Hello, and welcome
to Wonderfully Made.
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My name is Dr. Christine Salter,
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I am Board
Certified in Family Medicine
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in a private practice
in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Today we are going to be
discussing a simple home remedy
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called activated charcoal.
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Mr. John Dinsley was our guest,
has written a book about this.
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Welcome John!
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It is a real pleasure to be
here with you today Dr. Salter,
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I'm going to enjoy this.
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Tell me, why did you
write a book about charcoal?
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Well, it is a good question,
a lot of people do ask me that
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and it goes back a few
years, thirty some years ago.
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Well not quite thirty.
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I decided to hike around
the world and on my adventures I
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wandered into a small
medical clinic in Guatemala
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and there was a physician
and his family who were working
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and living there.
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The Dr. Graves was a Board
Certified California physician,
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he was a graduate of
Loma Linda University.
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They had an amazing
lifestyle which fascinated me,
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one of the things that really
captivated my attention was
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their use of natural
medicine, Natural Remedies.
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Simple Remedies! -
Simple, very simple!
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You see a lot of the
patients that came to the clinic
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lived back in the mountains
and they really didn't have
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good access to the clinic and so
the doctor tried to equip them
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with things that they
could use when they went back
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to their villages.
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So what impressed you
about this particular village,
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and what this
physician was doing?
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Well, again the
natural medicine,
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in the University I had an
interest in Science and Biology
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and I had taken a break
from that, and I wanted to
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explore the world.
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But here was such a new
idea to think about using
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simple natural remedies.
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I was used to going to a
hospital, to an Emergency Room
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visiting my doctor in a
nice office back in America,
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and this was a
completely different setting
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and one day I remember
clearly, we were right along the
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the Pan American Highway, and
a bus stopped and these parents
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came in rushing with
this young child in their arms
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obviously
unconscious and convulsing.
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The doctor immediately
assessed the situation,
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decided it was some
form of food poisoning,
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had the parents remove the
blouse and he mixed up this
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black stuff, this paste,
and he smeared it all over her
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belly and within 15 minutes
the girl was resting quietly
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and I thought Black Magic.
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What was that black stuff?
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Well, believe it or
not, it was charcoal.
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Now a lot of people say, so
you mean charcoal briquettes?
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No, it's not
charcoal briquettes!
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In this particular instance
it was just ground up charcoal.
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But what we are going to
be talking about today is
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medicinal charcoal, or
activated gray charcoal.
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Please tell our audience what
you mean by activated charcoal.
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Well, we start off with
the raw product charcoal,
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the leftovers from your
camp fire, from your wood stove,
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it is basically just carbon.
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Most of the other
products have been burned off,
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it's been basically dehydrated
and you have this charcoal.
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Now when you activate
charcoal you actually take that
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raw product again and you heat
it back up to a high temperature
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say 800 degrees Celsius,
and then you subject it to air
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or maybe steam under
pressure, and this erodes the
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internal structure, the fabric
of this charcoal particle,
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and it gives us this
tremendous surface area.
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So that is what
activated charcoal means.
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Ok, so I know that
in the Emergency Room,
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the standard dose
of activated charcoal,
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which is 50 grams, that
is actually the equivalent to
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the size of 10 football fields.
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Well, it is, it is absolutely
amazing, this internal network,
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this lattice work if
you want, of the charcoal,
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and maybe we could throw
up on our screen a picture of
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charcoal powder and you
can see how really fine it is.
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Charcoal is actually made from
a number of different products,
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I should say activated charcoal.
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It can come from hard woods,
it can come from olive pits,
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or bamboo, or coconut.
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There are many different
sources for the initial product,
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and then the activated.
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You can see on the screen
here that it is very very fine.
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If you want to take
a look at the next one,
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we have actually an
electron micrographic picture
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of a charcoal particle. - Ok!
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On this one, even this very
very minute particle you can
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on this picture how much
surface area there is there.
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Now you can imagine
taking 50 grams of that and
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unfolding this and you can
see the tremendous surface area
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and it is that surface area
that accounts for some of that
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amazing qualities
that charcoal has.
