粘土と健康：特性と医療的利用法 Clays and Health〈1st ed. 2017〉 : Properties and Therapeutic Uses

著者名：Rautureau, Michel/Figueiredo Gomes, Celso de Sousa/Liewig, Nicole/Katouzian-Safadi, Mehrnaz

Springer（2017/05/25発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9783319428833
• eISBN：9783319428840

Description

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.

Table of Contents

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.