Update:
It's been awhile since I've had to use clay on myself to treat an actual injury!
True to my very nature, the single clay pack was so effective (I used it about 2 inches thick) that I got lazy and only did the one.
Before the first treatment, I couldn't touch my left little toe. I only poked and prodded it once to make sure that it was not broken.
After the first four hour treatment, I could walk on the foot, but I couldn't put the foot into shoes.
The next morning I could wear shoes and walk fine.
This morning it is back to normal.
I remember doing the same thing as a kid, and it was a two week ordeal.
Gotta love the clay!
Please keep in mind (I ran into this two days ago):
If you are using clay, and it doesn't completely remove the pain, you are not using enough clay.
Clays like our green desert clay are DIFFERENT then clays like illite.
They form a very subtle but very strong electromagnetic field that can NEUTRALIZE pain, even as deep as "down to the bone".
Sometimes, clay can be used like a salve. French green illite--The Grapler-- is the most excellent contact clay I've ever used. You don't have to use it thick.
French illite, and others like it (like Canadian marine clay) are sea clays. They share the healing properties of the sea, but they are involutionary clays and not evolutionary.
Their energy and mineral profile are completely different!
I've been corresponding with a person using clay to treat a buruli ulcer. The illite works great to clean and debride the wound, better than our green desert clay.
However, it actually causes pain as it rips at the tissue. The green desert clay removes the pain and discomfort completely!