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Well, actually the
American Academy of Pediatrics
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put out a physicians
statement in 2003 that said
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Activated Charcoal was the
best intervention for reducing
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the availability of
ingested substances,
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so we can see from that
surface area why it does this.
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Tell me, how far
does charcoal go back?
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Well, it has a long
history, we can trace it back to
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the 1500 years B.C. - OH!
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Some interesting things
back then, they were using it to
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control odors from wounds.
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Eventually they
decided if it does so good with
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controlling odors, they
discovered lets bury our dead
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in layers of sand and charcoal
and was able to preserve
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these dead bodies.
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They had already experimented
with posts along the
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River Nile,
preserve these dead posts.
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So it preserved them,
then moving up to 400 B.C.
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Hippocrates...
prescribed charcoal for anthrax,
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and different things in
his day, along with Plinni?
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Then it starts moving into the
1700's and the sugar industry
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started using
charcoal to whiten sugar.
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The activation process
developed in the late 1800's
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and then the use of
charcoal literally exploded,
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they were using it
for all manner of things.
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All kind of things.
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Maybe we show up on our
screen a graphic showing
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some of these
different uses of charcoal.
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As I said it goes
back to 1500 years B.C.,
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you will see that they
were using it for Flatulence
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and Indigestion, that's gas.
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In fact when
Europeans came to North America
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they found American Indians
using charcoal to control
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Indigestion, but since
then of course we found that it
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works very well for
Nausea and Vomiting, Diarrhea,
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we will talk about
that a little bit later.
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Poisoning, we will
talk about that as well.
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There is even literature now
talking about charcoal's ability
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to reduce cholesterol.
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Oh, that's important!
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Heart disease is
the number one killer,
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and so something as
simple as cholesterol lowering
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with charcoal would
be extremely useful.
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It sounds almost like
Black Magic doesn't it?
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It does sound like Black Magic.
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But you know there is a lot
of science behind it, and so
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it is used in
industry every single day.
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Vegetable oils are
cleaned with charcoal,
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we drink water that is
filtered with charcoal.
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As you saw on that
screen, Kidney Dialysis machines
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actually filter blood through
a bed of granular charcoal
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to make it clean.
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Hospitals are using
this on a regular basis.
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We want our viewing audience
to know, they are not hospital
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personnel, so should
they feel comfortable
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about using this
remedy in the home.
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They certainly can, not
everybody has the privilege
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of living next door to a
hospital or an Emergency Ward,
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and some of our
viewers are probably living
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in other countries where
even their medical facilities
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are even more remote
than we see them here.
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But even in our own communities
here in North America
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people in their homes are
using it every single day.
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My wife and I
use it in our home,
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have been using it
for almost 30 years.
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Our children use it and they
taught their children to use it,
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so our grandchildren
are accustomed to use it.
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But again, health
care professionals use it
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not only in the hospitals...
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I have a very close
friend, she is a head nurse
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she has worked across
North America, Hawaii, Alaska,
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in Emergency Rooms,
and you have worked in
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Emergency Rooms as well.
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She has used it there, but
she uses it at home as well.
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Absolutely!
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I've used it in my home too.
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I've seen it used in
the Emergency Room for
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toxic ingestions where
somebody may die unless
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they are given this, but
something simply in the home
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we are not suggesting
that viewers use this in an
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emergency situation while
here in North America because
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we know they can get
to the Emergency Room.
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But in other places
where they may not have access
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you would hope that
they would use this,
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but for something very
simple like a sore throat.
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or an insect bite...
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Have you had any
experiences with those?
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Well yes, there are numbers
of stories of insect bites,
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I guess one that comes
to my mind is Dr. Thrash
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who is the Medical Director
for the state of Georgia
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has been for forty some years...
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She tells the story of
her granddaughter who was
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outside playing and
she found herself playing
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on a hill of Fire Ants,
and within seconds there were
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literally hundreds of
these insects biting her
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and was screaming hysterically.
