Bamboo salt is a substance that is extracted by placing sun-dried salt into three-year-old green bamboo, sealing both ends with natural loess, using pine trees as fuel, and calcining at high temperatures of 1000°C to 1500°C. It is said that bamboo salt was passed down to the people as a folk remedy by monks in the temple 1,300 years ago. In 1988, Gaeam Trading Co., Ltd. received a thousand-year-old secret recipe from the abbot Gaeam in Fuan, North Jeolla Province, and built a factory before it was passed down to the people. . Later, bamboo salt products were commercialized and spread more widely.
Bamboo salt is actually not a new thing. In South Korea, it can probably be regarded as a "national treasure". In ancient times, monks packed the salt into carefully selected bamboo tubes, sealed it with natural loess, and then baked it with specific pine branches. The final solid powder obtained was bamboo salt. This process is often repeated, and "good" bamboo salt will be carried out nine times.
Bamboo salt is made from natural salt rich in minerals and put into bamboo tubes that have grown for more than 3 years. The bamboo must be bamboo grown on the west coast, with a diameter of 7cm and 3 or 5-year-old bamboo. If the diameter exceeds 7cm, it will be difficult for the water in the bamboo to dissolve into the salt, and the quality will not be guaranteed.
After selecting the bamboo, cut it into sections and pour the sun salt into the bamboo tube. The sun salt used must be natural salt from the West Coast. The fuel used for calcining bamboo tubes is pine wood. Certain components in pine wood play a certain role in the calcination process of bamboo salt and affect its quality, which cannot be replaced by other fuels. The kiln used for calcining must also be made of loess.
Only when pine wood is used as fuel in a kiln made of loess, the bamboo salt can appear purple. After about 10 hours, you can get the first calcined bamboo salt. After the bamboo was burned, only the salt remained. The moisture from the calcined bamboo has penetrated into the salt. At this time, the bamboo salt has become a salt stick shape. Then crush the first calcined bamboo salt and put it into the bamboo to burn.
Purple Bamboo Salt
This process is repeated eight times. When baking for the ninth time, sprinkle rosin into the fire and adjust the temperature to the highest limit, the salt will become liquid. , is "green baby salt".
After nine times of calcination, the efficacy of bamboo salt can be best reflected. No more, no less, it must be nine times. The bamboo salt we usually see is off-white, obviously not after nine times of calcination. Generally, off-white bamboo salt is calcined at 1350°C to 1500°C to obtain purple bamboo salt - purple bamboo salt.
History of Bamboo Salt
There is a saying: add salt to willow branches and live to ninety-eight. This is a proverb from ancient times advocating brushing your teeth.
Then the question arises. The main sources of salt in the ancient Central Plains were well salt and sea salt (the output of green salt at that time was too small to be considered for now). Due to technological limitations, well salt has a brine smell and sea salt has a fishy smell. Rich people naturally didn't want to use it directly, so bamboo salt came into being.
Because bamboo salt not only has no odor, but also has a refreshing fragrance, it has quickly become popular in the middle and upper classes of society, and its use has expanded from the original "toothpaste" to bath salts and medicinal materials (salt itself is a medicinal materials). By the Tang and Song dynasties, the production process became more and more complex, and even extremely complicated processes and very particular material selection appeared. The bamboo salt made in this way became a "luxury product". But its function has not been improved, and its functions and ingredients are not much different from ordinary table salt (except for taste and smell).
Due to the development of modern technology, ordinary table salt no longer has an odor, and with the emergence of more effective products such as toothpaste and bath soap, bamboo salt has withdrawn from the stage of history. Some of the "bamboo salt" health products and cosmetics that have appeared recently are just another round of hype concepts. In fact, the functions of the products themselves can be said to be completely regressive.
2 Functions
Detoxification food
From a macro perspective, the poison is fire, while bamboo salt is water. Bamboo salt detoxifies and detoxifies.
The first category is heavy metal toxins. Bamboo salt contains natural sulfur and rosin, which are the most effective substances in neutralizing and decomposing heavy metal toxins. Scientific experiments in many countries have fully proved this. In addition, bamboo salt can emit a large amount of far-infrared rays, and far-infrared rays also have a considerable effect on the elimination of heavy metal toxins.
