La Ciencia detrás de la Arcilla
¿Has notado cómo estar sentado junto al mar o caminando a través de un bosque produce una sensación de calma y tranquilidad?
Resulta que hay en realidad una explicación científica. El aire está lleno de cargas positivas o negativas llamadas iones. El aire fresco en lugares como el océano, las montañas y los bosques contiene una gran cantidad de iones negativos beneficiosos y contribuye a una sensación de bienestar. Los iones con carga negativa pueden mejorar nuestras defensas inmunológicas, reducen la susceptibilidad a los resfriados y la gripe, así como proveer alivio de migrañas, alergias y picazón.
Los iones positivos por otro lado – de los cuales hay muchos más en el ambiente actual que en el pasado – crean un desequilibrio eléctrico en la atmósfera y en nuestros cuerpos. Los iones positivos son también conocidos como radicales libres. Estos pueden dañar las células y se cree que son responsables de enfermedades degenerativas, envejecimiento acelerado y hasta cáncer. Los iones positivos son lo que comprenden las impurezas, virus, toxinas y contaminantes.
La Arcilla en la Historia
Bentonite, as well as other types of healing clay such as Illite, has been used by indigenous cultures since before recorded history. Although mankind's use of thisliving crystal has spanned the globe, very little information has been preserved regarding specific use and methodology as used in natural health. Indeed, the greatest lost cultures of ancient civilization gave healing clays a position of great importance in ceremonial usage - this much is known. In some cases, evidence suggests that a scientific knowledge of its use was mastered as well.
Natives of North America utilized a wide variety of clays for healing, food/body purification, and spiritual ceremonies. Quality clay, highly prized for trade with other tribes, formed a significant part of their culture. Berries were often added as a dye for use as facial paint for tribal warriors. It was used in sweat lodge ceremonies and taken with food to prevent stomach illness. They gauged the quality of clay and categorized it according to its natural color.
The Egyptians used clay extensively in their spiritual culture. High quality clay was the prime ingredient in their unmatched embalming process, helping to perfectly preserve mummified bodies for thousands of years. It is safe to assume that they used it for other purposes also, yet much of what we know of their ancient culture is built from an incomplete model and therefore sadly lacking.
The Essenes ( famed authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls ) used clay as a primary modality for natural healing, aware of it's incredible power to heal a wide variety of conditions.
The Amargosians ( predecessors to the Aztecs ), the Aborigines, and natives of Mexico and South America all recognized the benefit of clays. Modern research has shown that some cultures have greatly benefited from clays through ingestion as a natural ingredient in their water supplies.
Modern man has also recognized the incredible qualities of bentonite for industrial and cosmetic use. Although the current medical community, under the hand of the FDA, has stated it has no medicinal or curative value, many people under the wings of experience use clay for healing.
Though known primarily for its use in luxurious facial cosmetics in France, French sailors at one time used clay to prevent dysentery by adding it to their drinking water supply. Indeed, bentonite will inoculate water contaminated with a very wide variety of bacteria, rendering it safe to drink.
Many of the mineral supplements purchased by our modern culture are extracted from clays; through perhaps hundreds of thousands of years of natural development, prime quality clays often selectively adsorb trace minerals conducive to highly organized biological life.
Russian scientists use bentonite to protect their bodies from radiation when working with nuclear material, by coating their hands and bodies with a hydrated bentonite "magma" before donning radiation suits. Bentonite adsorbs radiation so well, in fact, that it was the choice material used to dump into Cherynobl after the nuclear meltdown in the former Soviet Union.