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Dr. Thrash ran out,
they grabbed the child,
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ran for the house,
filled a tub with warm water,
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placed the child
in the warm water,
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they had already
mixed in charcoal powder,
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she said within two
minutes this poor child
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had stopped screaming.
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That the charcoal had
neutralized the poisons
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and the child was
basically pain free.
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Now that is her experience,
Dr. Agatha went so far as
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to say if she was
stranded on a desert island
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and she could choose
only one thing to take along
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with her for infections,
for emergency accidents,
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she would choose charcoal.
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Activated charcoal, Absolutely!
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I do agree with her on
that, I had an experience myself
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when I was in Florida...
I am highly reactive to
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wasp stings or bee stings,
and in fact I was actually
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doing a demonstration
about activated charcoal
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and I really made up my
poultice to be able to show
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the audience and so that was
all ready and waiting for me.
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So in the interim we went
outside and I was just out there
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having a conversation and
I felt something on my hand
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and then the sting.
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I knew that my hand would swell
so immediately I grabbed that
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poultice that was
for the demonstration,
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and I put that right on
there and within 30 seconds
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the stinging, the pain was
gone and I had no reaction, and
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usually I really would swell,
and I had no reaction to that.
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So when you think
about the science of that,
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you've already showed the
graphic of the surface area,
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there is something called
van der Waal's forces where they
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tracked different particles
to them, so it makes sense.
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I like to relate
it to a black hole,
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you know this phenomena up
in space is able to pull things
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to it and then it
doesn't let go of them.
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It sounds fantastic,
but here we have charcoal,
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you can't see black
holes but you can see charcoal.
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- Absolutely! If we
had a quart jar here
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of activated charcoal, we're
told that that one quart jar
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can hold up to 80
quarts of ammonia gas.
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It's that tremendous surface
area that binds these proteins
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or gas molecules, or
toxins, whatever they are
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and holds them, and
in the case of poisoning,
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holds them until the charcoal
and the poison is eliminated
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from the body.
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Now obviously we are not
saying that people shouldn't
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make use of Emergency Rooms...
- Right, we are not saying that.
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Some people may have
gone into anaphylactic shock
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because of a bee
sting, but how much more sense
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does it make to apply
the charcoal while you are
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heading towards an
Emergency Room where you can get
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professional help.
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This is sort of like a fire
extinguisher until the fireman
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get to your help. Right!
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Instead of the parents or
family members feeling helpless
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they will dial 911 and then
they would put a poultice on
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or they would have them drink
some of that activated charcoal.
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Exactly, in fact there is a
number of the poison control
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centers across North
America do recommend in fact
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that you have
charcoal in the home.
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I know there is some discussion
whether parents are able to
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properly administer
it to their children but
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whether that is true
or not... It seems to me
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that a parent who knows a
child and the child who knows
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the parent is going to
have a lot easier time to apply
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the charcoal in the
home and then head off to the
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Emergency Room.
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What about something as
simple as an ear infection?
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I remember my son was just a
toddler and woke up screaming
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pulling at his ear, and I
knew exactly what was going on.
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I was a medical student at
the time and I looked in his ear
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and he had a bulging eardrum.
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I quickly made up a charcoal
poultice and applied it to the
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external ear, and of course
I had to find that information
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from Dr. Agatha Thrash.
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I applied that and within
a few minutes he calmed down
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and he was able to
sleep through the night,
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I still took him to
the doctor the next morning
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and she did determine that
he did have an ear infection
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but it was amazing to
have him just settle down
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and sleep through the
night with a bulging eardrum.
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Of course that let
you relax a little be too.
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Exactly!
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Well, I use an
acronym called S.A.F.E.
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- Tell us what S.A.F.E. means.
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S.A.F.E., as I travel
in different countries
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I've come back to North
America with our amazing
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health care system.
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It is so readily
available for most of us,
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and then I compare them
to countries like Nepal,
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or working out in the
Pacific where you may be hours
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from the nearest
road or you may be days
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from the nearest clinic...
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I came to ask
myself the question,
00:15:50.18\00:15:53.15
"Do you have to be
wealthy to be healthy"?
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Or does God only
love rich people?
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- No! - Well, I
don't think so either.
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So I came up with
this acronym, I looked at
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If God really loves us
wherever you are in the world,
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whatever your social
and economic status is
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then is seems to me that
remedies should be Simple,
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they should be Affordable,
they should be Accessible.
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You are going to have to measure
out a little bit of Faith,
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when you take it with
you, and lastly, they should be
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Easy to apply...
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Charcoal is easy,
it's a little bit messy,
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as you have used it
over and over again it gets
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easier and easier to use.
00:16:30.73\00:16:31.70
It does get easier to
use, I have my fare share
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of making a mess with charcoal,
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I know how to do it quite
expertly now but initially
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we had charcoal
powder everywhere.
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That S.A.F.E. acronym
is really important...
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You said that maybe a place
like Nepal would be a place
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for it to be used, but
even here in North America
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there is a lot of people who do
not have access to health care.
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They cannot afford it,
and they are out in the
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rural areas, and in some
counties the physicians are
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moving away because
of malpractice litigation
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and so we do have a tremendous
amount of people who do not
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have access, and this is
something that is fairly simple
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that really could
save someone's life.
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In fact I was talking
with one of the technicians
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before we did our program
today and he's training to be
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an EMT, and he was
saying that yea, on board
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they carry charcoal.
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- They carry activated charcoal.
- So on the way to the hospital
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if you haven't
applied it, it's a good chance
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they may apply it on
the way to the hospital.
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There are a number of different
ways that we can use it
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in the home, you
mentioned the ears,
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you can apply it as a
poultice, or an eye wash
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for the eye infections.
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- Tell our viewing
audience what a poultice is.
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You make a paste with charcoal,
you can make it just with water,
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it tends to dry out more
quickly but if you mixed it with
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something like
ground up flax seed
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it makes a paste, a jell,
and that moisture holds longer,
00:18:05.36\00:18:11.06
it's that moist contact with
the skin that allows charcoal
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to somehow mysteriously
draw out toxins or poisons
00:18:15.91\00:18:19.02
through the skin into
the charcoal poultice.
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- And we want to make a
point that if his is not
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absorption, it is not
sucking up, it is adsorbing,
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A D onto the surface through
all those little crevices
00:18:30.21\00:18:33.91
that are exposed to.
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It has this electro static type
of affinity for other molecules
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some of them are... we
might want to call them
00:18:42.34\00:18:44.19
loose cannons, they are in
our body, maybe free radicals
00:18:44.22\00:18:48.13
or toxins or waste products
and thee Lancet Magazine
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which is a premier
medical journal for England
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has reported that when
they applied charcoal poultices
00:18:54.44\00:18:57.39
superficially that
somehow the mystery of charcoal
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is actually able to pull
these toxins from deep tissue
00:19:01.58\00:19:04.56
and as well deep organs.
00:19:04.57\00:19:06.58
Those van de Waal
forces that are on the surfaces
00:19:06.61\00:19:10.70
of the charcoal
really do pull and attract.
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- Big Black Hole!
00:19:14.50\00:19:18.60
Recently a friend sent in
a story of their daughter,
00:19:18.63\00:19:23.90
now this lady is a nurse,
practices at a large hospital.
00:19:23.93\00:19:28.53
Her husband is
an anesthesiologist,
00:19:28.56\00:19:31.76
and their daughter developed
a urinary tract infection
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at the age of two years
I believe, and for the next
00:19:36.13\00:19:39.41
51/2 years she suffered
with this problem chronically.
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It got to the point where their
physician decided that he would
00:19:43.33\00:19:47.99
have to go in and scrape
the ureters, scrape the bladder,
00:19:48.02\00:19:51.98
dilate it and check
out the kidney as well.
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That is a major procedure
and you can imagine the trauma
00:19:54.93\00:20:00.68
just for the child, but
the parents, what it must put
00:20:00.71\00:20:03.29
them through, thinking
oh, there has got to be
00:20:03.32\00:20:05.41
some other solution.
