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"In the lab Haydel and her colleagues identified three clays that appeared to kill or substantially reduce growth among all the tested bacteria, including MRSA."

MUD HARNESSED TO FIGHT INFECTIONS
By Alan Mozes

SUNDAY, April 6 (Health Daily New)---- It looks like dirt might one day be better than soap at keeping harmful bacteria at bay.

Arizona scientists report they have found a host of anti-microbial minerals in mud that could be the makings of a new generation of unconventional but effective creams to combat the nastiest germs. Increasingly dangerous antibiotic-resistant "superbugs"-- such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)-- are the primary targets of these new medicinal clay cocktails, the researchers said.

"For hundreds of thousands of years, clays have been used for wound-healing and even gastrointestinal problems," noted study co-author Shelley E. Haydel, an assistant professor in the School of Life Sciences at the Arizona State University Center for infectious Diseases and Vaccinology in Tempe. "And there are a lot of people out there who already use mud therapeutically, without really knowing how it's working."

"And now we're seeing effectiveness in the lab, from a microbiological standpoint," she added. "So now, the question is: How can this translate into something practical?"

Haydel and her team were expected to present their mud therapy research April 6 at the American Chemical Society annual meeting, in New Orleans.

With funding from the National Institutes of Health, Haydel and her colleagues collected 20 different clay samples from all over the world. After categorizing each clay's composition, they then tested for antimicrobial properties against a wide range of different bacteria, including: antibiotic-resistant strains of MRSA; the flesh-eating Mycobacterium ulcerans; and E.coli and salmonella.

In the lab, Haydel and her colleagues identified three clays that appeared to kill or substantially reduce growth among all the tested bacteria, including MRSA.

"The big deal with MRSA is that it starts out as a topical infection, but once it gets into the bloodstream, you get into a huge problem," Haydel observed. "So, while we're certainly not proposing to inject this directly into the bloodstream, we're hoping to stop that skin-to-blood transition from happening."

...."The effort to identify a new class of antibiotics is important, because most of the varieties we now use have been around for the last 40 years," he noted. "However, typically when people look for new naturally derived antibiotics, they focus on living biological material, like plants. So, this is an interesting idea, in the sense that here, they're looking instead at an inorganic source like mud."

 

 

CERTAIN EDIBLE CLAYS IN THE NATURAL FORM ARE INERT AND SAFE

(The Healing power of hydrothermally produced Living Clay) - Neva Jensen

Certain edible clays and soils in the natural and unaltered form are inert and safe for life, like food and water (H2O). Water is a natural compound and if one were to separate the hydrogen molecule from water by the refining process, it could be used to fuel cars of the future or make bombs and therefore is not only harmful and toxic but lethal.

The earth's crust is comprised of some of the same elements found on the periodic table such as aluminum hydroxide, lead, copper, chromium, iron, mercury, arsenic, strontium, etc. Elements in their natural organic form are completely different than these same elements after they are transformed by industrial processes for manufacturing and commerce. For example, the molecular rearrangement and separation of these elements in the refining process isolates aluminum molecules to make airplane parts or frying pans for commerce.

The lead in your automobile or paint on your house is not the same lead that is in the ground. This refining procedure changes the original natural elemental molecular structure of the compound we know as clay or earth by high temperature industrial processing (smelting) through rearranging the natural elemental form to an isolated man made form. Often times this alteration of elements transforms them into elements that are harmful or toxic to life forms.

The elements on the periodic table may be altered by many industrial processes through molecular isolation (separation) and further combined with other elements and electro/chemical procedures to make products. An example of metallics, alloys are among the most common combination of elements for things like tool steel knives and machines. Many factory or manmade drugs also fall into the group. Many times both are harmful, even toxic to plants, animals, and humans, as well as the environment itself.