Business & Tech
Can Breathing Salt Cure Colds, Asthma and Ear Infections?
A new Woodbury business gives customers the chance to "breathe the dust of pink salt from the Himalayan Mountains of Pakistan."
The Salt Room opened in Woodbury on Monday.
"People who have gone to the beach say, 'Oh, I feel so much better,'" owner Gloria Wahrenbrock told the Pioneer Press. "That's because they have been breathing salt."
There is salt on the floor and walls, and rooms for children and adults. Wahrenbrock said breathing salt will help people who have colds, asthma, cystic fibrosis and ear infections.
The Pioneer Press also spoke to a critic: "I have heard of no studies saying that sitting in a room and breathing salt will improve symptoms," said Dr. Stephanie Fox, allergy and asthma specialist at the HealthEast Woodbury Clinic.
Wahrenbrock owns Massage Envy in Stillwater and Massage Envy in Hudson.
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