Abstract

RAMIREZ ALANOCA, Giovanny Fernando  and  COPA GISBERT, Victor Joaquin. PHASA: EVERYTHING ABOUT EDIBLE CLAY. Rev Cient Cienc Méd [online]. 2020, vol.23, n.2, pp.240-246. ISSN 1817-7433.

Phasa, an Aymara's language word, is a type of edible clay found in soils; which is used in traditional medicine worldwide mainly to relieve or treat gastrointestinal pathologies and skin infections. Its consumption dates back many centuries, even millennia ago; there is evidence of the use of this element in the clay plates of Nippur in Mesopotamia (2500 years BC). Revealing the bio-physical-chemical properties of edible clay has allowed science to explain their healing and therapeutic properties and confirms the great advances our ancestors got. The use of phasa is not limited to medicine, it is also used in many other sciences; in the last 10 years it has been used in agriculture and veterinary medicine, getting gratifying results.

Keywords : clay; pica; medicine traditional; bentonite.

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