Hello and welcome to
Health for a Lifetime!
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I'm your host Don Macintosh,
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and today we're happy to have,
joining with us, Rob McClintock
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Rob McClintock is a
Christian herbologist,
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and has written a book
called, "God's Healing Leaves"
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What is a Christian herbologist?
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What does that mean?
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Well, I chose that distinction,
Don, to let people know that
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I was coming at it
from a very specific
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orientation or perspective.
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A lot of the people who are
involved in plant medicine today
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do so from the standpoint
of universal cosmic powers
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that are supposedly projected
down and into these plants,
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and these plants contain
special intelligent energies...
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And a lot of people take their
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medicinal plants
from that perspective.
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I wanted to distinguish myself
from that field of persuasion
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to let people
recognize that there is a God;
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there's a God who created all
of these plants for our benefit,
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and that He is
the God of science,
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who created specific things
like the fields of chemistry,
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physics and the laws of
gravity and thermodynamics,
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and all of these particular
laws were created by God
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who created our universe.
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And I wanted the people
that I came in contact with
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to recognize that I
fit in to that persuasion,
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rather than the other one.
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So I imagine that it's
been a rather recent phenomena
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to be able to go
to a store and say...
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"Hey, I feel this way...
and here's a bottle of pills
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that I can take to
help me with that. "
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Originally, probably
these medications that we take
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over-the-counter
now, used to be plants...
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Would that be right or wrong?
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That's correct... we're
still talking, a lot of times,
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about some of our
clinical medicines are actually
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derived from plant sources.
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There are many botanists
and medical research teams
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who actually tramp through
the rainforest looking for
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an unidentified species
that may have some sort of a
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medicinal benefit.
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And I remember as a
child, and that's not been that
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many decades ago thankfully,
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you could go to a pharmacist
and he would have some
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medicinal herbs already ground
up in canisters on the shelf.
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I remember buying goldenseal
from the pharmacy as a child.
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You know, you don't do that
even as long as 5 years ago.
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But today, you go to any sort
of a big chain department store
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or one of these big stores;
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they've got a health
food section right next to the
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pharmacy and you're
going to find a lot of these
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medicinal herbs
being sold there again.
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So we're seeing people become
more interested again in herbs.
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What you're suggesting
then is that there is a need to
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get back into that and
to understand the plants
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that God has given us,
and how they can help us
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with particular situations
and conditions we get into.
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Now I understand that
when someone becomes sick,
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and they have a fever or
something else, or whatever,
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there are some basic
things that they need to do...
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I think you
mentioned, before the set,
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Mention some of those basic
things that people need to do
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for when they're feeling ill,
and then maybe open our minds.
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What kind of things
can plants help us with?
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Okay, I've had a number of
people call me or come to me,
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and say, "Can you give me a
plant or a combination of herbs
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that I can take to
deal with these symptoms?"
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Well, it was obvious from
the symptoms that they describe
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that these were symptoms that
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were caused by
abusing their bodies,
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and I couldn't
in good conscience
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cover up their symptoms...
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And so I always try and
back people up and say...
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"Wait a minute, let's
look at your lifestyle"
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Are you
drinking? Are you smoking?
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Do we have
nicotine? Do we have caffeine?
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Do we have alcohol?
What about the fats?
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What about the
sugars? What about the salts?
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Do you get any exercise?
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Do you get any sunshine?
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Do you breathe any fresh air?
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Don't you go to bed at night?
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You know, we cover all
these basics first because
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...again, the plants
are medicine but they're not
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a panacea; they're not a magical
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thing that you can
take when you're sick.
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You've got to take care
of all of the bases first.
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I notice in your book
you mention that there are
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certain things that, once
you've covered those bases,
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that we could really
help people with... headaches,
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bleeding, impacted sinuses,
common cold, PMS, arthritis,
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and quite a list here
that you have mentioned...
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infections, cancer.
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Care to comment on
any of those specifically.
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What about headaches?
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Okay... You know, you as
a regular medical worker,
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understand that headaches have
a lot of different sources...
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And for some people,
perhaps what they really need is
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a day off from
watching television,
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or a day off from work.
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They need some exercise;
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a lot of people
need to drink some water.
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They're dehydrated and headache
is a sign of dehydration.
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There are so many
different types...
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Maybe they need a good massage.
