[Stoves] Reply

[Anand Karve]

Dear Crispin and Gerrie,
the charcoal that is given as medicine to people is a powder, or as
granules that disintegrate into a powder after ingestion.  Our
charcoal from leaf litter and agricultural waste is in a powder form.
Somebody from the National Chemical Laboratory in Pune did some
experiments with our charring process to test if they could make
powdery active charcoal by using our process of charring. It could be
done by treating the raw material with calcium carbonate.
Yours
A.D.Karve

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 11:38 PM, Gerrie Baker <gbaker at rideau.net> wrote:
> Yes - now that you mention it I have actually heard of this and forgot!   I
> am interested.  Gerrie
>
> On 04/11/2011 11:04 AM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott wrote:
>
> Dear Gerrie
>
>
>
> Charcoal is often given to people and animals that have a running stomach,
> as they say. Traditional medicine. Still used.
>
>
>
> Regards
>
> Crispin
>
>
>
> +++++
>
>
>
> Hello Kevin:  This seems quite odd to me.  I would not expect animals to
> want to ingest char however I shall add a few chunks into the chicken pen
> and watch for the results.  I would not expect the char to act like oyster
> shell or grit in the crop but to be honest I do not know so I shall observe
> and I have one rooster isolated for the next family dinner so I can feed
> some into his pen and if he ingests it I will examine the crop when he is
> killed to see how it "looks" compared to the stones and grain normally
> seen.  Regards, Gerrie
>
> Regards, Gerrie Baker, aka The Worm Lady
>
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Dr. A.D. Karve
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