Wilhelm Heinrich Schüßler

Wilhelm Heinrich Schuessler ( born August 21, 1821 in Bad Zwischenahn, † March 30, 1898 in Oldenburg ) was a homeopathic physician and the founder of " Biochemical way of healing ," the therapy with the so-called Schuessler salts.

Life and work

Schuessler studied by its own account since 1852 in Paris, Berlin, and in pouring medicine. On 1 March 1855 he was awarded his doctorate from the University of Giessen without submission of a dissertation without power and in the absence of proof to the doctor of medicine. He then studied in Prague, where he visited among other lectures on homeopathy. The application for the state medical examination for the license to practice as a doctor in 1855 rejected because Schuessler had not only no proper study evidence, but no high school diploma. Therefore he brought to 1857 the matriculation examination at the Old Gymnasium in Oldenburg to and eventually became so admission to the state audit, which was certified on August 14, 1857 as passed.

Schuessler then applied for a license to settle in the city of Oldenburg and started to notice addressed to the City Council petition among the citizens of the city. He finally received on January 2, 1858 also because Schuessler insured to operate exclusively with homeopathy. In 1861 he joined the German Central Association of Homeopathic Physicians.

Initially he practiced for 15 years as a homeopathic doctor, he developed a therapy in diseases with different " potentiated ", ie homeopathically prepared, salts are treated by their lack Schuessler should cause the corresponding disease. In 1873 he published his theories for the first time in the General Homeopathic newspaper, the central organ of the German medical profession homeopathic orientation, and pushed so much skepticism and criticism among homeopaths. In 1876, he again left the National Association of Homeopathic and justified this by saying that the there " trend-setting men refuse to recognize as a homeopathic my therapy. "

In 1878 he wrote in his central work " An Abbreviated Therapy": "I have everything, as determined by the theory and practice of the molecular action of the said 12 salts of mine brought in a system, and my healing method given the name, biochemistry '. Biochemistry is not identical with homeopathy " And it continues:". Whoever hears of small gifts, usually immediately think of homeopathy. My healing process is, however, not homeopathic, because it is not based on the principle of similarity, but on the physiological and biochemical processes which take place in the human organism. "

Schuessler remained until his death a bachelor. His grave is located on the Gertrude Cemetery in Oldenburg.

Invented by Schuessler " biochemistry " as a therapy method is not to be confused with the scientific discipline of biochemistry. The theses Schuessler contradict generally regarded as valid scientific evidence on the functioning of organisms and the development of diseases ( pathology). Nevertheless, the use of Schuessler salts, particularly in German-speaking countries ( Germany, Austria, South Tyrol) is widespread among alternative medicine supporters.

1932 was officially opened on the site of the former headquarters of the Madaus work on the Radebeul Garden Road on the occasion of the federal congress of the Biochemical Federal Germany a Schuessler memorial, a plant expansion had to give way later and the family therefore below local park on the after Emil Nackes death acquired winery Johannisberg was re-erected in Zitzschewig. After the expropriation of the company premises 1945 Schuessler bust was sunk in the pond of the former Madaus Park. In 2007, she was rediscovered and excavated to a large extent.

Works

• An Abbreviated Therapy: Instructions for biochemical treatment of diseases. - 42 Res - Oldenburg: Schulze, 1917 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf.