The Healing Properties of South Korea’s Bamboo Salt
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- In South Korea, bamboo salt is as ubiquitous as the table variety, except it’s considered a form of medicine used to combat disease, indigestion and pain. One of the country’s most trusted forms of bamboo salt was invented by famed medicine man, Dr. Kim Ilhoon, who patented a top-secret, 1,300-day long process to create the highest quality version of the stuff. Now, he’s handed down his practice to his son, Kim Yoonse, who has carried on his father’s legacy by establishing Insanga, a company distributing bamboo salt throughout South Korea and beyond.
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bamboozled
Hahaha
You deserve a gold star if that ever was a thing on youtube.
Richard B "Give this video 5 stars."
framboozled ya doozle headed floozle
You made me salty...
Get your titles straight! This is "The Time-Consuming Process of Making South Korea's Bamboo Salt." You spent the whole time explaining how it's made and no time examining its so-called healing properties.
lol thts assuming they have actual healing properties
Well someone salty today
I actually ask friends to get me bamboo-salt toothpaste from Korea all the time, it stops my gum problems.
This is not salt, it's magnisium chloride. Completely different. Magnisium chloride has many benefits. Just youtube "magnisium oil benefits".
@@riccardodambrosio3855 Salt is made from sodium and chloride. There's no magnisium in salt. Just google "elements of salt".
You need to get your your facts correct before insulting others.
so where are the healing properties?
well frankly I'd chalk it up to being placebo. cool salt tho (or hot, given the manufacturing process)
If you eat a spoonful everyday, It will make you drink more
You shouls google it. Several studies on it have been published by the NIH showing various kinds of health benefits compared to regular salt. Placebos don't cause apoptosis in cancer cells.
I think he means where are the healing properties.. As in.. The title of the video states there are to be healing properties, but there are none in the video...
kneitel023
Doesn't mean it will do any real benefit to us if we use it instead of regular salt.
Fun fact: Kim ilhoon, the man who made this kind of salt, actually wrote a book in which he claims that bamboo salt is literally a cure for cancer.
I somehow own the book and it contains other recipies which also supposedly have healing property, such as black goat stew. I did not try any of them as they are all extremely hard to replicate in modern day korea.
Personally I am skeptical about said properties. He did save lots of people using his treatment, but it was right after korean war and many people were diseased because of malnutrition.
Cancer is an immune system breakdown because of too much poision and too little vitamins/minerals. So it can help against cancer.
@@Pontiacfirebird cancer are viruses that attack harmful and unnatural substances in the body, if we do not detox, excercise, eat healthy, hence the body stores it. Viruses are like soaps and cleaning materials. Guess we have been thought incorrectly. Ps not negating what you saying, one could actually combine or posts. In order to make things clear to people, cancer isn't a killer, it's the unnatural treatment, that's harmful
@@moosa9850 This is not correct sorry. I know you mean well but Cancer is not as you describe it and is very dangerous. Modern treatments can be harsh but they are can and have saved lives. Misinformation can be very dangerous and I recommend you do some reading about what cancer is. Or ask your doctor as long as he is licensed in medicine.
@@alanvellenga I have, my cousin is a licensed doctor and my friend is a microbiologist and former lecturer at one of the country's leading universities also one of the first South African teams to use the PCR testing system as well.
@@moosa9850 Cancer is not a virus. Treatments for cancer can be harsh but they save lives. idk what else to say I could explain myself further but this is our best understanding based on science
the title : "The Healing Properties of South Korea’s Bamboo Salt"
the video : no healing properties ever mentioned once in the video.
0:28 - 0:32
0:28 “...combats desires, indigestion, and pain.”
Not sure why there are so many rude commenters on this video. So in another country they believe something traditional has medicinal properties. Why are you so mad about it?
It looks like snow.
YAOmighty - Gaming and More no it does not
More like cocai...
This salt blow.
this is incredible. never knew bamboo salt existed.
same. and now i want some!
You don't know anything
it seem tasty
You should honor family owned businesses by linking their contact information so those watching could support them.
@greatbigstory
Koreans dont really put a HUGE stock by bamboo salt's healing properties...but there's a popular brand of toothpaste infused with bamboo salt that most Koreans would have used at least once in their lifetime
Jennifer Kim im using it now they sell it on iherb for $5 LG bamboo salt toothpaste, seems like a lot of effort for toothpaste 😥😥😥😥😥😥
@@faithgrace8783 they're making the salt regardless of your toothpaste so its not going hand in hand
I'm pretty sure you can synthesize pure magnesium chloride a lot easier chemically than by using this unbelievably time and energy intensive method. If it is as pure as they claim it to be then there should be no difference whatsoever.
