Homeopathic tissue salts are sometimes referred to as biochemic salts or cell salts rather than treating like with like as is the case with orthodox homeopathic medicine tissue salt remedies treat ailments by correcting imbalances or deficiencies in the bodys cell nutrition wilhelm henrich schussler 1821 1898 devised the homeopathic tissue salts as nutritional therapy observing that when there was a deficiency of certain tissue salts then symptoms would be produced he believed t