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Maybe they're
just all stressed out.
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But for those headaches that
seem to defy all of those things
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we have a number
of anti-inflammatory
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analgesic-type plants.
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We have the white willow
plant which actually has some
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compounds called salicylates
where we originally, years ago,
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we began to derive aspirin from.
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It's in a little bit
more system-friendly format,
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in the white willow powder
is a bark that people take,
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a lot of people have
that in their cupboard
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that they can take a
couple of capsules of the
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white willow bark if
they have a headache.
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Again, I don't like to
see people cover up symptoms.
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I want to make sure they
really, look for the foundation.
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We have a lot of people
with migraine headaches.
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We're finding that
people who take feverfew
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on a fairly regular
basis, can block or at least
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reduce the frequency and the
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severity of their
migraine headaches.
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But again, most people
with migraine headaches have a
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food allergy or they
have a chemical sensitivity,
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or they have a
hormone imbalance,
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or, the majority of the time,
they don't drink enough water,
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and they eat too much junk food.
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There are a lot of different
ways that we can deal with that.
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One reason for
headaches, a lot of times,
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is because people
have sinus headaches.
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That's one of the times
that we actually take some
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fairly direct
interventions because
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you know, we have a
physical thing to work on.
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I've had a number of
opportunities with people
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who had impacted sinuses
where their head was pounding,
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and you could actually
see like on their cheeks
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where the sinus cavities are,
there's actually a reddening
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on the surface of the
skin, and maybe a little bit of
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swelling and protrusion.
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Those types of things sometimes
are caused from a cold or a flu,
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or they can actually
be from a sinus infection.
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We have a number of plants...
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Probably the one that's the
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most easily used
is the plantain plant.
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I'm not talking
about the banana cousin.
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I'm talking about
"Plantago Psyllium"
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from the Latin description,
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which is something
that grows in almost
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everybody's yard
all over the U.S.
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I haven't seen it in the
desert, but almost anywhere
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where green things grow.
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I have had a number of
people just take about 3 leaves
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from the plant and run
it through a juicer with a
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raw potato; it's a
pretty interesting combination.
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It's not really
recreational in it's flavor,
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but it does help to
go in and fairly quickly
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defeat the infectious process,
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and also works as a
tremendous decongestant.
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I've had people tell me
that they've had congestions
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to the point that they
were actually causing them
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apparent dental
problems for years,
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and using this for
a few days cleared up,
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and took out the
pressure and the pains...
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It's really a
pretty easy thing to do.
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So, there are ways to
treat these common things.
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Now I assume there probably
are books or different things
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available where you can
actually identify the plants...
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And I know either you
have that kind of information,
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or others in the
field... because, you know,
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for me, I'd go out and it just
looks like weeds in my backyard.
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But I'm sure there's
a way to identify that.
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Once we've identified
that, then there are people that
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can help us know what to do next
if we're going down this road.
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I mean, this is a fairly big
decision, I think, for LOTS of
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people to make
this decision to say...
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"Hey, I'm going to go
away from traditional medicine,
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and I'm going to get into
these plants and try this. "
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It's a fairly big step
for people, wouldn't you say?
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You really should take baby
steps rather than a quantum leap
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because I see people
trying... or making the attempt
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to make the quantum
leap without any education,
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without any experience,
without any background,
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and you can hurt yourself.
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There are 2 ways
to hurt yourself...
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One is by depriving yourself of
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the kind of care
that is necessary.
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Let's say that you've got
a dreadful staph infection
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in your foot or
something, and you say...
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"Well, I'm just
going to take garlic for my
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staph infection in my foot. "
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I'm sorry, it's not
going to do the job.
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That's one way to hurt yourself
by NOT taking care of yourself
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in a respectable way.
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There ARE ways that
you can deal with those,
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but most people
are unaware of them,
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so that's where you
need to take the baby steps
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and try not to
replace the necessary care
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until you know how.
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The other way to hurt yourself
is to take things that are not
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specific for your condition
or maybe contraindicated
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in your condition.
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And so again,
education is paramount!
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I noticed in your
book, you mentioned that
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there's treatment for PMS,
so-called premenstrual syndrome
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I'm sure a lot of our viewers
are interested in that...
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What would you say they would do
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with a plant to
take care of that?
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Okay, PMS, premenstrual syndrome
I call it Pa and Ma squabbling.
