The IncrEdiblEarth Story Through the years my husband and I have paid close attention to the research of Dr. Hulda Clark. Accordingly for 12 years I had been using Borax to wash my hair. But I was always searching for an alternative with more of a real shampoo feel to it. My criteria was that since I am very sensitive to fragrances I wanted it to have no smell and of course no chemicals. I really wanted to just pick it off a tree or something like that. As the years passed it appeared more impossible. One day I had a seemingly silly idea to mix up some clay. I thought that if I could “deep clean” my face with a clay mask, why not my hair. I just loved it! So my husband started sending for samples of clay from everywhere he could, as far away as France, to satisfy my perpetual search for “the best”. In the mean time I started to experiment with using it for all kinds of things. There was such a joy of discovery. We found one clay where it seemed that there was hardly anything that it didn’t help. We used it as our standard by which to see if anything else could beat it. I like to try something out first to see if I’m even interested and then look at the research afterward. The research was even more fascinating. And out of it all came IncrEdiblEarth clay products. What I appreciate most about clay is that in this world where we are being decimated by the processing of our food and body products from which all the industrial stray toxins are being deposited in our bodies, here comes clay . . . a solitary anomaly so complex that one can receive a PhD in Clay Sciences while still never completely understanding the mechanisms by which it succeeds and yet so simple that it works by merely adding water . . . no high tech or need to meddle with molecular structures, etc. And instead of polluting the body further like medicines with side effects or allergy causing “health” shampoos, salves and pills . . . it targets those toxins for removal. As if on hold for such a time as this, with diseases closing in on us, clay, like an expression of grace gives us another chance! SOME BACKGROUND Dr. Weston Price, a researcher studying primitive races of the high Andes, Central Africa, and the Aborigines of Australia, asked for the privilege of seeing what the natives carried in their knapsacks. Without exception, each one contained a ball of clay, a little of which would be dissolved in water. “Their morsels of food would be dipped in the mixture before being eaten. This practice is carried on today.” The explanation was that this was to prevent "sick stomach". These people were reported to use the clays for combating dysentery and food infections. In South America he found that those believed to be descendants of the once powerful Incas, were largely vegetarians and "Immediately before eating, their potatoes are dipped into an aqueous suspension of clay, a procedure which they said is to prevent souring in the stomach". Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, Weston A. Price, MS, D.D.S. Medicinal clays have been used by travelers to deal with the food and water born parasites and bacteria. French and Russian armies also used clay to disinfect contaminated water. Industrial clay has been used as a thickener, sealant, binder, lubricant and absorptive agent.  Industry has additionally used clay to treat workers exposed to overdoses of chemicals and radiation. Alternative dentistry has used clay baths to detoxify mercury. And pregnant women from cultures around the world have used clay to satisfy an unknown craving that research how understands as a physiological need for detoxification. "Clay is the most versatile, profoundly effective, cheap, mysterious, underrated, covered-up health treatment available. It attracts and neutralizes poisons in the intestinal tract. It can eliminate food allergies, food poisoning, mucus, colitis, spastic colitis, viral infections, stomach flu, and parasites (parasites are unable to reproduce in the presence of clay). There’s virtually no digestive disease that clay will not help. It enriches and balances blood. It adsorbs radiation. It has been used for alcoholism, arthritis, cataracts, diabetic neuropathy, pain treatment, open wounds, diarrhea, hemorrhoids, stomach ulcers, animal and poisonous insect bites, acne, and anemia - the list of uses is too long. It was used during the Balkan war of 1910 to reduce mortality from cholera among the soldiers from sixty percent down to three percent." Julie Crist, M. Ac. "Russian scientists protect their bodies from radiation when working with nuclear material, by coating their hands and bodies with hydrated clay "magma" before donning radiation suits.  Clay adsorbs radiation so well, in fact, that it was the choice material used to dump into Chernobyl after the nuclear meltdown in the former Soviet Union." says Eaton’s Earth. Dr. Jensen, N.D., D.C., Ph.D., suggests using clay to absorb radiation from the bones, since so many of us are subject to various forms of radiation, whether from X-rays or television or computers, this would be something to consider and could be extremely important for those who have undergone radiation treatment for cancer. The history of clay is so rich and yet so little has been written about it in the health arena. The only two books normally mentioned are Clay Cure, by Knishinsky and Our Earth Our Cure, by Dextreit. Knishinsky writes that clay is part of his diet and he never skips a day without eating clay. He says when clay is consumed, its natural magnetic action transmits a remarkable power to the organism, which helps it rebuild. Dextreit writes that clay contains highly active ingredients, able to induce cellular rebuilding and to stimulate all organic processes. He says clay acts with wisdom - used internally, whether absorbed orally, anally or vaginally, clay goes to the place needed where it lodges, perhaps for several days, until finally it draws out the pus, etc. with its evacuation.  Almost 2,000 years ago it was recorded in a piece of literature, which has the most supporting documentation of any literary work in history, that a God-man went about healing people with his hands and his words. Only one time did records indicate that he used something else: He “made the clay . . .  anointed the eyes of the blind man . . . and opened his eyes.” SOME RESEARCH We visited a retired pelotherapists (works with clay), Dr. Paul Petit who was raised in a family where his French father used clay for all ailments so that even up until now Dr. Petit has never had any medicine in his body! Hard for an American to conceive of. He said that much of what is written on the internet and elsewhere about clay and how to use it is not true. For instance it is advertised as a mineral supplement when the fact is that due to edible clay’s unique structure, its activity is to absorb from the body rather than depositing in the body. Research shows that the properties of clay are anti-bacterial, anti-viral and anti-parasitic and that it’s a powerful detoxifying agent which absorbs and then draws harmful chemicals out of the body. One fascinating study is about the Flesh Eating Disease where clay alone is used to cure it. To see the before and after pictures is first heart-wrenching, then astounding and finally thankfully heart-warming. Not for the queasy.  www.burulibusters.com Notice the patience of this cancer survivor, if you can handle the extremely graphic pictures. Go to www.burulibusters.com above and then click on the Breast Cancer heading. Researchers at ASU received a large grant to study this Flesh Eating Disease bacteria and others. “If Arizona State University geochemist Lynda Williams and microbiologist Shelley Haydel’s research on the antibacterial properties of clays realizes its full potential, clay could one day rise above cosmetic use to take its place comfortably with antibacterial behemoths like penicillin. “We use maggots and leeches in hospitals, so why not clay?” Haydel poses, “I had a professor in graduate school say, 'Maybe perhaps once in your life, in your scientific career, you’ll come across something that can change the world.’ Sometimes I think, is this it?” www.sols.asu.edu/sols_news/43_news_06.php