Benefits of Activated Charcoal

[Serpo]

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http://cdn.naturalsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/activated_charcoal_carbon-263x164.jpgEating charcoal sounds about as appetizing as scarfing down some black, charred remains of a Saturday BBQ, but activated charcoal is a whole other animal. Activated charcoal is used as a detox agent to absorb a host of heavy metals (http://naturalsociety.com/food-grade-activated-charcoal-detox-agent/), chemicals, and pharmaceutical drug remains that flow through your blood stream and cause a hindrance to your best health. Activated charcoal absorbs the toxins from your body and then, since it is not absorbed by the body, the toxins along with the charcoal are expelled, leaving you cleaner and more toxin-free.
The Numerous Benefits of Activated Charcoal Charcoal is “activated” because it is made to have a very small particle size. This increases its overall surface area and absorptive capacity. Activated charcoal is produced by adding acid and steam to carbonaceous materials such as wood, coal, rye starch, or coconut shells. To understand just how effective this substance is at absorbing toxins, one standard 50-gram dose (http://www.emedicinehealth.com/activated_charcoal/page2_em.htm) of activated charcoal has the surface area of 10 football fields. It also encourages bowel movements, so it can help to rid the body of toxins rather quickly.
Hippocrates, the Greek physician considered the father of natural medicine, used activated carbon to cure many patients. Activated charcoal (also referred to simply as carbon) has been called black magic because of it’s color and healing abilities. Carbon:



Has a negative ionic charge (http://foodmatters.tv/articles-1/black-magic-the-benefits-and-uses-of-activated-charcoal) that attracts the positive ionic charges of toxins and poisons causing them to bind to the charcoal. They are then surreptitiously escorted out of the body via the eliminative channel of the intestines.



Removes heavy metals like lead and aluminum.



Deodorizes foul smells.



Removes symptoms of traveler’s diarrhea.



Reduces ulcers in the stomach.



Can be used as a toothpaste to whiten teeth and eliminate foul breath since it kills bacteria.



Reduces gas from eating beans and other gaseous foods.



Eliminate many micro-organisms and chlorine from drinking or bath water.



Removes pharmaceutical toxins from the body. This includes aspirin overdose, accidental household toxin ingestion, and heavy metals. It has been used for hundreds of years in cases of food poisoning (http://elixirofwellness.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/activated-charcoal-for-food-poisoning/). Ancient Egyptians used activated carbon as did the Native Americans.



Removes parasites and bacteria from the body. This includes bugs that cause everything from a stuffy nose to more invasive parasites.



Removes fungal toxins (http://www.quantumbalancing.com/activatedcharcoal.htm).

Those with Crohn’s disease or irritable bowel syndrome need to prepare their activated charcoal a little differently, or use it externally, as a poultice (http://www.rollitup.org/toke-n-talk/228008-benefits-activated-charcoal.html), instead of mixing it with water and drinking it or taking it in pill form.



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[ImaCannin]

One time we moved into a new house.... ( new for us, but previously lived in) The people had set out Decon mouse killer. Just so happened that my dog who chewed on everything found a dead mouse and chewed on it. She got deathly ill.
When I realized that she was having problems I stared giving her 2 capsules of activated charcoal mixed with some slippery elm. I did this about every 30 minutes for several hours. By morning I took her to the local small town vet. She was feeling better and he gave her a "vitamin K " shot.... I paid my bill and before we got to the truck my dog passed out. Then she barfed a huge pile of black stuff. By the time I got her home, she broke out in hives all over her body and face. Took her to another vet and they said that I saved her life by giving her the charcoal and she could have died from the shot that the other vet gave her.

Moral of the story...... anything that is in a needle that comes from a vet is toxic.

[Glass]

we used to give our dogs charcoal. It actually looked exactly like a briquet/brickette. Could have been a normal bbq charcoal for all I know. Seemed to work. Cured bad breath and the dogs were a bit more active and happier. I wondered about this for people. Going to the health place tomorrow so I might take a look at what they have in charcoal.

[ImaCannin]

I have been getting my tooth mercury removed and have been taking some Activated Charcoal to help remove the fumes!

[Dogman]

I used to have aquariums both salt and fresh water. Doing that hobby got my attention of activated charcoal and the science behind it. I still have abt 200 lbs of it that I use everyday mainly filtering water. Now I do not have the fish but I still use the charcoal for filtering my drinking water.

My earest days that I can rember is from San Diego (born in texas) and that water tasted like crap on its best days. The city I live in had some of the best tasting water years ago, but now ? I use the charcoal and filters that I used to use for my tanks to clean up my drinking water.

I know I have at least a lifetime (mine) of filter media to do the job.

Activated charcoal is a gods sent, yes you can eat it to clean out your gut, have done so in the past but it is very freeky when you are shitting totally black crap.

It will clean your pipes out!

