This is the first of a two-part series to introduce cell salts and explain how these “cell builders” are important in establishing health and balance in the body. As we know cells are the basic foundation of all form. What most do not know is that cells, of the body, have different nutritional requirements according to the function that they fulfill. An energetic weaving also influences cellular formation like that explained by Dr. Randolph Stone in his first book Energy. When the nutritional focus is to achieve elemental (Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Ether) balancing, the body reflects this harmonization. The Cell Salts, or minerals, assist to keep us grounded to the earth and resourced in combating harmful cellular invaders. In addition, the various cell salts, minerals, affect not only the physical, but also the mental, emotional and spiritual.

The Hermetic Principle, “As above, so below; as within, so without” is one of the theories facilitated by Dr. Randolph Stone to develop the natural healthcare system called Polarity Therapy. The beauty of the Truth behind this Universal Principle is seen throughout all of nature, including the functions and systems of the marvelous human body. At first this Principle seems quite simple and easy to grasp. Upon closer investigation the complexity and depth of reality of its Truth reveals wisdom and spiritual awareness at a heightened vibrational level.

Dr. Stone was one of a generation of “evolved souls” who unraveled the mysteries of Universal Laws. Their channeled information has been incorporated into theories and disciplines that support principles and concepts for natural healing. They understood that when health is assisted with the elements of nature in a logical manner, only then would true healing be achieved.

A peer of his generation was Dr. George Carey who developed a biochemical treatment of natural wellness that explains the body’s needs for twelve basic minerals, called Cell Salts. He developed his principle by attaching one of the twelve Cells Salts to the vibrational energies of the Zodiac. He saw that each astrological sign corresponded to conditions, benefits and symptoms associated with each of these twelve basic minerals. These are the same minerals that the body needs for its cellular development. His teachings were not limited to the physical development alone.

Like Dr. Stone with Polarity Therapy he understood that a holistic approach to healing had to investigate not only the patient’s physical body, but also the emotional, mental and spiritual. Dr. Carey saw the benefits that Cell Salts could provide the total human body. In addition he discovered that emotional and mental imbalances were corrected when the proper inorganic elements were added to his patient’ diet. With his patients, he followed the path of their disease to its origin to discover the state of balance of the organic and inorganic elements.

Through years of research he formulated a nutritional approach to providing balance and harmonization to the body at its basic level, the cellular. If the brick, or rock, foundation of a home is secure then one can be assured that the house will be able to provide the safety and protection that the inhabitants desire and expect. If the physical body’s foundation, the cells, is providing balance, safety and security, we too can assume that the entire body is functioning at the same degree of perfection. What is happening within becomes evident without. The resources that we bring from “without” assist in fortifying that which is “within.”

Like other great minds of their generation, both Stone and Carey proclaimed that the body has an innate “compass” with a needle that is always pointing toward health and wellness. All that the body needs to achieve this status is for the inner health to be elevated. Like a “lighthouse in the harbor” that draws ships into safety out of perilous waters, when health in the body is highlighted and elevated it becomes the vibrational standard that draws energy, prana and nutrients to the basic cellular level. Both men believed nature to be the standard that helps to establish and fortify health in the body. When nature (the elements) from “without” balances the nature “within,” homeostasis and health reign supreme.

Polarity Therapy teaches the necessity of keeping the elements within the body in balance with the elements outside the body. Everything in the Earth’s environment is composed of five basic elements: oxygen, gas, heat, liquid and solid. These are the same identical elements that make up the human body.

In Polarity Therapy we call these elements Air, Fire, Water and Earth. The element of Ether is the container within which these elements manifest. Polarity teaches that our health is dependant upon our efforts to keep the outer elements in balance with the inner. So, Drs Stone and Carey were approaching health and balance from the view point.

To further define Cell Salts, lets look at more history of its beginning. First, it is important to provide a definition and history of what Cell Salts actually are. In the mid-1800’s a German doctor and biochemist, William Schuessler, discovered that there were 12 Biochemical components that the body absolutely needed in order to maintain health. He named these components “cell salts” or “tissue salts.” His development came as a result of cellular research by a Prussian scientist born in 1821, named Rudolph L. Virchow. A medical doctor and scientist, he first theorized that the body was simply an organized assembly of cells. He hypothesized that within these minute systems disease was replicated and transferred throughout the entire body.

Dr. Schuessler believed that if the basic foundation of the body, cells, was kept free from fungi, germs or bacilli by the use of 12 minerals, (cell salts) that health would prevail in the human body. He found that after cremation or incineration of human tissues, the consistency of the ashes was twelve basic minerals. These are the same basic minerals that the body needs for achieving all its functional duties on the physical, mental and emotional level.

