[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by freeztar

So here's a few q's:
* @Michael: What was your Dr.'s advice for ACP use? Is it long term or short term?
* How can ACPs be useful for treating gas if you can only take them for a few days? Is the theory that it wipes out all the built up junk inside that causes gas? If so, then what kind of maintenance schedule would be needed? What is safe?
* If the ACPs adsorb everything indiscriminately, then why do they say to take it with meals?

I posted a British Report on the many uses of Charcoal on the old thread.
I will try and find it.

DOC (specialist gave no advice.
Charcoal also absorbs/interferes with medication?
I am seeing Doc. later in the week and will ask.

Just talked to a Charcoal wholesaler who says he sells a lot to SE Asian Chook and beef producers. It is added to the feed. The beef produced is leaner. (!?)
Not quite sure how it makes a better chook.

Charcoal uses

[InfiniteNow]

Charcoal for sketching.

[freeztar]

This is not really an unusual use of charcoal, but I thought it was news worthy enough to post here:
Congo Gorilla Killings Fueled by Illegal Charcoal Trade

[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by freeztar

This is not really an unusual use of charcoal, but I thought it was news worthy enough to post here:
Congo Gorilla Killings Fueled by Illegal Charcoal Trade

interesting will post it on care2

I forgot to ask the doc, but I think the problem with charcoal tabs is that they also absorb vitamins too.
Although my wife reckons that my chaired steaks are "cancerous"
Probably not cancerous just mutagenic so we got where we are by cooking food and causing a genetic mutation

More thinking outside the square
David Yarrow has given me permission to repost this here.

i recall nearly 40 years ago i learned how to make earthenware pottery from a man who lived many years with the navajo in the southwestern states. he fired his pottery in a pit with cow pies.
I was amazed they would even burn, and even more amazed how hot they could get. Then he should me how to damp down the glowering pit of red hot cow pies and create a reducing fire to turn the pottery black.

When I moved into my 190-year-old farmhouse 10 years ago,I could see the
soil was wasted, wornout and depleted from the ratty lawn and poor diversity
of plant species. my neighbor, who grew up in my house, saw me starting a
garden and came over to warn me i wouldn't get anything to grow. I thanked
him and continued doing what i had learned to do to create fertile topsoil.

These days, i have milkweed, valerian, goosefoot, other weeds that reach 5
to 8 foot tall, with sout, sturdy stems. and the bamboo and rosebushes!!
even my pokeweed grows into giant bushes; and the trees that once barely
grew are blooming like mad, making multitudes of seeds which fall on fertile
soil and sprout like mad into sapling weed trees. All this before I found
out about charcoal.

So my once wasted and weak soil is now busting out with biodiversity and
biomass all through the growing season. I am still amazed how each spring
when the snow melts, the flat soil erupts in green growth that soon soars up
to and over my head. since much of this annual outburst of growth is
"weeds,"
I have an abundance of biomass to harvest and stuff in a
pyrolyer -- or pottery kiln. Long before i get to harvesting cornstalks, I
could have barrels of charcoal ready to spread -- most of it fine textured,
and easily crushed into powder without metal tools or power equipment; and
absolutely no reason to cut down any trees to make firewood or charcoal.

I seriously, thoroughly doubt the amazon tribes needed to cut down trees
just to make charcoal. if nothing else, it was far too much work.

David Yarrow
"If yer not forest, yer against us."
Turtle EyeLand Sanctuary

I used to live near a crazy potter. He built his own kiln but loved to open fire pottery occasionally. He made a gigantic bonfire with the pottery inside. All sorts of "arty" and intersting effects were produced by open firing.
Also a lot of breakages.
It this how Amazonian discovered char?
Is this why there is lots of Pottery in Terra preta?

[Michaelangelica]

I am reading a detective story at the moment by Gerald Hammond "Dead Letters".
One character is a dog who farts.
The owner feeds her charcoal and parsley to stop the farting.

I note that charcoal is added to a lot of animal food products.

Would charcoal have any effects on cow farting or belching do you think?
it is NZ's major source of greenhouse gas (methane?).

[Michaelangelica]

Activate charcoal
"If you feed charcoal to milking cows, the quality of the fat in the milk improves and the taste is much better than cow that was not fed charcoal. ...
Activate charcoal - 30k -



CharcoalRemedies.com: The Complete Handbook of Medicinal Charcoal ... - Google Books Result
by John Dinsley - 2005 - Technology - 304 pages
Those lambs that received charcoal ate more feed than those that did not ... mad cow disease and other toxic organisms, charcoal should look better and ...
books.google.com.au/books?isbn=0973846402...

Activated charcoal: a versatile decolorization agent for the ...
A. & Piva, G. 1996 Reduction of carryover of aflatoxin from cow. feed to milk by addition of activated carbon. Journal of Food. Protection 59, 551–554. ...
SpringerLink Home - Main -

Applied Clay Science : Aflatoxin B1 adsorption by clays from water ...
(1992) examined the carry-over of aflatoxin from feed (AfB1) into cow's ... 1% sodium bentonite and activated charcoal additions to feed that contained 100 ...
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0169131706001591]

Canadian Organic Growers
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
charcoal or clay the third day after the new born ... Give charcoal twice a day. Give cow 4 drops a ... If a cow is up and eating feed 25 gm chloride of ...
www.cog.ca/documents/RS5.pdf

[Michaelangelica]

Charcoal treatment for heart poisoning
Yellow oleander

Yellow oleander seeds are poisonous
Charcoal may be a cheap and effective medicine for certain types of cardiac poisoning, research suggests.

