Hello and welcome to
"Health for a Lifetime"
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I'm your host Don Mackintosh,
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and today, I'm delighted
to be in the studio with
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Dr. Mary Ann McNeilus
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Welcome Dr. McNeilus!
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Now you're a medical
doctor; you've been trained
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in pediatrics, and
you've done oncology.
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You've done
hematology, and then you have a
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degree also, I
believe, in microbiology...
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And family
medicine... and family medicine!
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So with all these
different things, you've come to
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a rather startling
conclusion to some, but really a
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refreshing conclusion
that some of the most POWERFUL
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means of HEALING people
are some of the SIMPLEST means.
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And, I like what
you've entitled your book...
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It's called "God's Healing Way"
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and it's really focusing
on those simple remedies.
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I like the way it's outlined too
with the different health laws,
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and then practical treatments,
and then ending, of course,
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with turning once again
to the most powerful Healer,
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that would be God.
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Today we're going to be talking
about some home remedies,
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and you have some real
strong convictions about
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why we should talk about what
we're going to talk about today.
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Thank you Don, it's a pleasure
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for me to be
here with you today.
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I would like to share
just briefly at the beginning
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of our talk, of how God's
healing is available today.
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What are the
conditions for healing?
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Are they any different
than they've ever been before?
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What are some of
the Biblical principles?
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And, certainly when we look
at healing, we recognize that
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faith is essential.
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In Matthew 9:22, Jesus said
to an individual that He healed,
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"Thy faith hath made thee whole"
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In other words, your
faith has made you well.
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However, sometimes we forget
that obedience to God's laws,
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or His commands, are also
necessary for optimal healing.
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John 14:15 reminds us of this...
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It says, "If you love
Me, KEEP my commands. "
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"My commands" are His laws.
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His laws of not only his moral
laws, His laws of physiology...
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His laws of good health are
also included in God's commands.
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Okay, so we really all have
the opportunity of receiving
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that gift of the
Spirit... which is faith
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The fruits of the Spirit are
love, joy, peace, longsuffering
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faithfulness... And
what you're suggesting
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is then that
obedience is a fruit of faith.
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It comes right out of
it, and we can kind of know
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whether or not we're in
that relationship with Jesus
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by whether or not we have that
fruit in our life of obedience.
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Now, you know,
let's just role-play
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I guess, with a
couple of things...
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You have a few things
that you want to show us here
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that are very practical
approaches to dealing with
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disease, or discomfort.
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Maybe, what's the first
thing we want to talk about here
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of ALL the
different options we have.
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Today, I would like to
talk about "fomentations"
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What are fomentations?
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They are applying a hot
and cold to a body area...
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often using a towel, or
a similar large cloth to a
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particular body area.
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Okay, so for what reason...
just because you want that
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particular area
to have treatment...
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I suppose it would be an
area that you can't submerge.
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That's right, and this is
why if you have an illness,
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or an infection in a hand
or foot, you can submerge it
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into the hot and cold water
such as with the hot and cold
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contrast bath.
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But if you have an
area such as your rib cage,
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or chest area,
abdominal area, back area...
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these areas are not
easily submerged locally,
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and so you need
to take a hot towel,
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or fomentation cloth
and apply it to that area,
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and apply hot and cold
having the same principles
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as submerging in hot and cold
water to a particular body part.
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So let's say, I don't
know, maybe I broke my ribs...
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I ran into a tree, who
knows, or something like that,
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and then I have a
lot of pain from that,
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and I'm not breathing
as deeply as I should,
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and I start to develop
bronchitis/pneumonia...
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Would fomentations be a
good treatment for that?
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It's one of the best treatments.
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Fomentations have a wonderful
application in chest illnesses
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such as asthma, bronchitis,
and also chest injuries such as
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rib cage injuries.
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So, what would we do?
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I mean, okay,
should I hold my chest?
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I ran into something...
and, actually, I have broken
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my ribs before, so I
know how to do this... Right!
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I'll be happy to
show you here. Okay
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I preface this one
with a little story as well.
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One of our Amish bishops in
our area had a buggy accident.
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And, one Saturday his
son called our home just as
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we were leaving for church...
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And he said, "I
know this is your Sunday;
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this is your rest day,
but my father has had this
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severe rib injury, and now
he seems to have pneumonia...
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or something like that... He's
coughing up very thick sputum
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and it's very painful. "
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"Is there any way
you can see him today. "
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...And we assured
him that there was!
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So he came over to
our place for a treatment,
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and what we did
is... for the treatment,
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we put his feet in hot water
to help in also decongesting
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the chest area
for the treatment,
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and then we put some
hot towels to his chest...
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And I'm going to
demonstrate to you how we heated
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these towels,
and how we did that.
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You have a special pot here...
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You can use any kind of
pot at home. That's right!
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Well, if we're in a
society where you have a
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microwave, the
microwave actually is a very
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nifty way to do that as well.
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Let's take this
towel for example...
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This towel is just a dry
towel, and I folded it widthwise
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twice, and then I run
it under the tap water
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to get it completely wet.
