Homeopathic Cell Salts Basics and FAQ
What are the homeopathic cell salts?
Other terms for homeopathic cell salts are biochemic remedies, Schuessler Tissue Salts and Schuessler Cell Salts. They are a therapeutic system introduced by William Heinrich Shuessler, MD, in 1873. Dr. Schuessler contended that disease is fundamentally caused by insufficiencies of mineral salts in the tissue cells of the body and that supplying these salts corrects the deficiencies and thereby ameliorates disease. Cell salts are important for daily functioning, maintaining, rebuilding, and detoxifying the cells. They harmonize the bodily functions and improve the absorption of nutrients from food.
What conditions can the homeopathic cell salts be used for?
There are 12 homeopathic cell salts and they can be used for almost any condition. I have found them to be the most useful with people who are relatively healthy. They are most useful with fixing nutritional deficiencies and children react well to them.
What potency should I use?
The cell salts usually only come in one potency (strength), 6X. I only recommend the 6X potency when using cell salts.
Are the cell salts safe to take during pregnancy?
Yes, they are safe, and are also recommended during pregnancy to correct nutritional deficiencies in the mother and unborn baby. Taking the cell salts will result in an easier pregnancy & labour, and healthier newborn. Learn more about: The Pregnancy Cell Salt Program
Is the dosage different for children?
Yes, when taking a dose, children should take half the dose that adults take.
What cell salts build strong teeth?
The two main cell salts recommended for children and adults who are prone to difficult teething, cavities and have decaying or weak teeth:
Calcarea Fluorica and Calcarea Phosphorica. These two cell salts should be taken twice daily to strengthen the teeth.
What cell salt brings down a fever?
Ferrum Phosphoricum will often bring down a mild or moderate fever. Give as often as every 15 minutes.
What cell salts are useful for coughs are colds?
Use Ferrum Phosphoricum at the beginning of a cough or cold. Natrum Muriaticum is indicated if the mucus is runny and watery. Kalium Muriaticum is indicated at the later stages of a cold when the mucus is thick and white. Give 3X per day, or as often as every 15 minutes for more serious colds or coughs.
What cell salts are useful for muscle aches and cramps?
I have found Magnesium Phosphoricum to be very useful for muscle pains, including growing pains. It can also help with period pain and digestive pain.
What cell salt can be used for heartburn?
Natrum Phosphoricum neutralizes acidity, and thus it’s a good cell salt to use for heartburn. Take as often as 3X per day before meals.
What cell salt benefits the nails and hair?
Silicea will strengthen the nails and hair.
Homeopathy for Period Pain
Many women suffer from pain during their periods. Homeopathy can provide effective relief from period pain without putting a stress on the liver. Women with other hormonal symptoms such as irregular periods or women who experience intense pain every month should see a classical homeopath for constitutional treatment.
For occasional or moderate period pains, the following homeopathic remedies are commonly indicated:
Belladonna: Useful when the pain comes on very suddenly. Throbbing pain with a sensation of heaviness, sometimes accompanied by headaches.
Magnesium Phosphoricum: Cramping pains that are relieved by pressure or warmth.
Colocynthis: This remedy can look similar to Mag Phos (pains better from pressure or warmth). A woman needing this remedy would also be in an irritable, angry mood.
Pulsatilla: This woman is very weepy and craves affection. She has no thirst and feels worse in a warm room.
Potency and Repetition: Give a 30C potency (strength) of the indicated homeopathic remedy up to every 4 hours. If there is no relief after 6-8 hours, try a different remedy.
If the remedy choice isn’t clear, try Magnesium Phosphoricum 6X Homeopathic Cell Salts. This is a great remedy for all types of cramping pains. It can be used for leg cramps or any type of muscle pain.
Homeopathic Remedies for Radiation Therapy & Nuclear Crisis
All of the remedies listed below are powerful remedies that should only taken under the supervision of a professional classical homeopath.
Homeopathic Remedies for Radiation Therapy
Cadmium Sulphuricum: This is the leading remedy for the side effects of radiation therapy. There is a lot of exhaustion, prostration and icy coldness. There is nausea and vomiting, anorexia, weight loss, and hair loss.
