Salt Crystal Lamps are highly suitable for daily use near TV's and PC's, around smokers, in Offices and homes with Air-Conditioning, during Massage Therapy, in Meditation rooms and anywhere else you want to restore or preserve the natural air quality.

In Europe, bioenergotherapists & homoeopathists recommend Salt Crystal Lamps to assist in the treatment of many health conditions.
Studies show that we receive 56% of our ENERGY from the AIR we breathe, more than from water and food combined.

On average we breathe in 81.4 kilos (37 pounds) of air, the equivalent of an Olympic sized swimming pool EACH DAY! .
Breathing pure clean air not only keeps us alive but also allows us to think more clearly, sleep more soundly, and stay healthier.

Benefits of Negative Ions

• Air consists of many electrically charged particles (positively, negatively charged or neutral particles).
  Generally, a negative ion is an electronically charged molecule made up of oxygen.
  
• A positive ion in the air is a molecule that has lost its electrons through the process of air pollution and other environmental causes.
  
• The quality of the air we breathe depends on the kind of electrical charge and concentration of the ions.
• Wherever negative ions are found, naturally occurring or artificially produced, they have been shown to produce extraordinary results. Some of these include:
  
• Stress as well as increased alertness. The greater level of alertness can translate
  into improved learning, improved well being and enhanced human performance on
  mental tasks.
  
  
• Dilation of the air passageways and improvement in the cleansing action of the lungs, heart rate, blood pressure, and metabolic rate. i.e. Increasing the body's ability to use the oxygen in the air and making it easier to breathe
  
• Mentally, one can experience a sense of exhilaration, or become more relaxed and mildly tranquilized.
  
• Hay fever and asthma symptoms may improve through the increase in the lung's ability to get rid of pollutants as well as the boosting of IgA that helps fight bacteria.
  
• Tumor growth was shown to be slowed in laboratory animals .
  
• Rats learned twice as fast. (this is particularly useful info for all those parents and friends of slow learning rodents.)
  Increased rate and quality of growth in plants and in animals.
• Positively charged air, on the other hand, produced the opposite responses
  and tends to be associated with :

The environment we live in today has far more sources of positive ions than in the past, creating an electrical imbalance in the air. These surplus Positive Ions are produced by various human activities and electrical appliances; e.g. TV's, radios, transmitters, radar systems, computers, high-voltage networks, heating and cooling systems, car exhaust and cigarette fumes, all of which are contributing reasons for the deterioration of our physical and emotional well being
In nature Negative Ions are created by means of wind, sunlight, surf, waterfalls and rainstorms and as such, negative ions can be found in their billions on mountain tops, waterfalls and by the sea. They give the air its invigorating freshness, which is so good for us, they are the unseen

"vitamins of the air"..

Scientific measurements have shown that the number of negative ions decreases to 20% of the recommended ratio in a closed room containing several people.
In fresh country air we find up to 4000 negative ions per cubic centimeter - the size of a sugar cube. Near strong surf or close to a waterfall up to 10,000 negative ions can be found. The number of negative ions that can be measured in most major cities at rush hour does not even reach 100.

A series of scientific studies show that Salt Crystal Lamps can increase the negative ion count by up to 300% in their vicinity.
Whilst scientists really aren't sure of how negative ions actually benefit us there have been numerous studies that show the tangible benefits associated with negative ions and/or negatively ionized oxygen. (NB: From our personal experience we have see a great deal of anecdotal evidence to support these findings in unsolicited testimonials of people that were probably unaware of the research.) Some of these studies include the following :-

Dr. Albert P. Krueger*, a microbiologist and experimental pathologist at the University of California, found that an astonishingly small quantity of negative ions could kill bacteria and quickly take them out of the air so that they were less likely to infect people. This is particularly useful to patients recovering from burns in particular. (Krueger, A. P. "The Action of Air Ions on Bacteria." Journal of General Physiology. Berkeley: University of California, 1957.)
Research papers from St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London, Australia's National University (A.N.U), the Pavlov Institute in Russia, all showed that improved lung capacity and relief from asthma symptoms are achieved quite rapidly by exposure to small negative air ions.

Affecting serotonin levels - (Serotonin is a brain chemical related to mood and stress. Anti-depressant drugs, e.g. Prozac, alter brain metabolism of serotonin). In 1985 a European research project exposed over 100 outpatients at a mental health clinic to negative ionization for just 40 minutes per day.

After only a few sessions,

• 50%+ of depressive patients reported a return to normal;
  
• 75% of headache patients had their pain disappear,
  
• 80% of insomnia patients returned to normal sleep patterns, and
  
• 100% of anxiety sufferers said their symptoms had disappeared.
• A study relating to the relativity of increased negative ions and increases in Immunoglobulin A (IgA) from Australia's La Trobe University states. "such a finding is suggestive of an enhancement of the immune response as a result of negative ionization . . . IgA guards against viral and bacterial attachment and colonization of mucous membrane." In other words it helps stop lung infections.

Rock Salt Lamps, depending on their crystalline color structure, emit light in the 600-700 nanometre band. In Western medicine treatment with monochromatic light is well known and effective because of the direct influence of these colour/ wavelengths on our cell growth and cell function.

In summary I will leave it up to the words of an alternative health practitioner that I met recently who said,

"There is the Science of healing and then there is the Art of healing, the Art requires no explanation."