where patients could spend some time breathing in the therapeutic air.

So this all sounds great but not much use to me if I’m in the middle of London or Houston and having sinus or asthma problems.

But someone had a great idea of putting some of the salt from these caves in a tube or pipe and breathing through the pipe.

And that’s all there is to this allergy treatment – just breath through the pipe -or to be exact breathe IN through the pipe and OUT through your nose. This may take a couple of minutes to get used to but after that it’s relaxing.

Take a look here where an English Doctor gives his point of view – sorry for the poor video quality BTW – but it’s short and worth watching

Most of the scientific work with salt air therapy has been concerned with asthma and bronchitis where relief of symptoms was found even for smokers. The allergy picture is not so solid but my feeling about this treatment is that it is simple, low cost and drug free…To me that means it’s worth a try if your symptoms are not being controlled by your present treatment. If you want to check some scientific info on salt air therapy follow this link to a 1995 study in Russia

I’ll follow this up soon with an article on treating asthma using salt air therapy. A non drug simple treatment like this is almost a dream come true, but I do want to end with a slight  caution

This may not banish your allergies but combined with simple life style and diet changes suggested here at www.allergyremedyinformation.com you can expect to get some good results from salt air treatment. You may still get some symptoms returning at difficult times. But this could be a big step forward in your journey to health…

Do please comment if you have tried this treatment whether with the brand in the picture or in the video or some other.