Healing Benefits of Negative Ion Therapy in Salt Crystal Lamps

Negative ion therapy is believed to improve health and help relieve respiratory ailments such as allergies and asthma. It uses naturally occurring negative ions to rid the body and the air of toxins that can lead to health problems. The treatment is often received by Salt Lamps containing salt crystals, nature’s natural ionizer.

How Do Salt Lamps Work? Crystal salt is one of the few minerals whose atomic structure is bound electrically rather than molecularly. This unique characteristic enables the crystal to change back and forth from crystalline to liquid. These ancient bio-energetic crystals are hand excavated into various sizes and drilled inside to accommodate a light source.

The  lamps are lit by a small, energy efficient bulb of 15 watts or less. The gentle heat of the bulb in the salt crystal creates a higher surface temperature than the surrounding air. The humidity in the air is attracted to the warmer crystal surface causing condensation on the crystal surface of the lamp, enabling the electrically bound sodium chloride mineral to split into independent (positive) sodium and (negative) chloride ions.

The atomic structure of crystal salt contains more negative chloride ions than positive sodium ions resulting in the emission of negative ions during the natural ionization process. These negative ions become dust collectors, attaching themselves to positively charged particles, purifying the air from dust, smoke, bacteria and other pollutants.

This natural ionization creates an electric charge. Each time the water molecules evaporate the sodium and chloride ions turn back into their crystalline mineral form. The same process occurs when the sun heats up the oceans on a much larger scale. This natural ionization process takes place over & over millions of times without influencing the quality of the crystal similar to the process where tree leaves absorb dangerous dioxides and transform them into essential oxygen without damaging the plant.

So, aside from being a beautiful light source, the lamps are natural air purifiers that may significantly help people with various health conditions including allergies, asthma and other respiratory ailments. Lamps can be used safely in any room in your home and office and should be left on as much as possible when people are present.

To learn more, watch this video that explains how the lamps work from Solay Wellness.

Salt Lamps: Light Your Way to a Healthier Life

It may just look like a pretty light, but buy welcoming your home to a new salt lamp, you are doing so much more for your body, your health and your environment. There is a multitude of benefits to including one of these beautiful naturally occurring pieces in your home.

Crystalline salt helps to increase negative ions. Negative ions purify the air we breathe and balance out the number of positive ions that are around us. Don’t be fooled at the word ‘positive’. Positive ions represent pollutants and harmful agents. Turning on your salt lamp will increase the number of these negative ions in your living space to balance the amount of positive.

Another benefit of salt lamps is their absorptive nature of water. If you live in a damp area and suffer from a moldy home or just a humid-overdose, having a salt lamp will absorb the water in your living space again keeping it pure and clean.

We have all experienced the benefit of negative ions. The feeling generated by negative ions is one that you find at the ocean, or what you might feel in a big storm or waterfall. Places that are more open and without pollution have a higher negative ion count, while places like New York and LA have a very low negative ion count. Crystalline salt is a natural air ionizer that boosts these ions in the air. Lit lamps have been shown in tests to attract these positive ions, or pollution and to neutralize them, then releasing them back into the environment.

Natural salt lamps are made from salt mined from deep within the Earth and it naturally occurs in white to coral colors. Many salt lamps are from crystals mined in the Himalayas.