Tradition along the West coast of Ireland holds that the practice of bathing in hot water and Seaweed provides relief from the painful symptoms of rheumatism and arthritis.
| The therapeutic power of the Seaweed Bath is attributed to the high concentration of Iodine that occurs naturally in Sea Water and in Seaweed. In its growing process Seaweed extracts this Iodine from the surrounding Sea Water and concentrates it in its fronds to such an extent that some seaweeds have up to 20,000 times the concentration of Iodine of the water in which they grow. |  |