Julius Hensel


Dr. Julius Hensel was a German agricultural and physiological chemist or pharmacist, who later qualified as a doctor of medicine. Hensel was the inventor of "stone meal" manure.

Biography

Hensel created a mineral field fertilization with rock flour. He invented the "stone meal" manure from grinding stones in his garden. He stated that his technique could create bread from the stones and unlock "inexhaustible nutritive forces... stored up in the rocks, the air and the water."
He published Macrobiotic in 1882; he suggested that the underlying cause of all disease is a lack of mineral substances which are essential to the functioning of the body's cells. As he travelled he studied the minerals of the country and recorded any health problems more common in the area. His widely read work Macrobiotic rejected the germ theory of disease and promoted the view that poor chemical composition of the blood causes disease.
A contemporary of Dr. Wilhelm Heinrich Schüßler, Hensel also proposed tritrated mineral substances to treat illness, but not diluted to the extent proposed by Hahnemann's homeopathy and made a large number of enemies in opposing many aspects of both established medical opinion of the day and some of the newer ideas - from vaccination to homeopathy.

Selected publications