Publication Date:
1985-02-08
Description:
The chief geophagical clay entering the West African market system comes from the village of Uzalla, Nigeria. Village inhabitants ascribe antidiarrheal properties to the clay, and they use it in traditional medicinal preparations to counteract intestinal problems. Mineralogical analyses demonstrate a striking similarity between the Uzalla village clay and the clay in the commercial pharmaceutical Kaopectate.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Vermeer, D E -- Ferrell, R E Jr -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1985 Feb 8;227(4687):634-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3969552" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Africa, Western
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*Antidiarrheals
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Drug Combinations
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Female
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Humans
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Kaolin
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*Medicine, Traditional
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Nigeria
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Pectins
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Pregnancy
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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