| Epsom salt? Epsom salt is the name by which most | | | | to treat patients suffering from colds, respiratory |
| people know the chemical compound magnesium | | | | congestion and asthma. In the maternity ward and the |
| sulfate, with the formula MgSO4. The compound is | | | | nursery, Epsom salt is administered to delay or prolong |
| more popularly called by that name because it was | | | | the labor in women who are experiencing it |
| first discovered in Epsom, England, where it was | | | | prematurely. There are studies showing that |
| distilled and marketed primarily as a bath salt. The | | | | intravenous application of Epsom salt to premature |
| knowledge of Epsom salt and its many uses have | | | | babies prevent the development of cerebral palsy in |
| been with us since the 1500s. | | | | them. |
| As mentioned above, Epsom salt has many uses, | | | | In first aid, Epsom salt is applied to treat boils and |
| more than just being a bath salt. It is used in gardening | | | | carbuncles. It is also known to draw splinters from a |
| and agriculture, in medical treatments, in beauty | | | | wound. |
| treatments, and in the production of tofu. | | | | The main use of Epsom salt comes in pain relief. Gels |
| The Agricultural Uses of Epsom Salt | | | | and compounds containing Epsom salt are given to |
| Plants derive energy from sunlight and the process | | | | patients suffering from fibromyalgia and osteoporosis. It |
| that allows them to do this is called photosynthesis. | | | | also flushes out the toxins in the body that are brought |
| The main component that lets plants get this energy is | | | | about by stress and replenishes the magnesium that |
| in turn called chlorophyll, and chlorophyll is made up of | | | | stress seeps away from the body. It relaxes the |
| magnesium. Applying Epsom salts to plants, especially | | | | muscles and soothes away the pain. |
| potted plants left indoors most of the time, encourages | | | | Epsom Salt in Beauty Treatments |
| these plants to get more energy despite their limited | | | | Aside from giving stress relief, which is also part of the |
| exposure to the sun. | | | | aim of beauty treatments, Epsom salt also has |
| Epsom Salt in Medical Treatments | | | | clarifying properties that make it good for the skin and |
| Epsom salt has properties that make it useful in | | | | the hair. When used on the skin, it acts as an |
| treating patients with various illnesses. One of the uses | | | | exfoliating agent and sloughs off the layers of dead |
| of Epsom salt in medicine is as part of the procedure | | | | cells from the skin. The clarifying properties of Epsom |
| used by doctors in emergency rooms to revive | | | | salt also help in treating excessively oily skin and in |
| patients who have suffered from cardiac arrest. | | | | reducing the appearance of wrinkles. |
| Epsom salt is also sometimes prescribed by doctors | | | | |