Jukyeom
Jukyeom (Korean: 죽염, Hanja: 竹鹽) is a Korean folk remedy consisting of salt roasted in bamboo. Sea salt is stuffed into bamboo tubes, and the ends plugged with mud; the assembly is roasted one or more times. The trace elements in the mud and bamboo are thought to make this form of salt more healthy.[1] Historically, jukyeom has been used as a digestive aid, styptic, disinfectant, or dentifrice.
No systematic methodology of jukyeom manufacture, nor any analysis of its ingredients or effectiveness for any particular purpose was carried out until the publication of the book The Universe and God's Medicine by Il-hoon (In-san) Kim in 1981.[2]
Medical claims
Proponents of jukyeom use claim many benefits of the substance, but the claims are not substantiated.
Disease treatment
According to Kim's book, jukyeom can be used to treat
- Inflammation
- Esophagus, Stomach, Spleen, Duodenum, Small & Large Intestines, Rectum, etc.
- Ulcer
- Stomach, Duodenum, Small & Large Intestines, Rectum, etc.
- Others
- Chronic Dyspepsia, Dyspeptic Ailment Attributed to the Eating of meat, Acute Gastroenteritis (Vomiting & Diarrhea), Food Poisoning, Indigestion, Esophagus Tumour, Gastroptosis, Mouth Tumour, Tongue Tumour, Skin(Cutaneous) Disease, Eczema, Athlete's Foot, External Wound, Dysentery (Bloody Flux), Dysentery with Diarrhea (that becomes white with mucus), Diarrhea, Various Eye Diseases, Various Symptoms from Pollution.
Secondary applications
- Inflammation
- Pneumonia, Bronchitis, Nephritis, Bladder, Liver, Meningitis, etc.
- Cancer
- Lung, Bronchus, Bladder, Liver, Ozena(Empyema), Tympanitis, Gallbadder, etc.
- Others
- Heart Disease, Tuberculosis, Liver Cirrhosis, etc.