Schuessler’s Tissue Salts (also known as biochemical or cell salts) are potentized micro-doses of the 12 essential minerals your body needs to repair and maintain itself. They are prepared in homeopathic 6X potencies that are gentle enough to be used by the youngest to the oldest member of your family. Even your pets can benefit. Tissue salts are a group of minerals that should be present in the body for it to function optimally. But unhealthy lifestyles often deplete our reserves, leading to illness.
Biochemistry is a science developed by Dr. Schussler to show how Tissue /Cell Salts are utilized in the body. Cell Salts are not measured like supplements such as 500 mg or more, but are in minute homeopathic potency. In homeopathic potency, Cell Salts balance the minerals in the body and help the body’s utilization of the minerals from concentrations in the blood and minerals from food and supplements. Tissue /Cell Salts are safe for those with digestive problems.
Cell Salts do not have binders and since they dissolve in the mouth they do not need to be broken down in the stomach. The Cell Salts are a wonderful way to help the body take up nutrients. They’re inexpensive, taste fine, and seem to be able to counteract just about every common ailment from pimples to period pain, headaches to hangovers.
Tissue salts are the same minerals that are found in rocks and in soil. What’s interesting is that they already occur naturally in the human body, which means that an imbalance or lack of certain ones opens the door to illness and disease. Minerals are the foundation for enzyme activity in the body and serve as catalysts in energy cycles and functions.
For example, the body must definitely have minerals to make vitamins or make use of vitamins regardless of the source. Cell Salts are used in the basic functioning of the cells including water balance, digestion, removing toxins, elasticity of the cells, oxygenation, nutrition, sodium/potassium balance etc. They’re inexpensive, taste fine, and seem to be able to counteract just about every common ailment.
12 Basic cell salts:
- No 1 Calcium fluoride (Calc Fluor)
- No 2 Calcium phosphate (Calc Phos)
- No 3 Iron phosphate (Ferrum Phos)
- No 4 Potassium chloride (Kali Mur)
- No 5 Potassium phosphate (Kali Phos)
- No 6 Potassium sulphate (Kali Sulph)
- No 7 Magnesium phosphate (Mag Phos)
- No 8 Sodium chloride (Nat Mur)
- No 9 Sodium phosphate (Nat Phos)
- No 10 Sodium sulphate (Nat Sulph)
- No 11 Silica (Silicea)
- No 12 Calcium sulphate (Calc Sulph)
