Nutrient content of salt: selenium 1.00 μ g, manganese 0.29 mg, calcium 22 mg, copper 0. 14 mg, magnesium 2 mg, iron 1 mg, potassium 14 mg and sodium 3931kl.
Salt is not only an indispensable condiment in people's diet, but also an indispensable substance for human body.
Its main component is sodium chloride, which is a neutral inorganic salt.
It is salty in taste and cold in nature, and enters the stomach, kidney and large intestine. Has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood, moistening dryness, invigorating kidney, relaxing bowels, killing parasites, diminishing inflammation, inducing vomiting and stopping diarrhea.
Salt is suitable for patients with acute gastroenteritis, vomiting and diarrhea, heatstroke, sweating and drinking in summer, sore throat, oral inflammation, gingival bleeding, indigestion caused by gastric acid deficiency, dry stool, habitual constipation and so on.
Washing feet with salt and perilla root soup can cure beriberi. Scrubbing the skin with salt water can make the skin healthy and enhance resistance.
Salt has an analgesic effect. If hot water burns your skin, rubbing some salt (or soy sauce) can relieve the pain. Drinking light salt water in hot weather can prevent constipation, sore throat, toothache and abdominal pain. Drinking a cup of salty boiled water every morning can avoid losing your voice
If you eat toxic food by mistake, drink some salt and boiled water to detoxify. Milk goes bad easily in summer and autumn. Less salt in milk can prolong the shelf life of milk.
Before eating vegetables and fruits, soak them in light salt water for 20 minutes to remove residual pesticides and parasite eggs and kill germs.
Wash the fish in salt water before frying, and the fish will have no dirt and smell. In addition, salt can also soften acid lumps in the body.
From a physiological point of view, salt is of great significance for maintaining human health: salt can help people digest food.
The salty taste of salt can stimulate people's taste and increase oral saliva secretion, thus increasing appetite and improving food digestibility. Salt can participate in body fluid metabolism.
Salt is an important component of body fluids. People who work in high temperature sweat too much and need to supplement salty drinks. People with excessive vomiting and diarrhea should be given normal saline;
People with excessive blood loss should also drink warm salt water urgently, because salt can maintain the osmotic pressure and acid-base balance of the human body.