What can Salt cure?

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Interestingly, SALT is more than just a cooking enhancer.

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CURES OF SALTS

INDIGESTION & STOMACH DISORDERS: -

Consuming 5 grams of black salt in hot water in the morning eliminates indigestion & improves appetite.
One or two teaspoon of onion juice along with Little Rock salt, after meals eliminate flatulence.
Massaging the stomach with salt mixed in hot ghee releases wind and cures stomachache.
Taking a little salt in hot water cures stomachache and also helps in easy movement of bowel.

HEADACHE: -

Keeping a pinch of salt on the tongue for minutes and then drinking cold water eliminates headache.
Rubbing little salt in pure ghee on the temples gives relief in headache due to cold.
Putting one or two drops of salt water in the nostrils eliminates headache.
Smelling salt water (in 1:20 proportion) also helps in curing headache.

DANDRUFF: -

Washing the hair with salted water helps in eliminating dandruff.

STOMACH WORMS: -

Taking a Banana springled with rock salt & lemon juice on empty stomach in the morning destroys stomach worms.

SKIN PROBLEMS: -

Rubbing the body with salted-mastered oil removes skin dryness.
Applying salted pure ghee cures cracked feet & hands.
Applying ginger juice mixed with rock salt removes pimples & ache.


VOMITING: -

Taking ginger & lemon juice with rock salt controls vomiting.

COLD & COUGH: -


Boil a glass of water with rock salt black pepper & turmeric powder and ruduce it to half. Taking these cures cold & cough.
Putting some drops of basil juice mixed with rock salt in the nostrils cures cold.
Massaging the chest with warm ghee mixed with rock salt cures cold helps in extracting the traped phlegm.
Sucking a piece of salt gives relief in cough.


DENTAL PROBLEMS: -


Rinsing the mouth regularly with salted water eliminates pain due to tooth decay.
Applying strained salt mixed in mustard oil kept in sun for a whole day as toothpaste strengthens the gums and teeth & eliminates pyorrhoea.
Strained black salt mixed til oil applied as toothpaste. Strengthens the loose teeth at their base.
Finely powdered rock salt applied on the gums relieves pain in gums and teeth.


BLEEDING: -

Taking little salt gives instant relief to the bleeding.

INSECT BITE: -

Rubbing salt on the affected portion after pouring some water and taking some salted water eliminates irritation, pain and swelling caused by the bite of poisonous insect.

DOG-BITE: -

Rubbing the mixture of ground garlic and salt over the affected portion eliminates the effect of dog-bite.