[Glass]

There is a new pet supplies place opened up near by the health shop. I might stop in there first and see if they have any fido or fish charcoal. I could consume either ok is my figuring. I'm a big fan of soft liquorice. Has the same affect on the pipes but no detox element.

I need to detox but I also feel like I am demineralising myself at the same time. Finding myself consuming bulk of foods that I'm assuming my body gets good stuff from. I let it tell me what I need. I get a hankering for fish now and then. Craving for leafy greens, whole oils, fruits. I need more knowledge on best sources for somethings so I can make sure I got them all covered but for the most part I let my body/mind guide my food buying choices.

[Serpo]

I tried it in Asia last year . They just add some to a drink,

[ImaCannin]

I need to detox but I also feel like I am demineralising myself at the same time. Finding myself consuming bulk of foods that I'm assuming my body gets good stuff from. I let it tell me what I need. I get a hankering for fish now and then. Craving for leafy greens, whole oils, fruits. I need more knowledge on best sources for somethings so I can make sure I got them all covered but for the most part I let my body/mind guide my food buying choices.

I have been taking Fulvic Minerals while I have been detoxing. Suppose to be all natural and not synthetic. I have been using Vital Earth Minerals (http://www.healthsuperstore.com/p-vital-earth-minerals-fulvic-mineral-complex.htm)

.. I have used in the past Shilajit powder (http://www.amazon.com/Sunfood-Shilajit-Extract-Powder-Fulvic/dp/B005WX1M4S/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1371825824&sr=8-7&keywords=fulvic+minerals) I could feel its effects immediately.

Someone posted something about fulvic a while back in the health section.

For the eating the right stuff.... Check out the Low Oxalate Diet. (http://www.lowoxalate.info/)...... It has turned my whole life around!

[Glass]

ok been taking this for a few weeks now. Trying to take 2 capsules per day, afternoon and night. Probably manage 1 per day and forget the other one. Between meals makes it harder to remember. I had noticiable results inside the week. Without a big regurg, been doing the Lipsomal for Health for maybe 18months. This was immediate uplift followed by a roller coaster of upness and then holy cow I feel like crud downness for a few days. Seems all the muck gets hoovered up over a week or a couple weeks then the body gets rid of it in one go over a couple days. That literaly knocks you over. Anyway I posted plenty on that before.

Lots of pain and discomfort went with the above but I was left with some small core areas of pain/discomfort rather than big areas. If the lipsomal was the washing/rinsing stage then this stuff seems to be the polish. Nearly all of my pain/discomfort went within a few days. There is just a couple places left but with enough care they might come good or at least not get any worse.

I would recommend this stuff to pick up any toxins and well.... pick you up. I also take 2 tummeric tabs per day which seem to do something for joint pain but its minor, possibly imagined. Add some accidophillus(?) about weekly if things get rumbling.

This is another great recommendation from gsusers. I was very ill. I really didn't think I was going to make it for a while there. I feel, well freaking great! And there's also been some spirutual help/guidance from here as well. All of it appreciated so much.

[Hatha Sunahara]

Glass, it's interesting that you mentioned turmeric because I've been taking two capsules of it a day for about a month now--for joint pain. I just found an article about how it is better for depression than prozac:

http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/groundbreaking-study-finds-turmeric-extract-superior-prozac-depression

My joint pain hasn't gotten too much better, but I feel more cheerful more of the time. I'm also taking two capsules of cayenne pepper for joint pain.

I'm going to order a 1 lb bag of activated carbon. What I do with all these substances is buy them in bulk and fill empty capsules with them, and take them that way.

BTW, I took ImaCanning's advice about Oil of Oregano a while back, tried it in capsules for about a month, and I think it left me free of any serious parasites, cuz it made me feel better. I hope the activated carbon will do the same. I've been thinking of doing a liver flush lately. Never did one, but that is another way to clean out your body by inducing a purge of gallstones. I heard it also results in a feeling of well-being.


Hatha

[Cebu_4_2]

I've been thinking of doing a liver flush lately. Never did one, but that is another way to clean out your body by inducing a purge of gallstones.
Hatha

I read gallstones are caused by a calcium deficiency, not that crap calcium you get at the grocery store but real calcium.

[Glass]

Hatha

maybe thats what I am feeling with the tumeric. I want to do the capsules like you are doing. I was unsure if you could get them "empty" down here. Turns out you can as I found out from a friend. You can obtain them at some pharmacy. Then I could not recall what I wanted to put in them...... it was driving me nuts. Cayenne was what I was trying to thinking of so thanks for that reminder.

I don't know if the Lipsomal is an actual liver flush, Its like a whole of body flush but it goes out via the liver. So I think it does clean the liver but maybe more on the way through as part of the detox action. Don't know. Do know I felt like crud for a few days then good again for a few. slowly becoming more good days and less crud says to almost all good days. geez I'm gonna start singing the hills are alive before long.... now that could be a bit too far gone.

