Kalyana salt

About twenty drugs, among them mahanimba, kutaja, arka, snuhi, apamarga, chitraka, palasha, shigru, both nightshades, vasa, patala, bilva, both karanjas, chavya, bhallataka and vaijayanti, are powdered, mixed with rock salt and burnt as before; the product is boiled with six parts of water, strained, and cooked with equal parts of asafoetida, cumin, dry ginger, chavya, chitraka, black pepper, ajamoda and the three pippalis until thick. Called Kalyana lavana, it is said to destroy vata disorders and to relieve weak digestion, piles, gulma, nodules, worms, hard abdomen, colic, distension, visuchika, diarrhoea and other diseases.