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crystalline form of rock salt, but up- country physicians always 

 translate tauvar chain as sonchal or Jcdldnhnak. The latter interpre- 

 tation appears also to obtain in the Punjab whore a specimen ot 

 sunchal salt from Ham Sing, a noted druggist, is said in the 

 iieport on Punjab Products, "to be a salt of the same kind as 

 kdldnimak" 



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ffa* Ixomaka, also called un^i^^t Sdkambun, is the salt 

 produced from the Sambar Lake near Ajmere. The name r&maka 

 is said to be derived from a river called Ivum.'i. It is obtained by 

 the evaporation of salt water in the shape of clear rhomboidal 

 crystals. It has a pungent taste, and is considered laxative and 

 diuretic, in addition to possessing the other properties of salts. 

 It is said to be the best and purest of evaporated salts. 



^ftflf? Audbhid, that is, produced of itself from the earth, 18 

 the name applied to a salt produced as an efllorescence on reh 

 lands. The salt is called reha or hilar in the vernacular. I 

 consists principally of sulphate of soda with a little chloride of 

 sodium, and is described as alkaline, bitter, pungent and 

 nauseating. It is said to be so abundant in some parts of the 

 Punjab as to render the soil quite barren. Some physicians 

 or rather writers substitute this article for sambar salt in the 

 composition of pancht lavana or the live salts. 



*jfe^T Uutiha. This salt, mentioned by Susruta and some 



later writers, cannot be identified at present. In the treatise 



called I), vya f/una by Chakra I )atta, his commentator Siva Pass 

 says that the name gidihd is derived from the circumstance of the 

 salt assuming a hard, granular or nodular shape from boiling- 

 So that it is a sort of boiled salt. Susruta describes it as 

 stomachic, digestive and laxative. 



ttf tni rdnsuja or Uahaii a literally moans, salt manufactured 

 from saline earth. Pongd or common salt, manufactured from 

 earth impregnated with salt water, would come under thi head. 



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Rock .salt with warm water i used a an emetic, 1 The 

 different varieties of salt enter into the composition of a great 



many nr for dyspepsia, indigesi on, enlarged spleen Mid 



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