“EARTH CURES”

BY RAYMOND DEXTREIT

Translated and Edited by Michel Abehsera

The earth is the source of infinite means for restoring and maintaining good health; its fruits, vegetables and grains renew one’s flesh and blood; its aromatic plants provide vital elements which stimulate the organic functions; its herbs can help restore subtle balance in times of illness; its rivers and streams supply life-sustaining pure water for drinking, cooking and healing baths.

The study of nature is infinitely marvelous and rewarding. Unfortunately, however, people who go searching for complicated expensive ones generally neglect the most precious and simple natural remedies.

These days more and more people in rapidly growing numbers are aware of the healing properties in food, herb, and water, but as yet, very few know that the earth itself, receiving its vital energies from sun, air, and waters, is a most powerful healing agent of physical regeneration. Clays, muds, and sands – these different forms of earth all participate in life-giving, health-restoring processes.

Clay treatment alone is, of course, not enough; it is far more important to establish correct eating habits. However, since the miracle of clay is a healing phenomenon so relatively unknown, it seems necessary to begin this book with a few words on the properties of clay and its uses. May the reader soon come to understand how our earth is our cure.

PROPERTIES OF CLAY

What is meant here by ‘clay’ is a greasy sort of earth, retaining that quality even when wet and impermeable. It is the same clay used by sculptors and potters. There are many varieties of different colors, each with its own properties. It is sometimes found in garden sub soils, about one yard deep, but generally it is dug out from quarries and sent to the different industries which utilize it, such as tile and

Brick factories, and pottery and ceramic plants.

For healing and therapeutically purposes, clay maybe used externally and orally. As will be shown, eating clay (dissolved in water) can be a wonder-working cure! Applied in poultices and compresses, clay

provides numerous benefits. It can heal sores and ulcers and aid in the rebuilding of healthy tissues and cells, and even of fractured bones and vertebrae.

Clay (together with lemon, which will be discussed later) acts on capillaries, liberating them, dissolving crystals and ‘flakes’. Its natural tendency is to absorb toxins. For example, it is useful in neutralizing intoxifications caused by poisonous mushrooms and chemical acids.

In the presence of clay, microbian flora disappears; in a clayish medium, pathogenic germs, that is to say parasitic organisms, cannot proliferate. The presence of worms in excrements has sometimes been observed after drinking clay. These worms have not, of course been produced by the clay; rather, the treatment has drawn them out of the bowels and other organs where they were lodged.

Taken orally, clay initiates a many-pronged effect. In cases of organic disorders its intense activity eliminates and destroys unhealthy cells and activates the rebuilding of healthy ones. Besides the colloidal properties of clay, it acts as a cleansing agent eliminating all toxins substances. The same sedating, relaxing, absorbing and healing action is seen in treatment of the inflammation of the intestines as well as amoebic and other types of dysentery.

All this is the ‘direct’ action, the immediate action of the digestive channel. But clay activity, goes much further: clay not only cures minor problems, such as diarrhea and constipation through local application; it acts on all the organs - on the whole organism. Everything unhealthy and emitting negative radiations are irrestibly attracted to clay (a brilliant positive pole) and become subject to immediate elimination.

It continues its purification of the blood, which it cleanses and enriches. The same teaspoon of clay can cure an obstinate carbuncle and a tenacious anemia equally well. Curing the carbuncle is explained by clays’ absorbent power … but anemia!! Does clay contain a profusion of mineral bodies, in particular iron? No. According to the analysis made in the National Center of Scientific Research (in France), clay contains the following oxides and chemical elements in compound: Silica (31:14 – 41.38), Titanium (0.47-1.89), Aluminum (40.27-41.38), Iron (0.11-0.78), Calcium (0.05-0.13), Magnesium (traces to 0.05), Sodium and Potassium (0.25—0.85).

The analysis of its composition is not sufficient to explain its rebuilding action of red blood cells, but that it produces results easily is confirmed by a red cell recount. In a month, you can expect an impressive increase in red blood cells.

Wherever there is a deficiency, clay seems to supply the needed substance regardless of whether or not the clay itself is rich in that substance. In the analysis of wheat consumption, the mineral bodies identified in the wheat are found in identical proportion in the organism. This is not so with clay. It is because clay does more than restore a particular substance lacking in the body. It is possible that synthetic replacements may act this way, but clay does more than merely remedy a deficiency.

If an organ does not function well or the function is carried out only partially, it is not sufficient to supply a remedy that introduces into the organism the lacking substance; it is necessary to go further, as clay does. It stimulates the deficient organ and helps the restoration of the failing function. How it does this will be discussed later.

One of clay’s peculiarities is based on its physical-chemical domination. From a thermo-dynamic point of view, we must admit that clay cannot be the sole source of energy of the phenomena it produces. Clay is effective through a dynamic presence far more significant than a mere consideration of the substances it contains. It is a catalyst rather than an agent in itself. This is possible because clay is alive – ‘living earth’.

It would be presumptuous to attempt a precise and concrete explanation of the basic action of clay. Among the properties to which we can attribute its effect is radioactivity. Clay is radioactive to a degree (as is everything), but this radioactivity is generally imperceptible to the testing apparatus at present used in laboratories. Some muds are an exception.

Radioesthetically, the matter has been extensively discussed. Scientists differ widely as to the significance of this radioactivity in clay. The differences between one clay and another further complicate the problem.

This complexity is not limited to clay; it has not been easy to find a consistent scientific explanation of the effects of such radioactivity. Some scientists would have the gas, Radon as responsible for the noxious radiations of the so-called “cancer”. For others the same Radon is the origin of benefactory vapors. According to this view, Capri Island and many mineral waters would owe its therapeutic properties to it.