3-Times Roasted Bamboo Salt (300g) – For Cooking

What is Bamboo Salt ?

Bamboo Salt is originally from Korean folk remedies with thousand years’ history. Bamboo Salt provides alkaline organic mineral salt. It supplies 70-80 essential minerals and trace elements. It is a strong anti-oxidant and able to restore body cells effectively. Long term consumption of Bamboo Salt can balance the pH value of body fluids and is very beneficial to our acidic bodies and thus help to improve immune system and health. Bamboo Salt is packed with extra micro-minerals on purpose through a rather tedious process developed by Korean monks more than a thousand years ago.

• Step 1: Pure Sea Salt Collection from the Western Coast of South Korea
• Step 2: Collection of 3 Years Old Bamboo Trunk
• Step 3: Fill sundried salt into the bamboo trunk.
• Step 4: Seal opening of bamboo trunk with red clay from unpolluted deep mountain (from 10 meter depth is used because it is richer in minerals and lower in impurities)
• Step 5: Bake for 6-8hours at temperature between 900C – 1500C to remove the impurities and heavy metals. Minerals and trace elements from the red clay and bamboo trunk are condensed into the bamboo salt
• Step 6: 1-time roasted bamboo salt is done.
• Step 7: Baked bamboo salt is grinned into powder form and filled into a new bamboo trunk and sealed with red clay for next burning process (repeated burning process, increase good mineral content & eliminate bad mineral i.e heavy metals).
• Step 8: 9th burn bamboo salt is purple color and found to have the highest efficacy. Scientist believes change of color is due to rearrangement of the suphur molecule into the hexagonal shape.

Major Functions of Bamboo Salt

• Supply essential minerals and trace elements:  Bamboo Salt contains 70-80 types of minerals and trace elements essential to life and optimizes function of other nutrients.
• Balancing of body pH: Bamboo Salt possesses strong alkalinity (pH-10-12) that can neutralize the excess acidic wastes toxins in our body
• Powerful Anti-Oxidant: Due to environment and food contamination, large amount of harmful free radicals are produced in the body. Our body creates antioxidants to cope with that, and bamboo salt plays a role in eliminating free radicals by activating various antioxidant enzymes, and it has a strong antioxidant action because of its reducing power.

Why Make Salt Into Bamboo Salt ?

Salt is an essential material for physiological activities, and it is a material from the nature, which supplements the deficient minerals for modern people. However, there are a few reasons for us to recreate salt into bamboo salt by baking it in bamboo nodes for the health of modern people.

• Remove Impurities in Salt: Environmental pollution caused by industrialization is contaminating the sea water. Therefore, salt made from sea water has been proven to not be completely free from impurities. Bamboo salt production process, putting salt in bamboo nodes, baking and melting it at above 1,300°C, is a very scientific method to remove the bittern and heavy metals and to preserve the minerals at the same time.
• Salt Minerals Made Absorbable: Minerals that exist in the soil are metallic elemental minerals and they cannot be absorbed when ingested directly. To be absorbable to the human body, minerals should be able to be dissolved in the body fluid and to be ionized, so that they can be absorbed in the body’s cells. Baking salt in bamboo nodes at a high temperature means adding energy onto minerals in salt is a process to produce good minerals with excellent activation capacity for the human body.
• Synthesizing Natural Minerals: By synthesizing natural minerals necessary for the human body with salt, we can transform salt into a material useful for disease prevention and treatment. Bamboo has been used as an herbal medicine for diabetes and hypertension for a long time. We can extract natural minerals from bamboo, effective on curing diseases, into salt through baking them together. In addition, minerals from other materials such as clay and resin are also synthesized with salt naturally.

Health Benefits of Bamboo Salt:

