CRI听力:Salt Breeze Beijing-For Salt Therapy

The concept of 'halotherapy' has now arrived here in Beijing.

CRI's Nillah Nyakoa now on what exactly 'halotherapy' is.

Salt no longer just belongs in our kitchen and dinner tables but beyond that. Today, this substance has found its way in therapy as a remedy to relieve various respiratory conditions.

Owing to the European invention of the salt room, the phenomenon has spread across the world, and Beijing has not been left behind.

Beijingers can enjoy the rejuvenating air of the seaside without leaving the city.

Nadezda Markovich is the entrepreneur behind the salt therapy room, in Beijing.

She talks about salt therapy.

"If people have any kind of respiratory system problems like sinusitis, allergies, it can reduce the symptoms. It is good for people with sleeping problems and it can reduce snoring."

The salt room is a safe, peaceful environment that feels more like a spa than a high-tech treatment facility.

Pure salt crystals flow through your lungs and sinuses, providing natural relief from allergy attacks and other respiratory ailments to help you breathe better.

Nadezda says, therapy at the Salt Room can help one feel well whether you come on your own or on your doctor's advice.

"It is said that 40 minutes in a salt room has the same effect as two days by the seaside because the level of the negative ions and the level of dry sodium chloride aero salt is much higher than on the seaside."

The environment inside the therapy room is similar to that of a spa with a controlled, relaxing halotherapy environment, providing a drug-free, clinically proven treatment for respiratory and skin conditions.

Individuals sit in a chamber set to a temperature between 20 and 25 degrees Celsius while particles of dry rock salt are ground up by a special machine and circulated around the chamber.

The walls, ceilings and the floor are coated with salt and there is a halo generator spraying into the room special salt, dry sodium chloride aerosol.

Here the salt is imported from Europe where there are large salt mines as many people there subscribe to the sessions to release stress and anxiety.

She hopes the breeze in Beijing will help residents suffering from conditions caused by the city's air pollution clean up their respiratory systems.

For CRI I am Nillah Nyakoa.