Cell salts

A box of 11 jars of Schüßler salts, from 1923

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Schüßler-Salze (translated: Schüßler 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 (1821–1898), a homeopathic medical doctor in Oldenburg, Germany. Cell salts are entirely without merit and a waste of money.

"Biochemic healing"

After Jacob Moleschott, Justus von Liebig and Rudolf Virchow 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 mineral deficiency: a lack of important nutrients leads to cells not working properly. 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.

Cell salts are stuck on 19^th century discoveries with misguided conclusions and have been debunked early on. There are little to no reputable studies.

Schüßler had no issue with applying scientific scrutiny to other pseudomedicine.

The salts

Schüßler salt tablets

After analyzing the ashes of human remains, he came to the conclusion that the following 12 11 salts are critical for processes in our human flesh bags:

1. Calcium fluoride
2. Calcium phosphate
3. Iron phosphate
4. Potassium chloride
5. Potassium phosphate
6. Potassium sulphate
7. Magnesium phosphate
8. Sodium chloride (table salt)
9. Sodium phosphate
10. Sodium sulphate
11. Silica
12. Calcium sulphate

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.^{[citation needed]}

13. Potassium arsenite
14. Potassium bromide
15. Potassium iodide
16. Lithium chloride
17. Manganese sulfate
18. Calcium sulfide
19. Copper arsenite
20. Alum
21. Zinc chloride
22. Calcium carbonate
23. Sodium bicarbonate
24. Arsenic iodide
25. Aurum chloride sodium (NaAuCl₄)
26. Selenium
27. Potassium dichromate

Differences with homeopathy

Wilhelm Schüßler himself didn't think of his salts as homeopathic. 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. While Schüßler said it can't be learned with printed instructions, this doesn't seem to have any effect on the industry.
• 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.^{Do You Believe That?} 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. So you can bet this is sold online and in pharmacies, especially in Germany.