This work highlights the great effectiveness of activated charcoal in treating drug overdoses and poisonings in both humans and animals. It brings together information from significant studies of the use of activated charcoal for medical purposes, describing all available charcoal products and their characteristics. The ability of activated charcoal to reduce the systemic absorption of an array of drugs, chemicals and biochemical substances, including analgesics, antipyretics, sedatives, alkaloids, snake venoms and bacterial and fungal toxins, is detailed.

"Activated Charcoal: Antidote, Remedy, Health Aid" - a layman's introduction to the effectiveness of activated charcoal as used in medical applications. This book gathers together most of what has been reported to date on the use of activated charcoal as an oral antidote and as a remedy for other ailments.