I've suffered from a small stomach ulcer for a while and am on Pantoloc. I also use Gaviscom when my stomach gets upset, but after a while I found it helped very little. One day I decided to drink liquid clay and was astonished that within 30 seconds my stomach felt fine!

I just had an endoscopy and am happy to say that I no longer have an ulcer! Now I'm not saying the bentonite clay healed the ulcer. The clay helped when my stomach was over-acid. I was also taking Ulcetrol, which can be bought in a health food store which contains, Slippery Elm, Malic Acid and Pepsin. I believe this helped cure my ulcer.

Stomach Ulcers: ½ tsp. clay was taken just before eating. When acid was noticed, repeated use. If you are inclined to constipation, then I highly recommend you take an herbal laxative each and every evening of the day you take the clay drink as it can be very constipating.

It activates the immune system to defend itself against illness caused by exposure to harmful poisons that accumulate in the bowel. Such conditions include acid indigestion, heartburn, ulcers, diarrhea, constipation, intestinal irregularity, and parasites. A cleaner colon stimulates the normal mechanism of the intestinal tract by increasing the absorption of minerals and nutrients, thus causing a surge in the body's energy level.

How clay can heal stomach problems, drug-resistant bacteria

A type of clay regularly mined by mountain gorillas in Rwanda is very similar to the kaolin sold in chemists for relief of upset stomachs. Another good source of clay are termite mounds, and chimpanzees are often seen breaking off chunks of soil from them. In one close study of five chimps seen eating termite soil, all were found to be suffering from gastrointestinal problems.

While studying diets of tribes of Central Africa and Aboriginal tribes of Australia, Dr. Weston A. Price examined their food knapsacks and found some contained balls of clay, with embedded morsels of food, a little of which was dissolved in water. The explanation was that this was to prevent a "sick stomach".

In Michael Abehsera's book, The Healing Power of Clay, he states, among other uses, that clay has been used therapeutically for stomach ulcers, varicose veins, and burns.

Note: If you suffer from constipation, you must drink a lot of water the days you ingest Clay. If you get constipated, go off the Clay until you can remedy the situation.

This appears to be the only cautionary note from my standpoint.

The name "bentonite clay" refers to a clay first identified in cretaceous rocks in Fort Benton, Wyoming. Although bentonite deposits can be found throughout the world, many of the largest concentrations of clay are located in the Great Plains area of North America.

Bentonite is not a mineral, but a commercial name for "montmorillonite", which comes from the city Montmorillon, in France, where the medicinal clay was first identified and is the active mineral in many medicinal clays.

"For maximum internal efficacy, mineral clay must be prepared into a liquid gel by mixing the clay with a liquid and letting it sit until the clay expands into this consistency. In this hydrated form, each clay particle expands and acquires radioactive abilities. It develops a large surface which enables it to pick up many times its own weight in various body toxins. This wide surface is made of a great number of tiny platelets, each with a brilliant negative electrical attraction for positively charged particles. Clay's negative charge is responsible for its amazing detoxifying properties: it is a magnet for many toxic elements present in the human body (heavy metals, pesticides, and free radicals) which are positively charged. This physical pulling power also has an absorbent action (like sticky paper) as toxins are drawn into the porous surface of the clay and bound in suspension. Since liquid clay passes through the body undigested, clay particles are eliminated with the toxins bound to its multiple surfaces." Source

Liquid bentonite for elimination - Taken internally, liquid bentonite supports the intestinal system in the elimination of toxins. Liquid bentonite is inert which means it passes through the body undigested.

Betonite properties - the clay is made up of a high number of tiny platelets, with negative electrical charges on their flat surfaces and positive charges on their edges.

When it absorbs water and swells up, it is stretched open like a highly porous sponge.

Toxins are drawn into these spaces through electrical attraction and bound. In fact, according to the Canadian Journal of Microbiology, this clay can reportedly absorb pathogenic viruses, as well as herbicides and pesticides. The clay is eventually eliminated from the body with the toxins bound to its multiple surfaces.

Clay stimulates a deficient organ and aids in the restoration of the failing function; a powerful agent of stimulation, transformation and transmission. Clay's highly active ingredients are able to induce cellular rebuilding and to hasten all organic processes. Clays attracts and neutralizes poisons from the skin and internal organs.

In his book "The Clay Cure", Ran Knishinsky discusses how diarrhea can be remedied through the use of clay because of its ability to bind stools. It can take effect right away by binding to irritants in the gastrointestinal tract. It's a good idea to mix the clay with 1 cup of applesauce, which not only makes the clay more palatable, but also adds pectin, which is another binding agent.

Bentonite is used in pharmaceuticals, medical and cosmetics markets. Bentonite is used as a filler in pharmaceutical drugs, and due to its absorption-adsorption capabilities, it allows paste formation. Bentonite is used in industrial protective creams, wet compresses, and anti-irritant lotions for eczema. In medicine, bentonite is used as an antidote in heavy metal poisoning. Personal care products such as mud packs, baby powder, sunburn paint, and face creams may contain bentonite.

Bentonite Properties: Clay has a negative electrical attraction for particles that are positively charged. Most toxic poisons, bacteria and viruses are positively charged. These toxins are irresistibly drawn towards the clay.

"The idea of eating clay to promote internal healing will undoubtedly appear to many as farfetched, if not a little primitive.

Clay is one of the most effective natural intestinal detoxifying agents available to us and has been used for hundreds of years by native tribes around the globe.

Primitive tribes have traditionally used various types of clay for conditions of toxicity. Dr. Weston A. Price in his book, "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration (1), stated that in studying the diets of native tribes he examined their knapsacks. Among the tribes examined in the high Andes, in Central Africa and the Aborigines of Australia, Dr. Price reported that some knapsacks contained balls of volcanic ash clay, a little of which was dissolved in water. Pieces of food were then dipped into the clay.

Cultures throughout the ages have known about clay's amazing powers of regeneration. The ancient Greeks and Romans used it to heal fractures. The great Greek doctor Dioscoride praised its "extraordinary strength" for healing. The Native Americans call it "Ee-Wah-Kee" meaning "The-Mud-That-Heals". Natives of Mexico and South America all recognized the benefit of clay. Tribes in Africa have used clay as a purgative and for relief of diarrhea

The Otomac Indians who live along the Orinoco River in Venezuela hunt for fish with bows and arrows when the water is low but for two or three months of the year, when the water is too high and rapid, they survive on a diet of mud balls. The mud does not contain any nutrient that we can recognize and yet these Indians remain healthy and strong through the "dirt eating" season.

Animals in the wild, drawn to clay deposits by instinct, have been observed licking the clay as part of their everyday diet as well as rolling in it to get relief from injuries." Source

Bill Roundy is a retired rancher remembers a generation ago, when he lived in Utah, that he and other cattle ranchers, learnt a valuable lesson by watching their cattle. Whenever a cow got sick and went off her food, the ranchers would turn her out to fend for herself, as they could not afford to throw good money after bad. But, they noticed that, time and time again, the cows would return after a few days, fully recovered, and ready to feed with the rest of the herd. It wasn't long before these ranchers discovered how the cows were recovering. The sickly cattle would take themselves across the desert to clay banks, and feed on them until their health returned. When the ranchers saw how easy and cheap was the solution, they transported clay to their sick cows - a practice still continued today. Free-ranging cattle dig into ancient clay sub soils to access clay and so have no need to be supplemented in this way. [Mahaney,WC Maximilliano, B Hancock, RGV Aufrieter, S and Perez, FL 1996. Geophagy of Holstein hybrid cattle in the northern Andes, Venezuela. Mountain Research and Development, 16 (2) pp 177-180.]

"Many species of mammals, birds, reptiles, and even insects, in all parts of the world, eat dirt. Known as geophagy (earth-eating) this habit has long been assumed to be an attempt to rectify mineral deficiciencies in their diet. However new evidence suggests that this cannot always be the case. It has become apparent that the clay content is often the most important ingredient of selected soils. Clay is an effective binding agent as its chemical structure allows other chemicals to bond with it and so lose their reactivity. Clay is therefore an effective deactivator of toxins from diet or pathogens. Clay is the primary ingredient of kaolin and kaopectate that we use when suffering from gastrointestinal malaise.

