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Thursday, 29. May 2008
The biochemic cell salts
Biochemic cell salts are remedies based on inorganic salts. Tissue salt tablets Inorganic salts were first used as homeopathic remedies by Samuel Hahnemann, and further developed by Dr. Willhelm Heinrich Schuessler (1821-1898) who identified 12 different salts in human tissue, and concluded that they are important mineral constitiuents that are present in human cells. He also stated that if an imbalance were to occur, sickness may follow. There is no established evidence for this in modern medicine. He ascribed a specific purpose to each one of the 12 salts, based on his understading of their biochemical purpose. However, since his original work, the understanding of the role of minerals in the body has undergone great advances, making his disease and deficiency model obsolete. He also performed clinical experiments in the form of homeopathic "provings".
The twelve salts described by Schuessler, together with the abbreviated names under which they are sold, are:
1. Calcium Fluoride
2. Calcium Phosphate
3. Calcium Sulphate
4. Ferrum Phosphate
5. Kalium Chloride
6. Kalium Phosphate
7. Kalium Sulphate
8. Magnesium Phosphate
9. Natrium Chloride
10. Natrium Phosphate
11. Natrium Sulphate
12. Silicea
Dr. Schuessler believed that the balance of these twelve mineral salts could be restored by ingesting "cell salts" in a bioavailable form. He claimed that these minerals needed not so much to be "replaced" as the cells needed to be prompted by the cell salts to restore balance of the essential components.
His studies began as the investigation of cremated bodies during which he discovered that the twelve substances accounted for the majority of what remained. Cell salts are generally considered a homeopathic remedy.
