Ashtangasamgraha 12.32

12.32

In the application of salts, however, one should employ rock salt and the like; / [it] dispels abdominal swelling, diseases of the duodenum, anemia, spleen disease, abdominal distension, and throat afflictions,
retention of stool, anorexia, vomiting, abdominal enlargement, and confused vāta.
It would kill; that man might be comfortable, but when food is digested he languishes; / thirst, cough, burning sensation, fainting, and so forth are diseases arising from an excessively intense digestive fire.
In that case, the regimen that dispels vāta, beginning with oleation and sudation, is desired.