* Biologists in Canada and Alaska have seen brown bears lick clay from banks alongside footpaths. At the same time, their scats are full of clay.
* In Venezuela free-ranging cattle dig and lick at clay subsoils.
* In Africa, the African buffalo licks clay from any newly exposed subsoil.
* Chimpanzees, giraffes, and rhinoceroses eat regular mouthfuls of clay-rich termite mound soil and gorillas mine clay-rich volcanic rock from under the exposed roots of ancient trees.
* Deep in the rain forests of New Guinea, Jared Diamond was surprised to see parrots, pigeons and crows fly down to a new landslide of earth and eat the bare dirt. The birds flocked to this rare opportunity to access bare earth in an area densely covered with vegetation. Not all of the observed 140 bird species came down to eat earth. Only the eight herbivorous species that regularly ate fruit, seeds and flowers.

Plants naturally contain numerous toxins that protect them from predators and pathogens. When the landslide soils were analyzed they were found to contain less minerals than the surrounding top soil but again the clay content was high and, what is more, found to be more effective at binding alkaloids and tannins than pure pharmaceutical kaolinite. These birds were taking advantage of newly disturbed earth and selecting soil of just the right properties to bind and deactivate plant toxins [Diamond,J 1998 Eat Dirt: in the competition between parrots and fruit trees, it's the winners who bite the dust. Discover. 19(2) pp70-76.].

* Rats eat soil when sick - so reliably that geophagy is used as an indicator of gastrointestinal malaise in rats." ...more

Clay has a negative electrical attraction for particles that are positively charged. Most toxic poisons, bacteria and viruses are positively charged. These toxins are irresistibly drawn towards the clay. Clay is made of flat, microscopic, credit-card-shaped "flakes". Laid edge-to-edge, one gram of these particles has the surface area of somewhere around 10 football fields. The greater the surface area the greater its power to pick up positively charged particles.

"All sorts of Peruvian macaws parrots) converge at a small area on the main claylick outside the Tambopata Research Center. The clay lick is pretty much a simple cliff face. Somehow all of the birds know that if the clay they eat in the morning will dispell the toxins in the poisonous fruit during the day. They only need to eat clay during the times of the year when the non-poisonous fruit is not available. Many species of parrot know to do this." Source

Native Americans have used desert healing clay for centuries. Ran Knishinsky, in his book, The Clay Cure - Natural Healing from the Earth, states that clay has been credited with improving the health of many people suffering from a wide range of illnesses, that it stimulates the immune system offering higher resistance to infectious agents and removes parasites.

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You should only take betonite clay for a few days. If you become constipated then take herbal constipation or over-the-counter constipation remedies.

People who are naturally prone to constipation should take herbal constipation remedies at night.

As with everything - do it in moderation.... the clay I mean.

"A woman suffering from cataracts and threatened loss of sight was advised by a psychic to use water filtered through Pascalite as eye drops, combining this treatment with Pascalite paste on the eye-lids. The psychic did not know of Pascalite by name, referring to it as a "white clay in the Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming, ' and it was some time before the patient was able to get an address and secure the white clay, Pascalite. She reports the treatment was effective, the cataracts dissolving. Two other persons have also reported similar results."

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The best way to drink bentonite is on an empty stomach, or at least 1 hour before or after meals. Bentonite typically is available as a thick tasteless grey gel, but it also comes encapsulated, as well as in powder form.

Drinking clay should be part of your regular colon cleansing regimen. You will benefit from greater assimilation because of the clay's action as an intestinal cleanser and gastrointestinal regulator. As your body "cleans house", it is in a better position to more efficiently assimilate the nutrients it needs, whether those nutrients come from your healing diet, vegetable juicing or cod liver oil and any other supplements.

The following is a quoted passage written by Michael Talbot, New York City, February 1984, as quoted from "Windows of Light", by Randall & Vicki Baer:

"Crystals are dramatic examples of the capacity of matter to self-organize. As we saw in the incident related by Holden and Sanger, they can also acquire and retain information-- for example, their geometric structure-- and reproduce copies of themselves containing the same information. Given that they perform all these functions while remaining far more stable and durable than DNA, Cairns-Smith believes that crystals make very likely candidates as the most ancient progenitors of life. However, to more fully establish his case, Cairns-Smith knew that he had to find a crystal that possessed one further quality, the ability to use the information it possesses to interact with its environment..."