The second category is toxins such as bacteria, germs, and viruses. In real life, we find that many chronic inflammations and bacteria and germs have not been reduced or eliminated due to the development of drugs. On the contrary, under the action of a large number of antibiotics and drugs, these toxins produce antibodies and become more vital. Bamboo salt’s anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and toxin-neutralizing abilities are amazing and can be said to be unparalleled among foods. The removal of this type of toxins is beyond the reach of medicines.
The third category is toxins such as blood lipids, cholesterol, and acidosis. Bamboo salt quickly and completely eradicates these toxins
purifies the blood and purifies the whole body.
The fourth category is fecal poisoning. Bamboo salt solves the problem of constipation cleanly and thoroughly, and at the same time removes toxin-producing garbage that has accumulated in the intestines for many years, such as feces and solid stools, and removes them from the outside of the intestines. Many problems of modern people are inseparable from constipation, solid stool, and secretions of defecation. This problem cannot be solved without detoxification and purification.
Balance adjustment
Bamboo salt can play a huge balancing role on the human body, and through this balance and adjustment, the body's self-healing and recovery can be achieved.
Bamboo salt is not only rich in minerals, but also has a comprehensive balance of trace elements. It also exists in a natural and reasonable structure, which is particularly helpful for the body's comprehensive absorption.
Bamboo salt is a highly alkaline food that can fully regulate the acid-base balance in the human body and fundamentally eradicate modern diseases.
Bamboo salt strengthens the function of osmotic pressure, restores the metabolic order of the human body, aids digestion, excretion, and nutritional input, and activates human vitality.
Contains high energy
Bamboo salt can continuously emit far-infrared rays. This is because bamboo salt is fired using a special method at temperatures above 1000°C. During the firing process of bamboo salt, it completes a process of leapfrogging from ordinary food to high-energy food.
Bamboo salt can strengthen the ability of water molecules in the human body, fundamentally changing the quality of a living body. Bamboo salt has special effects on improving metabolism, strengthening immune function, clearing blood disorders in the body, and enhancing tissue regeneration ability. At the same time, it is also very helpful in increasing anti-spasmodic ability, inhibiting abnormal excitement of sensory nerves, regulating autonomic nerves, etc., and is useful in the prevention of cancer, diabetes, hypertension, obesity, gastrointestinal diseases, prostatic hypertrophy, rheumatism, etc. Modern diseases have obvious effects. One of the most important reasons is that bamboo salt is a high-energy food that can radiate far-infrared rays stably and fully, exerting the effect of far-infrared rays.
Reducing power
Bamboo salt is a food with antioxidant, free radical scavenging and reducing power. It can release a large number of electrons, which can not only block the crazy predatory behavior of free radicals, but also repair cells damaged by free radicals in time. In other words, bamboo salt’s excellent antioxidant function, excellent free radical scavenging function, and excellent reducing power are all based on one fact—the ability to restore life.
Bamboo salt is a treasure house of minerals and trace elements. It is one of the most mineral-rich foods in the world. Bamboo salt contains dozens of minerals and trace elements from the sea, land, forests and other places on the earth. It also uses China’s ancient and mysterious heating methods, adhering to Taoist alchemy and other methods, and is heated to temperatures of more than 1,000 degrees Celsius. Barbecuing keeps the minerals and trace elements in the bamboo salt in their original, natural state, intactly maintaining the original balanced structure of the minerals in the ecosystem given by nature. This is precisely what all processed foods cannot achieve, and it is also the basis for the unique quality of bamboo salt. In other words, with bamboo salt, we don’t have to worry about our bodies getting rusty; even the cells and bodies that have become rusty will be restored to their original best state by consuming bamboo salt.
Bamboo salt is rich in trace element selenium, which is another important reason why bamboo salt has excellent antioxidant, free radical scavenging and strong reducing power. We know that selenium is an essential trace element for the human body. Adults require approximately 0.4 mg per day. Selenium has antioxidant and anti-aging effects. Selenium is a component of glutathione peroxidase, which reduces toxic peroxides into harmless hydroxyl compounds, thereby protecting cell tissues from the harm of peroxides.
Unsaturated fatty acids, especially higher unsaturated fatty acids, can be oxidized into lipid peroxides in the body. Excessive peroxides can damage body tissues. Glutathione peroxidase can prevent damage to body tissues, thereby achieving Antioxidant and anti-aging purposes. It can protect the lipids in the cell membrane from the effects of peroxides, thereby protecting the cell membrane.
