Health And Safety

Salt is an important food ingredient which we use in our food for taste purposes mainly. Although salt is useful for our metabolism yet it can be harmful for our body system. Our body needs very little amount of salt daily. Read the advantages and disadvantages of salt usage in our food.



Indeed, salt helps maintain the right volume of circulating blood and tissue fluids in the body. From TCM viewpoint, salt is “cool in nature;” it can clear heat and resolve toxin, cool blood and moisten dryness, nourish kidneys and facilitate bowel movement, destroy germs and diminish inflammation, and provoke vomiting and stop diarrhea.
On digestion side, salt helps us to digest food. In fact, its salty taste stimulates our sense of taste and increases the production of saliva, which can promote appetite and good digestion. By eating proper amount of salt, we won’t be at risk of having insufficient trace element, a critical element for our body.
Salt is essential to life and health. Yet, it’s proven that having too much of salty foods will cause high blood pressure, cardiovascular diseases, kidney diseases, edema, etc. In fact, six grams of sodium per day for an average adult is considered to be enough and acute intoxication will occur for one who has 35 – 40 grams sodium intake a day.
Also, when a person suffers from blood disorder such as blood stagnation, he/she should avoid having excessive saltiness because it will hurt skin/muscle resulting in dark and rough skin, as advised by Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners.