Mineral Therapy
Minerals have been used in the treatment of human illness since the sixteenth century, when the Swiss physician Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus (1493-1541) changed the face of medicine by the application of chemistry.
Central to the theory of mineral therapy is that the human body requires the correct balance and form of minerals in order to function efficiently and repair itself. In the absence of these minerals (for example due to poor nutrition), the body would eventually succumb to disease. Providing the appropriate mineral salts in supplemental form would rectify the mineral deficiencies, and support the body’s natural tendency to cure itself.
Who’s at risk?
We can suffer imbalances without realising it, because the first signs of a mineral element imbalance are vague and very rarely noticed. If attention is sought for these early symptoms, they are most times misdiagnosed and treated as something else. Orthodox medicine quite often treats every symptom as if it were an illness in its own right. This is why a person can be prescribed a whole collection of drugs (particularly evident with the elderly). These symptoms may well be the body’s way of letting us know that there is something wrong and hopefully giving us the opportunity to prevent an illness from developing. Prevention is always better than cure!
Mineral imbalances are wide-spread and occur for a variety of reasons. Some identified reasons are:
- Poor diet.
- The way our food is grown.
- The way our food is stored and processed.
- Our body may have difficulty in absorbing some minerals from our food.
- Even if absorbed, they may not be utilised properly.
- Drinking and smoking.
- Physical and mental stress.
- A genetic predisposition for imbalances to exist or develop.
