As of August 13, 2003, the Sootheox (and Quenchox) products are no longer offered for sale, but this information is made available for educational purposes, as many folks have expressed interest in making such brews, elixirs and products on their own, and several existing vendors of nutritional products have expressed an interest in starting to brew and market their own line of such products. 

Introduction
EM-treated sea salt, was introduced by Dr. Higa via EMRO in Japan in 1999 under the name EM Rejuvenating Salt (aka EM Salt), and has been marketed in the USA since early 2003. Dr. Higa has written that this salt has some very amazing and powerful properties which go well beyond the antioxidant content on the “chemical” or physical level. He claims that this salt has powerful life-giving regenerative powers, and that it differs markedly from normal sea salt in that it is no longer present in the ionic form, but in an altered, non-ionic form which he and his scientists assert to be highly beneficial.  He claims that while normal salt, whether sea salt or common table salt, is harmful to the body for several reasons and will damage tissues, EM-treated sea salt is antioxidative and regenerative in it’s physical properties and on an “energetic” level, and that it acts as a powerful healing catalyst in the body and in foods to which it has been added.  Dr. Higa and the EMRO scientists claim that the beneficial properties persist even when the salt is mixed with foodstuffs and cooked, and even when cooked or heated at very high temperatures.  The EM Rejuvenating Salt has apparently been very well received in the health supplement marketplace in Japan and the USA, despite it’s hefty North American price tag of $21.99 for a 3.5 ounce packet of the salt.

Why the hefty price tag for EM Rejuvenating Salt?  After all, $22 for less than four ounces is a lot of bucks for an unrefined sea salt.  Well, although not well-publicized on the English-language websites and flyers about EM Rejuvenating Salt, it is asserted by EMCO that this salt is harvested only at dawn under a full moon, to allow it to have special "energetic"' properties. This claim is very much reminiscent of the claims made by the adherents of Anthroposophy and Biodynamics, a philosophical/farming/lifestyle tradition founded in Germany by Rudolf Steiner, and procedures used for many of their medicinals and agricultural potions. 

Further, one caller who has been to Japan has told me that some Japanese-language flyers also claim that the salt is harvested only by 14 year old virgins (female, of course) at dawn at the appropriate time of the month (as already noted above).  This claim is extremely reminiscent of the procedures used by many old schools of alchemy, especially those which came from Europe and China, where the morning dew for certain potions could be collected only by 14 year-old (or preteen) virgin maidens at the break of dawn on a south-facing slope at the Equinox. This claim is often eerily reminiscent of the hyped claims often made in Japan for Japanese Kobe beef, where it is often asserted that the cows are raised in luxury stalls in palatial barns in America, and that each cow is hand-fed and hand-massaged daily only by preteen virginal maidens with "pure" minds and hearts.

Dr. Higa on De-ionization and Regeneration -- Properties of EM Salt
Reproduced below is a partial excerpt from an article written by Dr. Higa entitled Application of Diversified EM Technology, (Keynote Speech), from Clinical and Basic Medical Research on EM-X -  A Collection of Research Papers, Volume 2, pp. 3 – 10. (Proceedings of the 1st International EM Medical Conference, Okinawa, Japan, November 2001.)
Any comments or notes in parentheses are those of the current author, and not of Dr. Higa.  The excerpt from the article follows:

Deionization
…This is because if a substance in ionized under the usual condition, free radicals are induced.  In other words, if a substance remains in ionized form and comes into contact with oxygen, it is converted into harmful substances.  Therefore, a substance in a persistently ionized state has a minus aspect.  The most important thing is that they are in an easily ionized state up to the time of absorption.  This is the essence of deionization.  EM has a very special property. When EM is used, substances in ionized form are converted into deionized form.  Then just before they are ready to be absorbed by plants or animals, they instantly change back into the ionized form.

… Deionization prevents the excessive accumulation (of free radicals.)  Therefore when we talk about deionization, we do not mean that all the ions are deionized, but to change those ions that are in a state of inducing free radicals into a normal state, and to prevent the ions from getting into a state of excessive reactivity.

