In India, where the drink is simply called lime soda and usually served without ice, it's ordered one of three ways: sweet, salty, or a combo of salty-sweet. Just like it sounds, the only change is swapping out a small amount of salt for the sugar or using salt and sugar in combination.
Gauze used as a medical dressing is usually made of cotton. Medical gauze is useful for dressing wounds where other fabrics might stick to the wound. Gauze can be coated with polymers that inhibit sticking even further.
You use a tourniquet. The long answer is combat gauze is a hemostatic dressing designed to be used on axillary (armpit) and and inguinal (groin) wounds that have an arterial bleed but are too high on the appendage for a tourniquet to control the bleeding. It cannot be used on neck wounds.