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I like to come up with more
colloquial forms for all these
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things just to keep them
in perspective in my mind.
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We have found that
hormone balances can come from
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your foods; hormone imbalances
certainly come from our foods.
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A few years ago, my
wife and I, we work together,
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we were asking one
another the question...
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"Why are so many women
experiencing hormone imbalances"
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And the answers came
from some research that
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someone shared with us...
Most of it is from our food.
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Because we are eating food that
comes through the food chain
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the commercial pesticides,
the commercial herbicides,
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a lot of these being systemic
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actually are IN OUR
FOOD as we eat it...
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And they block our
body's capacity to maintain
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a proper hormone balance.
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So which one causes PMS?
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Well, I know that the one
that probably is associated
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with the most of it
are the systemic herbicides
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that they spray
in the corn fields
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to prevent weeds from coming up.
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But they're ALL
directly related.
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We're finding that to
help people overcome that...
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I tell people the best
thing you can do is eat organic
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produce that you raise yourself,
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rather than being dependent
on what I call plastic food
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that comes from chemicals.
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While you don't have
that, you can help to maintain
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some balance
through some intervention...
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Soy products help that.
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There are some isoflavones
and some estrogenic-type
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substances that you can use.
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Eat a lot of the soy products,
soymilk, soy powders...
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You can
actually get concentrated
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soy isoflavones today
in health food stores.
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We also find that flaxseed oil
helps to balance the hormones...
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And we've got a couple
of regular medicinal herbs
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that work VERY WELL...
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One is a wild Mexican yam
which contains some precursors
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that people can actually use as
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building blocks to
make their own hormones.
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So the wild Mexican yam is
what helps with PMS? Correct!
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So if you're feeling
like a wild Mexican yam,
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just have a few of them,
it will calm you down. Right
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There are about 600
varieties of wild yams;
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about 14 to 16 actually
contain the hormonal precursors
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that we're looking for,
so again, you have to know
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which direction you're
headed or at least trust a
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particular brand name
of something that has it.
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There's another herb
called the "chaste tree"
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Actually, it's a very big herb,
it's the chaste tree berry,
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and I like to mix
the chaste tree berries
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with the wild yam
in the powdered form,
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and have the ladies
take that in capsulated form.
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We've used those around the
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house for quite
a number of years.
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I have a wife and
2 teenage daughters,
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and so I came up with
these in self-defense!
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OH, so there's an ACTUAL REASON
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for you knowing so much.
00:13:53.48\00:13:54.85
Yeah, you know,
there was some motivation,
00:13:54.88\00:13:56.94
and I call them "happy pills"
00:13:56.97\00:13:58.97
I've had them a time or two
saying... "I need to take those"
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When we come back, we're going
to be looking at some things
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in your book that I
think is going to be fun,
00:14:05.31\00:14:07.01
and it's going to be interesting
00:14:07.04\00:14:08.46
for those who
are joining us today.
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We're going to be looking
at things like... infusion,
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decoction, infusional decoction,
tincture, capsules, poultices,
00:14:13.51\00:14:22.10
infused oils and salve.
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So, when we come back, join us.
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We are going to be
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Welcome back to
"Health for a Lifetime"
00:15:51.83\00:15:54.61
We're glad that Rob
McClintock is with us.
00:15:54.64\00:15:56.97
He's a Christian herbologist,
and this is the exciting part
00:15:57.00\00:16:00.12
of this segment, I think, Rob.
00:16:00.15\00:16:01.67
We're back here;
we're going to look at some
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concoctions,
decoctions, infusions...
00:16:03.39\00:16:06.97
Am I saying all
this right? Pretty close
00:16:07.00\00:16:08.84
And why don't you just
work us through this...
00:16:08.87\00:16:11.28
We have a lot to cover,
and I'll just be your hands
00:16:11.31\00:16:14.73
and kind of help you
as we talk back and forth.
00:16:14.76\00:16:17.65
What, first of
all, is an infusion?
00:16:17.68\00:16:19.27
Okay Don... An
infusion is a tea.
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One of the things
that is a little confusing.
