Can Activated Charcoal Detoxify Your Body?

By Phillip Day

Once a year I get hot flushes when I come across a technique or health aid that really works.  Usually behind each of these stories you’ll find a dedicated researcher who’s spent years exploring and refining the techniques before putting fingers to keyboard to tell the world all about it.  Such a man is John Dinsley, a redoubtable Canadian who has lived, traveled and worked from South America to the North Pole, from Nova Scotia to Nepal.  During the course of his work in overseas development and counseling in some of the planet’s most deprived areas, he quickly learnt what worked and what didn’t.  His book is all about that most unlikely of remedies, charcoal, and the irony that in our technocratic age where science is now God, the simple truths escape becoming known.

In fact, science knows all about charcoal.  As Dinsley writes:  ‘We drink water filtered by it; breathe air scrubbed with it; eat food purified through it; wear clothes made with it; preserve things with it; go to war with it; enjoy hundreds of dishes cooked with it; we move mountains with it; we make the night sparkle with it; grow our food and flowers in it; we take it with us to the bottom of the deepest oceans and out into space; and then we call upon it to clean up our many environmental mistakes.  Not least and not last, medicinal charcoal plays an increasingly significant role in maintaining, restoring and enhancing man’s level of health.  No wonder we naturally warm up to it.’

Unfortunately medicine has not, since charcoal is commercially worthless and you can’t boost shareholder dividends with the remains of last night’s fire.  In 1897, health reformer E. White wrote: ‘I expect you will laugh at this, but if I could give this remedy some outlandish name that no-one knew but myself, it would have greater influence.’  The Roman innovator and scientist Pliny himself knew all about charcoal:  ‘It is only when ignited and quenched that charcoal itself acquires its characteristic powers, and only when it seems to have perished that it becomes endowed with greater virtue.’

Back in the old Iron Empire days, of course, who but the Romans knew best with all the poisonings in Caligula’s court?  I imagine most senators walked around with smug expressions in those days with pouch or two tucked under their togas. 

Charcoal is, quite simply, one of Nature’s most powerful antidotes for poisoning.  It can render harmless thousands of deadly chemicals when taken internally, so much so that it should not be taken with traditional medicines lest it removes them completely from the system. Accident and emergency departments use it to treat overdoses and victims of accidental poisoning.  In poultice form it has been observed negating the effects of gangrene, boils and sores.  In tablet and capsule form it’s used for heartburn, gas, flatulence and wind.

The wonderfully named Agatha Thrash MD, co-founder of the Uchee Pines Institute and Medical Examiner for the US State of Georgia, remarks, ‘Charcoal has amazing healing properties.  In fact, if I were stranded on a desert island and could take only one thing along to protect me from disease, infection and injury, I would choose charcoal.’ 

The pure gold of Dinsley’s book, in my view, are the 150-odd charcoal anecdotes from all over the world and the science to back them up.  Food poisoning, spider bites, Crohn’s, haemorrhoids, vomiting, cancer and miscellaneous ailments--you’ll catch on quickly.  Charcoal’s absorptive surfaces can bind toxins and transport them out of the body, so it is an excellent detoxifier!

For more information on John Dinsley's Book 'Charcoal Remedies' please visit: www.credence.org
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Roberta Goldberg commented on 03-Sep-2009 01:22 PM5 out of 5 stars
Some 30 years ago I took a Red Cross first aid training class. It was recommended that everyone have a jar of activated charcoal in the medicine chest and to use if something you ate just didn't taste right. It works.
commented on 07-Oct-2009 11:02 AM5 out of 5 stars
how do you remove the carcinogen in the charcoal?
Steve L. Smith commented on 10-Nov-2009 12:40 PM5 out of 5 stars
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John commented on 12-Feb-2010 07:50 AM5 out of 5 stars
Best info on the subject I've seen.
paul commented on 29-Jun-2010 02:05 AM5 out of 5 stars
Im living in Laos and after childbirth the mother is put on a bamboo based bed and a tray of hot charcoal is placed under the base. if its the first child the mother she will spend maybe 1 month on the bed{(second child maybe one week).it must have some healing properties.
silence mp3 commented on 23-Oct-2010 10:58 PM5 out of 5 stars
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Anonymous commented on 05-Dec-2011 10:07 AM5 out of 5 stars
I am told "Activated Charcoal is what hospitals give to patients who try to OD by swallowing pills. If you don't take a very powerful laxative with it, it will actually solidify in your intestines and you'd need surgery to remove it." Comments??
Anonymous commented on 05-Dec-2011 12:01 PM5 out of 5 stars
Actually, charcoal usually causes loose bowels. That is a good thing, as it is carrying with it much in the way of toxins that it has adsorbed. Be sure if you are taking nutritional supplements that you don't take activated charcoal within two hours or
the charcoal will adsorb them also. Activated charcoal is also very good used in a poultice form for poisonous spider bites.
Anonymous commented on 14-Jan-2012 11:29 PM5 out of 5 stars
I was in hospital early this year for a bad case of toxic shock found in my throat, my mother insisted she put a charcole poultice around my neck the doctors laughed at her but she did it anyway. After being in hospital for 8 days straight being pumped
full of the strongest anti-biotics the poultice after 3 hours did wonders I was able to talk and swallow some saliva.. Absolute wonderful stuff!! We now use it for everything!
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