Salt, often used as a common condiment, can be seen used everywhere in our everyday life, especially when we enjoy our delicious foods. But you may ignore the functions of the salt to our health. Now let me tell you some ways to improve your health by using salt properly.

When you get up in the morning with an empty stomach, it is good for your health to drink a cup of light salty water, which not only clear you stomach fire, but also remove bad smell of your mouth. Also a cup of light salty water can contribute to a faultless digestion.

You may be surprised to find out that salt can prevent people from losing hair. Yes, it absolutely does. Just spread the heavy salt soup on the root of hair and then wash it off with clear water in the morning and in the afternoon each day.

In autumn and winter, with the dry climate, people often get chronic faucitis and tonsillitis problems. In this situation, having gargles with salt water can be helpful to these diseases. So next time you get these problems, give it a shot.

In addition to those three functions of salt, there are many other helpful functions. Next time when you suffered from nosebleed, you can stuff cotton wool soaked in salt soup in your nostril. It can help to promote blood clots. And salt can prevent cavities. At last we must understand that with too much salt we might get hypertension problems. So whether we can benefit from salt depends on whether we can use salt correctly.