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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

McCabe, Vinton.
The healing echo : discovering homeopathic cell salt remedies /
Vinton McCabe.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-59120-645-3
1. Medicine, Biochemic. 2. Salts—Therapeutic use. I. Title.

RZ412.M33 2009
615.8'8—dc22
2008031642

Copyright © 2009 by Vinton McCabe

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Editor: Karen Anspach
Typesetting/Book design: Gary A. Rosenberg
Cover design: Mike Stromberg

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Contents
INTRODUCTION Seeking Health Within

PART ONE Schuessler’s Cell Salts
1. The History of the Cell Salts: Hahnemann, Schuessler, and Cell Theory
2. The Dynamics of the Cell Salts: Homeopathy, Biochemics, and Deficiency

PART TWO Nutritional Homeopathy
3. An Introduction to the Cell Salts
4. Considering the Source
F AMILIAL R ELATIONSHIPS The Magnesium/Magnesia Family The Calcium/Calcarea Family The Phoshorus/Phosphoricum/Phosphorica Family The Chloride/Muriaticum/Muriatica Family The Potassium/Kali Family The Fluoride/Fluorica/Fluorata/Fluoratum Family The Sodium/Natrum Family The Iron/Ferrum Family The Sulfur/Sulphurica/Sulphuricum Family
5. The Twelve Cell Salt Remedies A B RIEF M ATERIA M EDICA Kali phosphoricum OF THE C ELL S ALTS Kali sulphuricum Calcarea fluorica Magnesia phosphorica Calcarea phosphorica Natrum muriaticum Calcarea sulphurica Natrum phosphoricum Ferrum phosphoricum Natrum sulphuricum Kali muriaticum Silicea

PART THREE Common Applications for Cell Salt Remedies
6. Using Cells Salts at Home
7 A Reference Guide to the Cell Salts F IRST A ID P AIN M ANAGEMENT General Remedies for General Remedies for Pain Physical Trauma Specific Remedies for Pain Fractures Strains and Sprains Head Trauma/Concussions Muscle Pain Wounds Bone Pain Puncture Wounds/ Joint Pain Splinters Rheumatism Bruises Arthritis Shock Gout/Gouty Arthritis Emotional Trauma Neuritis/Neuralgia Neurasthenia Sciatica A ILMENTS OF D IGESTION Acne AND E LIMINATION Abscesses/Boils Considering the Tongue Warts and Growths General Remedies for Indigestion General Remedies for the Hair Stomachache Hair Loss Heartburn Dandruff Nausea General Remedies for Nails Vomiting Hangnails Flatulence Ingrown Toenails Belching Whitlows/Felons Bad Breath Hiccoughs A CUTE A ILMENTS Diarrhea Fever Constipation Colds/Hay Fever Hemorrhoids Coughs C ONDITIONS OF THE S KIN , Sore Throats/Laryngitis HAIR, AND NAILS Influenza General Remedies for the Skin Earaches Dry Skin Measles Chapped Skin Mumps Itchy Skin Chicken Pox Wrinkles Nosebleeds Eczema Toothaches Psoriasis Teething Pain Hives/Rash Headaches Poison Ivy Insomnia
APPENDIX
Resource Guide to the Cell Salts
About the Author
“The Cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul, and, if the head and body are to be healthy, you must begin by curing the mind . . . This is the great error of our day in the treatment of the human body, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.” —P LATO


“No thought without phosphorus!”
—J ACOB M OLESCHOTT
Author’s Note
I would like to thank Wenda Brewster O’Reilly for her kind permission to quote from her excellent translation of Samuel Hahnemann’s The Organon of the Medical Art (Redmond, Washington: Birdcage Press, 1996) in these pages. As she has in the past, Wenda has once more allowed me the use of what is, in my opinion, the finest translation of the seminal book on the theory and practice of homeopathic medicine ever to have seen print in the English language. Without it, this book would be a lesser thing.
For that reason, and because she has also suggested that there might, for me, be a life after homeopathy, this book is dedicated to her.
It is also for Norman, who bought a pig in a poke.
I NTRODUCTION

Healing From Within
T his book belongs to a group of three. And these three books are, by and large, based upon the work of three men. First and foremost of the three is Samuel Hahnemann, whose work is the foundation upon which the other two men, Edward Bach and W. H. Schuessler, built. Hahnemann was a German physician who radicalized the practice of medicine by coining two simple words. And by asserting a simple phrase.
The first word was allopathy, * a term that he gave to what he called the “old school” of medicine, the form of medicine that treats symptoms by working in opposition them—by suppressing them until they seem to disappear. This is the form of medicine that still dominates throughout the Western world, what many of us think of when we think of the concept of medicine.
The second term was homeopathy. ** That was what he called his “new” form of medicine, although it was based in philosophies and practices that could be traced all the way back to Hippocrates.
The simple phrase, the three words that explained his whole approach to medicine and to healing, reads as follows: “Like cures like.”
In his lifetime, Hahnemann didn’t exactly set the world on fire with his practice of “new medicine.” But he had many successes and began a movement that had its followers in its day and still has many thousands of adherents across the globe today. It remains as controversial today as it was two hundred years ago, however, and as likely to inspire intense debate.
Just go to at least two different gatherings of homeopaths anywhere in the world and you’ll see what I mean. First, you’ll see many of the same people at both. This is because the homeopathic community is rather small, at least in this country. But after you get over the small-town aspect of the gatherings, you’ll see the second aspect—passion. It is certainly true in this country, if not across the world, that those who explore homeopathy, those who have experienced the true philosophy of homeopathy and its wise practice, most often become rather intense in their interest. They will cross state lines in minivans to hear a lecture on the use of snake venoms as homeopathic remedies. They will put up with bad hotel buffets and even worse ballrooms, taking notes on their laptops as they sit cross-legged on the hideous wall-to-wall carpet.
This passion is also shown in the manner in which homeopaths argue with each other. Put a dozen homeopaths in a room together and you will likely get a dozen different takes on just what homeopathy is and how it should be practiced—especially how it should be practiced. On that subject, homeopaths can come to blows.
Those who feel that homeopathy is utter nonsense at best and quackery at worst are equally dogged in their activities. From angry medical doctors who hold tight to their materialist viewpoint to ex-magicians who have nothing better to do, those who wish to debunk homeopathy never rest in their vigilance and are always willing to give the media a quote.
So suffice it to say, homeopathy has in the past and continues to cause a quiet revolution in medical thought. It has infiltrated the practice of allopathy in the treatment of diseases like chronic allergies. And it continues to wax and wane in popularity as each new generation thinks that it is the first to discover once more what has to be called the one true “holistic” medicine.

Hahnemann lived, worked, and died roughly two hundred years ago. He left behind a written text of his work, called The Organon of Medicine. This book has made his philosophy available to any and all.
Among those who uncovered homeopathy and dusted it off once more, while they themselves worked in the field of allopathic medicine, were Edward Bach and W.H. Schuessler.
Bach was a British physician and Schuessler a German doctor. They lived and worked at about the same time, Bach in England and Schuessler in Germany, in the latter part of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Each became interested in finding a more natural form of medicine offering the possibility of a gentler form of healing. Both ultimately became passionately interested specifically in homeopathy, since each, as a practicing physician, could see its potential for healing.
Both studied homeopathy and, to one degree or another, incorporated it into their daily practice of medicine. Over time, both began to separate themselves, if not from homeopathy, at least from Hahnemann. Indeed, in later years, Schuessler would even sometimes deny having studied Hahnemann’s writing or ever being influenced by him.
Over time, each man contributed to what we call the homeopathic materia medica, the pharmacy of medicines from which homeopathic treatments are taken. Schuessler’s cell salt remedies, also known as tissue s