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.
Salt is used in washing cloth as a stain remover.
Different varieties of salt are found mostly there are four forms are available. Lake salt and there is a variety of artificial rock salt is also available. 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.