00:16:22.02\00:16:24.44
When I first
picked up my first book,
00:16:24.47\00:16:26.17
I saw... infusions, decoctions,
infusional decoctions,
00:16:26.20\00:16:30.90
and I said... this looks like
confusions and concoctions to me
00:16:30.93\00:16:34.17
What I didn't really understand
that I finally did understand
00:16:34.20\00:16:37.43
later was that they are
just different names for
00:16:37.46\00:16:41.45
similar things because we
treat different types of plants,
00:16:41.48\00:16:45.32
and different parts
of the plants differently
00:16:45.35\00:16:47.19
as we extract their medicinal
properties out of those.
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And really, all of those
are just a different type of
00:16:50.21\00:16:52.95
word for word "tea" but we
make different kinds of teas.
00:16:52.98\00:16:56.59
And maybe just to
illustrate what we're doing...
00:16:56.62\00:16:58.63
We'll grab a
couple of these here,
00:16:58.66\00:17:00.41
and maybe you can
help me in the kitchen.
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Does your wife make you
work in the kitchen ever?
00:17:01.95\00:17:04.13
We're making now an
infusion. Right... A tea
00:17:04.16\00:17:07.66
An infusion is what we do when
we use the light part of a plant
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like the leaf or the blossom,
or a light part of the stem.
00:17:11.72\00:17:16.57
And, if you want to just give
me a little bit of help here,
00:17:16.60\00:17:19.56
we're going to show the people
something that they probably
00:17:19.59\00:17:21.88
are not used to doing, but I
don't like to clean up messes.
00:17:21.91\00:17:25.01
When I work in the
kitchen, my wife made me
00:17:25.04\00:17:26.75
clean up all of my own messes,
and I got really tired of that,
00:17:26.78\00:17:29.21
and so I learned to be ingenious
and lazy at the same time.
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That's a coffee filter, like
you'd use for a coffee machine.
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Get it at any store, anywhere.
Yeah, they're terribly cheap.
00:17:35.87\00:17:40.12
Rule of thumb... about a
teaspoon for 1 cup of water
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I work in rules of thumbs rather
than scientific ratios here.
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So what kind of tea
is this we're making...
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Okay, that's comfrey.
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That would make a comfrey tea
00:17:51.96\00:17:53.54
which we talked
about in an earlier time.
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Might work for
as an expectorant.
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Help someone cough,
in other words. Yeah
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And then you what... fold
this up like a teabag? Yeah
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If you'll hold
that right up, and...
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Would I fold it
over again, or not?
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Oh probably about 3 or 4 times
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so that the top is going
to be somewhat leak-proof.
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And I just take a
household office stapler,
00:18:14.92\00:18:18.17
and I've got an instant teabag,
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and I don't have to
strain the stuff out.
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So I just put that in
my... Put it in our... okay
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Now here's where the confusion
comes that we want to clarify.
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These are the
light parts of the plant.
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So what we want to do is,
we want to have a cup of water
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in our pot before
we even put this in,
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and we'll try not to spill this.
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Good shot... Okay, we've
got a cup of water in there.
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We would put it
on our heat source...
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Open fire, hot plate,
whatever we're going to
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put it on, kitchen stove.
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We're going to
bring this to a boil.
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We're going to
remove that from the fire.
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You're going to pop that
in and put the lid on it.
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So we take it from the fire.
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So someone that's taking
notes, what are the steps again?
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Okay, put the water
in. Bring it to a boil.
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We put this in our
teabag... Take it off the fire
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Take it off the fire. Put
the cover on it immediately.
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Put the cover on.
Put this here and then
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put the cover
on, and let it cool.
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Now what's happening
is the medicinal qualities
00:19:13.01\00:19:16.33
of the aerial parts of the
plant we have a lot of things
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called "volatile oils"
and those would evaporate
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and disappear if we
didn't put the lid on.
00:19:21.45\00:19:23.92
So it keeps it
right in there? Right
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The water is just a solvent
and the heat is a catalyst...
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that causes the extraction
process to take place.
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Decoction... Now you
notice that some of the plants -
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This was an infusion, now
this is a decoction. Right
00:19:36.76\00:19:39.66
Barks, nuts, roots
those types of things.
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Let's do it again. Put
some water in here. Right
00:19:43.45\00:19:46.72
We're going to treat this
one a little bit differently.
00:19:46.75\00:19:48.83
And you're
making another teabag.
00:19:48.86\00:19:53.60
I'm going to make
another handy-dandy teabag.