I have mentioned this in my new recently published book entitled “Ocean Salt with Amazing Regenerating Power”. In this book, I wrote that there are two kinds of salt.  One type is good for your body and the other type is bad for your body.  Salt that is bad for the body has a strong ionizing power. And, because the ions of this salt strongly induce active oxygen species and free radicals, consequently it becomes a salt that is bad for the body.  However when this strongly ionizing salt is treated with EM, it is changed into a deionized state and becomes a salt good for health.  As soon as you start taking this salt, the body condition greatly improves.  Food also becomes tastier with it. The salt has properties different from common salt.  The basic property of this salt resembles the property of deep seawater collected from a depth greater than 200 m.  This deep seawater possesses wonderous (sic) properties; for example, nails do not rust when they are left in this water.

This salt has the same properties. In fact, this applies to all matter. For the same substance, whether it is said to be good or bad all depends on the level of ions.  Whether or not a substance induces active oxygen species and free radicals determines whether it is good or bad to the body.  The characteristics (sic) of using EM, EM-X, or EM ceramics is that with time, the substance turns to a deionized state, and it stops causing the harmful effects.

Regeneration
Various regenerative phenomena occur when EM is used, although the mechanisms are not yet understood….

…They are both associated with a special kind of wave. This phenomenon is unlikely to occur if extra energy is not added to the system. 

In the beginning, we tried to explain this energy by calling it magnetic wave resonance, because we found that the energy resonates with magnetism. Afterward, through research conducted by various researchers, some scholars advised me and proposed that the energy may be gravity wave. 

Conducting research to prove the existence of gravity wave resonance has been a difficult task.  Even so, Dr. Seki (also spelled Seike or Sieki) who is engaged in the research of gravity wave resonance has demonstrated that a considerable number of microorganisms generate gravity wave (sic). These microorganisms are useful bacteria that are commonly used in food processing, including lactic acid bacteria and yeasts. Almost all of these useful bacteria have the capability to produce antioxidant substances.  It has been published that these bacteria generate gravity wave resonance. Subsequently, we also investigated this aspect, and found that among these bacteria, photosynthetic bacteria generated tremendous gravity wave. 
 

• Light Grey Celtic Sea Salt
• Unrefined Celtic Sea Salt
• Fleur De Sel sea salt
• Dead Sea Raw Sea Salt
• French Grey Sea Salt
• Raw Ocean Sea Salt 

• using  a much lighter Activated EM, perhaps one made with honey and rice water, or corn syrup, or at least Barbadoes or West Indies molasses, but I really wanted the antioxidant power present only in the AEM made with blackstrap molasses
• using far less of the (blackstrap molasses-based) AEM, making for a far lighter in color and drastically reducing the dusky, dark and smoky molasses overtone, but I would have had to trade off too much of the antioxidant, regenerative and deionizing power of the salt, for my liking.

Do the Properties of this Salt Persist Even with Cooking or Boiling or Other Heating, as Dr. Higa Seems to Indicate?
Yes, the properties of the EM fermented salt do persist even with heating and boiling of any foods, etc. in which it is placed, and the properties survive even at temperatures well above cooking temperatures.  The persistence of the beneficial effects is much as found with the EM Ceramics, which are often fired (aka “calcined”), after being treated with EM and EM-X, to temperatures of 1,200 C or above.

Using Sootheox Fermented Sea Salt
Sootheox Fermented Sea Salt may be used much as you would use any ordinary sea salt. It may be used for cooking, for sprinkling on raw foods and in raw and heated dressings, condiments, etc. It may also be used in other ways for skin care and personal care as well, and for some ideas, you may wish to look at the webpage for  EMCO’s EM Rejuvenating Salt, and also at the first two pages of an article by Dr. Higa which mentioned some properties of EM-treated sea salt.

Additional Resources
To order EMCO's EM Rejuvenating Salt, please see SCD Word website, at http://www.scdworld.com -- for discounted prices, please see the box below!

For information on unrefined sea salts, see the webpage at:  http://www.curezone.com/foods/saltcure.asp
 

As of August 13, 2003, the Sootheox (and Quenchox) products are no longer offered for sale, but this information is made available for educational purposes, as many folks have expressed interest in making such brews, elixirs and products on their own, and several existing vendors of nutritional products have expressed an interest in starting to brew and market their own line of such products. 

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As of August 13, 2003, the Sootheox (and Quenchox) products are no longer offered for sale, but this information is made available for educational purposes, as many folks have expressed interest in making such brews, elixirs and products on their own, and several existing vendors of nutritional products have expressed an interest in starting to brew and market their own line of such products. 

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