Coral calcium was introduced to the western culture some 500 years ago.
Spanish explorers had "discovered" coral calcium in Okinawa and brought it back to Europe.
These explorers had seen the beneficial effects of what was called the coral sand (the original coral calcium) on the people living on the coral islands.
They brought ships full of this sand back to Spain so that the Spanish could benefit from the wondrous minerals.
It was so important in Spain that there are ancient historic monuments with shelves holding labeled clay pots filled with coral calcium.
It seems that back then, the quest for good health was as important as it is today.
Chinese folklore and legends contain a story about a Chinese emperor who dispatched three thousand explorers to find the land of heaven on earth.
Chinese then believed that the heaven on earth was called Horai and that it was located in the warm sea off the east coast of China.
This Chinese emperor ordered his explorers to return with the life-sustaining tonic, known as the elixir of life or fountain of youth.
But luck or perseverance, the explorers found this magical place and it did have an elixir of life.
The problem was that it was such a beautiful place and the elixir (the original coral calcium) so wonderful that none of the explorers wanted to return to the emperor with it! This island is only described in legend as the province of Okinawa, a coral based island in the midst of pristine, clear seas.
By the 1990s, the mainland Japan had been enlightened about the health benefits of coral calcium consumption.
Countries such as China, Russia, Sweden, France, and Britain were also taken over by this knowledge.
The United States of America first learned about coral calcium in the 1970s as a modern dietary supplement.
Coral calcium as a nutritional supplement continues to grow throughout the western world.
Many users consider the health benefits of original coral calcium to be essential to their health and the minerals in the coral are said to help relive a variety of aches and pains.