"...Clays not only have the ability to grow and adsorb other molecules, but they can then incorporate the information from those molecules and use it to alter and change themselves. Clays were almost most certainly among the most abundant substances on the early Earth. Even while the Earth was still too hot to support life as we know it, cooling rains poured down upon the mountains and the rocks, slowly pulverizing them into vast percolating beds of clay. Cairns-Smith believes that it was clay itself that formed the first link between life and nonlife. In his book "The Life Puzzle", he sketches out a possible evolutionary description fo three different species of clay he calls Sloppy, Sticky, and Lumpy..."

"Lumpy solved this problem by accidentally picking up just enough organic molecules to make it both a little sloppy and a little sticky. Having the thick, coagulated consistency of modern clays, Lumpy was able to grow rapidly, survive storms, and even spread, sending broken lumps of itself downstream to grow into new claybeds. In this way Lumpy not only interacted in a complex manner with its environment but also survived selective pressures. Add just one more trait to Lumpy-- the ability of crystals to apparently duplicate and pass on innovation-- as demonstrated by Holden and Sanger's crystals of ethylene diamine tartrate-- and you have everything necessary for the acquisition and inheritance of new characteristics, a quality hitherto believed confined to the realm of biological life..."

"...Weiss has identified more than eight thousand different derivatives in which clays have acted as templates, causing chemicals like ammonium ions and alcohols to solidify into organic components... Cairns-Smith believes that it was inevitable that the clay would ultimately have assumed a secondary role, providing little more than a protective clamp, until at last, life broke free and started to form its own protective cell walls..."

Mix two parts water with one part Mineral Clay to make a gel. You can use a blender or mixer to speed up the process or you can just shake or stir by hand and then wait 3-4 hours for the clay to activate (the water becomes ionized). It should make a gel the consistency of mustard. You can add either water or clay until the right consistency is attained. Keep this gel in a covered, non-metallic container and it will not dry out or separate. It stores with or without refrigeration for an indefinite period. If it does dry out over prolonged storage, just add water and remix.

From Anion A of Switzerland, to Fuller's Earth of the U.S. Midwest, to Argiletz's French Green clay in France, to the fine glacier clays of Canada, to the Dead Sea Muds of the middle east, to the vibrant green bentonites of Wyoming, to the pale grey bentonites of Death Valley, montomorillonite, bentonite, illite, and zeolite have held a long standing reputation for curative powers in natural medicine.

Clay comes in a variety of flavors.

The best clay to use for treatment is calcium montmorillonite. It is also known as "living clay", for it principally consists of minerals that enhance the production of enzymes in all living organisms. It swells zero to little. It is a source of highly absorbable minerals (just ask NASA).

It absorbs radiation. Smart farmers use it with their livestock - it treats several veterinary diseases, animals gain more weight on less feed, and production skyrockets.

Manufacturers use it heavily for cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and food processing. So just remember that while I tell you about taking clay internally. Yup, I eat dirt. Actually, I drink it.

It was used during the Balkan war of 1910 to reduce mortality from cholera among the soldiers from sixty to three percent. During World War II, Russian and French soldiers were given mandatory rations of mineral clay in their diet every day in order to avoid the spread of diarrhea which was ravaging other neighboring troops.

Mahatma Ghandi himself used healing clays in natural medicine for more than 25 years.

Mineral Clay was made popular in Europe in the 1800s' as an all-purpose and simple healing agent by Dr. Kneipp and other revered naturopaths such as Kuhn, Just, and Felke. Dr. Kneipp advised applying a mixture of mineral clay and vinegar for all fractures.

Bentonite attracts and neutralizes poisons in the intestinal tract. It can eliminate food allergies, food poisoning, mucus colitis, spastic colitis, viral infections, stomach flu, and parasites (parasites are unable to reproduce in the presence of clay). There is virtually no digestive disease that clay will not treat. It enriches and balances blood. It absorbs radiation (think cell phones, microwaves, x-rays, TVs and irradiated food, for starters). It has been used for alcoholism, arthritis, cataracts, diabetic neuropathy, pain treatment, open wounds, diarrhea, hemorrhoids, stomach ulcers, animal and poisonous insect bites, acne, and anemia. Lacerations, bedsores, spider bites, poison ivy and mysterious rashes seem to vanish.

According to the Canadian Journal of Microbiology (31 [1985], 50-53), Bentonite can absorb pathogenic viruses, aflatoxin (a deadly mold), and pesticides and herbicides including Paraquat and Roundup. The clay is eventually eliminated from the body with the toxins bound to its multiple surfaces.