00:20:05.44\00:20:06.41
Well, after 51/2 years it
was time to do another procedure
00:20:06.43\00:20:11.70
and the parents said no, there
has got to be something else,
00:20:11.71\00:20:14.06
and they knew a
chemist, and this chemist said
00:20:14.09\00:20:18.43
why don't you try charcoal?
00:20:18.46\00:20:20.42
Place it in water and have
her drink this charcoal slurry.
00:20:20.45\00:20:23.66
Well they did and
when the child took it,
00:20:23.69\00:20:26.47
the nurse friend told me
that the child was symptomatic
00:20:26.50\00:20:29.45
at the time, she was in a great
deal of discomfort and pain.
00:20:29.48\00:20:32.17
Within two hours she was
pain free and the last report
00:20:32.21\00:20:39.23
was after a period of time, I
am not sure the period of time
00:20:39.26\00:20:42.91
but the child was symptom free.
00:20:42.94\00:20:44.73
- Symptom free and no
more urinary tract infection.
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Can you imagine if they
could have discovered this
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5 years ago. -
Five years and sooner.
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You know I have used
charcoal for food poisoning,
00:20:51.66\00:20:55.76
no one likes to be running
to the bathroom with diarrhea
00:20:55.77\00:20:59.31
and that cramping that occurs.
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Yes, you don't have to wait
for a severe case of poisoning.
00:21:01.22\00:21:05.16
We may go out to eat at a
restaurant or some friends
00:21:05.19\00:21:09.10
may invite us home, or we
are traveling overseas for
00:21:09.13\00:21:12.67
whatever reason and we
eat some strange food or drink
00:21:12.70\00:21:15.01
some strange water, and
we suddenly find ourselves
00:21:15.02\00:21:18.33
with an upset floppy stomach.
00:21:18.34\00:21:20.31
It's not bad enough that
we have to go to the Emergency
00:21:20.34\00:21:22.82
but we don't really want
to lay there all night either.
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Take a glass of water stir
the charcoal into the water.
00:21:25.42\00:21:30.18
- Into the water,
not the other way around.
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Not the other way
around and drink that down
00:21:31.66\00:21:34.37
and usually within a half
an hour that upset stomach,
00:21:34.40\00:21:39.17
that indigestion, gas, or
heartburn, or acid reflux,
00:21:39.20\00:21:41.90
is brought under control.
00:21:41.93\00:21:43.92
You know on Pubmed in
the American Journal of
00:21:43.95\00:21:47.34
Gastroenterology, they did do
a study, it was a double-blind
00:21:47.35\00:21:52.24
clinical trial that
looked at activated charcoal in
00:21:52.27\00:21:56.08
decreased intestinal gas.
00:21:56.11\00:21:57.95
So those things that we were
doing through faith there is
00:21:57.98\00:22:01.79
actually some clinical
research to substantiate that.
00:22:01.82\00:22:06.23
There are lots of
anecdotal stories out there,
00:22:06.26\00:22:09.36
but I found as I gathered
some of the stories for the book
00:22:09.39\00:22:14.89
how many people who had
good stories were actually
00:22:14.92\00:22:18.93
health care providers, whether
doctors, physicians assistants,
00:22:18.96\00:22:23.46
nurses, chemists, lab techs,
people who are really informed.
00:22:23.49\00:22:29.22
This is something
unusual because back in 1908 the
00:22:29.25\00:22:33.94
Sears and Roebuck Catalog
actually carried charcoal
00:22:33.95\00:22:36.94
in their catalog.
00:22:36.97\00:22:38.60
They said as everybody
knows charcoal is so good for
00:22:38.63\00:22:42.85
indigestion,
heartburn, and gas and so forth.
00:22:42.88\00:22:46.19
But that was 1908 and somehow
charcoal disappeared off the
00:22:46.20\00:22:50.42
radar screen and it's
only now people are becoming
00:22:50.45\00:22:54.12
more aware of it.
