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One of the most beneficial remedies is pulverized charcoal placed in a bag and used in fomentations. This is a most successful remedy. If wet in Smartweed tea, it is still better. I have ordered this in cases where persons were suffering great pain, and when the physician has confided to me that he thought life as about to close. Then I suggested charcoal and the patient slept; the turning point came, and recovery was the result. For bruised hands with inflammation, I have prescribed this simple remedy, with perfect success. The poison of inflammation is overcome, the pain removed, and healing goes on rapidly. The most severe inflammation of the eyes is relieved by a poultice of charcoal, put in a bag and dipped in water, hot or cold as will best suit the case.” E.G. White, MS 62, 1897
Yatzidis in 1972 reported that 20-50 grams of activated charcoal per day relieved uremic patients of oral fetor (odor or stench), anorexia, nausea and vomiting. Up to twenty months of treatments produced no ill side effects.
Conditions that have been treated by charcoal are eczema, intestinal gas, accidental poisoning and overdoses, nervous diarrhea, malodorous stools, jaundice of the newborn, infection after criminal abortion, deodorizer and healer for infected wounds, and cancer.
Sticker in 1909 reported that rapidly growing round-celled sarcomas in dogs were completely checked in their further growth by the application of charcoal. Papantonakis in 1937 reported simple, rapid and successful therapy of Leishmaniasis (a dermal sore) by painting the lesions with a ten percent mixture of vegetable charcoal.
CHARCOAL POULTICE
Definition – A
charcoal-water mixture of soft composition, usually heated and spread
on cloth, and applied to tender, inflamed parts of the body.
A. PHYSIOLOGIC EFFECTS
Charcoal has an adsorptive effect because of the large surface area of individuals grains with their crevices and pores. Charcoal can absorb many times its own weight in poisons, gases, chemicals, etc.
B. INDICATIONS
- To reduce inflammation – insect bites, mastitis, cellulites, phlebitis, pharyngitis, hepatitis, gastritis, colitis, peptic ulcers.
- To adsorb poisons
- Infections internally and externally – certain
types of skin problems, eye infections, eczema, poison ivy, staph infections,
infected cuts oar lacerations, herpes simples.
Chemical – accidental poisoning or overdoses, bad breath. - To relieve gastrointestinal problems (may be used internally and externally) – diarrhea, gas.
C. EQUIPMENT
1. Powdered charcoal,
one tablespoon or more.
2. Warm water, about one cup.
3. Deep container (size depends of size of poultice to be made) and spoon.
4. Three tablespoons flaxseed or two tablespoon cornstarch.
5. Clean muslin sheeting or paper towel.
6. Ace or roller bandage.
7. Plastic
8. Pins or tape.
D. PROCEDURE
a. Assemble equipment
b. Have room warm and draft free.
2. Treatment
a. Boil water with flaxseed for about 2-3 minutes.
b. Remove from heat and add charcoal.
c. Apply charcoal paste to a paper towel or muslin quickly to prevent cooling. Spread out to desired size and fold.
d. Place poultice on area to be treated with the single thickness of cloth next to the skin.
e. Cover the part and poultice with plastic.
f. Wrap with bandage and secure in place. Leave overnight.
3. Completion of treatment
a. Remove poultice, being careful to not spill charcoal crumbs.
b. Repeat with fresh poultice if needed. Allowing one hour between poultices.
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A. SWALLOWED POISONS
Have the victim swallow a mixture of two tablespoon of charcoal in a glass of cold water.
That offensive breath must be purified. Get pulverized charcoal, soak it in water, and drink this water freely. Eat no vegetables. Eat fruit, and plain well-baked bread.
No medical kit should be without activated charcoal.