How Do You Treat Summer Ailments With Epsom Salt?
People worldwide have used Epsom salt for many years for a multitude of health and healing purposes. The major component of Epsom salt is magnesium sulfate, a mineral that has been scientifically shown to help with bodily functions, muscle coordination, nerve and electrical impulses and energy production, including the removal and elimination of many harmful toxins and waste products from the body. Here I will offer some tips on how to use Epsom salt to treat and find temporary relief from many of the common summer ailments such as bee stings, sunburn, skin allergies and poison ivy/poison oak. If you have been exposed to poison ivy/poison oak it is important to remove the sticky barbs from the skin as soon as possible to decrease the amount of toxins entering the bloodstream. It is the toxins that will trigger the allergic and inflammatory reactions and symptoms (weeping red, itchy rash) caused by the immune system’s attempt to control and remove the toxins. Epsom salt can provide some
