Biochemic Remedies

The Twelve Tissue Remedies

Biochemic remedies are also known as Tissue remedies or schuessler remedies. Dr. schuessler brought this system of medicine alive in the latter part of the 19th century. He was actually a doctor of homeopathy and he propounded the overall theory that disease is caused by an insufficient amount of organic salts that are located in the cells and tissues of the body. He also believed that these deficient salts were needed to cure diseases. For 120 years, people have been taking them.

The Twelve Tissue Remedies

In all, Schuessler took the time to identify twelve medicines that were referred to as biochemic remedies. These twelve biochemic remedies are as follows:

• Calcium Fluoride (Calc. Fluor.)
• Calcium Phosphate (Calc. Phos.)
• Calcium Sulphate (Calc. Sulp.)
• Iron Phosphate (Ferr. Phos.)
• Potassium Chloride (Kali. Mur.)
• Potassium Phosphate (Kali. Phos.)
• Potassium Sulphate (Kali. Sulph.)
• Magnesium Phosphate (Mag. Phos.)
• Sodium Chloride (Nat. Mur.)
• Sodium Phosphate (Nat. Phos.)
• Sodium Sulphate (Nat. Sulph.)
• Silicon Dioxide (Silica)
  

The reason that schuessler whittled all the medicines down to these 12 was because when a human body war burned, what remained were these 12 inorganic mineral salts. So he was convinced that these 12 tissue salts as he called them were vital to the cellular activity in a human body and if they were present in sufficient quantities and were balanced, health would be the result. What these 12 remedies do is not only make sure that all are present in the body in required quantities but also ensure that there is no excess of any salt in the body.

What we see here are five groups - calcium, sodium, potassium, magnesium and iron and there is also one addition to these and that is silica. What a biochemic practitioner would do is to look at the patient holistically and treat him accordingly without compartmentalizing all patients into one group if they suffer from a particular disease.

When you take biochemic remedies, what does happen in the body is that the constitutional health is built up so you are less susceptible to disease. Biochemic remedies also rebuild tissues and organs when they are used over a period of time. The usual dose that patients are given are 4 little white sugar pills a day and the potency of the tablets is usually 6x. Now this refers to a titration of one part to a million.

Does it work?

Where biochemic remedies seem to work very well is with infants and older people. They seem to respond to it much faster than older children and adults. Not only do these ensure physical well-being but they are also great to keep mental conditions in balance. They have been known to keep the people who take them calm and positive. This could well be the result of the fact that if you are physically all right, then you are mentally, emotionally and spiritually balanced as well.

Of course, a lot of people who prefer conventional medicine look down on these little white oils with scorn, wondering what on earth they could do to cure. However, for the many who have tried it and found it has worked, they are nothing short of miracle pills. Alternative medicine has its advantages - biochemic remedies are just one line and they have stayed popular for 120 years, kept alive by the ones who believe.