Wilhelm Heinrich Schüßler

Who was Wilhelm Heinrich Schüßler?

Dr. Wilhelm Heinrich Schüßler — also spelled Schuessler, particularly in English-language publications — was a German medical doctor in Oldenburg who endeavored to find natural remedies, and published the results of his experiments in a German homeopathic journal in March 1873, leading to a list of 12 Biochemic cell salts that remain popular amongst those interested in Alternative medicine. Although firmly within the homeopathy movement of his day, the modern definition of Homeopathy tends to exclude his concept of Homeopathic potency that, while very dilute, still retained small amounts of the original salt.

According to Quackwatch, "cell salts" are predicated on the theory that disease is due to a deficiency in one mineral or another, but the Schüßler remedies are in general too diluted to act as an effective supplement even if a mineral deficiency did exist. Tests by the Western Australia health commission confirmed this.