This theory basically states that cells of the body can become compromised and clogged. When this happens the body’s innate healing process is hindered from its primary function. The cells cannot nourish and oxidize its environment, nor eliminate waste and accumulated toxins. It is believed that viruses, germs and dangerous bacteria from outside invade the inside when the body’s cell salts become depleted. The body loses its ability to bring internally the external resources to keep the “sacred temple” pristine and free from debilitating toxins and dis-ease.

Cells salts are the tissue builders for each and every cell of the body. If these cellular builders are prevented from answering the cells “emergency (911) call” for help, toxins replicate within the system and create dis-ease in the cell. The surrounding organs, tissues, and muscles all become compromised. Cells lose the ability to function in a healthy manner. Another way of looking at this is to say that the body’s cells have lost sight and connection with the vibrational standard of health in the body.

The cell salt theory stresses that health in the body is achieved when all the tissues and cells are working in harmony and balance. Optimally, every cell in the body is communicating with every other cell. When any line of communication is limited or hindered, the body recognizes that its health is being challenged. It may take many days, months or years for the actual dis-ease to manifest full fold disease. This is because more of the body’s natural defenses, supported by cell salts, become diminished to a point of depletion. The body’s innate healer is very focused in trying to direct balance and harmonization between the elements within and without. Depleted and absent cell salts prevent this natural physical and spiritual function from occurring.

Unhealthy cells become clogged and crystallized. The cell’s density increases. Increased density blocks oxygen from entering into the cells. The life-giving function of cellular sodium/potassium exchange diminishes as inter and extra-cellular “sludge” increases. The microcosmic functioning of the cell’s respiratory and alimentary systems becomes stagnant. Movement within and without the cell is hindered. The body’s life force, found in its blood, loses its ability to penetrate the cellular membrane thus halting the transporting of nutrition into the cells. The mechanistic function of elimination of wastes is halted, thus rendering the cells oxygen and food supply depleted, malnourished and toxic.

The teachings of Polarity help us to understand this process through the language of the elements. The element of Earth is too constricted and loses its ability to expand. Water becomes crystallized and prevents the flow of cellular communication. Like an arrow seeking its bulls-eye target, the Fire element loses its function of focus and direction. The Air element becomes inept in its ability to move. Reciprocal tension meets resistance but cannot contract, nor expand.

The twelve basic minerals (Cell Salts) provide the human body with an earthly connection that sets up the mechanism for all systems of the body to attract and repel those elements that keep it in perfect functioning condition. Each cell in the body must maintain its mechanical and chemical ability to attract and repel life-supporting vibration. The body’s cellular system can be explained through the Universal Law of Attraction and Repulsion, upon which Dr. Stone founded Polarity Therapy.

Take an old rubber band that you found on the ground. Should you try to stretch it, you might find that it has lost its ability to be elastic and flexible, therefore ineffective and non-functional. The rubber probably appears hardened, loose and weak due to the environmental abuses of being left outside. The sun, wind and rain become the enemies and cause it to loose its ability to stretch and hold things together. Like that old worn out rubber band, the cell’s ability to attract and repel is lessened when the inorganic cell builders and workers force is depleted from its protective environment.

An interesting fact that Dr. Schuessler discovered about the 12 minerals is that each cell salt targets specific cells. From biology and anatomy we know that the cells in the body have categories such as muscle, nerve, cardiac, and bone. He found that different minerals were more prevalent in specific cells, tissues and organs. In other words, different cells have their own particular mineral, or cell salt.

Dr. Carey went the next step and theorized that they not only targeted specific cells but found that each had an energetic relationship to each sign of the zodiac. Each body has a unique formula for cell salt need that is established at the time of conception and birth. In other words, our conception indicates the mineral(s) that assist in our ability to stay connected and grounded to the physical earth that our in vitro space capsule provides.

In Volume I, Book One, of Polarity Therapy, Dr. Stones gives us Chart Number 5 “Weaving the Body.” This chart depicts the elemental weavings of the body and its energy formation beginning in vitro. In addition it reveals the Zodiacal energy and vibration influences of different areas of the body. For example, Pisces (Neptune energy) governs the feet; the ankles are governed by Aquarius, (Uranus energy); and Capricorn (Saturn energy) governs the knees.

We both read and studied the concepts of Schussler’s homeopathic mineral discovery. We incorporated Carey’s application of Cells Salts according to our Zodiacal patterns with amazing results. Once again this generation of ancient wisdom interpreters opened a portal of information that has useful therapeutic application for all of us. Before us we saw a beneficial application to holistically influence our health and that of our clients. In our next article we will:

* Describe the process that we used to facilitate a healthy balance.
* Discuss our plan of blending the elements without and the elements within by incorporating the Cell Salts.
* Explain why you delete certain Cell Salts in you body.
* Did you realize that we each have a “cross to bear?”

Johnny Henderson, Ph.D., RPP, RPE & Tom Langan, RCST®, RPP, RPE