Education
What is a salt room?
Clean air, gentle relaxing sounds, soft dimmed light — a place of healing for body and soul.
History
From salt mines to modern clinics
Scientists began taking a serious interest in the healing effects of sodium chloride after World War II, when positive effects were noticed in people who had sheltered from bombing raids in salt mines. The first written medical account of the healing properties of salt dust was left by the Polish physician Feliks Boczkowski back in 1843, and in Russia by Dr. Tchaikovsky — father of the famous composer. Both observed that salt mine workers did not suffer from the respiratory ailments typical of mining pits.
Not far from Kraków there is today a large hospital with more than 200 underground tunnels and a series of salt caves, while salt caves serve as spa retreats in Austria, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Russia and Ukraine.
Salt caves are the forerunners of salt rooms: they too imitate a salt mine and have negatively ionized air, but they have no halogenerator — you spend time in them, yet inhale nothing. A salt room with a halogenerator offers true dry salt inhalation.
Description and features
An imitation of a natural salt cave
A salt room imitates a natural salt cave, achieving its healing microclimate by blowing in dry air saturated with the finest particles of rock salt. This is the work of the halogenerator — a device that acts as a mill, grinding the salt. Salt crystals produce negative ions that in nature occur in concentration only by the sea, near waterfalls or in salt caves.
Building a room takes on average 2.5 to 4 tonnes of natural, non-iodized rock salt, cladding the space from floor to ceiling. Ambient light, audio and video equipment and a comfortable interior for relaxation complete the whole — so beyond its health benefits, every visit is a genuine pleasure.
The therapy and its purpose
What halotherapy helps with
According to users’ experiences and expert accounts, therapy in a salt room is effective for:
It is said that 40 minutes in a salt room equals three days spent at the seaside.
Halotherapy is not a substitute for a medical examination or prescribed treatment — for any health concerns, consult your doctor.
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