The chemical composition of nearly every fluid and tissue in the human body has long been known, but until biochemistry was introduced. No, practical use had been made of this knowledge in the treatment of the sick. Biochemistry is the only system of medicine which answers satisfactory and fully the question “ What is disease?” It not only does this, but it gives a logical reason for every dose of cell salts, prescribed and describes its action in the system.

Biochemistry is a science, not experimentalism. There is no more mystery or miracle about it and about our natural laws. The food and drink taken into the stomach and the air breathed into the lungs furnish all the materials of which the body is composed.  By the juices of the stomach, pancreas, and liver, the food is digested, and the useful particles are taken up by the villi of the small intestine. They are carried by the blood to the various parts of the body where they are needed and where they are absorbed. The blood supplies the material necessary for forming every tissue and fluid in the body and for carrying forward every process. An analysis of the blood shows it to contain organic and inorganic matter. The organic constituents are sugar, fat, and albuminous substances. The inorganic constituents are water and certain minerals, commonly called cell salts. Of a living human being, water constitutes over 70%; the cell salts, about 10%; organic matter, the remainder.

Not until recently weather, inorganic salts, salts, understood, and appreciated being little quantity. They were thought to be of lesser importance. But now it is known that the cell cells are the vital portion of the body, the workers, the builders, the water and organic substances or simply the matter used by the salts in building the cells of the body.

Should a deficiency occur in one or more of these workers, of whom there are 12, some abnormal conditions arise. These abnormal conditions are known by the general term disease, and as they manifest themselves in different ways, and in different parts of the body, they have been designated by various names. But these names totally fail to express the real trouble. Every disease which affects the human race is due to a lack of one or more of these in organic workers. Every pain or unpleasant sensation indicates a lack of some inorganic constituents of the blood. Health and strength can be maintained only so long as the system is properly supplied with the cell salts.