Sol: Hair loss and emaciation. Try this remedy if Cadmium Sulphuricum seems indicated but has no effect.
Radium Bromatum: Use for burned skin after radiation therapy.
X-Ray: Another common remedy for burns caused by radiation therapy.
Topical Aloe Vera: For radiation burns, apply aloe vera directly from the leaf onto the wound. Calendula cream is also effective for topical treatment for radiation burns.
Dosage: Give 2 doses of the indicated remedy, one at 4 hours and one at 2 hours before the radiation therapy. Give one dose immediately after the radiation therapy and then give one at 2 hours and one at 4 hours after. On the two days following the radiation therapy give 3 doses of the indicated remedy approximately 6 hours apart. Use a 30C potency (strength) of the indicated remedy
Homeopathic Remedies for a Nuclear Crisis & Radioactive Fallout
First, try to determine what radioactive substances you are dealing with. The recommendations below are for people who are in close vicinity to a nuclear disaster. Homeopathic experts Ravi Roy and Carol Lage-Roy helped thousands of people after the Chernobyl disaster. Homeopath Susan Curtis also gives recommendations in her book “Surviving with Natural Remedies.” For the current disaster in Fukushima, Curtis and the Roys recommend the protocol as listed below in the next section of this article.
Homeopathic Remedies For Protection (Prophylaxis) from Radiation
Take a combination of remedies specific to the radioactive particles that one is exposed to. For the crisis in Fukushima, take Radium Bromatum, Plutonium Nitricum, Strontium Carbonicum and Caesium Muriaticum. For people with weak thyroids (e.g. Hashimotos), use Radium Iodatum instead of Radium Bromatum. Order a custom made combination remedy to be made up from all four indicated remedies from the homeopathic pharmacy.
Potency: Use a 30C potency (strength) of the indicated remedy.
Dosage for General Protection: Take one dose once per week of the homeopathic combination remedy (e.g. Radium/Plutonium Nitricum/Strontium Carbonicum/Caesium Muriaticum). Repeat for several weeks until danger of exposure has passed.
Dosage During Danger of Exposure: The combination remedy (Radium/Plutonium/Strontium/Caesium) can be taken as often as twice daily. The greater the danger, the more protection the body needs.
Homeopathic Protection from Radioactive Iodine
Kali Iodatum 3X should be taken during exposure to radioiodine. 1 dose should be taken 3 times per day. This method of protection should be considered for those who are in danger of heavy exposure to radioiodine and have no access to potassium iodide tablets. It is also the preferred method for those who have minimal exposure to radioactive iodine but who would still like protection (e.g. people in the United States and Canada). Kelp tablets and sea vegetables also protect the thyroid from radioiodine, and can be consumed instead of or along with kali iodatum 3X.
Treatment of Acute Radiation Poisoning
Dr. Grimmer at the height of the cold war recommended carrying Arnica 30C and Phosphorus 30C.
Give Arnica for the immediate effects such as shock and bruising. Wait a half hour then give a dose of Phosphorus. Then follow up with a regular dose of one of the following indicated remedies:
Arsenicum: Nausea, retching and vomiting after eating and drinking. Utter prostration. Extremely anxious and fearful. Restless.
Nux Vomica: Violent vomiting. Intense nausea slightly relieved after vomiting.
Phosphorus: high fever with much vomiting. It is a burning heat as if the internal body is being burnt. Desire for very cold drinks in large quantities. Empty feeling in the stomach with nausea. Anxious and melancholic.
Rhus Venenata: extreme itching, especially if large blisters form.
Also refer to the beginning of this article, remedies listed under the subheading “Homeopathic Remedies for Radiation Therapy,” as these remedies may also be indicated for acute radiation sickness.
Dosage: Give a 30C potency (strength) of the indicated remedy 2-3 times per day.
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References
Curtis, Susan “Surviving with Natural Remedies,” Winter Press, Kent, 2003.
