03475nam 22006975 450 991025400520332120251202150249.03-319-42884-510.1007/978-3-319-42884-0(CKB)3710000001388754(DE-He213)978-3-319-42884-0(MiAaPQ)EBC4866548(PPN)201473690(EXLCZ)99371000000138875420170527d2017 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierClays and Health Properties and Therapeutic Uses /by Michel Rautureau, Celso de Sousa Figueiredo Gomes, Nicole Liewig, Mehrnaz Katouzian-Safadi1st ed. 2017.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer,2017.1 online resource (XXIV, 217 p. 35 illus., 4 illus. in color.) 3-319-42883-7 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.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. .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.Geotechnical engineeringAlternative medicineMedicineHistoryMineralogyMaterialsAnalysisPharmaceutical chemistryGeotechnical Engineering and Applied Earth SciencesComplementary and Alternative MedicineHistory of MedicineMineralogyCharacterization and Analytical TechniquePharmaceuticsGeotechnical engineering.Alternative medicine.MedicineHistory.Mineralogy.MaterialsAnalysis.Pharmaceutical chemistry.Geotechnical Engineering and Applied Earth Sciences.Complementary and Alternative Medicine.History of Medicine.Mineralogy.Characterization and Analytical Technique.Pharmaceutics.624.151Rautureau Michelauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1063645Figueiredo Gomes Celso de Sousaauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autLiewig Nicoleauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autKatouzian-Safadi Mehrnazauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autBOOK9910254005203321Clays and Health2533338UNINA