Physicochemical characterization of the pelotherapeutic and balneotherapeutic clayey soils and natural spring water at Isinuka traditional healing spa in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa.
Balneotherapy
Clay
Geophagy
Isinuka pond
Pelotherapy
Port St Johns
Journal
The Science of the total environment
ISSN: 1879-1026
Titre abrégé: Sci Total Environ
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 0330500
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
15 May 2020
15 May 2020
Historique:
received:
09
10
2019
revised:
29
12
2019
accepted:
11
02
2020
pubmed:
23
2
2020
medline:
6
5
2020
entrez:
23
2
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Isinuka Springs at Port St Johns in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa is a traditional spa sacred to the AmaMpondo tribe of the Xhosa speaking people. The bathing pond is considered to have healing powers both spiritually and therapeutically. Hundreds of people flock into the spiritual pond every weekend for both recreational and its spiritual healing power. In this study, we present the metal concentrations of the bathing pond (sediments and water samples), the hole drinking water as well as sediments from a cave situated at the bottom of the hill harbouring the bathing pond. Our results show that the geophagic clays from the cave and bathing pond has elevated concentrations of earth metals (up to 134,506 mg kg
Identifiants
pubmed: 32084697
pii: S0048-9697(20)30794-4
doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137284
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Metals, Heavy
0
Soil
0
Water Pollutants, Chemical
0
Water
059QF0KO0R
Clay
T1FAD4SS2M
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
137284Informations de copyright
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Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.