Crushenator500
But there is the value behind the salt itself. And that value is what makes this medicine a cure: the placebo effect.
And the Placebo effect is really a valid form of medicine. Though, the only way to make it work is if you don't tell anyone that the substance's intended effect isn't real.
@@amaulana090 it's not a placebo www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3570125/
@@justinang9054 yea, I read the study. so what?
What? The point is not to make pure form of salt. It's more about trying to get good minerals and stuff into the salt. Can't you see the color of the finished product, it's almost black.
ok but does it have any scientific backing or is it just fake? you guys always end the videos with more questions then answers! it is so annoying
Jarid Gaming Asian remedies always work lul
looks like it's just another unbacked claim.
It's pretty obviously fake, but it's a nice story.
Inquiry
no en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugyeom
Folks, lighten up. There's nothing spooky or "quackish" about this;
What's basically happening here is that the salt *GATHERS ASH* that sloughs off the bamboo and pine during the firing process. Do this *eight* times, and you're bound to have a salt that's MUCH higher in trace minerals than the sea salt it started out as.... You're essentially taking all the minerals that ALL the pine and bamboo collected over their lives, and concentrating them into the salt. Combine that with the fact that the salt is pre-processed to increase the ratio of Magnesium Chloride to Sodium Chloride, and you end up with a salt that has a much more nutritious and healthful mineral profile than, say, Morton refined salt (which has all the Trace Minerals intentionally removed because it's cheap and looks 'pretty').
This is not an unusual practice - one of the most basic methods to maintain soil fertility used by almost ALL primitive human cultures is to take the ash from cooking / heating fires, and spread it on cropland (Try this at home with clean wood ash - The result on the size / color / flavor / health of pants is pretty remarkable!)
As to improvements to this process: Nowadays, with modern Primary Synthesis methods, we could manufacture a perfectly-balanced, *USP-quality* salt mix, with every single primary salt (sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium) and trace mineral in perfect proportion, and *ZERO* contaminants or undesirable metal salts (lead, mercury, aluminum, etc.)
...So yes, in the sense that this process has a lot of pomp and circumstance and superstition, it is 'quackish'... but until a company starts marketing my "Perfect USP Salt Mix" (which no one offers to date), this spoopy-doopy Korean hippy salt is probably the best you can do. I bet all the smoking makes it taste great, too!
Wish I could rorward..
this salt is amazing in both flavour and nutritional value, except it's quite expensive. 9 times baked bamboo salt absorbs good minerals from bamboo during the process. When I feel getting cold, I melt a few pinch of this salt in my mouth to stop cold growing. It's good for seasoning too.
Thank you..80 yr old American here...
Fact : Preserve sea salt for 3 year
Sea salt made of just right make bitter taste because it contains a lot of magnesium. To avoid this, preserving sea salt for 3 years. this will make magnesium combination with moisture in the air and flow under the preserving container(mostly straw sack). It will reduce the bitter taste. = Make salt better quality and taste. It's true. long term preserving salt(in Ventilated storage such as straw sack) make salt taste better.
Fact : Jugyeom(Bamboo salt) making process
The medical efficacy of bamboo salt has 'never been medically proven'. Admit it.
Process of melting and refining salt can remove the remaining unnecessary organic matter from the salt. And the mud that enters the baking process gives an ingredient that can benefit the body like iron and chrome. Although the process of refining impurities and adding impurities (clay) seems not so effective, at least bamboo salt has long been sold in Korea as a cooking ingredient or a tooth scrub substances.
Namaste 주희연
I had a question, doesn't distillation just purifies/refines the salt at the last step?
AxK
Not quietly. Distillation is just water remove process for seasalt. magnesium and other minerals are still remain even after the moisture evaporates by the sunlight. Boiling by the fire makes same result.
The method of separating unwnated minerals can be done by chemical method since modern times. But people are not well aware of these method. And using sun, fire, time is more efficient way to refine salt in the matter of money issue, So it is still a favorite to keep the salt for a long time and fire the salt still using.
