Table Salt

VARIANT NAMES: Salt, Xiancuo.

ORIGIN: The crystal made by boiling-away or sun-drying sea water, the brine of salt wells, salt ponds or salt springs.

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION: Composed mainly of sodium chloride with some impurities such as magnesium chloride, magnesium sulfate, sodium sulafte, calcium sulfate and insoluble matter.

NATURE, FLAVOR AND CHANNEL TROPISM: Salty in flavor and cold in nature, acting on the channels of the stomach, kidney, large and small intestines.

EFFICIENCIES AND INDICATIONS: Inducing vomiting, removing phlegm, cooling the blood and clearing away pathogenic fire and toxic materials. It is used to treat food stagnation in the stomach, distending pain in the chest and abdomen, accumulation of phlegm in the chest, difficulty in urination and defecation, gum bleeding, Chronic Laryngitis, toothache, nebula, skin and external diseases (including Carbuncles, Furuncle, multiple abscess, scrofula, Behcet's Disease), insect-bite.

DIRECTIONS: To be taken after being dissolved in boiling water, or used as condiment when vegetables are cooked;when used to induce vomiting, it should be parched yellow and taken after being dissolved. It can also be parched and wrapped in a cloth and applied to the affected part, dissolved in water for eye dripping, or used to bathe skin and external diseases. Those suffering from edema should avoid it.