The ocean is a mystical force of life. Its rolling waves intrigue us and the health benefits of the ocean are vast and surely not yet fully defined. Read this article to find out what kinds of benefits you can get from taking a dip in the rolling waves.
“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.” Isak Dineson
It has long been believed that the ocean has many health benefits and natural curative powers. The smell of the air rolling off the ocean feels restorative. A big, deep breath of ocean air is delightful, especially after being cooped up inside all day. The moist ocean air seems to wrap one in a cozy cocoon of serenity. Perhaps when feeling stressed one should seek a natural cure: a swim in the ocean.
The ocean has long been believed to be a natural cure for illness. Taking a dip in the ocean is an age old cure for some illnesses. In the early 1900s some families fled the environs of New York City to retreat to the fresh air of the seashore when tuberculosis struck a family member. Other families have a ritual throughout the decades of a yearly retreat to the shore during the summer months for relaxation and a respite from the stress of urban areas.
Dentists often recommend the old fashioned cure of gargling with salt water to help a tooth infection. Salt water is widely believed to have medicinal qualities. After all, the human body is composed of 75% water: the fluid is a salty water solution.
Ocean water may help heal cuts, minimize swelling, and lessen the pain of osteoarthritis. A relaxing float on top of the ocean surface is also a lovely way to work in some quiet time, just letting the waves lull you peacefully.
A swim in the ocean offers great exercise and may help your body to absorb some healthful impact from the ocean that isn’t even yet fully understood. Most people simply understand that at the end of the day at the beach, with salt coated on their body and their lungs full of fresh air they just feel great.
What are the Benefits of Ocean Herbs
According to practicing Naturopathic doctors, these plants found inside the water bodies are 10-20 times more nutrient than there counterparts on land.
Some of the sea vegetables are quite popular in far eastern countries and are available on daily basis in the local grocery stores.
These beneficial veggies are of medicinal value too apart from being nutritious. For instance, nori, seaweed, wakame, dulce, hiziki and arame are some of these plants worth mentioning.
These plants are high in salt and iodine content naturally and their consumptions meets the requirement of these nutrients in the body.
Eating these sea veggies bring down the risk of the formation of stones in gall bladder and stomach.
There is a possibility of radioactive materials present in the normal vegetables. Their consumption can prove toxic. However, eating sea veggies proves to be useful as they bind with the toxic material can facilitate in their easy excretion from the body
Pollution in the ocean is a major problem that is affecting the ocean and the rest of the Earth, too. Pollution in the ocean directly affects ocean organisms and indirectly affects human health and resources. Oil spills, toxic wastes, and dumping of other harmful materials are all major sources of pollution in the ocean. People should learn more about these because if people know more about pollution in the ocean, then they will know more about how to stop pollution.
India saw more than 10,000 killed as the tidal wave pounded southern fishing villages. Thousands are still missing. In Andhra Pradesh alone, 400 fishermen were missing immediately after the first strikes. The Hindu, the Newspaper published from southern India, covered the heart-breaking devastation extensively. The following are a few stories of this saga of grief.
Forty children-playing cricket on a beach in Cuddalore drowned when a massive wave pulled them out to sea. One local man, who lost two sons playing on the beach, said: "I suddenly saw waves 30 to 40ft high. People just froze, they didn’t know what to do".
As the Coast Guard helicopter number 814 hovers off the Chennai coast, the extent of the devastation begins to sink in - overturned catamarans, sinking fishing boats, two merchant ships crashed into each other in the middle of the port, rendering it unusable, floating planks, plastic containers stuffed with food materials, wooden boxes, fishing nets ...
The Royapuram fishing harbour is left with just over a hundred fishing boats in place of thousands.
The fragments of many boats float north of the harbour even as scores of boats were rendered useless after the tsunami lifted them off their moorings and threw them against - ironically - the protective sea wall that spans from Kasimedu to Ennore. Struck after five hours
The earthquake hit the Indian mainland coast five hours after it struck Sumatra. M. Kausalya in charge of the Seismic Observatory at the National Geographical Research Institute (NGRI) here in Hyderabad, said the quake traveled at a speed of five kilometers per second. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands experienced the maximum shocks, as they were situated 500 km away from the epicentre of the quake in Sumatra. Sumatra is around 2,500 km from the Indian coast. Almost the entire east coast of India was affected, though the worst hit were the southern parts.
The epic devastation in India caused by the past earthquakes of Bhuj and Latur remain etched in the country’s collective consciousness. But nature’s ferocity in the form of the tsunami is such a rare phenomenon in the South Asian region that unsuspecting people were completely unprepared for what happened on 26 December.
The tsunami is a giant sea wave that results from displacements caused by large earthquakes, major sub-oceanic slides, or exploding volcanic islands. It is a phenomenon usually associated with the Pacific. But India has experienced such a phenomenon at least twice in the relatively recent past - in 1881 and 1941.
Even for a country with a recorded toll of over a hundred thousand fatalities in earthquakes in the past two centuries and a long history of cyclonic havoc, the tsunami of 2004 will go down as an unprecedented display of nature’s cruelty. The 2001 earthquake in Bhuj challenged the capacity of the Indian ruling classes to handle emergencies on a gigantic scale. But history has repeated itself as a farce. The stories of bureaucratic bungling are unfolding as the days are going by.
A simple warning system, available through modern communications - a public address system - would have mitigated the situation. As succinctly put by Jon Dale in the article already published on www.socialistworld.net, a simple warning system would have saved thousands of lives in all of these poverty-stricken countries. But it is clear that the capitalist governments of the region have failed miserably in protecting their people.
The most remarkable example, perhaps, is the story of Nallavadu, a village in Tamil Nadu. Vijayakumar, a youth who now works in Singapore, saw the tsunami warning there. He immediately phoned the village information centre, setting off an instant reaction. A warning was repeatedly announced over the public address system and a siren set off. As a result, the tsunami claimed no victims there, but others in nearby villages were forced to become the victims of a so-called "act of god".
It is criminal on the part of the Indian government, not to be a member of the The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC). This would have warned the devastated people at least four hours in advance. The successive BJP and Congress governments are trying their best to make India a permanent member in the UN Security Council, which is nothing but a macho posture. But they have not been concerned to give protection to their people from natural disasters.
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