Introduction
Without salt, the taste of all types of spices is meaningless, hence salt is used to enhance the taste of spices. It is considered to be the center of all types of juices because without it all dishes become tasteless. Salt is added to vegetables, if salt is not added to vegetables then the vegetable does not taste good. There are many types of salt but mainly five types of salt are used more. Saunchar or Sauvarchal salt (black salt), rock salt, beed salt, sea salt and sambhar salt etc. Rock salt is used more in the form of medicines.
Properties
Rock salt is somewhat smooth, cold in nature and increases appetite. It is digestive, increases excitement, is beneficial for the eyes, stool-stopper (stops stool) and cures heart diseases. Grind rock salt finely and apply it to the eyes with a matchstick to cure eye itching, cataract and haze. Rock salt is easy to digest. It destroys tridosha (vata, pitta and kapha). Dissolving it in warm water and gargling with it cures sore throat. Black salt is extracted from the ground. This salt is salty and pungent in taste. It increases appetite and cures constipation. It increases the desire to eat. Black salt strengthens the bones. It increases high blood pressure. Sucking it in the mouth loosens the mucus (phlegm) and removes cough. The nature of bidi salt is hot. It is dry and increases appetite. bidi salt cures pain, gas, diabetes, gas ball in the stomach, phlegm and burning sensation. Consuming bidi kills stomach worms.
Harmful effects
Consuming salt in excess causes defects in the digestive system, blood, flesh and metals and the Vata nerves (veins). Consuming it in excess causes burning sensation in the stomach and other parts of the body. Patients suffering from high blood pressure, kidney disease, hysteria, epilepsy, ascites (water retention in the stomach), swelling, smallpox, itching, leprosy and blood disorders (diseases caused by blood disorders) should not consume salt because it can harm them. It breaks and scratches the flesh, weakens the senses, reduces sexual power and makes the body old. Consuming it in excess causes hair to turn white and fall.
Treatment of various diseases
1. Excessive sweating:
If you sweat excessively and it smells bad, then stop consuming salt or if needed, use it in less quantity.
2. Obstruction in urination:
Mix 1 gram salt in 200 ml cold water and drink it every morning. This removes obstruction in urination and urine also does not smell.
3. Arthritis (Joint Pain):
Add 4 teaspoons of salt in 1 kg hot water and wash arthritis with this water. This will give relief.
In arthritis, for pain caused due to weakness, take 20-20 grams of rock salt, soya, deodar, peepal, black pepper, chita, bibidang, parsley, pipramul and take 200-200 grams of vidhara and dry ginger and 100 grams of myrobalan and grind them all. Then filter this powder and mix it well. After this, mix 680 grams of jaggery in water and cook it on fire to make syrup. After the syrup is made, mix the obtained powder in it and make 4-4 gram tablets. Take 1 tablet every morning and evening with hot water.
4. On bite of poisonous insects:
On bite of flies or beetles etc., rubbing salt in water and drinking salt water gives relief.
5. On bite of scorpion:
Dissolve salt and apply it on the part bitten by scorpion and drinking half spoon of salt mixed in a glass of water gives relief.
Mix 10 grams of salt in 50 ml of water and apply it on eyes like kajal, this removes the poison of scorpion immediately.
6. Headache:
Put a pinch of powdered salt on tongue and drink 1 cold glass of water after 10 minutes, headache gets cured.
Mix 3 grams of salt in a quarter cup of water and smelling that water gives relief from headache.
Consuming powder of senna and salt mixed with water gives relief from headache.
Headache goes away by smelling approximately 10 grams of salt mixed in approximately 1 kg of water.
If you have a headache, add a pinch of salt to cold water and drink it, it will be beneficial.
Headache and migraine pain go away by mixing approximately 1.5 grams of Lahori salt in 10 grams of water and putting it in the nostrils of the nose.
7. Stopping of menstruation:
Mixing 2 grams of salt in water and taking it 3 times a day (morning, afternoon and evening) starts menstruation.
8. Ringworm:
Grind rock salt in kerosene and apply it on ringworm, it cures ringworm completely.
Mix salt in water and make a paste, after 1 hour apply it on ringworm, it cures ringworm.
9. Diarrhea (Diarrhea):
Grind 6 grams of rock salt, 6 grams of black pepper and 6 grams of turmeric in equal quantities and mix them. Take half a teaspoon of this mixture with cold water twice a day after meals. This stops diarrhea caused due to indigestion.
Grind rock salt, peepal, choti harr in equal quantities and take half a teaspoon of this mixture with cold water twice a day after meals. This stops diarrhea.
10. Stomach ache:
Mix half a teaspoon of salt in a glass of water and drink it to stop stomach ache and make stool clear.
Grind black salt, dry ginger and roasted asafoetida and make powder. Consuming a little powder of this with water removes the gas formed in the stomach and cures stomach ache.
