Clays and Health Properties and Therapeutic Uses /

• Main Authors: Rautureau, Michel (Author), Figueiredo Gomes, Celso de Sousa (Author), Liewig, Nicole (Author), Katouzian-Safadi, Mehrnaz (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Pharmaceutical technology.; Mineralogy.; Geotechnical engineering.; Complementary medicine.; Medicine > History.; Materials science.; Earth Sciences.; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences.; Complementary & Alternative Medicine.; History of Medicine.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.; Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology.

Originally published in French, this updated and expanded English translation offers a definitive treatment on clays and effects on human health including the long history of clays used as pharmaceutical and therapeutic agents, the origins of clays, their structural properties and modes of action.

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 – Background
• Chapter 2 - Definition of clay and clay mineral
• Chapter 3 - Historical aspects of a natural pharmacopeia: Clay in the corpus of “the medieval pharmacopeia” written in Arabic
• Chapter 4 - Description of clay minerals
• Chapter 5 - Reactivity of clay minerals depending upon their structural properties
• Chapter 6 - General information on applications of clay in the fields of health and well-being
• Chapter 7 - Therapies based on clay
• Chapter 8 - Principal modes of clay use
• Chapter 9 - Provisioning, recycling and trade of clay
• Appendix
• Further Reading
• Glossary
• Index. .