If you apply epsom's salts to your skin, this dates back 100 years. I know if you take 1/4 teaspoon epsom's salts once per week for a few months, many carpel tunnel type diseases go away. Your better off putting the Epsom's salts on the garden soil and then eating the garden foods. Taking the rock form such as Epsom's salts should alwas be very temporay and not a habit.