The benefits of tissue salts: How micro-doses of minerals can improve your health
Taken in small, fast-absorbing doses, tissue salts work to restore balance and promote overall wellness.
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Tissue salts are micro-doses of essential minerals that help nourish your body’s cells.
They’ve been around since the 1800s, thanks to Dr Wilhelm Schüssler, who identified the 12 minerals that make up each cell of the human body.
According to Dr Schüssler these 12 minerals need to be in balance for optimum health. Taken in small, fast-absorbing doses, tissue salts work to restore balance and promote overall wellness.
How to use tissue salts
Tissue salts are simple to use. The little tablets dissolve under your tongue. For ongoing support, one or two doses a day is ideal. If you’re dealing with something more acute, you can take a dose every 30 minutes until symptoms ease.
Tissue Salts each target a specific area:
- Calc Fluor: Promotes elasticity of skin, ligaments and tissue
- Calc Phos: Supports bone health and helps with recovery after illness.
- Calc Sulph: Assists the liver in removing waste from the bloodstream and in turn, helping to clear the skin of pimples, boils and abscesses.
- Ferrum Phos: Great for inflammation and the early stages of colds or sore throats.
- Kali Mur: Helps break down thick mucus and relieve congestion.
- Kali Phos: The nerve nutrient - a go-to for anxiety, mental fatigue, and low moods.
- Kali Sulph: Supports healthy skin and mucous membranes; ideal for dandruff and dry skin.
- Mag Phos: Natural muscle relaxant - great for muscle cramps and period pain.
- Nat Mur: Regulates water balance and helps with emotional fatigue.
- Nat Phos: Eases heartburn and helps balance acidity in the body.
- Nat Sulph: Supports liver health and reduces water retention.
- Silicea: The cleansing salt which helps to rid your body of unwanted foreign material (do not use if you have implants of any sort).
Tissue salts are made with a lactose base to help them dissolve and absorb effectively and can also be used as a complementary medicine to other medicines being taken.
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