Take black salt, black pepper and peepal in the amount of 20-20 grams and roasted borax in the amount of 10 grams and mix and grind all of them. After this, add lemon juice to it. Consuming one gram of this increases appetite and also cures stomach ache.
Grind black salt, rock salt, plain salt, Khurasani Bach, Jawakhar, Danti, Kut and dry ginger thoroughly and make powder. Consume half a teaspoon of this powder with warm water. This cures stomach ache.
Grind black salt, asafoetida and mint and mix it with little water and cook it. Give two spoons of this to the child. This will cure the child's stomach ache.
Take rock salt, black salt, ammonium chloride, chavya, chitrak, sunthi, pippali root and asafoetida in equal quantity and grind them well to make a powder. Take 3 grams of this powder with warm water. This cures stomach ache caused due to phlegm.
Mixing half a spoon of rock salt in 1 glass of warm water and drinking it removes the foreign elements present in the body, as a result of which stomach ache is relieved.
Grind 5 grams of rock salt, 5 grams of cardamom, 5 grams of roasted asafoetida and 5 grams of bhringaraja well and filter it. Then drinking this powder with 240 ml of warm water is beneficial.
11. Typhoid:
Typhoid is cured by mixing 1 teaspoon of salt in 1 glass and drinking it once a day for a few days.
12. Swelling of the temple:
Gargling with salt mixed in warm water and drinking this water cures the swelling of the temple.
13. Vata fever:
Make a bundle of salt by keeping it in a clean cloth and heat this bundle slightly and apply it on the swollen area, this will give relief.
Take 4-4 grams of rock salt, Sanchar salt, trikuta and asafoetida and grind them with 40 grams of dry garlic, then consume it in the amount of 1 gram daily. Vata fever is cured by using it for a month.
14. Dehydration:
Drinking salt and glucose mixed in water removes the lack of water in the body.
15. Finger (Angulbeda or Vitlo):
Dipping the thumb in salt water reduces the pain of the finger.
16. Sprain or injury:
Bake the salt on low flame, wrap it in a thick cloth while it is still hot and apply it on the affected part, it will give relief.
Mixing rock salt and sugar powder in equal quantity and consuming 1 teaspoon of it with water in the morning and evening is beneficial.
Grinding salt and turmeric finely and applying it on the injury gives relief from the pain caused by sprain or injury.
Grinding salt and applying it on the swollen part (body) removes the swelling.
Mixing salt and mustard oil, heating it and apply it on the swelling.
Dissolve 10 grams of rock salt in 300 ml of cold water and pour it on the affected part or keep the affected part immersed in it, it will give relief.
Roast the salt on a pan and tie it in a slightly warm thick cloth and make a bundle, apply it on the painful area, it will give relief.
17. Wound:
Soak cotton in salt water and tie it on the wound, it will give relief.
Grind 10 cloves of garlic with half a teaspoon of salt and cook it in Desi Ghee, after this apply it on the wound, the wound starts healing.
Grind rock salt and Gulkkari root and mix it, then cook it, after this apply it on the wound when it is slightly warm, it will cure the wound.
Mix rock salt with pigeon's droppings and make a paste and apply it on the wound and tie a bandage, it will cure the wound.
18. Inflammation of gums:
Grind salt and puffed alum to make powder and apply it on gums, it will give relief.
Boil 1 gram of powdered rock salt and 1 gram of baking soda in 100 ml water and then rinse with this lukewarm water every morning and evening, it cures swelling of gums.
Mix salt in water and rinse 2-3 times a day. It cures swelling of gums.
19. Agnimandaya (slow gastric fire):
Pour a quarter teaspoon of rock salt on ginger pieces and eat before meals, it will give relief.
Mix dry ginger and rock salt in equal quantities, take 1 teaspoon of it with warm water, it cures Agnimandaya.
Grind 10 grams of rock salt, 5 grams of small myrobalan and take 1 teaspoon of it every morning and evening with warm water.
Drinking 1 teaspoon black salt, baking soda and squeezing half a lemon and mixing it in half a glass of water is beneficial and indigestion is cured.
Mix salt, dry coriander, black pepper and black salt and grind it, taking half a teaspoon of it with lukewarm water is beneficial.
Mixing ginger juice, lemon juice and salt and drinking it in the morning and evening is beneficial in indigestion, it also improves digestion.
Roast the salt well on a pan, then consume 5 grams of it with lukewarm water, it cures indigestion.
Mix 10 grams rock salt, 40 grams of native sugar (bura) and grind it finely and take half a teaspoon of it with 100 ml of hot water 3 times a day. Doing this treatment daily cures indigestion.
20. Enlargement of testicles:
Grind rock salt and mix it with cow ghee and consume it for 7 days to get rid of enlargement of testicles.