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This is kind of fun,
isn't it? Oh I love it...
00:19:57.57\00:20:00.15
As long as I don't have to
00:20:00.18\00:20:01.55
clean up the mess... All those
ladies out there are saying,
00:20:01.58\00:20:03.05
"Look at these 2 men in
the kitchen... watch out"
00:20:03.09\00:20:05.32
All right, I've got it up, it's
now boiling, you can see that.
00:20:05.35\00:20:08.84
Okay, we're going to
leave this one simmering
00:20:08.87\00:20:10.82
on the stove
when we put this in.
00:20:10.85\00:20:12.38
Okay, I bring it to a boil?
00:20:12.41\00:20:13.86
Bring it to a
good simmer. Simmer...
00:20:13.89\00:20:15.60
Not a rolling boil, but a
good simmer. Put this in...
00:20:15.63\00:20:17.42
Put it in, put the lid on. Okay
00:20:17.45\00:20:19.86
Now, depending on how
fine the particles are,
00:20:19.89\00:20:23.27
you know you work in the kitchen
and some times you follow
00:20:23.30\00:20:27.12
a recipe and sometimes
you follow your intuition.
00:20:27.15\00:20:29.75
You'll have to...
if it's large granules,
00:20:29.78\00:20:31.97
you leave it run longer.
00:20:32.00\00:20:33.37
If it's very fine granules,
or actually into a powder,
00:20:33.40\00:20:35.47
you'll let it simmer a
shorter period of time.
00:20:35.50\00:20:37.97
So we're between 5 to 25 minutes
depending on how coarse it is.
00:20:38.00\00:20:43.42
The reason for this is
these parts of the plants
00:20:43.45\00:20:45.92
like the roots, the rhizomes,
the nuts, and the hard berries,
00:20:45.95\00:20:48.75
and the barks and
that type of thing...
00:20:48.78\00:20:50.15
They have a lot of
material that's very dense,
00:20:50.18\00:20:53.36
and it's going to take a lot of
energy to get it out of there.
00:20:53.39\00:20:56.26
To get it out and extract
it, so it will take a while
00:20:56.29\00:20:58.69
being associated
with the catalyst and the
00:20:58.72\00:21:02.10
extraction
process to make it happen.
00:21:02.13\00:21:04.94
So that's a decoction!
Okay, that's a decoction.
00:21:04.97\00:21:07.66
So the difference here is
really one of length of time,
00:21:07.69\00:21:11.19
and one is simmering and
one is on the fire. Right
00:21:11.22\00:21:16.81
This one is off, this one is on!
00:21:16.84\00:21:18.38
Infusion is off.
Decoction is on! Okay
00:21:18.41\00:21:21.26
Where the confusion
comes, is when we have to take
00:21:21.29\00:21:23.65
the next step.
What's the next step?
00:21:23.68\00:21:25.21
The next step is what's called a
00:21:25.24\00:21:26.92
...I'm going to
get it confused too,
00:21:26.95\00:21:28.84
an infusional decoction.
00:21:28.87\00:21:30.45
Is that just
mixing these together?
00:21:30.48\00:21:31.87
Okay, that's one way to do it.
00:21:31.90\00:21:33.57
You can just take and
make them individually...
00:21:33.60\00:21:37.11
because the theory here is...
00:21:37.14\00:21:39.23
What if you mix
the plants together,
00:21:39.26\00:21:41.20
and tried to make
them at the same time...
00:21:41.23\00:21:42.82
While you're simmering the bark,
you're destroying the leaf.
00:21:42.85\00:21:47.90
It's too hot... Right,
so they can't be together
00:21:47.93\00:21:50.58
So you've got the choice
to either make them together,
00:21:50.61\00:21:53.03
which isn't going to
work, or make them separately,
00:21:53.06\00:21:57.43
mix them together.
00:21:57.46\00:21:58.83
Now, me and my laziness, I
don't like to wash 2 kettles.
00:21:58.86\00:22:01.64
So what I would do is I
would make this one first.
00:22:01.67\00:22:06.18
Make the decoction first
with the boiling... Right
00:22:06.21\00:22:09.31
And when it comes to...
Let's say I've determined
00:22:09.34\00:22:11.10
15 minutes for this
one. I say it's done.
