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RE: Balneology: the study of bathing in water; Recrystallization of alkali mineral salts collected from a secret hot spring
Do you know the composition of the minerals? Could you bottle some of the water to harvest crystals?
I’d love to get your take on magnesium sulphate v. Magnesium chloride...
I’ve tried to understand it from TCM classification system, and at present I’m thinking that sulphate would be ‘cool’ while chloride will be ‘warm’.... but curious to hear your take on it.
Oh, yes you can harvest the water to collect the crystals. I did such an order to get the ratio of salts to water.
I do not know the exact composition of these mineral salts, but some of the formations definitely remind me of my work with magnesium sulfate. When collecting these salts they dried my hands out significantly, so they are very alkaline. Thus, the composition is going to be mainly of those of the alkaline metals in their salt form.
I would say that both of them are warm simply because they are both bases and will steal protons given the chance. However, I am an extreme novice with TCM. Magnesium chloride can be taken internally for the magnesium content, where magnesium sulfate acts as a laxative and should be avoided otherwise.
Generally, a laxative effect suggests ‘cool’.... the only time something ‘warm/hot’ will do that is in presence of a virus or bacterium or something along those lines.
The idea is that cool/cold substances damage the body’s yáng properties, which hold and warm substances in the body.
Cool/cold substances can also be ‘drying’....
Fascinating!
Ahh, yes - that makes sense.. I didn't even think about it very much before responding. Warm is moist, cool is dry - at least in an alchemical frame set. So, then I would assume them both to be cool.
There are four states: warm, cool, dry, moist. And therefore each can be combined.
Magnesium chloride can’t be drunk right?
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