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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254005203321

Autore

Rautureau Michel

Titolo

Clays and Health : Properties and Therapeutic Uses / / by Michel Rautureau, Celso de Sousa Figueiredo Gomes, Nicole Liewig, Mehrnaz Katouzian-Safadi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-42884-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXIV, 217 p. 35 illus., 4 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

624.151

Soggetti

Geotechnical engineering

Alternative medicine

Medicine - History

Mineralogy

Materials - Analysis

Pharmaceutical chemistry

Geotechnical Engineering and Applied Earth Sciences

Complementary and Alternative Medicine

History of Medicine

Characterization and Analytical Technique

Pharmaceutics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

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. .



Sommario/riassunto

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.