"process gives an ingredient that can benefit the body like iron and chrome." Key word there is that last element mentioned (a toxic heavy metal)
nikushim666 My god, you think iron and chromium is useless to human body? these are essential for human. get some googling first.
@주희연
I didn't mention iron, i said vary clearly "last element mentioned". The normal required intake of CR is around 50micrograms per day (which means you will never need a CR supplement). Anything above 1mg and it starts to become toxic, at around the 1-3 gram mark it can be fatal. Also depending on the oxidation state the toxicity can greatly increase. So In other words take your own advice and "get some googling first". Because nothing i said in my last statement was false.
I have the strange urge to fill my mouth with that salt......
It’s all very nice to hear about people preserving their cultures and practices, but this practice’s adherents support the oriental obsession with what are obviously fake medicines and remedies. The same practice that fuels the, shark fin, ivory, illegal hunting and wildlife trades, as well as a swathe of others. This process is really unique, and I wouldn’t mind trying some of the stuff myself, but they’ve got to stop the whole “it combats disease and relieves pain” bollocks.
Agreed, gotta stop with the old mystical superstitious "medicine", like snake oils, elixirs and homeopathic BS.
I agree, and I think it is quite a shame because if they marketed the product with its unique, smoky taste they would find markets all over the world. Instead they are resorting to the pseudoscience garbage which undermines the product's credibility.
Interesting though I don't see what this process could possibly add to the salt. There was no mention of if it even gives the salt a unique taste or anything. From this it sounds more like homeopathy where the supposed "active ingredients" are diluted so much as to be non-existent.
Jaqen Detoxify the sult and add many minerals.
Probably lots of silica is in the salt at the very least since bamboo is one of the best sources of natural silica and is very good for the body. I thought maybe turpentine from the pine would be in it but at the heat used for the final fire it would I think burn it away so only inorganic compounds remain I assume which kinda reduces the possible benefits.
Too bad unique doesn't always mean good. Salt is salt. Your body doesn't know the difference. If it has magnesium still in it then it's just a stupid way of making Epsom salt. GG
Nagol youre dumb.
He has a point, the human body simply doesnt care what we say this salt can do.
It's still sodium chloride.
HelloMyNamelsBanana
Because he's scientific and factual? No.
I guess it gives salt a better name? Like Bamboo Magnesium Chloride?
I learnt from another commenter that it's actually not sodium chloride. But I disgress. It's still salt no matter the process. I know that where I live, they used to sun-dry the salt water to gain salt. Should that be called sun sodium chloride? Let's see. No.
im all about that Himalayan pink!!!!!
Can you also cover Asin Tibuok or in english (coconut salt) . It's made it the Philippines in Bohol. I think it's as rare as bamboo salt. And I wasn't able to hear about it until a post of a random guy in facebook. He said that there were just a handful of them making this salt and it has been made way back before the colonial period here in the Philippines
Tibuok in bisaya(language spoken in bohol) means "whole" in english. So it's actually Whole Salt. Not to be mean or anything lolll
@@agni3743 hey man, thats good to know.
How do they extract magnesium chloride for three years from the sea salt?
Jan Hen
No kidding, did you see the colors of the salt in those jars?
Jan Hen
It looks like they mixed it with the local soil
I swear I've never seen a real Asian man with that type of beard and hair
Owen Hudson which cave you're from?
huguan86. It's okay. Owen hasn't visited East Asia, so he hasn't seen what you have seen. Owen is merely speaking from his personal experience which may be limited in scope, but truthful in expression.
yeah me neither
The salt & pepper hair/beard makes him look quite handsome.
Pretty sure Hayao Miyazaki has that look
so will it be good if you put it on your own wound?
Korean bamboo salt cured my impotence!
salt can ward of evil spirits too.. lol...
And by eating too much you can see them tooooo
what a load of salt!
pontageek salt who ?
so much energy wasted just to produce a bunch of sodium
i spit my water
r/iamverysmart
Actually sodium chloride since sodium is a metal and not salt
Apparently everyone in the comment section is a doctor or scientist.
You don't have to be a doctor to spot snake oil.
I mean yeah I'm one of those things, but are you?
smh white people.
There is a difference between being "open-minded" and being "pretentious". I'm afraid most of these people are not pretentious, but rather skeptical about the "healing effects" being mentioned in the title. Sadly, it wasn't even discussed in the video.
PANDA NEEDS THIS SEASONING.