00:22:54.15\00:22:55.12
We attended a trade show
and somebody picked up the
00:22:55.13\00:23:01.38
literature when I wasn't there
and contacted me after the show
00:23:01.41\00:23:04.31
and he was a head nurse in
an Emergency Room and he said
00:23:04.34\00:23:06.26
charcoal, it's
absolutely amazing.
00:23:06.29\00:23:09.01
He says, I don't even wait to
get sick, if I feel the symptoms
00:23:09.04\00:23:12.62
of a flu coming on or
a bug or upset stomach,
00:23:12.65\00:23:15.34
I take the charcoal because
I don't know how it works
00:23:15.37\00:23:18.59
but it seems to
eliminate those symptoms,
00:23:18.62\00:23:22.70
and I don't have to go
through the whole flu cycle.
00:23:22.73\00:23:26.40
That's a principal in
simple home remedies that you
00:23:26.43\00:23:31.94
do start at the very
first sign of symptoms,
00:23:31.97\00:23:34.61
don't wait until all
the symptoms track in,
00:23:34.64\00:23:37.69
because by that time
you will need to go to the
00:23:37.72\00:23:41.15
Emergency Room.
So whatever it is
00:23:41.18\00:23:43.37
whether it is a
cold, or an upset stomach,
00:23:43.40\00:23:45.42
right away we want people doing
those simple home remedies.
00:23:45.45\00:23:49.44
Charcoal, drinking lots
of water, we like to do that
00:23:49.47\00:23:53.46
water flush, we drink several
glasses in just one hours time,
00:23:53.49\00:23:57.53
and that really flushes
the virus... the virus likes
00:23:57.54\00:24:02.14
dry membranes, so if
you flush those membranes
00:24:02.17\00:24:06.44
the virus is not
able to attach as easily.
00:24:06.47\00:24:09.97
Then you couple that
with activated charcoal
00:24:10.00\00:24:12.57
with those van De Waal
forces pulling and sucking in
00:24:12.60\00:24:16.14
those toxins, then we've
truly got a nice simple remedy.
00:24:16.17\00:24:21.10
Well, you mentioned water...
charcoal as a simple home remedy
00:24:21.13\00:24:26.28
is only as effective as we
use a holistic health program,
00:24:26.31\00:24:30.16
you mentioned water, of
course we know about exercise,
00:24:30.19\00:24:31.98
and good nutrition and
all these other preventives.
00:24:32.01\00:24:34.46
So charcoal is not a magic
bullet, it's not a cure all,
00:24:34.49\00:24:39.26
sometimes it works. For
many people it does work.
00:24:39.29\00:24:42.41
Sometimes it may not
work and you are going to
00:24:42.44\00:24:44.79
have to look for some other
safe remedy as an alternative
00:24:44.82\00:24:49.06
before you have to go
to the hospital if need be.
00:24:49.09\00:24:51.58
Another thing that
people sometimes say...
00:24:51.61\00:24:54.99
oh charcoal is burnt toast.
00:24:55.02\00:24:56.65
Now I am not saying that
burnt toast might not be a
00:24:56.68\00:24:59.49
home remedy, but
it is not charcoal.
00:24:59.52\00:25:01.65
It's not charcoal, in
fact burnt toast is actually
00:25:01.68\00:25:03.49
carcinogenic. -
Yes, it's super heated
00:25:03.52\00:25:06.20
carbohydrates, proteins,
and fats, and these things
00:25:06.23\00:25:10.05
can be carcinogenic.
00:25:10.08\00:25:12.57
Carcinogenic
meaning cancer forming.
00:25:12.60\00:25:14.74
Correct, and since you
brought us carcinogenic
00:25:14.75\00:25:18.71
let's briefly
talk about briquettes.
00:25:18.74\00:25:21.99
I know that there
are natural briquettes,
00:25:22.02\00:25:26.52
but most people when they, go
to the store to buy briquettes
00:25:26.55\00:25:29.26
it is impregnated with fossil
fuels to help them ignite.
00:25:29.29\00:25:32.84
That is not something
that you would want to apply...
00:25:32.87\00:25:34.72
take internally, or
apply superficially.
