A study conducted by a Philippine Professor Severino Paypa in the book “Healing Wonders of Charcoal”, indicates that charcoal can be used to relieve pain, stop the spread of microbes, nausea, and vomiting, remove gallstones and bile duct stones and many other diseases.
The study of further shows that charcoal also prevents the venom from animal bites including dogs and snakes that may spread throughout the body and chemicals toxins.
To get more information about this medicine, IGIHE talked to Samuel Semahame Nyakarundi, an expert in general health who invested in researching herbal medicine.
Nyakarundi who founded and runs Zirumuze, a cooperative that specializes in the production and distribution of traditional medicines says that charcoal heals, but not any kind of charcoal is used in medicine.
“Charcoals are different and so are all the ones we use for cooking because of the types of trees they are made from and it is often hard to tell which is which. The charcoals that treat diseases are the ones from the white variety of eucalyptus also known as ‘maideni’,” he says.
He adds these are the ones they regularly prescribe for those who need them at Zirumuze, but before using it, they track their entire journey even from before they are burned.
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Nyakarundi explains that for charcoal to possess the healing ingredient, it must first be activated. This is done by putting charcoal in a saucepan or other cooking utensil and heat it as much as possible.
Like all other medicines, charcoal iis taken in doses. They also advise patients on how to use them at the right dosage whether orally or externally.
“For instance, when someone suspects that they have been poisoned, they may come to us here at Zirumuze and cure them using charcoal, but then they have to do it in not later than 24 hours from the time the poison entered their body,” he explains.
Aside from poisoning, Zirumuze also uses charcoal to treat and protect kidneys lest they lose the ability to purify the blood.
If you suspect that you have one of the above-mentioned illnesses, you are advised not to take charcoal instantly, but consult Zirumuze Cooperative so that specialist doctors test and diagnose you and if they find out what you really need charcoal treatment, they will prescribe it for you.
Zirumuze is based in Kigali on the ‘La fraicheur’ road in front of Muhima textile market, Nyabugogo in a new building for associations (Amashyirahamwe) opposite to WASAC.
They also work from Musanze’s foodstuffs market, room 69 and in Rubavu bus station room 14.
You can also call them on the following phone numbers: 0788863221, 0784647369, 0783072727, 0784647166, 0784647265 or email them at [nyakasamyy@gmail.com->nyakasamyy@gmail.com], [info@zirumuze.com->info@zirumuze.com]. You can also visit their website at: [www.zirumuze.com->www.zirumuze.com]
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