00:22:11.13\00:22:14.69
I'm going to
take it off the heat;
00:22:14.72\00:22:16.39
I'd drop my other one in
there, put the cover on it,
00:22:16.42\00:22:20.04
and I've got an
infusional decoction with
00:22:20.07\00:22:21.90
only 1 pan to wash.
00:22:21.93\00:22:23.32
You see, in my house,
my wife makes me clean up
00:22:23.35\00:22:25.96
anything that I make, as
far as a mess in the kitchen.
00:22:25.99\00:22:28.40
I think all the wives would
agree, especially if you're
00:22:28.43\00:22:31.59
starting this now and your
husband is getting into this,
00:22:31.62\00:22:35.52
you're going to ask him to
clean things up, aren't you?
00:22:35.55\00:22:37.51
What next? What's another?
00:22:37.54\00:22:39.70
Let's do some work
with some poultices.
00:22:39.73\00:22:43.06
Poultices! Okay, a
poultice would be something...
00:22:43.09\00:22:45.00
What would we
do with a poultice?
00:22:45.03\00:22:46.40
A poultice is for
drawing... Drawing things out,
00:22:46.43\00:22:49.15
like you have an inflammation
00:22:49.18\00:22:50.55
and you want it to go
down, the swelling. Right
00:22:50.58\00:22:53.35
My first experience with
doing this is when I was,
00:22:53.38\00:22:56.07
you know as we were
talking about earlier,
00:22:56.10\00:22:57.57
I got a good case of
poison ivy in the woods here.
00:22:57.60\00:23:01.21
So you're going to
make a poison ivy poultice.
00:23:01.24\00:23:03.07
Yeah, this would
work for an infection,
00:23:03.10\00:23:05.00
or poison ivy or whatever.
00:23:05.03\00:23:06.64
I've mixed together
some flaxseed meal...
00:23:06.67\00:23:09.81
What does the flax do?
00:23:09.84\00:23:11.51
It adds a binder and it
actually has, what we call,
00:23:11.54\00:23:14.88
an excipient, it helps to draw.
00:23:14.91\00:23:16.77
And then this looks like
charcoal along with it. Correct
00:23:16.80\00:23:19.21
Now what we want is to
get several spoonfuls of water
00:23:19.24\00:23:21.69
that we can
actually mix in here,
00:23:21.72\00:23:23.29
and if you want to
stir, I'll add water,
00:23:23.32\00:23:26.33
and we want a paste.
00:23:26.36\00:23:27.73
Now, it's best
if we would do this
00:23:27.76\00:23:30.94
like in a skillet, on
low heat because the water
00:23:30.97\00:23:34.57
and the heat together are
going to create sort of a gel.
00:23:34.60\00:23:40.98
You're actually going
to put this on someone.
00:23:41.01\00:23:45.31
Let's stir these guys down
00:23:45.34\00:23:47.16
around the edges
here just a little bit.
00:23:47.19\00:23:48.79
All right! Now there are so many
00:23:48.82\00:23:52.86
ways that people
want to make poultices.
00:23:52.89\00:23:54.44
You know, some people say,
you take and put your stuff
00:23:54.47\00:23:56.20
in a paper towel, and
you put it on and you wrap it
00:23:56.23\00:23:58.04
with Saran wrap, or you
put it in a piece of cloth.
00:23:58.07\00:24:00.68
The problem that I find
out is most of this stuff
00:24:00.71\00:24:02.90
is too messy to work
with, and so what I have here
00:24:02.93\00:24:06.15
...Now you'll
recognize this; a piece of Chux
00:24:06.18\00:24:09.42
or an incontinent pad.
00:24:09.45\00:24:11.15
You know, you buy
these at hospital supplies...
00:24:11.18\00:24:13.19
Like a big diaper...
Yeah A flat diaper. Correct!
00:24:13.22\00:24:16.80
They use a lot of
these in nursing homes.
00:24:16.83\00:24:18.39
I just bought a lot of these
things and this is what I make
00:24:18.42\00:24:21.33
my poultices with.
00:24:21.36\00:24:22.73
You know, you've got the
top layer that will isolate
00:24:22.76\00:24:25.63
the material to some
extent from the person,
00:24:25.66\00:24:29.12
so it isn't as messy.
