Book Review: The Healing Echo- Discovering homeopathic cell salt remedies

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The Healing Echo- Discovering homeopathic cell salt remedies

By: Vinton McCabe

Part of a three book series:

The healing enigma- demystifying homeopathy

The healing bouquet- exploring Bach flower remedies

I read this book primarily because I am really interested in alternative health treatments. It started when I saw my family’s natural health therapist and was recommended a few of these remedies. I have to say I was taking them (until I recently ran out) and I felt better taking them, more balanced, my skin was better, and my digestion as well. So naturally I am looking to study everything I can get my hands on pertaining to the cell salts.

This book gives you a great history of how cell salts came to be, very detailed Materia Medica (details on the salts and what they treat- or are best suited for), as well as a detailed “First aid” overview of symptoms/illnesses and the cell salts you can utilize to treat them.

It is a lot more involved than “Oh, I have a cold. I’ll take some Dayquil.” The cell salt you choose depends on the characteristics of your cold. Such as the color of the discharge/mucus (I know gross! But an important factor), If you are hot or feeling chilly, running a fever but cold, you are starving but food upsets your stomach, and various other factors and options that determine what remedy is best suited for you as an individual. After all we don’t always react the same way when we get a cold; the symptoms usually vary person to person.

I love that this treatment is based on who you are as an individual. I also like the way it is SO much safer than the conventional forms of treating these ailments. And in my opinion more curative in the long run. It does not just suppress the symptoms (as with conventional medicine-never allowing the body to adapt); it helps the body fight and build a strong immunity structure for the future.

The one thing I did not agree with is the authors view on not taking the cell salts in combination or as a nutritional supplement. I do have to say he does ultimately leave it up to the reader and does not push his opinion, which I appreciate. But I myself do not see the harm in taking them in combination. Although if you are judging the effectiveness of a particular cell salt you might want to take them one at a time (to be able to judge effectiveness individually).

But I will also want to say that I am not a studied professional like out author- that is just my opinion. I hope to one day in the near future study the cell salts and other forms of naturopathic care and may learn more to change my opinion- but for now I will stay with what I can feel in my own body in using the salts.

I would recommend this book for people who are interested in alternative therapies particularly cells salts. This is one of those books that has so much information for me to take notes on that I am going to have to buy it. If I were to take notes I would basically being typing out the entire last half of the book! I think it will make a great reference book to have on hand for utilizing the call salts in all aspects of health- and treating illness in the home.