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Anyone know the dosage for using activated charcoal in Americanese? I've seen 50-100 grams but I'm not sure how many tsp. that is. Also I've never seen how much water to use.

 

I'm thinking an 8 ounce glass of water but to how much charcoal?

 

Okay I did see where 50 grams = almost 2 ounces. Two ounces of charcoal in eight ounces of water seems like a lot.

 

My thinking is to bind something undesirable in the stomach in a SHTF situation. :shrug:

 

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Heaping teaspoon is what I use too. Ditto on the water.

Dose really depends on what you are fighting. Most things you will need to repeat the dose every hour or two. Take plenty of vitamin C at the same time. I start with about 10 grams of Vit C. It detoxes and helps move the charcoal thru your system.

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No burnt food won't work. :) Charcoal is pure carbohydrate. Burnt foods contain fats and proteins which become carcinogenic when burnt.

 

You can get a great book called The Complete Handbook of Medicinal Charcoal and Its Applications at CharcoalRemedies.com. It explains how and why it works, what it can be used for, how to use it, etc. The author is John Dinsley.

 

Another small book called Rx Charcaol by Drs Calvin and Agatha Thrash is excellent. Very practical and well-explained how-tos.

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CGA, how interesting! Dr Calvin passed away a couple of years ago. Dr Agatha has retired. She's in her eighties now. I've gone to several seminars that she held and learned SO much! She is just so down-to-earth and practical. I remember one where she was showing how to make heating compress for sore throat. You dip a soft cloth in cold water and wring it out and put it around the throat, then put plastic wrap over that to keep it dry then pin a wool sock over that to hold heat. She said you could cut open a plastic bread bag for the plastic. I love how they showed you how to use whatever you had on hand.

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Hey teachers..... I looked at my container of activated charcoal and it WAS suspended in liquid. Decades later, there is no liquid. Just hard chunk. Can I still do the baking rejuvenation? Or am I just gonna have to buy some?

 

 

Syrup of Ipecac.....is that still used? If so, same decade question. They came as a set. I'd be more inclined to throw that bottle cuz the metal lid [yes, that many decades] is corroded.

 

 

Where do you find such things to buy???

 

MtRider .....timely question cuz when I sorted thru the First Aid kit, I pulled those two out....cuz they looked questionable. :unsure:

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I'd pitch them too Mt.Rider. I don't where to Ipecac or the charcoal now. I was out and about shopping today and Wal-Mart didn't have either. So I stopped in a Rite-Aid, CVS and a big 24 hour Wal-greens and asked for them. No one had any except Wal-Greens had the caps but not the powder.

 

I got my charcoal from a health foods store in Amish country. I don't think I've ever seen Ipecac in stores. I don't ever remember looking for it though. I wonder if pet supplies places have it? If people need to vomit, a finger down the throat would work but that would be dangerous if you needed a pet to vomit. Hummmm.

 

Of course you can get anything on line. Amazon is my new best friend.

 

Good advise about charcoal absorbing odor. Duh...that's what it does best. I didn't really think of that though. Mine came in a plastic container so I'm going to transfer it to a glass jar and tape the instructions on it. Thanks Daylily!

 

As an aside when I asked the pharmacist for Ipecac and activated charcoal at Wal-Greens, she looked at me kind of funny. I said I'm just getting my first aid kit put together. She nodded and said, "That's a very good idea."

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I posted the site to buy charcoal.

 

I've never stocked syrup of ipecac. Easy enough to run your finger down a child's throat and make them throw up if that is what is indicated. Make sure that whatever they have down there won't cause more damage being thrown up than staying put and giving the charcoal.

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