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Eytons' Earth: Healing Clays of the World
Green Healing Clay of the Desert
Bentonite, Illite, and Montmorillonite: Pelotherapy and Natural Medicine

Eytons' Earth specializes in researching green healing clay for use in Pelotherapy, hydrotherapy, natural medicine and healing applications. Healing clays have traditionally been used for internal detoxification ( digestive system and liver ), trauma injuries, skin conditions, organ and elimination system stimulation, and localized immune system stimulation and support. Our website details how to use healing clay, as well as documents a wealth of information on a wide variety of highly specialized topics.

Green clays such as Illite, Bentonite and Montmorillonite have been used by mankind as a part of natural medicine for tens of thousands of years. Today, the art of healing with the earth is formally known as Pelotherapy, and healing clays are used around the world in hydrotherapy, balneology, natural medicine and alternative medicine.

Natural healing clay:

Bentonite: Green healing clay ( smectite ) with a high PH level. Quality of therapeutic clays vary according to the deposit, and mineral content is quite varied between different sources.

Montmorillonite: French green healing clay ( also a smectite ) closely related to bentonite.

Illite: Non-swelling green healing clay ( mica ) known to have potent healing properties.
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Another kind of Clay

The ancient healing powers of "white mud"

Find out how this multi-purpose clay can work for you


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 the powder now named after him. He also tried it on his face for snowburn, and was amazed at the result. He then 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 of the clay's medical and cosmetic usefulness spread. It has been used locally in Wyoming for sixty years, and, increasingly, world-wide as a natural, homeopathic remedy for whatever ails you.

Pascalite, which comes in a 16 oz. plastic bottle, has directions for how to use it for different purposes are on its label. Use only as directed. No scientific studies are available for this product. As a health practitioner, I use it and recommend it to many of my clients, who have used it successfully.

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