I am an American Indian and specifically Comanche. I believe in American Indian spiritiuality and natural remedies which included prayer. I don't tell this story often....my husband is an enrolled citizen of the Comanche Nation but is culturally Chiricahua Apache. After one ceremonial years ago, we were driving home. I asked my husband who was driving, to 'pull over' and go to the nearby lake. I cannot explain this...I didn't talk about it but gathered the clay from the banks, mixing it with lake water, covering my face with the clay. Next I covered my tight-like-bratwurst arms and fingers with the clay. I got back in our truck, not saying a word but keeping a prayer in my head....we drove home. After a time, I washed it off. In the short time after, my face softened and was less tight and didn't feel hot all the time. My tight arms softened and my fingers were more flexible....I didn't do my tight legs. They are still tight and I cannot 'pinch' a section of the skin on my legs due to this tightness. I cannot explain why I haven't returned to do this treatment on my legs...