• Anti-allergic Function: According to a study done by researchers, Bamboo Salt can suppress immediate-type of allergic reactions. By oral administration or intradermal injection of Bamboo Salt, it significantly inhibits swelling from allergic reactions by inhibiting the release of histamine (Shin, Hey-Yong et.al., 2004).
• Anti-obesity Function: A very recent scientific study has found that Bamboo Salt reduces the overall body weight as well as lowers the serum lipid level. This study suggests that intake of Bamboo Salt may have preventive effect on obesity (Park, Kun-Young, et. al. 2013).
• Anti-cancer Function: Scientific researchers have found that salt in general contains methanol extracts that have antimutagenic and anticlastogenic effects. However when comparing regular purified salt and solar salt with one-time roasted Bamboo Salt and nine-times roasted Bamboo Salt, the scientists have found that the Bamboo Salt have a much higher anticancer and anticlastogenic effect than the other salts (Hwang, Kyung-Mi, et al., 2007; Park, Kun-Young et. al., 2012).
• Dental Treatment and Preventive Care: In another scientific research, researchers have found that dental patients who use a bamboo solution for gurgling, have a significantly increase in the level of enamel hardness and a decrease of mineral loss than patients who use plain water for gurgling (Choi, CH, et. al., 2012). Another study found that toothpastes that contain Bamboo Salt contributes to the reducing effects on dental plaque formation and lessens the chance of gingivitis (Min, B.S., et. al., 1995).
• Anti-inflammatory Function: Although salts in general all have inflammatory properties, Bamboo Salt is found to have a much significant effect on treating inflammations. Therefore, it contributes significantly to the prevention and treatment of inflammatory diseases (Shin, Hye-Young, et. al., 2003).
• Preventive Care for Salmonella Entertidis: A laboratory study examined 20 different kinds of salts (refined salts, roasted salts, processed salts, imported salts, sea salts, and Bamboo Salts) and their ability to fight off Salmonella entertidis. Out of the 20 salt samples, only Bamboo Salts were found with the property of fighting against Salmonella. It was later found that Bamboo Salts contain a low concentration of active antimicrobial substance that inhibits the growth of microorganisms (Moon, JH, et. al., 2009).
• Treatment and Preventive Care for Candida Yeast Infection: The special active antimicrobial substance found in Bamboo Salt is also a great treatment for any bacterial, fungus, and viral infection. In clinical studies, it is confirmed that the antimicrobial substance not only stops the growth of bacteria, fungus, and virus, it also prevents their growth (Moon, JH, et. al., 2009). In addition, the property of Bamboo Salt being a sea salt, it works like any other sea salt in suppressing yeast infection and all the nasty symptoms that comes with the infection. In combination, the sea salt property and the antimicrobial property of Bamboo Salt is effective in preventing a Candida Yeast Infection.
• Reducer of Chemotherapy Side-Effects: Cisplatin is a highly effective chemotherapeutic agent that rids the human body of cancerous cells. But it has a significant side effect of accelerating the death the auditory cochlear hair cells. However Bamboo Salt has a specific chemical effect that inhibits a specific protein channel that regulates the cell death of the auditory system. As a result, of the blockage, the cochlear hair cells stop dying, and hearing is preserved (Jeong, Hyun-Ja, et. al., 2011).
• Preventive Care for the Ear: Magnesium in Bamboo Salt can help prevent or treat noise-induced hearing loss (Jeong, Hyun-Ja, et. al., 2011).
• Anti-gastric Ulcer Treatment: Bamboo Salt generates hydrogen sulfide which acts as a gasotransmitter like NO and CO. These chemicals have physiological effects including anti-inflammation, anti-hypertension, as well as the improvement of the insulin sensitivity (Saroraya, Chanmuang, et. al., 2011).
• Diabetes: It has been shown that Bamboo Salt contributes to the improvement of glucose tolerance and high glucose uptake in skeletal muscles (Saroraya, Chanmuang, et. al., 2011).
• Treatment for Arthritis: When used with acupuncture, it alleviates arthritis (Xu, Kai-Sheng, 2009). With higher content of magnesium than Epsom salt and Dead Sea salt, it is evident that Bamboo Salt is effective for alleviating arthritis ache in joints and muscles.
• Treatment for Sore Throat: As an inflammatory agent, Bamboo Salt can be used to lessen the inflammation in the throat and suppress the aching resulting from the inflammation (Choi, CH, et. al., 2012).

References
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Jeong, Hyun-Ja, et. al. (2011). Specific blockage of caspase-1 activation by purple bamboo-salt prevents apoptosis of auditory cell line, HEI-OC1. Journal of Medicinal Food, 14(1-2): 53-61.
Kim, Young-Sick, et. al. (2013). Surprisingly, traditional purple bamboo salt, unlike other sats does not induce hypertension in rats. TANG. 3(2): 30-34.
Min, B. S., Choi, H. Y., Choi, Y. J., Hong, J. P., Chun, Y. H., & Kang, N. H. (1995). The reducing effects on dental plaque formation and gingiritis of toothpastes containing bamboo salt and several herb medicines. J Kor Dental Assessment, 33, 65-71.
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