Would you be open to showing me how it's done, the parts that the good doctor doesn't have to perform? Knowing more can always be useful, and I consider it my responsibility as well. Blood might help as well, as to us blood is the seat of life. If Schrodinger comes in contact with it, he loses awareness of himself and instead focuses on the life within the blood. I doubt it can be anything but fresh though, and human.
No, salt is just salt to us. And the last is good to know as well.