We take salt for granted as a necessary seasoning for dishes. Meanwhile, this important substance in cooking is a healer, a magical protector and an assistant in the household.
For treatment, salt is often used in dissolved form. The methods have a number of nuances that you definitely need to know about. For example, how to make a 10 percent saline solution if there are no chemical measuring spoons and beakers at home? How much salt and water should I take? Consider simple options for the preparation of therapeutic solutions.
What salt is needed to prepare the medicine?
Before you prepare a 10% saline solution, you need to carefully study the recipe. What substance is mentioned in it? If table salt, then suitable packages are indicated on which:
- table salt;
- sodium chloride;
- edible salt;
- rock salt.
The word "salt" is used in everyday life, although this term refers to many complex substances formed by metal ions or atoms and acid residues. In addition to
sodium chloride, Epsom salt - magnesium sulfate is used for medicinal purposes. Substances are extracted during the development of deposits in the earth's crust.
If you evaporate sea water, you get sea salt, which contains sodium, magnesium, iodine, chloride, sulfate ions and other components. The properties of such a mixture are somewhat different from individual substances. Usually, for the treatment of wounds, sore throats, teeth, prepare 1-10% saline solution of sodium chloride. The chemical formula of the compound, which has amazing properties, is NaCl.
What should be the degree of purity of the components?
How to make a 10 percent saline solution at home so that the medicine benefits, not harm the body? Salt should also be as pure as possible, but the Kamennaya store purchased is often contaminated with impurities. There is a cleaner finely ground product.
In some recipes, it is recommended to use snow or rain water, but this is an unfortunate idea from the point of view of modern ecology. The purity of the liquid that flows in the drinking water supply systems also raises many complaints. It, like snow and rain, can be contaminated with chlorine, iron, phenol, petroleum products, nitrates. Let us clarify that distilled or demineralized water is used as a solvent in medicine. At home, to prepare the solution, you can take filtered or boiled water.
If you put plastic molds with water in the freezer, then clean water will freeze first, and impurities will accumulate at the bottom. Without waiting for complete freezing, it is necessary to collect ice from the surface and melt. It will turn out very clean and healthy water.
How to measure the mass of salt and the volume of water to prepare a solution?
All necessary should be collected in advance before making a 10 percent saline solution. It will require water, a beaker, a bag of salt, scales, a glass and a spoon (tablespoon, dessert or tea) to work. The photo below will help determine the mass of salt that is contained in dessert and teaspoons.
Then you need to determine the units for the fluid. It is believed that the mass of 100 ml of pure fresh water is 100 g (density of fresh water is 1 g / ml). Liquids can be measured with a beaker, if it is not there, then an ordinary glass from those that are called "faceted" will do. Filled to risks, it contains 200 ml of water (or g). If you pour to the very top, you get 250 ml (250 g).
What does the expression “10 percent solution” mean?
The concentration of substances is usually expressed in several ways. Most often in medicine and everyday life, such a value as the weight percent is used. It shows how many grams of a substance are contained in 100 g of solution. For example, if the recipe says that a 10% saline solution is used, then every 100 g of such a preparation contains 10 g of dissolved substance.
Suppose you want to cook 200 g of a 10% salt solution. We carry out simple calculations that do not take much time:
100 g of the solution contains 10 g of the substance; 200 g of the solution contains x g of substance.
x = 200 g x 10 g: 100 g = 20 g (salt).
200 g - 20 g = 180 g (water).
180 g x 1 g / ml = 180 ml (water).
How to prepare a 10% saline solution?
If the house has scales and a beaker, then the mass of salt and the volume of water are best measured with their help. Gathering a teaspoon “with the top” and pouring a glass of water to the risks is also possible, but such measurements have inaccuracies.
How to make a 10 percent saline solution to get 100 g of the drug? 10 g of solid sodium chloride should be weighed, pour 90 ml of water into a glass and pour salt into the water, stirring with a spoon until dissolved. The salt is mixed with warm water or cold, and then the dishes with the components are heated. For better clarification, the finished solution is passed through a cotton ball (filtered).
You can prepare 50 g of a 10% solution from 45 ml of water and 5 g of salt. Hypertonic saline is made from 1 liter of water and 100 g of sodium chloride (4 tablespoons "without top").
10% saline treatment
In medicine, a 0.9% solution of salts, which is called "physiological", is prepared on fresh distilled water. This fluid is isotonic with respect to the internal environment of the human body (has the same concentration). It is used in various medical procedures, in particular, as a blood substitute, to eliminate the effects of dehydration, intoxication.
A hypertonic solution contains more salt; when it comes into contact with an isotonic or hypotonic liquid, it draws water to even out the concentrations. Such an osmotic effect is used in folk recipes to cleanse wounds from pus. Salt has antiseptic, antimicrobial properties, its hypertonic solutions are used in alternative medicine:
- with diseases of the internal organs - in the form of a salt dressing on the site of pain;
- as lotions, compresses and applications for skin and other infections;
- like salt baths for fatigue and pain in the hands and feet;
- for cleansing purulent wounds.
Treatment with hypertonic 10% saline will take time, it can take several days or weeks. The minimum number of procedures is 4–7. For sore throats, a 3-5% hypertonic rinse is used for rinsing in the morning and evening. The nasal cavity is washed with an isotonic solution. To prepare it, you need to add 1.2 g of sodium chloride and 2.5 g of baking soda to 237 ml of boiled water.