We use it for upset stomach - works great! Peppermint also great for that!

u/208-RZ nails it too... We haven't used it for that though.

You can use it with toothpaste to brighten your teeth too!

It's great. Better than Pepcid, and if you've eaten something that's making you sick.

Love love love it.

I make soaps, activated charcoal is the one everyone loves most. Removes BO. Soap on a rag removes poison ivy/oak/etc.

Had an 11 year old get stung by a wasp while camping last summer, she was screaming in pain. Made a paste, wrapped it in wet gauze and applied it (aka a poultice) and it was fine a couple minutes later, no pain or swelling.

I live around brown recluse spiders so I have it in all my medical/survival kits. Do a web search for brown recluse bites and activated charcoal, amazing stuff.

It works against most any drug or venom, many poisons (not cyanide). It's ineffective against salts, acids, and bases.

The powder is super dangerous if inhaled. Also very dangerous to mix it with hydrocarbons. The pure carbon bonds to it and you get new hydrocarbons, which could be a 1000 times worse than what you started with.

I use AC in my Berkey water filter (along with flouride filters) and on the exit spout of my Vivohome water distillers. Using both in series cleans the tap water and removes 100% of garbage. Mineral pack soak is then used to create drinking water from pure distilled.

Activated charcoal capsules (like vitamin supplements) will soak up and neutralize most toxins in the stomach including most poisons. I use two at a time when needed. Keep them handy (in car or backpack) if ordering food in a Dem city and you are from "out of town". The demons will poison your food, especially if you are white.

Get a stomach bug take it immediately and if you actually get sick it is a fraction of the length Very very rarely use it whiten teeth too often you ruin enamel. Used it once for a medicine absorber after I realized I might have an allergy worked amazingly well. It absorbs and capture