Salt

Iodine and Potassium Iodide are salts. Salt is one of the 6 tastes:
sweet, sour,salty, pungent, bitter and astringent and there are seasonal correspondences around which different tastes are more dominant than others.
Moderation is important because one cannot know every correct way to be or what to do at every moment. At least with moderation the risk for error has the possibility to be somewhat less extreme.

Here are some statements about salt from the Tibetan Medical Texts:
" The salty taste makes the body hard and erect. It assists in the evacuation of stools blocked by the wind and clears clogged channels. By applying warm salts in a cloth to the skin, perspiration is extracted from the body. It creates salt and appetitte in the body.

Taken in excess, the salty taste creates loss of hair, a gray hair,and wrinkles. In excess it reduces the energy of the body, produces a thirst imbalance, (polydypsia or thirst illness), hives and leprosy (warts and leprosy are called "tze"). Excess salt causes illness of the bile and blood"

Here is a snip about the main causes for diabetes, again from the Tibetan Medical
texts: "With respect to the main causes of the disease, in terms of diet it is brought on by too much food that is salty, sweet, having a cool potency and having a heavy nature, In terms of behavior it is brought on by staying a long time in damp places. Due to these conditions phlegm and fat increase." (from Health Through Blance, Dr. Yeshe Dhonden_Snow Lion Publications)

Again, tastes, and our desire for them, play a significant role in our health or lack thereof.

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