17. Uluslararası Kil Bilimleri Konferansı 25-29 Temmuz’da İstanbul’da gerçekleştirildi. Dünyanın pek çok ülkesinden Kil konusunda uzman isimlerin katılımıyla gerçekleşen konferansta bizde TURKAP olarak yer aldık. Konferansın 2. Gününde : Chemical evaluation of peloid formation with clay and thermomineral water Petrographic TURKAP Association President (Turkey Spa Talasso and Cure Centers Association), İstanbul, Turkey Ve Through the history, traditional use of clays in Anatolia for medicinal purposes TURKAP Association President (Turkey Spa Talasso and Cure Centers Association), İstanbul, Turkey Konulu iki adet bildiri tarafımdan sunulmuştur. (Bildiri özetlerine açıklama sonunda ulaşabilirsiniz.) Konferansta hem Anadolu’da binlerce yıldır halk tıbbında kullanılan killeri ve kullanım şekillerini hem de Anadolu topraklarında killerin günümüz peloterapi ( Tıbbi çamur tedavisi) materyali olarak kullanımında ulaştığımız seviye katılımcılara anlatılmıştır. Bu vesileyle derneğimiz ve kil ile ilgili çalışmalarımız da katılımcılarla paylaşılmıştır. Türkiye’de kil bazlı veya kil katkılı kozmetik üretimi, Pazar payı ve bu sektörde hizmet ve malzeme üreten firmaları bir araya toplama konusunda da Kil Bilimleri Derneği ve TURKAP’ın ortak çalışma yapması kararlaştırılmıştır. 1 No’lu Bildiri Özet: Chemical evaluation of peloid formation with clay and thermomineral water Petrographic TURKAP Association President (Turkey Spa Talasso and Cure Centers Association), İstanbul, Turkey 1TURKAP Association President (Turkey Spa Talasso and Cure Centers Association), İstanbul, Turkey 2Clay Sciences Association, ankaya, Ankara, Turkey 3Ministry of Culture and Tourism Expert, İstanbul, Turkey 4 Istanbul Medical Thermal Director and Peloid Producer, İstanbul, Turkey 5MTA General Management Office, Mineralogy and Petrographic Coordinator, Ankara, Turkey Clay has been used in wound treatment and skin cleansing since ancient times, depending on its physical and chemical structure. In the following periods, especially with the development of mineralogy, clay minerals, which are a raw material in the industrial field, are still used for therapeutic purposes in spas and mud baths. While our country has a rich potential in terms of clay minerals depending on its geological and geomorphic structure, it is also among the first in Europe in terms of geothermal resource wealth. Peloidotherapy has been practiced empirically for millennia. It is known that natural muds and clays are used for rheumatism, arthritis, muscle and joint diseases, skin diseases, some cosmetic purposes, and it has been revealed in scientific studies that various clays are also consumed by eating. The demand and necessity of applying peloidotherapy in places where the natural mud is using for thousands of years and now a days started with decline or in places where there is no natural mud, has revealed the production of peloid by mixing some known clays with thermomineral waters. These peloids are still used for health and cosmetic purposes. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the result by investigating the chemical structure of the final product, peloid, after examining the chemical structure of the clay and thermomineral water used in the formation of peloid. Thus, we aimed to investigate whether there is any beneficial or harmful transformation in the chemical structure to the human organism. For this purpose, clay samples taken from Eskişehir Mihalıççık region and thermomineral water sample taken from Istanbul Tuzla Historical İçmeler locality were examined and the results were evaluated by examining the peloid formed as a result of the mixing procedure of both substances. 2 No’lu Bildiri Özet Through the history, traditional use of clays in Anatolia for medicinal purposes TURKAP Association President (Turkey Spa Talasso and Cure Centers Association), İstanbul, Turkey For thousands of years, human beings have used various healing waters, plants, and muds from nature for health and beauty purposes. Nature and return to natural which we observe too often in the world today, has also increased the use of natural products. The use of certain muds for medical purposes is called peloidotherapy. Anatolian lands are the cradle of civilization. When Anatolian history is analyzed, the use of thermo-mineral water, which started in Roman baths in its best-known form, has become widespread in Seljuks and Ottomans and became known worldwide. These waters and muds have been used for health and beauty in these lands for thousands of years. Soil has been referred as the ‘mother earth’ and reckoned a living thing and was adopted as a mother, source of abundance, wealth and a habitat of sheltering, feeding and conserving livings. Being regarded as sacred by Turks throughout history, soil was also regarded as a medicine, source of cure and a means of treatment. In Anatolian Turkish folk medicine, the soil is utilized in the administer treatment methods and techniques in the form of eating, licking, swallowing, drinking or washing by mixing with water, applying, setting foot in or lying on the ground and burying some objects in the ground. In these, administer treatments by using the soil, besides religious and realistic applications, were utilized to transfer the disease to the soil as a non-living thing or to transfer the healing magical power to the human being through the soil.