How Schüessler Cell Salts Works

Mineral salts are often present within our food supply, yet they often do not end up where the patient’s body most needs them – within the cells. A deficiency or an imbalance of the vital minerals can lead to cell or even organ dysfunction, and end in illness.

Every cell in the human body consists of water, organic materials such as sugars and fats, and inorganic matter (minerals). Even though water and organic matter make up the greater proportion, the inorganic matter is vitally important in a number of biochemical functions within the body. As a matter of fact, the creation of new cells depends on the presence of minerals.

Schüessler cell salts construe a biochemical therapy that is capable of supporting the human body functions with mineral salts which are indispensable for the metabolic processes within the cells. The salts help to reorganize or cure an imbalance of the respective minerals in the cells. Because many ingested mineral salts are unable to reach the cells (either due to already established dysfunctions or other factors), Dr. Schüssler created a diluted version of the mineral salts, similar to homeopathy. These diluted versions of mineral salts are able to find their way into single cells via digestive processes and circulation in the blood, where they could be readily assimilated by the cells. After the assimilation of these cell salts, imbalances inside the cell can begin to be rectified. The process also triggers the cell to absorb larger mineral salts directly from the blood in order to fulfill the needs to function and regenerate properly. Because these diluted mineral salts work within the cells, they were given the name “cell salts” or “tissue salts”.

Schuessler identified 12 homeopathic medicines as biochemical remedies. These twelve basic salts are:

Calcarea fluorica (Calcium fluoride): Recommended for the development of healthy bones and teeth in children. It also supports the nervous system and combats fatigue, particularly in the morning.

Calcium phosphorica (Calcium phosphate): Supports the absorption of nutrients from food and fights vitamin D deficiency and assists with the recovery from injuries and overuse of bones and muscles and deals with neuralgic pains.

Calcium sulfate: Speeds the healing of skin conditions — including acne, eczema, psoriasis, and dandruff. It also helps recover from colds, coughs, and sinusitis. On the emotional level, Calc Sulph supports people who are moody and often complaining.

Ferrum phosphorica (Iron phosphate): Aids in inflammatory conditions, including colds, coughs, fevers, injuries to muscles and joints, and wounds.

Kali muriaticum (Potassium chloride): Beneficial wherever there is a white-coated tongue, white discharge from a cold, cough, or sinus infection, and also white blisters and burns. Can be used externally as a first-aid remedy after a burn. It supports a healthy brain and helps people who toss and turn in their sleep.

Kali phosphorica (Potassium phosphate): Alleviates anxiety, mental exhaustion, insomnia, and depression and helps people who are shy and do not want to mix and talk with others.

Kali sulphurica (Potassium sulfate): Helps clear up severe mucus and skin inflammations including yellow discharge from coughs, colds, and boils. Great for fungal and yeast infections and healthy nails and hair.

Magnesia Phosphorica (Magnesium phosphate): For pain, especially nerve-related pain, shooting pain, and muscle spasms. It is recommended for cramps including menstrual pains and leg cramps, toothaches, and babies’ pain from teething.

Natrum muriaticum (Sodium chloride): Helps regulate water levels within the cells, as well as relieve hay fever, sore throat, dry eyes, dry cuticles, dandruff, constipation, and migraines. On the emotional level, it helps deal with grief, high sensitivity, weak memory, and all forms of exhaustion from intellectual overwork.

Natrum sulphuricum (Sodium sulphate): Responsible for eliminating waste water from the cells. It stimulates the action of the liver, pancreas, and intestines and is recommended as a liver cleanse and for diabetes sufferers. It helps deal with nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, the flu, and also edema and gout.

Natrum phosphoricum (Sodium phosphate): An acid neutralizer and helps establish a proper pH balance in the body. Nat Phos alleviates heartburn, gas, indigestion, also baby colic, and acidity in the joints which can result in rheumatism, arthritis, and gout.

Silica: Recommended for healthier skin, hair, nails, and connective tissue. It helps eliminate foreign matters such as a splinter, breaks up abscesses, strengthens hair, and helps firm and tone muscles.

They are generally available in two forms: as minute amounts of the salt in a lactose-base soluble tablet, and as minute amounts of salt in an alcohol base, for those who are severely lactose-intolerant. The tablets, one or two at a time (or more), are usually placed under the tongue and allowed to dissolve. Alternatively, the tablets can be crushed and dissolved in a little water.

How Pleomorphic Remedies Work

Isopathy is a concept based on the presence of microorganisms in our body that can change form depending on the internal environment of our body. Isopathic/pleomorphic therapy nonviolently normalizes the symbiotic equilibrium between endobiont and its organism on the basis of the species-identical organisms. Isopathic remedies help in harmonizing and treating imbalances in the body and are useful in treating various medical conditions and providing new potential treatments for different illnesses. Diseases indicate healing processes, which attempt to return a disturbed symbiosis to the original healthy condition. Whether the biological self-healing forces of the organism will win over the disease, or whether the symbiont is able to develop unchecked into a parasite, depends on the condition of the milieu in which the disturbance plays out.

If the inner milieu is damaged through unhealthy nutrition and lifestyles, with their resultant disturbance of the acid-base equilibrium, through environmental toxins, through constant infections, or through psychological depressions, our self-healing forces are incapable of restoring our symbiotic equilibrium. Therefore, the disease will manifest and damage the body. Isopathy does not work against the symptoms of a disease or the disease itself. In fact, it tries to regenerate the internal milieu by supporting the body’s capabilities. This is how it is possible to have actual healing processes.

Le microbe n’est rien, le terrain est tout.
The microbe is nothing, the terrain is everything.”

Last words of Louis Pasteur, father of the “Germ Theory” of disease

In 1916, Enderlein discovered that primitive microorganic forms prepared in a remedy, when combined with a change in the biological terrain of the body, can cause virulent forms to return to their original avirulent condition bringing healing to the host body. He found that when the tiniest, mobile living forms of bacteria, which he called “spermits” exchanged genetic material with higher developmental organisms, the highly developed organisms became suddenly invisible, having been broken down to their primitive avirulent forms.

Using this knowledge, he developed isopathic remedies from fungal cultures. When these living remedies contact virulent microbial masses, the masses are induced to return to their avirulent form, and then leave the body through the natural organs of elimination.

A key concept within pleomorphism is the biological terrain, or inner milieu, as described by Enderlein and Bechamp. A healthy patient with a well balanced inner environment (biological terrain) is capable of restoring equilibrium and maintaining a symbiotic relationship with endobionts. In this process, the more highly developed pathogenic germs are broken down into avirulent primitive forms through the copulation described by Enderlein. However, the capacity for regenerating symbiosis is usually massively weakened through unhealthy lifestyles that are not in harmony with nature. If the internal environment or milieu is cleaned up by changing diet, balancing pH, and modifying stress, the favorable forms of microorganisms are introduced to the ones that already exist, to restore the original biological terrain and microorganism base.