*Slaps bamboo stalk*
Bamboo Salt Salesman: You can fit sooo much salt in this bad boy!
How is this invented by Koreans? Bamboo salt was invented in China some 2000 years ago, and it isn't for healing, it's for detoxifying and purifying purposes.
The salt taste so good I use to eat it as a snack
How can someone came up with an idea to turn bamboo into salt that requires 1,300 days?
I love the Korean language. So relaxing to listen to even though I can't understand a word
Can it cause mg toxicity?
i remember my mom always had bamboo salt growing up. i liked eating it but she always scolded me because it was too expensive lol
Wtf?? And they call us Chinese crazy for drinking tiger bone liquor
I thought it was rice in the thumbnail for a second. It’s actually not surprising since I’m Asian.
Frow what I've heard the process diffuse mineal from clay and wood to sea salt. So you won't have NaCl like at first but some other minerals and minerals of plant like K or Mg are known to be healthier than sodium. It's pretty energy consumming though compared to other process
Great video and informative. Just let you know that your video is reuploud by other Chanel
500Gram >> 107,000 Won =95.54 Bill. Not so expensive.... RIGHT?
Misleading title. Not impressed. There's no information about the salt's healing properties.
👍I’m gonna look into the healing properties of bamboo too.
Damn I want to buy some
Can you do more videos about South Korea
Not gonna lie, before I read the whole title I thought the thumbnail was bamboo coconut
Thanks for video. Just recently bought some, good stuff.
I have lived in Korea for 10 years, and can tell you that Koreans think that anything Korean is healthy and has magical healing benefits. Take the benefits they tout with a grain of salt. They also think leaving a fan on while you sleep at night will kill you.
Koreans all know that the rumor of the fan is full of bravado.
Is it good on popcorn tho?
1:00 his son Kim Beyoncé
lmao
👍Gotta get some of that salt!👍
1:40 "...distilling the salt into its purest form"
Yeah nah mate, that's just sodium chloride. I get that at Coles for $2 a sack
Bamboo salt
Heal 100 +
It's make in Korean how it works is unknown
Someone at Great Big Story is way too incompetent to be writing headlines. What are the healing properties the title says bamboo salt has?
Heals poverty for the salt producer.
is that the voice of the dude that narrates how its made?
Why does the process take 3 years? I thought its just burning seasalt inside of bamboo 9 times?
Deja vu
I've just been in this place before
Higher on the street
Holy shit this is in the city I live
What company is this???
Snake oil salesmen with a lot of marketing money.
I deadass thought bamboo salt was made out of bamboo tree
let’s cook some *salts*
Bamboo takes a while to grow though, eventually the supplies will run out.
Bamboo is literally the fastest growing plant on the planet.
And now they've got one more reason to cut the TREES.
it's cool and all, but what does it do?!
Imagine being the guy who's job Is "I put salt into bamboo" and people be like what
Hello Gouts.
Jesus Christ! $75 for one pound of salt? 1:56
I have created turtle salt. we shove it into a turtles butt and recover it 2,300 days later. it costs like a million dollars per sprinkle.
*snake oil*
Good for making Ormus i guess
Just me or did he look at a picture of Grandfather Himself somehwere around 1:00. I mean seriously they look the same, we sure its not the same person duing a continous Practical joke ... or maybe someone whos immortal?
It costs $100
Evan Skinner salty stuff
40 bucks for 1kg in Korea.
Kilroy was here
Bamboo salt
I call BS, it's just salt. And I'm korean
Agreed!
many East Asian countries have bamboo salt for thousands of years... but this guy patented it? shame..
I thought they were just trying to find a way to document the making of cocaine
we have bamboo rice.
Reupload?
Nvm
So you waste a bunch of wood and labor to make salt, with the starting product already being salt. What a waste of time.
cool.
reupload?
I just wanna taste it
Power of placebo.
Man if I didn’t know that was salt 😬😬😬 😂
Still is salt
This has already been uploaded earlier.
I got some, expensive tho. But good health is priceless
500gram for $100 man i better save that money for something else
Bamboo is the best material of all have you felt wut clothes feel like made from it
Seems like kala namak
What a scam. TERRIBLE for the environment too! So much heating!
Snake oil salt
0:52 THICC
*clap
Well thats just another way to *rub* *salt* *in* *the* *wound*
Brooooo they roast salt
It looked like rice in the thumbnail
Bamboo salt ?
*You mean sugar* ?