I am glad you asked this question as even my collegues ask me at times.

Homeopathy was developed by Samuel Hahneman in Germany many years ago. In fact, homeopathy is the reason why the FDA was created. The FDA wanted to control the quality of each remedy. This is especially important as some of the remedies contain actual minute amounts of the offending substance - such as mercury, arsenic, gonorrhea, chlamydia, poison oak and other noxious unpleasant things.

Homeopathy takes an absolute tiny amount of substance and coats lactose tablets with it. Basically, there is no amount of that substance on the tablet - only the energy of that substance. The higher the potency of a homeopathic remedy, the less there is of the substance. Sounds weird yes? 

There lies one difference between cell salts and homeopathy. Homeopathy typically works based on the energetics of a substance while cell salts actually contain a small nutritional amount of one of the twelve tissue salts.

Cell salts were developed by Schuessler - another German. He believes that the living organism has twelve salts and all diseases stem from a deficiency of one or more of these salts. Therefore, supplementing with the proper cell salt may restore balance and remove the symptoms.

A person can combine one or more of the cell salts in order to restore health while homeopathy traditionally looks for only one correct remedy for a certain symptom picture.  Therefore it is much easier to prescribe cell salts than homeopathy.

I strongly recommend that no one takes homeopathy without some guidance. Most health stores only sell 30C or 30X which is good. If you see a 200C potency do not buy it or take it without seeking professional guidance.

A table is below which is my interpretation of the difference between cell salts and homeopathy:

Cell Salt vs. Homeopathy

	Cell Salt	Homeopathy
Safety	quite safe	can be dangerous esp if potency is 200C or above. recommend a homeopath prescribe them and not dose yourself.
Level of action	cellular	energetic so very deep this is why it can be dangerous
How to Take	under the tongue or in water. can touch them and does not have to be away from food.	under the tongue 20 minutes away from anything put in the mouth. cannot touch them
Cost	cheap	cheap
Ingredient Amount	a small amount but it is measurable	can be a small amount if 10C but nothing really at 200C or 1M potencies.
Duration of Use	can be short or long term	usually taken a couple times or only one dose especially if a high potency like 200C or 1M.

Thank you for your question. It is a tough one to answer in only one page and takes some background knowledge of each which I assume you have. If not, you may ask for clarification.

I wish you well.

In health,

Ben