Re: pascalite

Before the coming of Europeans to America, Native Americans from such tribes as the Crow, Arapahoe, Shoshone, Blackfoot and Sioux were aware of a strange white clay to which they attributed healing power, calling it "Ee-Wah-Kee" -- The Mud That Heals.

The story of Ee-Wah-Kee is fascinating. An old newspaper story describes an event that occurred during the final buffalo hunt of the noted Shoshone Chief, Washakie, about 1888. A white newspaperman accompanied the Shoshones on this hunt, and fell ill. Washakie's medicine man chanted incantations, rubbed the sick man with herbs, and made him drink some water in which a whitish clay was dissolved.

The reporter drank the mixture, slept for several hours, and awoke feeling completely well. Testimonies of the clay's mysterious usefulness for a wide variety of uses have spread widely since then.

The clay is now called Pascalite after a French-Canadian trapper and prospector, Emile Pascal, who first began mining it. Pascal, trapping in the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming about 1930, found his badly chapped hands healed quickly when plastered with Pascalite. He tried it on his face for snowburn, and was amazed at the result. He filed a mining claim and began telling people about the white mud.

Eventually Pascalite would be used in soap and toothpaste, applied as a poultice to insect bites, sunburns, infections, cold sores and acne, and as a suppository for hemorrhoids. Users found it a potent skin cleanser and conditioner, drank it for heartburn and ulcers and swallowed capsules of Pascalite as a natural mineral and dietary supplement. Ranchers and veterinarians applied it to wounds and infections on livestock.

Testimonies

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