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Abstract
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.Mesh：
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Year: 1985 PMID： 3969552 DOI： 10.1126/science.3969552
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN： 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728