Since the natural salt caves and salt mines are not conveniently accessible for most people, we have constructed our own salt therapy room right here at Soft Tissue Solutions Therapeutic Center.

Our Salt room is to promote salt therapy as an alternative method for treatment of respiratory and skin disorders. We have developed protocols for treating disorders with dry salt aerosols produced by our salt generator, which is capable of producing aerosols with determined slat particle size. We offer an individual approach, taking into account the disorder, disease and its severity.

Salt Therapy reproduces the atmosphere of the salt caves/salt mines with a monitored therapeutic micro climate. The air coming from our generator is ionized and saturated with a natural substance – a low concentration of curative highly dispersed aerosol of dry saline (salt).

Clients sit in our artificial salt room and breathe in the dry agent, which is immediately transported to the smallest bronchia and to other parts of the respiratory tract. Once in place, it dissolves and attracts the small impurities which are later either coughed up by the clients or which leave the organism during the metabolic processes via the bloodstream.

The treatment eliminates the root of all inflammatory respiratory illnesses (of all inflections of the lower or upper respiratory tract, asthma, bronchitis and allergy catarrh) by destroying bacteria and restoring their health.

Doctors have noted that thousands of patients have been successfully treated by Speleotherapy (treatment in natural salt caves) method in Canada, Russia, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Austria and Germany since 1940. After taking treatments, their breathing became easier. Symptoms such as sneezing, coughing and shortness of breath were improved significantly. Salt Therapy mimics the natural salt environment and clients experience positive results in as soon as 7-30 days.

As a result of the therapy, the state of the bronchi is restored, breathing becomes easier and the quality of the function of breathing improves. This leads to the normalization of other bodily systems. Thanks to the stronger immune system, sick days will decrease and clients will be more resilient. In the case of clients suffering from asthma and croup symptoms, the inflammation causing the spasms of the bronchus will stop, and the airing of the bronchial tube will be normalized, leading to the end of attacks.

Salt Therapy is a 100% drug free treatment with no artificial elements. The treatment is suitable for children at any age (as young as 1 month old). Children respond to the therapy very quickly and effectively.

Salt Therapy is 100% natural, safe and drug-free. It provides effective long-term relief from various respiratory illnesses and skin disorders. It can be used as a complementary treatment or as a sole treatment.

THE MINERALIZED AIR IN THE SALT ROOM CONTAINS TRACES OF THE FOLLOWING MINERALS:

• Calcium - increased defensive forces of the body resistance to infectious diseases, normalizes autonomic nervous system, prevents  anti allergic  reactions, and reinforces bone systems
• Sodium – supports acidic- alkaline balance in the body, osmotic pressure and cell energetics
• Potassium – acts against heart arrhythmia, against edemas and diuretically. Improves conditions of neuromuscular system and motor coordination
• Magnesium – accelerates sending nervous impulses to muscles, acts as smooth muscle relaxant and as calming factor, anesthetizes, speeds up wound healing, lowers arterial blood pressure and prevents convulsions
• Copper – improves function of the producing blood cells, increases hemoglobin level and decreases sugar level in blood, speeds up knitting fractured bones together, has anesthetic and anti-inflammatory effect
• Bromine – lowers arterial blood pressure and prevents convulsions
• Iodine – has anti –sclerotic effect, normalizes fat transformation in the body, and protects against radiation
• Fluorine – strengthens bones and teeth, stimulates immunity and protects against radiation

Benefits

• Natural medicine-Free treatment of respiratory and skin problems.
• Cleansing and sanitation of the airways
• Enhancement of airways defense mechanisms
• Enhance biological and immune host defense mechanism
• Decrease of base medication load

Advantages

• Scientific approval of the mechanisms of action
• No invasiveness, no side effects
• Adaptation to diverse medical and health improving approaches
• High efficiency
• Comfort and convenience
• Removal of physical and psychic emotional discomforts

Clients that suffer from the following discomforts can expect beneficial physical effects by using salt therapy sessions on a frequent basis:

• Allergies
• Asthma
• Bronchitis
• Cold/Flu
• Cystic Fibrosis
• Dermatitis
• Ear Infections
• Eczema
• Emphysema
• Psoriasis
• Pneumonia
• Rhinitis
• Sinus Infections
• Sinusitis
• Smoker’s Cough
• Snoring
• Stress and Fatigue
• Wheezing

Beneficial mental effects with: Chronicle fatigue, overstrain and exhauster, depression, low stress resistance and to help quit tobacco smoking.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is Salt Therapy?

Salt Therapy is a high dispersion saline aerosol microclimate treatment. It is a therapeutic method based on the principle of natural salt mine’s microclimate (Speleotherapy), which is prolonged exposure to the specific microclimate of caves and salt mines. It’s a patented method where dry salt aerosol plays an important role in the relief of health problems, and is used for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, and other respiratory problems.

2. How does Salt Therapy work?

The air coming from the medical device is ionized and saturated with a natural substance – a low concentration of curative highly dispersed aerosol of dry saline (salt). Patients sit in an artificial Salt Cave; breathe in the dry agent, which is immediately transported to the smallest bronchia and to other parts of the respiratory tract. Once in place it dissolves and attracts the small impurities which are later either coughed up by the client or which leave the organism during the metabolic processes via the bloodstream. The treatment eliminates the root of all inflammatory respiratory illnesses (of all inflections of the lower or upper respiratory tract, asthma, bronchitis and allergy catarrh) by destroying bacteria and restoring health.

