Salt — body and belly
fixed principle
Salt is the fixed, material principle and is rendered as the body-and-belly focus where plant matter is imagined as held and made stable. This target-organ projection is an interpretive visual convention, not an anatomical salt organ or a promise of digestive action.
Point 3 of 3 in Spagyric Plant Arcanum
Cross-tradition overlaps
No overlapping points are registered for this point.
Sources
Paracelsus, Liber Paragranum (primary_canonical)
Book I sets out sulfur, mercury, and salt as principles of natural bodies; see Book I, the sections on the three principles and the preparation of medicines.
Andreas Libavius, Syntagmatis Alchamiae Arcanorum (primary)
Early-modern alchemical treatment of laboratory separation and preparation of medicinal substances; see the books on separation, purification, and recombination.