00:24:29.15\00:24:30.67
So top layer, you mean that's
the one that's going to be
00:24:30.70\00:24:33.17
next to the face or
hand or whatever. Right
00:24:33.20\00:24:36.26
And some of this is
going to bleed through;
00:24:36.29\00:24:37.78
you see, I'm getting a little
bit of this stuff on my hands.
00:24:37.81\00:24:39.30
You see how they put it right
in there and right underneath,
00:24:39.33\00:24:43.56
and then we cover that up okay.
00:24:43.59\00:24:47.43
Now, you see it's got
its plastic on its back,
00:24:47.46\00:24:50.55
it's not going to
leak all over on us.
00:24:50.58\00:24:51.96
I take it and roll
it up on the edges,
00:24:51.99\00:24:55.72
and I take my stapler and
I stitch this thing all up.
00:24:55.75\00:24:59.20
Okay, my stapler
jammed. I can see that.
00:24:59.23\00:25:00.92
Staplers aren't supposed to jam
when you're in stress, right?
00:25:00.95\00:25:04.10
Now we take and
stitch this thing all up...
00:25:04.13\00:25:08.53
And you want to remember
which way you're going to put
00:25:08.56\00:25:10.09
your points of your staples so
00:25:10.12\00:25:11.49
that they aren't
irritating your skin.
00:25:11.52\00:25:12.97
That's a good point.
00:25:13.00\00:25:16.05
I try to think
these things through
00:25:16.08\00:25:17.45
to make them as
practical as we possibly can.
00:25:17.48\00:25:20.87
And see, now we have these
00:25:20.90\00:25:23.39
other 2 edges were
already factory done,
00:25:23.42\00:25:25.47
but we have something that
now will not leak all over you,
00:25:25.50\00:25:29.39
and if it was the back of
your hand, you could put it on
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there... take an Ace
bandage, flexible bandage,
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and wrap that thing
all up and keep it on.
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And the charcoal draws it out
and the flaxseed binds to it...
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So, one draws it out and
the other hooks on to it.
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Is that what
you're saying? Correct
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Well, excellent! So
then how long would I leave
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a poultice like this on?
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It depends how
big the poultice is,
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and had bad the inflammation
or the infection would be,
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but most of the time, we
can leave things on 4-8 hours.
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But after about 8 hours,
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it's done all the
work that it's going to do.
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In fact, maybe 4-6 hours might
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be a little
better period of time.
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You can intensify the action
of the poultice by putting
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something hot over the top
it, like a heating pad sometimes
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Good! Well let's
go to the next one...
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We only have about
1-1/2 minutes left.
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What's this for... I know the
people would want to see this!
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Have you ever gone to a
store and you notice that a
00:26:18.69\00:26:20.61
bottle of herbal preparation
00:26:20.64\00:26:23.13
costs about $9.95 or
whatever for a bottle.
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You've got about 50
cents worth of capsules.
00:26:28.17\00:26:33.82
These are
vegetable glycerin capsules.
00:26:33.85\00:26:35.71
You can help me
just pop these in.
00:26:35.74\00:26:37.37
We're going to take the
lids, put them on the top,
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and we're going to
put the bottoms in here.
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Okay, and what we would
do is we'd put some of the
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herbal powder right in there.
00:26:46.84\00:26:50.04
Let's see how you do that.
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This is fun, isn't it?
00:26:52.21\00:26:53.58
This is fun... as long as we
don't have to clean up the mess,
00:26:53.61\00:26:55.94
this is fun!
00:26:55.97\00:26:58.30
Now this will make 50 at a time,
00:26:58.33\00:27:00.15
and we're just going
to do a few of them here.
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Then see, we drop
those little cams down...
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just pop back up on
top, we pull these out,
00:27:05.60\00:27:08.50
and we've got
an instant capsule.
00:27:08.53\00:27:12.22
You literally can
take a $9 bottle of pills,
00:27:12.25\00:27:15.26
and you can make your
own for about $1.50...
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you know, depending on
the price of the herbs.
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So once you get the
things together that you know
00:27:20.47\00:27:22.26
needs to be in that
pill like whatever it is...
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Echinacea -
would that be something
00:27:24.85\00:27:26.59
you'd put in a pill like that?
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Right, you can
save a lot of money
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with these types of devices.
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We've been
talking to Rob McClintock
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If you want more information,
please give us a call
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and you can find ways to
have health for a lifetime!
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