3. Which symptoms can be treated by Salt Therapy?

chronic bronchitis

asthma

hay fever

ear infection

breathlessness, chest tightness

pneumonia after acute stage

bronchiectatic disease

smoker’s cough (including secondary smoke)

cough with viscous sputum discharging with difficulties

dry, paroxysmal cough with distant rates

dry rales (mostly with low tone) changing its localization during auscultation

frequent acute disorders of respiratory tract

pharyngitis

multi-chemical sensitivity syndrome

sinusitis/sinus inflammation

respiratory infections

respiratory allergies to industrial and household pollutants

rhinitis

tonsillitis

eczema

psoriasis

4. What results can patients expect?

Doctors have noted that thousands of patients have been successfully treated by Speleotherapy (treatment in natural Salt Caves) method in Canada, Russia, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Austria and Germany since 1940. After taking treatments, their breathing became easier, symptoms such as sneezing, coughing and shortness of breath were improved, and medical drug usage has decreased significantly. Salt Therapy mimics the natural salt environment and patients experience positive results in as soon as 7-30 days.

5. How is health improvement of the patients manifested?

As a result of the therapy, the state of the bronchi is restored, breathing becomes easier and the quality of the function of breathing improves. This leads to the normalization of other bodily systems. Thanks to the stronger immune system sick days will decrease and clients will be more resilient. In the case of clients suffering from asthma and croup symptoms the inflammation causing the spasms of the bronchus will stop, and the airing of the bronchial tube will be normalized leading to the end of attacks.

6. Is Salt Therapy recommended for children?

Salt Therapy is a 100% drug free treatment with no artificial elements. The treatment is suitable for children at any age (as young as 6 months old). Children respond to the therapy very quickly and effectively.

7. What are the advantages of Salt Therapy compared to medicine?

Salt therapy is a risk free treatment method. While modern pharmaceuticals provide effective relief from chronic diseases, there are serious side effects associated with repeated or prolonged use. Continuous drug therapy is associated with the possible development of allergic or toxic reactions, development of antibiotic tolerant species of microorganisms, spreading of dysbiosis and long term immune system destruction.

8. How safe is Salt Therapy?

Salt Therapy is 100% natural, safe and drug-free. It provides effective long-term relief from various respiratory illnesses. It can be used as a complementary treatment or as a sole treatment.

9. What advantages does The Salt Cave – Salt Therapy has over the original salt mine cave environment?

Unlike the natural cave/salt mine clinic, the artificial Salt Cave with our generator  is a controlled environment where the salt aerosol concentration, temperature and humidity are constant and the size of the salt aerosol is controlled (1-5mkm). The air is hypo bacterial, allergen free and saturated with dry sodium chloride aerosol. A session in our Salt Cave takes 60 minutes and patients come back 10-30 times depending on their condition. Meanwhile in a natural Salt Cave, people spend 2-3 hours a day, during a period of 2-3 months.

10. Why children suffering more often from respiratory illnesses?

The natural self defense mechanism of the respiratory system is not fully developed before the age 9. During this period even larger particles of pollution can reach their lungs as the cilium’s cannot filter them out.

The second reason is that than children are shorter therefore they are breathing in the air lower. The air is always more polluted closer to the ground. (e.g. This is why the buggies are higher these days than 20 years ago) The third reason is that children are breathing the air in much more often than adults do. Therefore they are breathing in more polluted air with not fully developed filtering system than adults.

11. Why do you have salt in the room?

The 2 tons of salt on the walls and the floor was applied purely for decoration purposes and to keep the room sterile.

12. Why is relative humidity important in the cave?

The humidity has to be between 40-70% in the room. If the air is too dry or too humid the efficiency of the therapy will drop as the particles cannot get into the smallest parts of the lungs (alveoli). This is why fountains or other water related appliances cannot be installed in a Salt Cave.

13. Why is it so relaxing inside?

Salt has the natural ability to balance the positive charge by binding the excessive positive ions with its negative ions. Therefore, the neutralizing forces of salt can cancel out positive charged and harmful electromagnetic vibrations in our environment (electro-smog), as well as in our body. Hence, salt therapy has de-stressing, relaxing effects; it is beneficial for calming the nervous system.

14. I thought salt is not good for us. Why is it good in the lungs?

Eating too much salt is linked to high blood pressure, which can increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes. However with Salt Therapy you will breathe the dry saline aerosol into the respiratory system, it does not go to your stomach / hearth / kidneys. The concentration is 1-10 mg/m3 is in The Salt Cave and a normal adult’s daily recommended salt intake is 6g, from this you can see that the amount of salt going into your respiratory system is really low. Even if you would eat it instead of breathing it that amount would not trigger any issue.
In the lungs however it kills the bacteria, reduce the mucus and inflammation.

15. How sterile is the microclimate in The Salt Cave?

The microclimate is 3 times cleaner in The Salt Cave than in a sterile surgery room in a hospital therefore it is almost impossible to catch any infection or bacteria during the therapy.
A stable hypoallergenic, hypo bacterial environment is maintained in the therapeutic room. The assessment of the microbial contamination during a session of Halotherapy proves that 1m3 contains from 90 – 200 saprophytic microorganisms (according to WHO standards on air sterility, 1m3 should contain less than 300 microbial bodies).
If somehow any bacteria would get into the Cave during and it would not be killed by the 2 tons of salt located in the Cave due to the 15 minutes ventilation after each session it would be blown out from the building.

16. What shall I wear during Salt Therapy?

For Salt Therapy you don’t need to wear any special clothes when you come to us. We will provide shoe covers for the therapy.
The only preparation we recommend is to not to wear perfumes, scanted body lotion before or during the therapy as many of our clients are allergic to them.