GEOCHEMICAL AND CLAY-MINERAL STUDY OF HEALING MUD FROM WUDALIANCHI, NE CHINA

• Published in: Geodynamics & Tectonophysics
• Main Authors: S. Rasskazov, Zhenhua Xie, T. Yasnygina, I. Chuvashova, Xiying Wang, K. Arsentev, Yi-min Sun, Zhenxing Fang, Ying Zeng
• Other Authors: Chinese-Russian Wudalianchi-Baikal Research Center on volcanism and environment (Scientific Research Fund of the Heilongjiang Academy of Sciences, 2017)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of the Earth's crust of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch 2017
• Subjects: Paratunka; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://www.gt-crust.ru/jour/article/view/426; https://doi.org/10.5800/GT-2017-8-3-0285

Over the centuries, people have used healing mud (peloids) to draw toxins out of the body, boost the immune system, cure psoriasis, acne, depression, and hair loss. The beauty industry has used mud-clay masks, body wraps, soaps, and baths. The useful properties of mud were established empirically. The most popular healing-mud spars are known in the Dead Sea in Israel, Baden-Baden in Germany, Calistoga in California, Budapest in Hungary, Akhtala and Kumisi in Georgia, Paratunka in Kamchatka, Wudalianchi in China. Over the centuries, people have used healing mud (peloids) to draw toxins out of the body, boost the immune system, cure psoriasis, acne, depression, and hair loss. The beauty industry has used mud-clay masks, body wraps, soaps, and baths. The useful properties of mud were established empirically. The most popular healing-mud spars are known in the Dead Sea in Israel, Baden-Baden in Germany, Calistoga in California, Budapest in Hungary, Akhtala and Kumisi in Georgia, Paratunka in Kamchatka, Wudalianchi in China.