Prairie Naturals Digest Force - Activated coconut charcoal works with ginger root extract to relieve digestive upsets and disturbances including lack of appetite, nausea, digestive spasms, indigestion, dyspepsia, gas, bloating and flatulent colic. Charcoal is "activated" when its surface area is increased by physical and chemical processes. Activated charcoal reacts with various substances by binding them to its surface, so the greater the surface area, the more effective it is.