Cell salts

(translated: salts or Schuessler salts), also sold as cell salts and tissue salts are a group of mineral salts, claimed to be a remedy for virtually any ailment. It's a homeopathy soap opera spin-off.
The invention of cell salts is credited to Wilhelm Heinrich Schüssler's healing system "Biochemie" and its further development by Dietrich Schöpwinkel. — PubMed — NCBIPharmazeutische Zeitung: Wilhelm Heinrich Schüßler: Ein Therapeut als Kind seiner Zeit (1821–1898), a homeopathic medical doctor in Oldenburg, Germany. Cell salts are entirely without merit and a waste of money.Stern: Ratgeber Alternativmedizin: Schüßler-Salze — teuer, aber wertlos?Even German health insurance can admit there's no merit — unless of course profit is involved
=="Biochemic healing"==
After and published their works on cell theory and cellular pathology, Wilhelm Schüßler came to the conclusion that the cause of many or most illnesses must be what is known today as a lack of important nutrients leads to cells not working properly.Pharmazeutische Zeitung: Schüßlers Biochemie: Mit Salzen heilen But hold on! Aren't there only minuscule amounts of salts in cells? That's right, so in order to introduce only minuscule amounts of salts into billions and trillions of cells, dillute! I'm sure it all makes sense.
"Biochemic healing" has nothing to do with biochemistry. It is pure woo, intended to be applied to your worries. Literally. If you're worried, there's an app a salt combination for that.Schüsslersalze Anwendungsgebiete
Cell salts are stuck on 19th century discoveries with misguided conclusions and have been debunked early on.1946-04-12, Government Gasette of Western Australia: The Health Act, 1911-1944: Dr. Schuessler Cell Salts, Kali Phos 3X., page 352not even experiments in Nazi-Germany concentration camps yielded positive results: the control patient outperformed both the patient treated with sulfoamids and the biochemically treated patient There are little to no reputable studies.Medizin Transparent: Schüßler-Salze: Studien fehlen
Schüßler had no issue with applying scientific scrutiny to other pseudomedicine.PDF: Kneipps Wasserkur – Gedanken darüber by Dr. med. Schüßler, see Water Cure
===The salts===
After analyzing the ashes of human remains,Süddeutsche Zeitung: Schüßler-Salze: Die heilsamen ZwölfPDF: SWR Fernsehen - odysso: Scharlatane und Pseudowissenschaftler, Scharlatan-O-MeterGoogle Books: Schüßler-Salze by Günther H. Heepen, p. 7Google Books: Schüßler-Salze für die Seele by Günther H. Heepen, p. 25Google Books: Schüßler-Salze - Das Kochbuch: Typgerecht ernähren, in Balance leben by Hans WagnerGoogle Books: Schüßler-Salze: Die fantastischen 12 by Sabine Wacke, p. 11-12 he came to the conclusion that the following 12 11 salts are critical for processes in our human flesh bags:DailyMed - CELL SALTS - calc. fluor., calc. phos., calc. sulph., ferrum phosphoricum, kali mur., kali phos., kali sulph., mag. phos., nat. mur., nat. phos., nat. sulphuricum, silicea pellethttp://schuessler-cell-salts.com/potency/index.htmhttp://www.schusslersalts.com/en/schuessler-salts/Dr._Schuessler_Salts_Overview/index.html
# Calcium fluoride
# Calcium phosphate
# Iron phosphate
# Potassium chloride
# Potassium phosphate
# Potassium sulphate
# Magnesium phosphate
# Sodium chloride (table salt)
# Sodium phosphate
# Sodium sulphate
# Silica
# Calcium sulphateSchüßler removed this one later on, because it could only be found in the gall bladder.
But why stop there when you can placebo yourself into believing all kinds of salts make you feel better? After all, Schüßler never gave a real explanation of why certain salts or combinations thereof would result in anything specific. Commonly, 15 additional salts are added to the list.
Potassium arsenite
Potassium bromide
Potassium iodide
Lithium chloride
Manganese sulfate
Calcium sulfide
Copper arsenite
Alum
Zinc chloride
Calcium carbonate
Sodium bicarbonate
Arsenic iodide
Aurum chloride sodium (NaAuCl4)
Selenium
Potassium dichromate
==Differences with homeopathy==
Wilhelm Schüßler himself didn't think of his salts as homeopathic.Eine Abgekürzte Therapie. Anleitung zur biochemischen Behandlung der Krankheiten by Schüssler, Wilhelm Heinrich, 1821-1898, p. 4 So here's a handy list of differences:
*"Let like cure like" (similia similibus curentur) is not the basis of the woo, instead, all ailment comes from a lack of salts in your cells.
*Therefore, figuring out which salts you need to take is instead based on facial analysis.Der Standard: Schüßler-Salze: Antlitzanalyse als diagnostisches MittelÖsterreichische Apothekerzeitung | 64. Jg. | 25. Oktober 2010 | ÖAZ 22, Schüßler Salze pro & contra Eine unendliche Geschichte?https://www.adler-pharma.at/en/facial-analysis/?_wb=en/facial-analysis/&lang=ENhttp://schuessler-cell-salts.com/facial-diagnosis/index.htmGoogle Books: Antlitzanalyse in der Biochemie nach Dr. Schüßler: Der Bildatlas by Thomas Feichtinger, Susana Niedan-Feichtinger, p. 19 While Schüßler said it can't be learned with printed instructions,Eine abgekürzte Therapie, gegründet auf Histologi und Cellular-Pathologie, p.60 this doesn't seem to have any effect on the industry.Google Books search
*As there are usually more than one salt in a typical cell, using several salts is almost a given. Some homeopaths don't like using different homeopathic remedies simultaneously.
*"Biochemic healing" doesn't say a stronger dilution results in a stronger remedy, but maintains that dilution is necessary to bring single molecules to single cells. This results in a potentization of 6X to 12X (i.e., dilution to 10-6 to 10-12).
Nevertheless, cell salts may be sold under the same regulations as homeopathy.At least in the EU, otherwise it would count as food.MHRA guidance for Tissue Salts/Schuessler Salts in a medical context So you can bet this is sold online and in pharmacies, especially in Germany.Oberpfalz TV: Gesundheitstipp: Schüßler-Salzeapotheke adhoc: Geschüßlert wird online, breakdown of online and pharmacy salesDeutsche Apotheker Zeitung: Apotheken-Kooperation: Linda wird „grün“Stuttgarter Nachrichten: Alternative Heilmethoden: Schüßlersalze: Die sanfte Kraft aus Natrium
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