Black salt, a type of rock sat, composed largely of sodium chloride with several other components lending the salt its color and smell. Black salt has many benefits and acts as a cooling spice and recommended as a treatment for many health issues. It is very popular in India, Middle East, France, Japan and Spain. Itās also called as āBlack lava saltā, ākala namakā salt or āsanchalā and is a type of volcanic rock salt. Itās commonly used in Asian countries surrounding the Himalayan Mountains like India and Pakistan. Itās been used for hundreds of years as traditional medicine, for cooking and as a beauty aid. In the hot, arid climate of the Middle East and India, people tend to perspire profusely. Sweat generally contains important electrolytes, including sodium. Thus people of these dry sweltering atmospheres consume black salt in foods or liquids to ensure proper sodium-potassium balance. Benefits of Indian black salt must not to be confused with Hawaiian black salt, smoked sea salt or black salt used in Wiccan ceremonies (for jinx removing).