00:25:34.75\00:25:37.19
Now it has also
been... some people have said
00:25:37.22\00:25:40.53
charcoal is
carcinogenic and the reason is
00:25:40.56\00:25:43.28
the connected to benzopyrenes.
00:25:43.32\00:25:44.87
A lot of people barbeque
their food, braze their food,
00:25:44.90\00:25:48.42
and what happens is when
they are cooking their food
00:25:48.45\00:25:51.84
and these fats, juices drip
down into the hot coals they
00:25:51.87\00:25:55.54
vaporize, form these
benzopyrenes and then embed
00:25:55.57\00:25:58.85
themselves against the
bottom of the food that
00:25:58.88\00:26:00.78
they are barbequing.
00:26:00.81\00:26:02.11
But that's not charcoal,
it's the heat from the charcoal
00:26:02.14\00:26:06.06
that produces
these benzopyrenes.
00:26:06.09\00:26:08.17
So there we have the list,
we have charcoal is not toast,
00:26:08.20\00:26:11.94
it's not briquettes,
and it's not a cure all.
00:26:11.95\00:26:14.04
I would want to
mention to you, charcoal has an
00:26:14.07\00:26:18.69
indefinite life span.
00:26:18.73\00:26:20.49
When you buy it at the store,
it will come either as a powder,
00:26:20.52\00:26:26.21
as a tablet, as a capsule,
and sometimes it will be
00:26:26.24\00:26:30.54
stamped with a shelf life.
00:26:30.57\00:26:31.82
It's only for
marketing purposes,
00:26:31.85\00:26:34.48
actually if you
keep the lid tight,
00:26:34.51\00:26:36.13
it will last indefinitely.
00:26:36.16\00:26:38.40
I've had charcoal for
years, I've had it for 10 years.
00:26:38.43\00:26:43.16
- It's still very very active.
- And it's very effective.
00:26:43.19\00:26:46.32
Right! In fact the
W.H.O. World Health Organization
00:26:46.35\00:26:51.47
has passed a resolution
encouraging other nations
00:26:51.50\00:26:54.54
to really study into
using simple, natural, harmless,
00:26:54.55\00:26:59.55
scientifically proven
remedies, and I can think of no
00:26:59.59\00:27:03.27
remedy that fits
that description better
00:27:03.30\00:27:05.94
than charcoal.
00:27:05.97\00:27:06.94
In fact when you think of
diarrhea, diarrhea according to
00:27:06.95\00:27:11.26
the W.H.O. kills around
5,000 people every single day
00:27:11.29\00:27:16.28
of the year.
Cholera is a major killer
00:27:16.31\00:27:20.83
in some developing countries,
we do not have it here.
00:27:20.86\00:27:23.25
But charcoal deals
with severe diarrhea...
00:27:23.28\00:27:26.76
When I was working on a
remote island out in the Pacific
00:27:26.79\00:27:29.92
the community nurse
was dealing with a patient
00:27:29.95\00:27:31.86
who had severe Cholera
she was not able to help him
00:27:31.89\00:27:35.49
with her standard
medicines and she gave charcoal,
00:27:35.52\00:27:40.78
it stopped the diarrhea, she
then gave the re-hydration salts
00:27:40.81\00:27:43.68
and she was able
to save his life.
00:27:43.71\00:27:45.99
So for something as simple
as a bee sting to something
00:27:46.02\00:27:50.36
as Cholera...
activated charcoal is
00:27:50.39\00:27:54.58
simple and
scientifically proven.
00:27:54.61\00:27:56.45
Yes!
00:27:56.48\00:27:57.45
John, I want to thank you
for coming and sharing this
00:27:57.46\00:27:59.48
wonderful information with
us and with our viewing audience
00:27:59.51\00:28:02.82
and those around the world.
00:28:02.83\00:28:04.15
Thank You!
00:28:04.18\00:28:05.36
We wish above all things
that you will prosper and
00:28:05.39\00:28:08.76
be in health, even
as your soul prospers.
00:28:08.79\00:28:11.73
May God Bless You!
00:28:11.76\00:28:13.14