Ashtangasamgraha 12.27

12.27

Rock salt among them is slightly sweet, aphrodisiac, pleasing to the heart, destroying all three doṣas, / light, not hot, wholesome for vision, non-burning, and stimulating the digestive fire.
Full of faith, compliant, and possessing an abundance of gathered supplies.
Accompanied by paleness, fainting, vomiting, burning sensation, and stupor.
Because their flesh is nourished by flesh, they are exceedingly strength-increasing.
One should scrape [it] with that very [instrument] or with leaves born of the teak, śephālikā, or the like, / or with cuttlefish bone, wiping away the blood with a swab.