Salt is an unseparable part of cookery worldwide food without a pinch of salt is not at all a complete food according to Hakeem Hashmi, an outstanding unani physician. Salt is used in foods not only to enhance taste but also for its medicinal virtues salt has many a wonderful curative preventive, health giving properties besides being edible, salt is used in making many detergents, chemicals, fertilizer and pesticides. It also used as a disinfectant, its solution is put in the corners of wardrobes, boxes clear oft the moths & insects. Salt is used in washing cloth as a stain remover. Different varieties of salt are found mostly there are four forms are available.
(1). Rock salt (2). Black salt (3). Ocean salt (4). Lake salt and there is a variety of artificial rock salt is also available.

ROCK SALT: -

This is the best of all types of salts and is obtained from the mines under ground. This is very tasty, digestive, light, appertiser, cooling anti phlegmatic antibileous, anti-aciditic. This is easily absorbed in the body. Hindus use this salt prepares special food in religious fast.

ARTIFICIAL ROCK: -

Is anti-phlegmatic, pain reliever, anti-flatulent, digestive.

BLACK SALT: -

This is tasty, carminative, digestive, release wind.

OCEAN SALT ALKALINE SALT: -

Procured from bigger lakes around the world is Very light, anti-acidity and very hot.

COMPOSITION OF SALT: -

Salt has a composition of many natural minerals.

1. Sodium
2. Chlorine
3. Calcium
4. Phosphorus
5. Iron
6. Manganese
7. Potassium
8. Copper
9. Sulpher
10. Silicon
11. Magnesium
12. Fluorine.

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

• 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.

STOMACH WORMS: -

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

SKIN PROBLEMS: -

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

Taking ginger & lemon juice with rock salt controls vomiting.

COLD & COUGH: -

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

• 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.

Taking little salt gives instant relief 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. Western doctors have proved that taking more salted food can help the women to have their baby's sex according to taking to their choice male child. They should start taking more saltish food not only during pregnancy but 6 weeks before conception salt produces potassium and sodium in the body and have great effect on chromosomes, which determine the sex of the baby.