[Serpo]

ok been taking this for a few weeks now. Trying to take 2 capsules per day, afternoon and night. Probably manage 1 per day and forget the other one. Between meals makes it harder to remember. I had noticiable results inside the week. Without a big regurg, been doing the Lipsomal for Health for maybe 18months. This was immediate uplift followed by a roller coaster of upness and then holy cow I feel like crud downness for a few days. Seems all the muck gets hoovered up over a week or a couple weeks then the body gets rid of it in one go over a couple days. That literaly knocks you over. Anyway I posted plenty on that before.

Lots of pain and discomfort went with the above but I was left with some small core areas of pain/discomfort rather than big areas. If the lipsomal was the washing/rinsing stage then this stuff seems to be the polish. Nearly all of my pain/discomfort went within a few days. There is just a couple places left but with enough care they might come good or at least not get any worse.

I would recommend this stuff to pick up any toxins and well.... pick you up. I also take 2 tummeric tabs per day which seem to do something for joint pain but its minor, possibly imagined. Add some accidophillus(?) about weekly if things get rumbling.

This is another great recommendation from gsusers. I was very ill. I really didn't think I was going to make it for a while there. I feel, well freaking great! And there's also been some spirutual help/guidance from here as well. All of it appreciated so much.

so you are talking about the charcoal

thats great that you got some benefit ,

a guy I know in Asia told me about it

How to make Activated Charcoal.





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPabNV7TFFohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPabNV7TFFo


thats a good video and you can make it yourself

Activated carbon

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Activated carbon, also called activated charcoal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activated_carbon#), activated coal, or carbo activatus, is a form of carbon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon) processed to be riddled with small, low-volume pores that increase the surface area (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_area) available for adsorption (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adsorption) or chemical reactions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_reaction).[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activated_carbon#cite_note-1) Activated is sometimes substituted with active.
Due to its high degree (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activated_carbon#) of microporosity, just one gram of activated carbon has a surface area in excess of 500 m2, as determined by adsorption isotherms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isothermal_process) of carbon dioxide (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide) gas at room (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_temperature) or 0.0 °C temperature. An activation level sufficient for useful application may be attained solely from high surface area; however, further chemical treatment often enhances adsorption properties.
Activated carbon is usually derived from charcoal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charcoal).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activated_carbon


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[Cebu_4_2]

Zinc chloride? Kinda expensive. I wonder if you can use magnesium chloride. Calcium chloride just sounds so boring lol.

[Hatha Sunahara]

Glass, I get my capsules from this outfit: http://www.emptycaps.com/.

I have to separate the capsules into a top (short) half and a bottom (long) half. Then I get whatever powder I am filling them with, and make a mound of it in a glass baking dish. I get the long half of a capsule and turn it upside down and jam it into the mound of stuff two or three times until I feel resistance. That means the cap is full. I turn it over and put the short half, the top on it and squeeze until it clicks, and then I have a full cap of the stuff. If you are filling them with liquids, you need a frame that holds 50 caps upright, and you fill them with a turkey baster.

A Hulda Clark liver flush involves Epsom salts, and olive oil. If I can find the directions, I'll post them.


Hatha

[ImaCannin]

http://www.capsuleconnection.com/order-form

Cheaper capsules.

[Glass]

Glass, I get my capsules from this outfit: http://www.emptycaps.com/.

I have to separate the capsules into a top (short) half and a bottom (long) half. Then I get whatever powder I am filling them with, and make a mound of it in a glass baking dish. I get the long half of a capsule and turn it upside down and jam it into the mound of stuff two or three times until I feel resistance. That means the cap is full. I turn it over and put the short half, the top on it and squeeze until it clicks, and then I have a full cap of the stuff. If you are filling them with liquids, you need a frame that holds 50 caps upright, and you fill them with a turkey baster.

A Hulda Clark liver flush involves Epsom salts, and olive oil. If I can find the directions, I'll post them.


Hatha

Thanks Hatha,

I'm going to go and just buy some tumeric powder and start making my own. I'm hoping it's as straight forward as that. If I can find some tumeric root I will do that also or instead. A visit to the indian food importers is in order I think.

[Glass]

I thought to myself last night that I should check the usage guidance for the sctivated charcoal. Got a few stabbing twinges going on which got me thinking that I should check for long term use issues. instructions definately say that AC should not be used long term. It says to use between meals as required for indegestion or other stomach ailments. Upset stomach basically.

so anyone going for this stuff. It's not something to take every day, day in day out. I agree with that guidance. Use it for a few days then give it a break, use it when indigestion strikes.

[Hatha Sunahara]

AC is on the front lines in the war on flatulence. Here's some info about it from this use:


http://flatulencecures.com/how-to-use-activated-carbon-flatulence.



Hatha