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Excessive use of salty things is listed among the causes of pitta aggravation.

Salt cooked in a decoction of equal parts of karanja, neem, patola leaves, patala, aragvadha pulp, triphala and chitraka, mixed with snuhi latex, is said to remove udara and many other…

The verse says the patient with indigestion should constantly drink salt water; the commentary specifies rock salt in hot water.

Salt cooked in a decoction of karanja, neem, patola, patala, aragvadha pulp, triphala and chitraka, mixed with snuhi latex, is said to relieve udara and many other diseases. A footnote…

The salt group drunk with sour gruel is said to calm severe mutrakricchra.

Abhaya (haritaki) used with salts, such as rock salt and the rest of the salt group, is said to destroy aggravated vata.

A salt made by burning powdered vata-reducing drugs with rock salt, boiling the product with six parts of water, straining it and cooking the liquid with equal parts of pungent spices until…

For ear disease with many worms, the ear is filled with neem oil and salt, together with other worm-destroying measures; the commentary names the salt as rock salt.

Equal parts of chakramarda, amalaki, rock salt, bakuchi and bhushirisha, ground fine with alkali water, milk, buttermilk or salt water, are rubbed on or applied for kitibha, dadru, kachchhu…

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.

Thick, salty kapha accumulated in the vital spot of the head and heated flows out from the head; treated with pressed and purging nasal drops.

For shushkakshipaka the text advises irrigating (seka) the eye with slightly warm oil mixed with rock salt, or with slightly warm milk, and says all vata-born eye diseases should be treated…

Tender leaves of aragvadha and putikaranja fried in sesame and mustard oils are eaten with salted sour gruel; the text says this can destroy gulma.

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…

The text says a patient with vata-type heart disease should drink ghee mixed with the salt group and barley alkali.

For vata coryza, ghee mixed with the five salts is called good to drink.

Ghee cooked with a decoction and paste of vida salt, vacha and madhushigru is given to the mahodara patient to drink, who is then purged with tilvaka ghee and given a decoction enema with…

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.

A powder of haritaki and salt mixed in hot water is drunk to increase the digestive fire.