Homeopathic Treatment of Mastitis
Homeopathic treatment can be very effective for the treatment of mastitis. The following are the most frequently indicated remedies for this condition:
Phytolacca: The most frequently indicated remedy for mastitis. The breasts are often lumpy and will be caked with hard knots and nodules.
Bryonia: Also a frequently indicated remedy for mastitis. The breast pain is worse after any kind of movement.
Belladonna: Mastitis with sudden onset, high fever and throbbing pain.
Lac Caninum: The breasts are so sensitive that even the touch of clothing against the breasts is excruciatingly painful
Hepar Sulphuris: The breast is extremely painful and worse if exposed to the least draft.
Silica: The breasts have painful cracks in the nipples. A major remedy for women with inverted nipples.
Dosage: Use a 30C potency (strength) of the indicated homeopathic remedy 2-3 times per day. After 24 hours, choose another remedy if there is no improvement. If the condition worsens, consult a health professional.
External Measures: Also the topical application of calendula cream will help unblock the milk ducts and heal the breast tissue.
Homeopathy for Breast & Nipple Pain during Breastfeeding
Prevent Breast & Nipple Pain
Use calendula cream on the nipples several weeks before birth and after nursing begins. Wash the calendula cream off the breast before nursing begins.
Take Silica 6X Homeopathic Cell Salts. Take 3-4 times per day at the beginning of the nursing experience to strengthen the nipples. Discontinue as soon as the nipples are well conditioned.
Treat Breast & Nipple Pain
The following homeopathic remedies help ease the pain of sore, painful breasts and/or nipples in nursing women:
Castor Equorum: The first remedy to try for sore, cracked, ulcerated nipples. The breasts are very tender and the nipples are swollen.
Phytolacca: Intense pain as soon as the baby begins to nurse. The pain starts at the nipple and radiates under the arm or over the whole body. There may be hard knots or nodules in the breasts (also a major remedy for mastitis).
Croton Tiglium: Excruciating pain from the nipple to the back, with pain felt in the shoulder blade. The breasts are inflamed, swollen, and hard and the nipples may be cracked.
Chamomilla: The mother is so hypersensitive to the pain of breastfeeding that she feels she cannot endure. She will be extremely irritable.
Pulsatilla: The mother cries pitifully whenever she must nurse her baby. These women have also had sore breasts and nipples throughout their pregnancy.
Remedies for sore breasts due to mastitis are listed here: Homeopathic Treatment of Mastitis
Dosage: Usually only a few doses of the 30C potency (strength) are enough to bring relief. Repeat 2-3 times per day in cases that are more severe.
Homeopathic Treatment for Thrush
Thrush is the result of a Candida yeast overgrowth in a baby’s mouth. It shows up as white or creamy coloured patches in the mouth. The tongue and the insides of the mouth may swell.
Homeopathic remedies can be very effective for the treatment of thrush. The following are some of the most common homeopathic remedies for this condition:
Borax: The most frequently indicated remedy for thrush. There are raw sores on the mouth and tongue. There is a strong fear of downward motion. Eating is very painful.
Mercurius: The baby’s breath is very offensive and there is lots of drooling. Swollen, spongy gums that bleed easily. The tongue is puffy and flabby.
Sulphur: Try this remedy if Mercurius seems indicated but does not help. The gums are not as spongy and the tongue is not as flabby as a baby needing Mercury.
Chamomilla: A very irritable baby; nothing satisfies. Accompanied by loose stool.
Antimonium Crudum: Useful when the baby has a thick, milky white coating on the tongue.
Kali Muriaticum: Use this remedy if there are no other symptoms to guide you to another remedy. The tongue may be patchy with a grey or white coating on the base.
Dosage: Use a 12C or 30C potency (strength) of the indicated homeopathic remedy every 3 hours for 4-6 doses. Increase the length of time between doses once symptoms start to improve. If there is no improvement after a few doses of the seemingly indicated remedy, try a different remedy.
Mothers of babies who are susceptible to frequent thrush infections should consult a professional classical homeopath in their area.