Saliva Water For Health Benefits

For some people, often looks disgusting saliva. Though the water that comes from the mouth it has an important role for health Manuia. Saliva or saliva are mostly produced by three major glands the parotid gland, sublingual gland and submandibular gland. The volume of saliva that is produced varies from 0.5 to 1.5 liters per day depending on the level of the stimulus.

Citing Guyton & Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology in, saliva or saliva containing two types of expenditure or major secretion of fluid containing the secretion serus ptyalin (an alpha amylase) which is an enzyme to digest carbohydrates and mucin-containing secretion of mucus for lubrication purposes or surface protection is largely produced by the parotid gland.

The liquid type of mucus that is secreted or released every second all the time except when sleeping less production.

In terms of digestion, saliva plays a role in helping the digestion of carbohydrates. Carbohydrate or starch is broken down sebaagian have started small in the mouth by the enzyme ptyalin. The enzyme in saliva that break down starch (amylum) into disaccharides maltose and other small glucose polymers.

For example, when you chew the rice was tasteless in the long run will taste sweet due to the rupture of starch into maltose that tastes sweet.

In addition to the digestive saliva also plays a role in oral hygiene. Salivary secretion, especially the type of mucus is important in maintaining healthy oral tissues. Oral cavity contain pathogenic bacteria or germs (harmful) that can easily damage tissue and cause dental caries (tooth decay).

Saliva also prevents damage in several ways. First, the flow of saliva helps rid itself of bacteria or pathogenic bacteria are also particle nutritional foods that provide metabolic support for the bacteria itself.

Second, saliva contains several factors that destroy bacteria are one thiocyanate ion and some fluids, especially proteolytic lysozyme that destroys the bacteria, helping thiocyanate ions kill bacteria, digest food particles and saliva contains antibodies that destroy the bacterial proteins.

In addition to working for health in the body, saliva is also believed to provide benefits to the outside of the body.

Since the days of dahalu, instinctively when your fingers are injured by knife scratches, you will suck the wound with his mouth. Animals too. Eg cats, monkeys, and dogs, used to wash the body with saliva when the wound.

Prophet Muhammad as narrated by Bukhari, Muslim recounts, if any friend who scratched and wounded, then he read a prayer and then spit attached to his right hand, then rubbed in the wounds of that while reading the prayer, which reads "Allahumma ROBBINNAS ADZHABILBAS ISYFI ANTASY- Syafii SYIFA LAA-A-illa SYIFA UKA YUGODIRU SAQOMAN LAA ".

Meanwhile, based on studies that have been conducted in Japan in 2001, as quoted by cbn.com, saliva contains 40 to 50 proteins. Each protein has different functions. One protein to ward off dust, light, and chemicals. Of the 50 proteins that in it there are three proteins that are specific to microorganisms.

Top efficacy that is, saliva is believed to be beneficial for eye disorders, such as cataracts, nearsightedness and close, or eye disorders such as injuries hit, hit by blunt objects and sharp objects.