Tissue salts

Have you heard this word Tissue Salt? It's my first time too. My friend told me about this interesting thing which can help a lot when it comes our health. She even lend me the book of Mark Wells, B.Sc., N.D. entitled 12 Dynamic Elements of Good Health. Who am I to refuse to read such good book of health information? So while reading the book, I'm writing here at the same time so that I can share it to all of you.

Tissue salts are inorganic mineral substances, exactly the same as those which compose our earth and its soils. Dr W. H. Schuessler, an eminent 19t century German homoeopathic physician, regarded them as the material basis of the organs and tissues of the body. He came to this conclusion when he found that after combustion, these salts form the ashes of human tissue. He believed that their presence in correct balance in living tissue is a prerequisite for good homoeopaths since early in the 19th century, but it was Dr. Schuessler who in the 1870s elevated them to the status of a complete system of healing.

How are they prepared?
Dr. Schuessler's original method of preparation is still used today. This process is called trituration, and was devised by homoeopaths as a means of rendering insoluble substances soluble. It invloves hand-grinding mineral salts in lactose over six successive 'attenuations' of 1 part in 10. Attennuation aims at dispersing a small amount of solid throughout a powdered medium the way dilution disperses substances throughout a liquid medium. The end result is a microscopic amount of potentised tissue salt.

How do tissue salts differ from other minerals?
In their crude state, for example as they occur in some foods, minerals are found as tightly-packed concentrates, not easily assimilated 'as is' by cell tissues: they must be broken down in the gut. However, digestive systems of individuals differ in their capacity to do this, and so absorption of mineral salts is variable. The process of hand grinding or trituration frees and disperses minerals--a sort of molecular redistribution--within a neutral medium. Trituration and attenuation appear to make mineral more acceptable to individual cells by approaching more closely the minute concentrations in which they already exist within the cell.
In other words, in tissue salt form, minerals require no more breaking down and are in effect 'predigested'. In cases of deficiency or improper metabolism of particular minerals, administration of tissue salts will significantly increase uptake by cells and improve efficiency of utilization.

What can they do?
According to Dr. Schuessler, any disturbance in uptake metabolism of the twelve essential mineral salts can lead to deficiency or relative imbalance within cells. This leads to disease conditions such as coughs, colds, asthma, gastrointestinal disturbances, circulatory disorders, slow healing and tendency to infection, skin disorders, hair and nail deterioration, hormonal imbalance, headache, insomnia, nerve-related problems, fatigue etc. All these disease conditions have been successfully treated by administration of appropriate tissue salts, rectifying deficiency and reestablishing proper mineral balance in body tissues.

How are they administered? How often and when?
Tissue salts are administered as a homoeopathically prepared micro dose, most commonly in the form of a lactose-calcium based pill, or in liquid form on an alcohol and distilled water base.

Tissue salts are most commonly taken 4 times daily, before meals and at bedtime. However, frequency of dose may vary according to individual circumstances.

It is best not to take the tissue immediately before or after food. If there is food or any strong flavor in the mouth at the same time as taking remedies orally it can do some degree inhibit efficient uptake. For best results chew the tissue salts tablet and let in remain in the mouth for around 30-60 seconds before swallowing. But for me I prepare the under tongue spray.

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