Julius Hensel, a German physician, states in…

Julius Hensel, a German physician, states in 1893 that processed flour is devoid of nutrients.

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, or, Our diseases and our remedies : for practical physicians and people of culture 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 traveled, he studied the minerals of the country and recorded any health problems more common in the area.

His widely read Macrobiotic rejects the germ theory of disease and promotes the view that poor chemical composition of the blood causes disease.

A contemporary of Dr. Wilhelm Heinrich Schüßler (sometimes written Schussler), Hensel also proposes tritrated mineral substances to treat illness, but not diluted to the extent proposed by Hahnemann's homeopathy and makes 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.