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A paste of rock salt, chakramarda, kushtha, chitraka and the three pungents ground in cow urine, given among the kushtha treatments.

For kapha-type yoni diseases with much itching, a powder of sharp drugs, brihati fruits and rock salt is filled in daily, and the yoni is washed with warmed urines.

Buttermilk mixed with rock salt and dry ginger is named as wholesome food in long-standing diarrhoea and chronic fever.

In vata disorders, the ghee for oleation is drunk with rock salt and hot water.

Ghee mixed with long pepper, rock salt and whey (mastu, the watery part of curd) is drunk; the verse calls it an excellent remover of dryness, and the commentary says it brings about…

Alternatively, in kapha-dominant ear disease, goat urine mixed with garlic, arka juice and rock salt is warmed a little and filled into the ear; the commentary says this calms ear disease…

As an alternative treatment of over-oleation, a gruel mixed with ajamoda, chitraka and rock salt is given.

For drunk ghee that has not been digested, hot water mixed with rock salt is given to drink, or else vomiting is induced with lukewarm water.

The eye obstructed by kapha is irrigated with juice from the root of punarnava mixed with rock salt; the commentary renders the juice as that of dry ginger.

Milk properly prepared with ajamoda and rock salt is named as wholesome food in long-standing diarrhoea and chronic fever.

When an anuvasana enema comes back too soon, it is given again with ghee or oil mixed with shatapushpa (rendered fennel in the commentary) and rock salt.

A paste of dry ginger, haritaki and rock salt taken with hot water is said to purge and remove vata lodged in the colon.

Powder of turpeth, the three pungents and rock salt, drunk with castor oil or ghee, is said to purge and remove vata lodged in the colon.

When the tongue protrudes in excessive emesis, it is rubbed with a powder of rock salt, dry ginger, black pepper and long pepper and pressed back inside.

With dry, suitable and light food, a gruel with a sour substance and rock salt is given; the text says it calms vata vomiting.

After sudation, a paste of the same vata-pacifying drugs mixed with rock salt and slightly warmed is applied over the affected eye.

In kapha-type abhishyanda, eye drops (ashchyotana) that are very warm and contain rock salt, applied again and again, are said to be always excellent.

In the morning the hiccup patient drinks the sour juice of citron, lemon and the like with rock salt, slightly warmed.

Castor oil mixed with rock salt and dry ginger powder is licked, and lukewarm cow milk is drunk, to destroy all udaras.

Kacchapa is cleansed with the three fruits, the three pungents, oil and rock salt; the commentary first speaks of giving rest quickly.

Rock salt, asafoetida and ginger juice mixed in oil are warmed and filled into the ear and held for a hundred, five hundred or a thousand matra; the earache is said to subside.

A powder of haritaki, chitraka root and rock salt, impregnated with cow urine, is drunk repeatedly with kanji in the morning for piles.

Milk cooked with rock salt, asafoetida, black pepper, ativisha, ajamoda and dry ginger is drunk for diarrhoea.