Scientists focused on the use of charcoal to treat the effects of eating oleander seeds - a common problem in Sri Lanka.

But they believe the same treatment may also be effective at neutralising drugs used in Western populations that can produce a similar effect

BBC NEWS | Health | Charcoal treatment for heart poisoning

[Michaelangelica]

seed germination and charcoal

Implications

The study shows that prairie grass establishment by direct sowing is possible in the south of England, especially when soil temperature is elevated by either charcoal or clear polythene mulching. Overall the charcoal treatment was most successful as this mulch also reduced weed cover early in the first half of the summer. Management from 1998 onwards has been restricted to burning the dead grass leaves in spring each year with a propane gas flame gun a technique which is less laborious than hand weeding, and could be used in larger scale plantings without the use of herbicide. Five years after establishment the plots that supported a high density of prairie grasses in October 1997 (mostly charcoal and clear polythene mulch) are still the most successful, and are largely weed free. This shows that prairie grass planting can be achieved cost effectively using seed sown in open ground, in southern UK. The management regime for this planting could be adapted for the amateur horticulturist.

Royal Horticultural Society - Research Projects: Horticulture & Soil Science

for african violets

Hortense Pittman's Texas formula: 5 gallons sterilized fine peat moss, 5 gallons coarse horticultural grade vermiculite, 2 gallons coarse horticultural grade perlite, 1 cup crushed horticultural grade charcoal, 5 quarts of water, 1 teaspoon frittered trace elements, and 1 cup of pulverized dolomite lime.

Marie Burns' Show mix: 5 gallons Baccto African Violet Soil, 3 gallons coarse horticultural grade perlite, 1 gallon sterilized fine peat moss, 2 gallons coarse horticultural grade vermicu lite, 6 cups horticultural grade charcoal, 1 cup dehydrated cow manure, 2 tablespoons Ferban, and 10 tablespoons dolomite lime.

Fisher's Soil Formula from Canada: 2 quarts sterilized clay loam (garden loam or top soil), 2 quarts perlite, 2 quarts medium or coarse vermiculite; 2 quarts fine chip horticultural charcoal, 8 quarts sphagnum peat moss (screened to remove sticks or buy fine screened). Mix separately the following: 1 cup bone meal, 1 cup calcium carbonate OR dolomite lime powder (not granular), and 1 tablespoon Fermate or Ferbam. Combine the above ingredients with about a half a gallon of water.

http://www.richmondavs.org/culture.html

[Michaelangelica]

Bamboo charcoal vinegar is extracted when making charcoal and is used for hundreds of treatment on almost all aspects. This liquid contains 400 kinds of chemical elements and can be applied in many purposes such as cosmetics, insecticides, deodorants, food processing, and agriculture. Its functions are to expel smell, kill bacteria, keep health and to nourish facial and body skin.

Health benefits of Bamboo and Bamboo Charcoal Vinegar | Alejandra Neri

bamboo charcoal product-vinegar deodorant washing-prwder sheet soap shampoo

Abstract;The effects of bamboo charcoal and bamboo vinegar on growth of some plants were examined from a practical viewpoint. 1. The rooting of Camellia sinensis cuttings was enhanced by the application of bamboo vinegar solution at 20-fold concentration to the rooting substrate. A tendency of increased yield and higher quality was observed in the first harvest of tea when bamboo vinegar was applied by foliar spray at 1000-fold concentration on 30 days before the harvest. 2. Bamboo vinegar did not stimulate seed germination and initial growth of some herbaceous ornamental plants. Conversely, in tulip and gladiolus, stimulated stem elongation as well as increased bulb weight when bamboo vinegar was applied. 3. A synergistic promotive effect in growth of Ophiopogon japonicus forma nunus hort. was observed when bomboo vinegar solution was applied at 1000-fold concentration into soil mixed with manure. 4. The elongation of shoot from dormant buds was enhanced in Fagus crenata and Prunus mume when 1000 ppm of the bamboo vinegar was added in a forcing solution. 5. No significant effect was observed in the application of bamboo charcoal in all experiments. (author abst.)

Science Links Japan | Effects of bamboo charcoal and bamboo vinegar on growth of agricultural plants.

Medicinal Benefits of Bamboo Charcoal
Infrared Ray

Charcoal flame produces infrared rays not visible with our eyes. The place it hit will become warm regardless of air temperature. This warmth promotes proper blood circulation and renewal. Fish, meat, and vegetables will taste better and other nutrients will be produced.

Negative Ionization
Charcoals generate negative ions. Negative ions begin to work in the parasympathetic nervous system, which relaxes the mind and body.

The above-mentioned effects are just a few of several benefits you can obtain from charcoals. During the process of charcoal making, you can have more products for health and good living.

Medicinal Benefits of Bamboo Charcoal
Strange but true?
Should this be in the strange claims forum or not?
I am reminded of someone's signature here by Asimov that says science is advanced not by Eureka but by "thats funny/strange".


PS
I have some Black Bamboo, happy to swap with anyone with any interesting variety. Preferably in Australia due to our Feral Customs.

[Michaelangelica]

Gardeners starting to use char
Metropolitan Rural | The Garden is In!

Char very much a part of this community's life
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