kha ru tshwa

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ཁ་རུ་ཚྭ
black salt used medicinally (from boiling earth impregnated with saline particles), tonic aperient medicine salt of fetid odor from fusing fossil salt with emblic myrobalan, black salt [JV]

(med) Black salt, Sochal salt (Drungtso 1999)
Synonyms : ni ma lo na (Shel gong)
Skt.: sauvarcala (wisdomlib.org)

kha ru tsha yis drod skyed sbos pa dang / sgregs dang 'gying 'khrog bad rlung 'joms par byed / ces par / lcags phreng las / kha ru tsha ni dro la lci bas snum pa yin / zhes dang / sgron gsal las / kha ru tsha ni snum zhing dro la tsha / stod kyi bad kan smad kyi rlung nad 'joms / gzer dang zug dang lus lci rtud skam dang / bshang 'gags sto sbos sel zhing me drod skyed / ces dang / rang byung pas / kha [380] ru tsha ni drod kyi gtso / rgyu long tshad sel ngo mtshar che / gsungs / ming ni ma lo na yang zer / 'di la rang byung dang bzo ma gnyis yod / rang byung la dmar nag gnyis yod / gang yang sna cong zhi 'dra la 'od dang ldan zhing ro tsha la rwa gzhob bro ba yin / dmar po la 'dra yin tu / kha ru tsha ni me rdo bcag pa 'dra / nag gam dmar la rwa gzhob dri ma bro / zhes dang / nag po la / 'dra dper / kha ru tsha ni con zhi nag po 'dra / zhes so / bzo ma ni / tsha bzo las bshad ltar bzos pa ste tsha'i rgyu dang bzo khyad la dbyibs ma nges ro snga ma 'dra la rigs gnyis yod pa'o // (Shel gong shel phreng, pdf p 379.5)

Illustrations : 'Phrin Las (27_006) kha ru tshwa rang grub dmar nag (27_007) bzos pa'i kha ru tshwa (34_081) kha ru tsha

Natural salt medicine. The Shel gong states that there are a black and red type of natural salt and a processed salt.
The indian term sauvarcala-āḍhya—“richly mixed with sochal salt” has been simplified to kha-ru-thsar sbyar-ba—“mixed with sochal salt”. Sochal salt is prepared by boiling down soda with Emblic myrobalan; Ray (History p. 228) identifies it as salt-petre (wisdomlib.org). Contemporary ayurvedic sources describe Sauvarchala Lavana : Often known by its Hindi name, kala namak, this is also called black salt and sochal salt. It has a slightly sulphurous taste and smell. It is harvested from halite ore, from the mines in Pakistan. So far it is essentially the same as saindhava lavan. But then it is sealed in a ceramic jar together with triphala bark of babul (the akacia gum tree).  The contents of the jar are incinerated in a furnace for twenty-four hours before being cooled and collected. It is heating, light to digest and has a pungent taste. The other method of preparing kala namak uses washing soda, sodium carbonate, known in Sanskrit as shudddha swarjika kshara. The sodium carbonate is dissolved in water, after which the rock salt is added and stirred until it dissolves. This mixture is heated in an intense fire until the water content evaporates and crystals of black salt form.
Johannes Schmidt (talk) 11:25, 26 February 2024 (EST)