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It is has been found helpful even in seriously irritated and delicate colons. It has been used to help stop bleeding in the colon and helps to alleviate symptoms of ulcerative colitis. It is helpful as an external poultice (pack) and internally for venomous bites (ants, wasps, spiders, bees, etc.). It also helps mosquito bites, chigger bites and poison oak or ivy. Some physicians have also successfully used it for snake bites. It is effective for cases of aspirin poisoning," tylenol (acetaminophen) and diphtherial toxin.

Charcoal is effective in helping anemia resulting from cancer and some sarcomas. Charcoal poultices have been reported to completely check round cell sarcomas in dogs. Charcoal is effective in eye and ear conditions. Ear aches, cellulitis of the face, eyelids, ears, and inflamed tissue behind the eyes can be helped with external charcoal poultices and internal ingestion of charcoal crystals. It is effective for those patients with colostomy and ileostomy odor. Doctors use it routinely three times a day to reduce odors with good effect. Nutritionally marginal patients suffer no malnourishment even from long term use of the charcoal. It is effective for infections.

Activated charcoal can adsorb bacteria, viruses, bacterial toxins and hormones. It has been reported to disinfect wounds, and to act as a deodorizer in various bodily ills. It has also been found effective for asiatic cholera, dysentery, foot and mouth disease virus, and intravenously for cases of septicemia, metritis, mastitis, lymphangitis, and pyogenic wounds. It is effectively used as a poultice on inflammations. With charcoal the poison of the inflammation is overcome and the pain removed and healing allowed to proceed rapidly. Yeast infections also respond to charcoal poultices.

Charcoal is effective as a help in reducing jaundice. All jaundiced newborn babies with serum bilirubin over 1O milligrams may be given 1/2 teaspoon of charcoal in sufficient water to pass through a nipple every 2-3 hours. Dr. Thrash suggests for jaundice in the newborn to start giving the charcoal water in suspected cases before the baby is 4 hours old. He says that when the baby is also put into daily sunlight that bilirubin levels remain sufficiently low so that most exchange transfusions can be avoided. It is effective for liver failure. Individuals have responded in preventing toxins from building up in the blood by ingesting charcoal in large quantities. It is effective in female disorders and diseases. Some women have reported that after one month on the charcoal that they no longer have severe premenstrual syndrome symptoms. Excess and incompletely broken down estrogen can be drawn from the liver by the charcoal thus helping with premenstrual tension.

 

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