The therapeutic properties of mud and clay in the mar menor have been known since antiquity. The Chinese used for centuries in poultices to heal inflammations. Many other cultures of the Indian subcontinent and South America found relief for rheumatic diseases in sands andclays. Hippocrates (460-337 BC), one of the fathers of Western medicine, recommended in their treatment and many otherscholars of antiquity such as Empedocles (490-430 BC), Galen,in the second century AD, or Paracelsus in the sixteenth century,medical treatises collected in multiple natural folk remediesbased on clay and mud, they brought the body core mineral ionsto health, such as calcium, magnesium, silica, iron and potassium. You cant find in area mar menor