Introduction

In the Smithsonian Institution at Washington there is an exhibit showing the different constituents of the adult human body. In separate glass containers is shown the exact amount of each of the inorganic salts, the proportions of each being thus readily perceived.

The healthy human body requires not only a specified amount of each inorganic substance, but that a proper proportion or equilibrium be maintained in these salts at all times. This, of course, varies according to the age of the individual.

Variation in the proportionate amounts of the inorganic salts, thus disturbing their equilibrium, results in disease, as does also increase or decrease of any given substance beyond certain limits.

The homeopathic school of medicine from its earliest days, has made research into this field and has used the inorganic salts, or tissue remedies as they have been called, as medicines to correct diseases arising from superabundance or deficiency of these substances, or disturbed equilibrium among them. An extensive literature on the subject has been accumulated, dating from the opening years of the nineteenth century

It should be borne in mind that the inorganic salts are prescribed not to supply deficiencies, but to correct conditions arising therefrom upon a homeopathic basis; hence they should be given in subphysio-logical doses, otherwise results will not be obtained. The tissue remedies are not to be given below the 3x trituration, and better results will be obtained from using the 6x potency, in most instances.

The following brief resume of the uses of these remedies may serve to stimulate more extensive research into this field.

We preserve the names, by which they have been known in the homeopathic school, for a century: