1. You have six salivary
glands.
Not one, not two, but six glands in your
head that produce nearly two liters of
saliva every day. Your sublingual,
submaxillary, and parotid glands work
together to keep your mouth and throat
from turning to dust. No, seriously, have you ever seen a dried-out mucous membrane? It's like watching The Mummy all over again.

2. Saliva is 99% water.
Actually, saliva is around 99.5% water,
which is why it's so important for you
to stay hydrated. In addition to water,
enzymes and "buffers" (things that
maintain a balanced pH level) help keep
the status quo in the oral cavity.

3. Without saliva, you couldn't taste.
If you've ever had a case of dry mouth,
you'd have noticed that you weren't able
to taste things very well. A dry tongue
actually can't taste a thing! Chemicals
in food need to dissolve in saliva for
the taste buds in your tongue to detect them, and saliva constantly keeps the
receptors nice and wet.

4. Saliva acts as a warning before you vomit.
Talk about your gross headers, but there
you have it. Ever notice that your mouth
fills with saliva before you're about to
vom? It happens because your body is
trying to digest whatever is ailing it,
and since digestion begins in the mouth your salivation mechanism is revved up. Here's a helpful trick: if you ever get
that feelingand your mouth begins to
fill, don't swallow your saliva. That
actually triggers vomiting. Spit it out
and, chances are, you won't need a bucket.

5. Sometimes the sublingual
glands turn you into a human fountain.
Don't even ask. But sometimes if you
yawn, you'll briefly become a human
fountain when a small stream of saliva
erupts from under your tongue. This is
due to the contraction of a muscle that pushes against the sublingual glands,
which sends the saliva shooting out—
sometimes at great distances!

6. Saliva has healing
properties—so long as the
thing being healed is in your
mouth. When a dog gets hurt, what's the first
thing it does? It licks its wound. To
some degree, the same thing happens
with humans. Ever notice that a wound
in your mouth heals exponentially
faster than a wound anywhere else in the body and never leaves behind a scar?
This is because your saliva
contains immune cells, antimicrobial and
antifungal proteins, and growth
factors that promote wound healing. However, that only goes for wounds in
the mouth. In addition to all those
healing factors, your saliva is also
chock-full of bacteria, which could
infect a wound on your skin.

Education

This is sooo cool.

NICE KNOWING THIS

I remember way back when growing up, when pressed and no available place to do the needful, we rub saliva on our navel to stop the thing

when i was a kid, i remember having a friend who rubs spit as body cream during harmattans. he always looks neat and not like dry as we who don't do it buh he smells like s*h*i*t

i see

Bizzare?

Ok