There are typically no side effects other than the taste of salt and potentially thirst or a scratchy throat. However, if someone is on any medications or suffers from any serious medical issue please seek medical advice before any therapy.

Halotherapy is a natural therapy however any clients who have any serious health conditions or women who are pregnant should always seek proper medical advice before using HALO ONE.

Contraindications include:

• Infections associated with a fever
• Respiratory system cancers
• Tuberculosis
• Cardiac disease patients
• Acute respiratory disease
• Severe hypertension
• Chronic obstructive lung diseases

99.99% pure sodium chloride (pharmaceutical grade salt). It contains no fillers or caking agents. It comes from a natural source and it is naturally processed to remove all of its impure elements. It is the same salt that hospitals use and the type of salt used in halotherapy research.

20 million years ago Eastern Europe was partially covered by a shallow sea. With the disappearance of the sea, large amounts of layered salt were left behind. In the 14th century people started to mine salt for their own use and to sell. Large salt mines were developed in the south of Poland near Krakow leaving huge chambers deep in the mountains. Over time, it was discovered that salt miners had very few respiratory conditions, looked much younger than their age and rarely got sick, which was correlated to their work in the salt mines and exposure to salt.

In the 1840s, a Polish doctor named Feliks Boczkowski noticed something interesting while treating workers in the Wieleczka Salt Mines. Unlike other miners who routinely experienced lung problems from breathing in the pollutants in the mines, he found that patients rarely had respiratory issues. Boczkowski attributed this to the high salt content in the cave’s microclimate and he published a treatise detailing his theories in 1843. Several years later one of his pupils opened the first salt inhalation clinic in Poland. This was not the first time people had drawn the connection between salt content in the air and improved respiratory health. Catholic monks in Europe regularly brought people with respiratory issues into salt caves and then crushed the salt with their feet to release it into the air. Salt therapy was also used in the days of ancient Greece and Rome.

Yes! More information about halotherapy/salt therapy can be found through the following sites: Halotherapy for Treatment or Respiratory Diseases Halotherapy application in skin and dermatology programs Salt caves as simulation of natural environment and significance of halotherapy Halotherapy and COPD Double-blind placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial on the efficacy of Aerosol in the treatment of sub-obstructive adenotonsillar hypertrophy and related diseases Effect of Dry Sodium chloride Aerosol on the Respiratory Tract of Tobacco Smokers Halotherapy, A Naturopathic Breath of Fresh Air The effect of salt chamber treatment on bronchial hyperresponsiveness in asthmatics Dry sodium chloride aerosol against acute respiratory infections Halotherapy or Respiratory Diseases Halotherapy with Asthma and COPD Respiratory Hygiene in Health Resort Medicine