• Loui@feddit.org
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    7 hours ago

    I’ve learned about Medicinal clay from my wife. You can buy it in regular shops everywhere in Germany. She takes it dissolved in water if she has bad inflammation.

    I have yet to try it.

    • isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      7 hours ago

      I mean, I could see how it actually might have some positive effects. There’s all sorts of bacteria in soil. If you take a hunk of soil and bake it, any alive bacteria will be present. But even after baking, their dead forms will remain in various states of decomposition. So maybe eating dirt could act as a sort of broad-spectrum “vaccine” to certain pathogens. You’re exposing your immune system to various pathogens rendered inert by the baking process. And maybe this decreases the number or severity of infections people get.

      No idea if this would actually work. But it seems vaguely plausible at least.