Salt Cure

A remedy of the modern practice — salt, water and coins, used to absorb rather than to deflect. The salt cure is a bowl of salt with water and coins, placed where a space is described as needing absorption. It is entirely a modern remedy with no classical source.

This database documents placement principles, not outcomes. A remedy of the modern practice — salt, water and coins, used to absorb rather than to deflect. Stating plainly that a remedy is modern is more useful than defending it — the practice contains a large modern layer, and the reader's problem is usually not knowing which layer a rule belongs to.

Nothing in the classical sources describes this remedy. The tradition's contribution is indirect: the practice of absorption does have a logic in the element scheme, and salt and water both belong to the water family. It is grouped under Water (水) in the five-element system.