In Reply to: CHARCOAL TABLETS posted by Maggs on Monday, 10. January 2005 at 10:22 Bali Time:
& are the same thing & only cost about 6,000 > 7,000 rupiah for a packet of 40. You can pick them up at any Apotik.We always bring a couple of packets back with us.
I think the idea is that they absorb the bad bugs & let them pass through your system where as our western type of medicines just work on the symptoms & you still have the bug churning away in your system.On the packet of Norit it says suitable for gastro -intestinal disorders,diarrhoea,flatulence,indigestion & food poisioning.