Saltwater Bong

Lord Kanti

Lord Kanti

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I've had the idea for a while and I finally executed it yesterday. I supersaturated water with salt, chilled it presumably to sub zero temperatures, and then used it as bong water.

Taste was okay, it reminded me of sage, but surprisingly I've found my cough this morning to be gone. I've been sick for over a month, most likely off and on, but the hacking cough has been terrible and I've avoided the occasional bong hit because of it (I primarily eat or drink my medicines). Well, after last night's salty session, I'm feeling much better. Apparently salt air therapy isn't new, but I haven't seen many people talk about it online implemented this way.

Yeah, your lips might taste salty afterwards, but I liked being reminded of the ocean.
 
Lord Kanti

Lord Kanti

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BizBrothers said:
Definitely have to give this a try also packing the bong with crushed ice to filter the smoke through might cut down on the salty after taste.

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I almost bought a piece for black Friday, but I kind of don't want to encourage myself to smoke, even with sub-zero halo filtration. I really want to get back into whole plant ingestion via blending. I'd like to juice, but I don't want to waste anything. If I get a wheat grass screw juicer I'll consider growing more makes and juicing my fan leaves instead of throwing them into the hash mash.
 
borbor

borbor

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I'm not positive about this, but I believe salt is a borosilicate and so is glass so the salt is making minute little scratches in your bong that are gonna fill with resin that'll be way harder to clean out.
Like I said I'm not positive but this is why I've started using raw sugar instead of salt to clean my bongs.
 
Lord Kanti

Lord Kanti

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borbor said:
I'm not positive about this, but I believe salt is a borosilicate and so is glass so the salt is making minute little scratches in your bong that are gonna fill with resin that'll be way harder to clean out.
Like I said I'm not positive but this is why I've started using raw sugar instead of salt to clean my bongs.
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My bong is actually a DIY job from a POWERade bottle. Worst case scenario I recycle it. But saltwater is a solution, not a colloid. It shouldn't scratch if kept in liquid state. If you wash it out before any crystals come out of solution it should be fine.
 
borbor

borbor

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yeah, I heard the thing I posted from a guy at a head shop, I wasn't 100% about it but he wasn't trying to sell me anything, in fact he actually convinced me not to buy that formula 420 cleaner shit, so I trusted him based on the fact that if anything, he hurt his own sales by telling me that. never took it to the powerful google machine before though
 
Lord Kanti

Lord Kanti

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borbor said:
yeah, I heard the thing I posted from a guy at a head shop, I wasn't 100% about it but he wasn't trying to sell me anything, in fact he actually convinced me not to buy that formula 420 cleaner shit, so I trusted him based on the fact that if anything, he hurt his own sales by telling me that. never took it to the powerful google machine before though
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Don't let the water evaporate to the point that salt is left behind and it should be okay. If your bong is glass that isn't painted or coated in some way, it should be fine. Glass is harder than salt and shouldn't scratch.
 
outlier

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One of my favourite remedies for a niggling cold was to surf. Something about the cold salt water, adrenaline from being scared within an inch of your life in 10-12ft slabs of mother natures fury. I could go in sick as a dog and come out feeling like a vacuum cleaner had gone through the inside of me. Wonderful feeling. Don't quite get that here in the warmer water. But it still has some sorta cleansing effect.

We also used to use sea water for the bong when we'd travel down south and forget the normal water. Actually worked quite well, we already had salty lips so it didn't matter! lol

Interesting though. Definitely has to be ice cold. I know that from the ocean. Down where I am from the water temps were like 3-4c in winter. Ball snappingly cold. But damn, that shit could rid any cold or flu in a heartbeat. Good preventative too. If I surfed twice a day, I never got sick. A cold for like a day at most. 2 surfs and it was easy gone. That clean out effect it had was insane. Great for mind body and soul.
 
Lord Kanti

Lord Kanti

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outlier said:
One of my favourite remedies for a niggling cold was to surf. Something about the cold salt water, adrenaline from being scared within an inch of your life in 10-12ft slabs of mother natures fury. I could go in sick as a dog and come out feeling like a vacuum cleaner had gone through the inside of me. Wonderful feeling. Don't quite get that here in the warmer water. But it still has some sorta cleansing effect.

We also used to use sea water for the bong when we'd travel down south and forget the normal water. Actually worked quite well, we already had salty lips so it didn't matter! lol

Interesting though. Definitely has to be ice cold. I know that from the ocean. Down where I am from the water temps were like 3-4c in winter. Ball snappingly cold. But damn, that shit could rid any cold or flu in a heartbeat. Good preventative too. If I surfed twice a day, I never got sick. A cold for like a day at most. 2 surfs and it was easy gone. That clean out effect it had was insane. Great for mind body and soul.
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Surfing is like using a Neti pot for me. After a day of surfing my sinuses would just spontaneously dump all the water held up in my head.
 
Bugeye

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Ever tried a neti pot without using saline? I won't do that again!

For super soar throats, I gargle with a mix of warm water, tobasco, honey, salt, and apple cider vinegar. Tastes like shit but far better pain relief than codeine cough syrup. Keeps me toking.
 
Lord Kanti

Lord Kanti

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Bugeye said:
Ever tried a neti pot without using saline? I won't do that again!

For super soar throats, I gargle with a mix of warm water, tobasco, honey, salt, and apple cider vinegar. Tastes like shit but far better pain relief than codeine cough syrup. Keeps me toking.
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A lot of it for me is temperature. If the temperature is right it feels natural.
 
ttystikk

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Bugeye said:
Ever tried a neti pot without using saline? I won't do that again!

For super soar throats, I gargle with a mix of warm water, tobasco, honey, salt, and apple cider vinegar. Tastes like shit but far better pain relief than codeine cough syrup. Keeps me toking.
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For sore throats, I swear by hot herb tea with honey and apple cider vinegar.
 
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