Let's do a little research as to KNOW what we are talking about.
Sodium bicarbonate in its natural form is called nahcolite. Nahcolite is a component of the mineral natron and is found dissolved in many mineral springs. Nahcolite was first described in 1928 for an occurrence in a lava tunnel at Mount Vesuvius, Italy. The name is in reference to its chemical formula. It occurs as a hot spring and saline lake precipitate or efflorescence; in differentiated alkalic massifs; in fluid inclusions as a daughter mineral phase and in evaporite deposits. Its name refers to the elements which compose it: Na, H, C, and O.
The ancient Egyptians used natural deposits of natron, a mixture consisting mostly of sodium carbonate decahydrate, and sodium bicarbonate. The natron was used as a cleansing agent like soap.
Naturally occurring deposits of nahcolite (NaHCO3) are found in the Eocene-age (55.8–33.9 Ma) Green River Formation, Piceance Basin in Colorado. Nahcolite was deposited as beds during periods of high evaporation in the basin. It is commercially mined using in-situ leach techniques involving dissolution of the nahcolite by heated water that is pumped through the nahcolite beds and reconstituted through a natural cooling crystallization process.
Sodium bicarbonate mixed with water can be used as an antacid to treat acid indigestion and heartburn. It is used as the medicinal ingredient in gripe water for infants. Intravenous sodium bicarbonate is an aqueous solution that is sometimes used for cases of acidosis, or when there are insufficient sodium or bicarbonate ions in the blood. Sodium bicarbonate can be used to treat an allergic reaction to plants such as poison -ivy -oak or -sumac to relieve some of the associated itching. Toothpaste containing sodium bicarbonate has in several studies shown to have a better whitening and plaque removal. One can also use straight sodium bicarbonate, unless of course they like the sterilization that comes with fluoride.
InI could go on but some would have to do their own research. Maybe the "baking soda" sold in stores isn't as natural as it could be. But are you going to try and tell me that the Ancient Egyptians had these big laboratory set ups and were making "Arm and Hammer"? What about the hot springs that contain it? It wasn't naturally there or it wasn't there at all, until some one walked by every hot spring on earth and dumped a box of " baking soda" in it? Or what about the nahcolite deposits? Someone must have went and "planted" those there because they couldn't be natural, right?
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