Can a man-made cave in London do the same?
The latest technique for combating cold and flu season should be taken with not just a grain of salt but a whole roomful. After all, that’s the way it works. The Salt Cave in Wandsworth, south London, is a man-made salt cave where visitors relax and breathe in a dry saline aerosol, devised to relieve respiratory conditions such as asthma, smoker’s cough, sinusitis, hay fever, and other ailments. Salt therapy or halotherapy has a long history, and not just because food tastes better with it. Salt has known antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties. Certain places such as Germany and Eastern Europe place great stock in the benefits of it, with people visiting natural salt caves to breathe in the salty air. The Salt Cave uses a machine, housed separately from the therapy room, that produces a microclimate of very fine salt particles, so small you can’t see them, taste them or use them to coat the rim of your margarita glass. There’s no noticeable difference to the air when you first
