[Terra Sigillata--a remedy used through millenniums].

Abstract

Terra Sigillata is clay. It has been used as medicine for different diseases through Centuries even millenniums. This specific clay has been used from Hippocrates until the 20th cent. more or less for the same kind of diseases, mostly various poisonings. The earliest known clay in use as medicine came from the Greek island Lemnos. Later on, when the clay became a very popular medicine, it was manufactured as tablets all over Europe where this specific type of clay was available. But Terra Sigillata is also a type of Roman Samian ware, used in the widespread Roman Empire.