Bamboo salt toothpaste
Sorbitol, water, hydrated silica, bamboo salt, sodium monofluorophosphate (content 0.48), sodium chloride, etc.
Take product design as an example. The outer packaging trademark of bamboo salt toothpaste adopts a three-dimensional design. When touched by hand, it has an obvious concave and convex feeling; the toothpaste cap also adopts the method of pressing and pulling out; the toothpaste tube is sealed. It is very finely made and the interface is neat. Consumers can feel the exquisiteness of these details anytime and anywhere.
The mildest market strategy: "aggressive" strategies have always been prevalent in the toothpaste market, but bamboo salt toothpaste is a little different. It is a mild, culturally penetrating market strategy. Although bamboo salt toothpaste With excellent product quality, it has easily passed the strict testing by the Toxicology Institute of the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Light Industry Toothpaste Wax Products Quality Supervision and Inspection Center, and has obtained patent registration in 11 countries and regions including South Korea, the United States, and the European Union. But Bamboo Salt Toothpaste has never used its own advantages to suppress its competitors. This gives bamboo salt toothpaste an excellent reputation in the industry.
It is hard to imagine that toothpaste can have such a powerful effect. In fact, toothpaste is just a daily necessities for us, and it cannot be of great benefit to our health. When choosing toothpaste, just pay attention to choosing a toothpaste brand that suits you. There is no need to choose the most expensive one, and the medicinal efficacy of bamboo salt toothpaste cannot be marked on the packaging, because it is just a daily cleaning product and cannot promote medicinal efficacy like medicine.
Moreover, the introduction on the packaging of bamboo salt is a bit exaggerated. It is impossible for toothpaste to be so sophisticated in the selection of materials. Is it really strange that toothpaste can be calcined with bamboo salt so many times? In this industrialized society, as long as Even if it is not direct sea salt, it may be good, but its product quality is also questionable. It seems that the majority of consumers have realized that its efficacy is not very miraculous, and they only rely on exaggerated publicity effects to sell products.
We would also like to remind some consumers who want to whiten their teeth not to overly believe that a toothpaste can whiten their teeth. It is just a toothpaste and not a teeth whitening medicine.
Scientific research
They measured the composition of pure table salt, coarse salt and bamboo salt and found that the content of mineral components such as manganese, calcium, zinc, iron and sulfur in bamboo salt was higher than that of pure salt. Table salt or kosher salt is much higher. This is also consistent with the material balance in chemistry - green bamboo and loess contain relatively many mineral components, which eventually enter the salt after roasting. In other words, bamboo salt is actually another form of "coarse salt".
Weight loss effect
Drinking a glass of salt water on an empty stomach every morning is good for the body, but drinking a glass of pure water with 1 teaspoon of bamboo salt in the morning is even better. It is a good way for women to remove toxins from the body. This helps to increase intestinal peristalsis, eliminate feces, effectively reduce the accumulation of fat in the intestine, and thus play a role in weight loss.
In addition, bamboo salt contains rosin and natural sulfur. These two substances can neutralize and dissolve metal toxins and reduce the accumulation of toxins in the body. Bamboo salt can also quickly and completely remove harmful components such as acidity and toxicity in blood lipids and cholesterol, and purify the blood. Of course, women should also pay more attention to exercise while using bamboo salt to detoxify. This can maintain the normal operation of the body's functions and smooth metabolism. It can not only achieve the effect of detoxification and weight loss, but also maintain good health, killing two birds with one stone.
Prevent edema
Many obese people always feel that their bodies are bloated. This is actually due to the accumulation of too much water, fat and metabolic waste in their bodies. These obese people can reduce swelling by using beauty bamboo salt or a scrub containing bamboo salt for massage. During massage, you must focus on "taking care" of the locations where fat accumulates, such as thighs, abdomen, buttocks, etc. As long as you persist for a long time, you will get good results.
The principle of bamboo salt reducing swelling is that during the massage process, the organic matter in the bamboo salt can penetrate into the skin, promote the metabolism of the skin, and help the body discharge excess water and waste from the body. During the massage process, it is best to feel warm all over the body, which indicates that the waste in the body is being discharged out of the body along with sweat.
In addition, bamboo salt contains a large number of minerals that are good for the body. Long-term use can make the skin smooth, tender and firm.