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HISTORY
How did the Portable Salt
Cave - "Saltpipe" start?
The Portable Salt Cave - Saltpipe derives from an ancient
natural salt treatment which has been used for decades for
treating respiratory problems. During the WWII, residents
of a German city of Ennepetal were using Klutert cave as a
bomb shelter. Amazingly, they found that they were coughing
considerably less and breathing easier with each air raid.
Later on it was confirmed by scientists that many of those
using the cave as a bomb shelter were indeed cured of their
asthma, chronic bronchitis, and other diseases of the respiratory
tract. The healthy individuals hiding in that cave had strengthened
their immunity and stopped catching colds. Europeans have
long had the advantage of special clinics in salt caves to
help alleviate their breathing problems. This method has been
named "Speleotherapy."
Scientists developed the medical device called a halogenerator,
or Microclimate aerosol chamber. The modern Microclimate Aerosol
Chamber uses state of the art technology to completely reproduce
the atmosphere of the clinics located in salt caves or in
special mines, and it has a monitored therapeutic microclimate.
Air with low concentrations of curative NaCl (salt) is ionized
and saturated with a natural substance.
Doctors have noted that "thousands of patients have
been successfully treated by this method. After taking the
Halotherapy treatments their breathing becomes easier. Symptoms
such as sneezing, coughing, and shortness of breath are alleviated
and patients may no longer have to take large amounts of prescription
medications."
Parents with concerns about the use of prescription medicine
on their children will be glad to know that medical research
has shown "Halotherapy can be one of the most effective
in children as they respond exceptionally well to any kind
of natural treatment"(see reference). Halotherapy has
passed many clinical trials in Europe, Russia, and Canada,
and has been found to be a safe and effective, drug-free method
for treatment of respiratory diseases. The Halotherapy belongs
to the category of the physical therapies non-drug and non
invasive treatments of diseases. In the former Soviet Union,
medical researchers engaged in a concerted effort to develop
physical therapies in order to avoid the costs and side effects
of drug therapy as well as microbial and tumor resistance.
Russia has become the world leader in developing and testing
new and increasingly effective physical therapies. Many of
the clinical trials have focused on Halotherapy as a treatment
of asthma and chronic bronchitis and also very effective as
a main or adjuvant therapy across the entire range of upper
and lower respiratory tract diseases.
Very well known and appreciated in these middle-eastern European
countries, this therapy is covered by the public health care
system. In Romania there are also many salt lakes - Sovata
with 7 salt lakes, Ocna Sibiului with 52 salt lakes in S-W
of Transilvania, very well known in the treatment of infertility,
metabolic diseases, skin diseases. These salt lakes were usually
formed by collapsing of salt caves ceilings. All these salt
lakes have different salinity, increasing with deepness -
from 9g/l to 320g/l.
From Salt Therapy to Saltpipe?
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to the salt-chamber (halochamber) or salt mine is inaccessible
for everyone. Even though there has been some inventions about
how to make the device for inhaling salty air such as Aerosol,
Mr. Imre Bekefi and Mr. Laszlo Budai from Hungary successfully
invented the first Saltpipe in the world in 2002. They both
had been subjected to asthma and allergy. They used the Salt-Chamber
and visit Salt caves several times to treat the illness but
without regularly basis, it is difficult to get rid of this
problem. Also, visiting salt caves and halo chamber are costly
and time consuming.
Inventing the Saltpipe is great success that they can obtain
the treatment at homes. Saltpipe now has become one of the
natural devices in Halotherapy providing the salty air through
a handy ceramic container.
"Two men, from Budapest, invented a Saltpipe which is
filled with minerals, mined from salt-caves.
László Budai (38) & Imre Békefi (40)
both swear on it! The Saltpipe helps in case of allergies
or cold the same way as the salt caverns, but without the
need of traveling day by day. They draw experience from their
own sources, 'cause formerly both suffered from allergies.
Everybody knows that salt caverns and the fresh salty sea
breeze clean the lungs. But! You have to take a trip for that.
I myself traveled many times with my family for the same reason
when my allergies stood forth - remembers Mr. László
Budai - Then I realized that we could "store" the
same materials at home. And that's how the idea of the Saltpipe
came. His inventor partner, Mr. Imre Békefi was suffering
from asthmatic symptoms. They combined forces and together
developed the small ceramic pipe it is called Sopipa known
in English as Saltpipe. I could hardy work then, since I couldn't
breathe - says Mr. Békefi. The small, palm-size appliance
contains assorted salt crystals from the most famous healing
caverns of Europe, and these 20-22 millions of years old materials
reach the most hidden corners of the respiratory system and
there dissolve all the crusts, sediments and regenerate the
whole breathing system. As soon as I started to use the pipe,
my allergy - with mild symptoms - for the hazelbush, has disappeared.
My eyes are weeping from the ragweed for 2 weeks the most
instead of the formerly extant 3 months. But of course we
cannot avoid the pollens of the ragweed, which goes through
everything. In order to prevent allergies, the best thing
to do is in continuously cleansing the body.
According to the inventors the pipe also helps in case of
having cold, because some of the salt crystals kill bacteria.
The best is, to start using the pipe as a preventive utensil
before the illness could evolve."
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