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indianabob:
Salt burns in a wound. Sea salt would too...??
Well yes you are correct, but that is temporary and it helps us to heal, but the pain is partly due to salt absorbing the moisture out of our skin/flesh and our nervous system telling us that a little goes a long way.
Also, I have used a prescribed salt solution spray up my nose to relieve symptoms of a head cold. A dilute solution by the way... (smile)
--- Quote from: Gina on September 27, 2015, 10:20:35 AM ---Well, I don't know about that, Bob -- try putting some table salt up your nose or in your eyes or on a wound and see if you don't jump through your skin. :-)
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octoberose:
We recently were on a road trip to Washington state and stopped by the Great Salt Lake. I took off my shoes and walked in it. :) It's an amazing sight, and of course they mine the salt. Sea life in the lake is very limited but does exist.
When I think of salt I think of flavor and preservation and healing. And of course in Jesus' day it was a precious commodity.
Gina:
--- Quote from: octoberose on September 27, 2015, 04:39:33 PM ---We recently were on a road trip to Washington state and stopped by the Great Salt Lake. I took off my shoes and walked in it. :) It's an amazing sight, and of course they mine the salt. Sea life in the lake is very limited but does exist.
When I think of salt I think of flavor and preservation and healing. And of course in Jesus' day it was a precious commodity.
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Hi Octoberose,
Yes, the Great Salt Lake is amazing. I've only driven past it decades ago also on road trip to Montana which took me through the State of Washington, beautiful state! And I think of the same things re salt. Why was it a precious commodity in Jesus' day? I thought they used it to preserve the fish or something and that the dead sea was basically right there. I read in one place that the Romans used it as payment or something and therefore that's where the word "salary" comes from, but then I looked at another site and they debunked that silly myth. hehe The things people say haha!!
octoberose:
Well, I'm finding that "salary goes back to the Latin word that originally denoted a 'allowance given to a Roman soldier for buying salt'. This was 'Salarium, a derivative of salt. " So you may have understood it right in the first place- I'm going with that! "
Gina:
--- Quote from: indianabob on September 27, 2015, 02:28:40 PM ---Salt burns in a wound. Sea salt would too...??
Well yes you are correct, but that is temporary and it helps us to heal, but the pain is partly due to salt absorbing the moisture out of our skin/flesh and our nervous system telling us that a little goes a long way.
Also, I have used a prescribed salt solution spray up my nose to relieve symptoms of a head cold. A dilute solution by the way... (smile)
--- Quote from: Gina on September 27, 2015, 10:20:35 AM ---Well, I don't know about that, Bob -- try putting some table salt up your nose or in your eyes or on a wound and see if you don't jump through your skin. :-)
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he he, iBob of course it has to be diluted in your nose. Yes, even diluted sea salt stings like a mo-fro. I learned that when I thought it would be wise to open my eyes underwater in the ocean....once and only once. :-D
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