Dr. Julius Hensel (born 11 July 1833 in Küstrin; died probably 1903 in Berlin ) 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 Rock flour, or glacial flour, consists of fine-grained, silt-sized particles of rock, generated by mechanical grinding of bedrock by glacial erosion or by artificial grinding to a similar size. Because the material is very small, it becomes suspe ...

. 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 The germ theory of disease is the currently accepted scientific theory for many diseases. It states that microorganisms known as pathogens or "germs" can lead to disease. These small organisms, too small to be seen without magnification, invade h ...

and promoted the view that poor chemical composition of the blood causes disease.Treitel, Corinna. (2017). ''Eating Nature in Modern Germany: Food, Agriculture and Environment, c.1870 to 2000''. Cambridge University Press. p. 156. A contemporary of Dr. Wilhelm Heinrich Schüßler (sometimes written Schussler), 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

* 1881 "Über causalmechanische Entstehung von Organismen" (under the pseudonym "pilgrim"). * 1885 "Life - its foundations, and the means of its conservation“. * 189
''Macrobiotic; Or, Our Diseases and Our Remedies''
* 189
''Bread from Stones''
* 189
''Physiological Bread''
* 1967 ''Life: Its Foundation and the Means for Its Preservation''

Literature

* Sampson Morgan: Clean Culture: The new soil science. Tri-State-Press. 1996.

References

External links

Bread from Stones
(PDF; 1,7 MB) * 1844 births 1903 deaths Germ theory denialists German biochemists {{Germany-chemist-stub