Kanwa (Calcium Montmorillonite) has been credited with improving the health of many people suffering from a wide range of illnesses. These include poor digestion, stomach ulcers, stomach discomfort, constipation, diarrhea, anemia, chronic infections, skin ailments such as eczema and acne, heavy metal poisoining, exposure to pesticides, arthritis and stress.
The fundamental objective of natural medicines is to help the body help itself. Kanwa is not a quick cure for any disease. It is however, especially suited to dealing with chronic complaints. Kanwa, consumed in small doses, is slow in effect, but the slow process evokes a more definite and radical cure than other supposed "quick-fix" medications.
The Clay Cure by Ran Knishinsky: "I was first introduced to clay eating after a strange growth popped up on the back of my wrist..... My doctor diagnosed it as a "ganglion cyst," a cystic tumor usually connected with a joint or tendon....
"In the old days," he said, "they called it a "Bible cyst." That's because they used to smash the growth with a Bible to get rid of it."..."Now, however, we do surgery." At my wits' end, I ran to the local health food store and met with the storeowner. After I had related my experience to him, he explained that the cyst was ... the result of the build up of poisons that had crystallized in the joint area. He grabbed a jar from his shelf and handed it to me.
"I recommend you eat this. It contains very special earth minerals." No sooner had I begun eating the clay day in and day out that within a period of two months, the growth shrank till it was completely gone. I couldn't believe my eyes.... "
The Healing Power of Living Clay by Neva Jensen: "As a young woman I struggled with serious health problems. One day an aging Indian brought me some bags of clay to take with herbs for the relief of pain, and to restore normal body functioning.
This same man disclosed to me, over the course of several years, the effectiveness of healing with natures resources. I did not forget the healing I experienced in using these clays. While observing and working with other native healers, I found myself zealous to know more and more of these healing traditions.
Research continued to lead me to many specific correlations between nutrition and health and the use of herbs and clay for the prevention of disease and to restore the body to optimum wholeness."
The eating of clay has been observed in many peoples and animals in all parts of the world since antiquity. Early writers described the widespread use of Kanwa (earth from a lick near Lake Chad) for animals and humans in Nigeria. Long journeys were made to the lick to obtain a tribal supply of this earth, and it was then issued as rations to cattle and humans. Certain veins of edible clay were also greatly esteemed by American Indian Cultures.
The question of trace minerals in clays being absorbable in the human body has undergone extensive investigation. Evidence has been completely favorable for the red desert clay where hydrothermal activity has reduced the molecule to a very small crystal.
This kind of particle fragmentation greatly facilitates the use of the clay minerals. The clay being exposed to the earth's gases in the bubbling mud bonds the minute molecules, giving them a negative ion charge which further assures absorption and utilization in the metabolic processes of the body.
The magnetic field has different qualities to it. When an electrical field is in action, there is a positive and negative effect. A negative ion field takes on more electrons, while a positive field gets rid of some. The negative ion field seems more compatible with human tissue than a positive one. Negative charges contained in negative ions seem to be associated with healing, with feelings of well-being and changes in physiology.
Extensive reserach in bona fide institutions confirms the benefits of active clay trace minerals to the biological engineering that occurs at the cellular level.
Modern soil cultivation practices have caused serious mineral depletion in the food supply. Trace mineral supplementation is more necessary than ever before to protect the cell in our chemicalized environment. The daily intake of trace minerals should become universally accepted.