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Originally Posted by Cynthia, Prescott, AZ  and I question the use of charcoal. Anyone know if it acts like a fungicide? |
Cynthia,
Aside from cinnamon and garden sulfur, I have read that activated charcoal
has been used to treat fungal infections. I know in potentially fatal ingestion
of fungi in human cases, they have used activated charcoal to interrupt the
entero-hepatic recycling that can occur with toxins that the fungus produces.
Activated charcoal is simply burnt wood that has all the oxygen removed
from it through controlled oxidation or processing by steam. Because of its
high absorbtion rate it absorbs the fungal toxins and neutralizes them.