Biochemic tissue salt

Biochemic tissue salts (also known as Schuessler Cell Salts, cell salts, tissue salts, or mineral salts) are homeopathic preparations. The controversial IDeaS they are based on were developed by German doctor Wilhelm Heinrich Schuessler (or Schüßler) (CE 1821 to CE 1898) who believed that the deficiency of these mineral salts causes diseases and published the results of his experiments in a German homeopathic journal in March 1873, leading to a list of 12 Biochemic cell salts that remain popular amongst those interested in Alternative medicine. Although firmly within the homeopathy movement of his day, the modern definition of Homeopathy tends to exclude his concept of Homeopathic potency that, while very dilute, still retained small amounts of the original salt.

The tissue salts

The list of the twelve tissue salts promoted by Schuessler, in the numeric order most often associated with them, are tabulated along with their alternative names. Around the beginning of the twentieth century, Dr. Eli Jones and other doctors studied Schüßler's ideas and derived new ones; and by the end of that century Schüßler's name (in various forms of spelling) and list of twelve "tissue salts", often with many more added, were commonly found in health shops and alternative medicine books.

See also

• Homeopathy
• Wilhelm Heinrich Schüßler