Title
Traditional Peruvian Medicine: An insight In Geophagy and Machu Rumi Intake
Date Issued
01 January 2022
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Trans Tech Publications Ltd
Abstract
Geophagists are generally defined by culture, social status and gender, and this paper is to identify the chemical elements of the geophagic material called Machu Rumi. The sample was extracted from the center of the geophagic material. Two micrographs were observed, the 1c micrograph contains: O (8.63%), Al (14.85%), SiO2 (33.07%), Fe (5.93%), K (5.36%), Mg (1.37 %) and Ca (0.81%), these elements are characteristics of the clay minerals, the 1d micrograph, contains: oxygen 62.14%, Silicon 37.80% and Aluminum 0.06%, these elements are present in the clay minerals soils. The results of elemental composition and micromorphology reveals the presence of phyllosilicates, SiO2, Fe, K, Mg, Ca, and Al so the consumption of Machu Rumi would contribute to the benefic geophagy.
Start page
423
End page
428
Volume
1048 MSF
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Mineralogía
Geología
Agricultura
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85123355187
Source
Materials Science Forum
Resource of which it is part
Materials Science Forum
ISSN of the container
02555476
ISBN of the container
9783035712681
Conference
3rd International Conference on Materials Science and Manufacturing Technology, ICMSMT 2021 Virtual, Online 8 April 2021 through 9 April 2021
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