The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-09-25
Virtues Of Salt

"Salt is good" It is the language Of
inspiration, as we'll as cftherapeuties. In
all the range of the household materia-
medico there is no remedy halfs yalua-
BILE es common salt, both because of its
real curative properties and of its imme-
diate availability. And, moreover, it has
this advantage over more pretentious
remedies, tnat seldom in case of overzeal
or misnenagement can it be made to do
mischief. Fit doesn't heal, it won't kill
at auy rate. Here are some of the things
it is good for:
Heated dry and applied to the outer
surface over the seat of inflammation or
congestion, it will give almost instant re-
lief while applications of 8 strong, hot so.
luton of salt, in water or vinegar, acts
like magic upon tootbache, earache, neu.
ralgic headache, and all that brood Of
distressing ills.
For catarrhal affections and sore throat
q spray of warm water and salt is almost
q specific, and is one Of the standard pre-
scriptions ofthe snose and throat" special.
lists. For hay fever, and those other
slighler forms of nasal sensitivesness that
induce constant sneezing, there is no
remedy mere quickly palliative, and often
curative, than the vapor of heated salt
and alcohol.
Put both in tin vessel and heat over
a fame. When there is good showing
of yapor place the vessel under cover
ing that envelops the head as we'll, and
inhale the yapor through both nose and
throat. For influenza and ordinary colds
this treatment is also excellent. Salt
water baths are an excellent tonic; taken
warm they delightfully."- refreshing when
one is heated or tired, and taken cold
they are the best preventive in the world
of too great susceptibility to colds. One
delicate woman, who used to insist that
she "caugbta cold on coming into the
world and had never been without one
since" became as Indifferent to damp and
draugbts as sailor, after a years trial of
salt baths.
For thosa who have sensitive gums, in
clined to bleed on the slightest provoca'
ton, mouth wash ofaalt and cold water
used once or twice day will harden the
gums and prevent soreness. AS salt is q
styptic, any slight bleeding may usually
be checked by treating the part with salt
and water. Persons who have tender feet
will find them growing much less sonsi.
tive day by day if treated to daily brisk
rubbing with cold salt water.
There is sn old belief that salt water
Injuries the hair, and delightful old lady
once explained to the writer the reason
thereof.
"You see," she said, sthe salt in the
water is stronger than the hair in your
head, and 80 the salt water just draws
tho hair straight out" Assuming this to
be true, that salt water will draw the hair
out of the head when it isn't otherwise
specially inclined toward coming out, by
good homeopathic reasoning we come to
the conclusion that when the hair insists
upop coming out Of its own accord & vig-
oroas treating with salt aud water will
put stop to it. Whether the reasoning be
trus or not, the fact is. Notall the tonics
you can buy at the hairdresscr's will do
your hair half the good, iii manifests a
tendency toward falling out, that daily
scalp bath of strong salt and water will.
Besides all this, salt is good for the
stomach. a pinch of it in hot water
taken either just before or jnst after o
meal, is a valuable aid to digestion, and
cupful of very hot salt water will some
times quiot the most persistent nausea.
Anything more that salt will do? Yes,
the most grateful Of all-cure the tooth
ache, sometimes. "Will it really dc
that?" A little girl who was told to put
some in an aching tooth says so. "Ijust
put in little SALT" she said, "and in q few
minutes felt the naughty aching nerve
curl right down and so to sleep"
But there is one caution to offer. How.
ever beneficial the therapeutic action o.
salt may be, there is no question but salt
taken into the system with the food in
too great quantities is extrcmely harmful
It was the excessive use OF salt, quite as
much as the nervous strain of his cam.
paign,. that killed Horace Greeley, ant
there be those who declare that With many
women the use OF salt is species Of dis
sipation. Too much salt in the system
dries up the blood and the healthy mois
ture of the men: branous surtaces, and i:
evidenced by dead yellow pallor of tht
skin, with :. bIanchi5g Of the lips ant
cheeks aud morbid craving for tie con
diment which nothing but its .l:e in enor
nous quantities vii! satisfy.