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And so, we'll pretend this
is a wet towel, not a dry one.
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Then I roll it up, and
wring it out... so that it's
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damp but not sloshy, or soggy.
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And then, I simply put it in any
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old plastic bag
that I have around.
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I save my grocery
bags for such a purpose.
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You need to put
it in a bag though...
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It's the best idea
to put it in a bag,
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and then I put it into my
microwave, turn it on high
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for anywhere
from 4 to 8 minutes,
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depending on the size of
the towel and the microwave.
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After it is heated, then I
will apply it to the body area.
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But say, if I go to an
Amish home where I do not have
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electricity, or some
parts of the world where
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those things aren't
available, what do I do?
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I bet ya, you're going
to talk about the pot now.
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The pot comes into play now!
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You can use any large pot.
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A canning kettle is perfect...
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but not every one
has a canning kettle,
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or not even everyone
has a little wire basket.
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What you can do is
get some kind of steamer,
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and one thing I have
done to make a steaming pot of
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out of this is
that I need to put some
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water in this pot,
about 1 or 2 inches' level...
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Probably a little bit
closer to 1-1/2 or so;
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at least over an inch
because you don't want
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the pot to run dry while you're
in the process of steaming
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which will take
about a 1/2 an hour.
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What I have done actually...
is I've made a little
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improvision here.
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This steaming apparatus
for steaming vegetables is a
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little bit low, and I
want it a little higher,
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so I took an aluminum
pan, punched holes in it,
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and put that upside-down
in the bottom of the pot,
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just to give it a
little raising there...
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And then I just put this
little steamer contraption
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right here, and you can use
any type of wire convenience
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...Just enough to bring
the level of the towel ABOVE
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the water level
because you want it just
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to be steamed, not boiled.
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Then you put your
towel in there on in.
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Yes, then you have your
wet towel exactly like you did
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for the microwave;
you fold it, you wet it,
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you wring it out, and
then you have it just damp...
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and you lay it right in here.
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You can put
anywhere from 1 to 3,
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and often, I will put
3 in this canning kettle.
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Then I will put it on the
heat whether it's a wood stove,
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or electric
stove, it doesn't matter.
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Within 30 minutes,
usually, the steam will come up
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and heat the towel.
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Now, how do I get the
towel from there to your chest?
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That's a good question!
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Well, you are going to
demonstrate that today.
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I aim to please... the doctor
is in and so is the patient!
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So my rib hurts though, so
be easy on me. That's right!
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And what we're going to
do, because I don't have a
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wool blanket here, often
I put the hot towel within a
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wool blanket to kind of
regulate the heat a bit...
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But since I don't have
that, I am going to just triple
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the layers here, and I'm
going to put this dry towel
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right over the area where
I want to put this hot towel.
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I would be
laying down normally...
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Normally, you'd be lying
down, and you might even have
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your feet in hot water
to kind of even increase the
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effectiveness of the treatment,
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but you don't
even have to do that.
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Now, you can use the tongs,
or you can use an oven mitt.
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But since I don't have
either one, I'm just going to
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use a little pair of
spoons here to lift this out
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because it's quite hot.
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I may lay it
actually out on a table,
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which I'm just going
to pretend my lap is...
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And I will lay it at one
end, and actually roll it out
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very quickly, and then very
quickly, I would usually just
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wrap this in a
little wool blanket...
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Since I don't have that,
it's going to go right on there.
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Okay, and I wouldn't
really normally touch it,
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but I'm going to today.
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And, in order to keep it
from losing much more heat,
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I'm going to put a
dry one right on top,
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so it's like the hot
filling of a sandwich again...
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All right... there you
go! How long is that good for?
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Now, you're going to
start to feel better quite soon.
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It's going to relax the muscles,
and it's going to kind of
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bring the blood to the
surface to decongest that area,
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and we are going to
leave that on for anywhere from
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5 to 7 minutes.
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Okay, so then what does it do?
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It helps to decongest
that area under which there is
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an injury or an infection.
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It brings blood to the area?
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Yes, it brings blood
to the surface area which
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helps will decongest
that area underneath there
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where it helps
to move the blood.
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Again, it's causing a movement
of our circulatory system
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which takes away waste, and
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brings in nutrients,
and white blood cells.
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How many times
do you do this then?
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We will leave that on...
and another thing we will do
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often which we won't demonstrate
here with you since you were
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bundled up once before
with one of our treatments...
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But we would normally have your
feet in, say, a hot foot bath,
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and we would cover you with
a sheet, or a blanket so that
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you could sweat in there,
and that's another way to...
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How do we close this off?
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Well, now that it's
getting comfortable,
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we'll take it
off. The whole thing?
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We'll take the whole thing off.
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We'll take this off, and
then what we usually have
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is a pan of cold water nearby.
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We always seem to have to get
that cold in-there don't we? Yes
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And we'll pretend we
have this pan of cold water,
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and this is COLD,
and often what we'll do
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We'll take it, and
make kind of a little mitt,
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and we'll just lightly
rub that area very briskly,
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but gently because it's a
little bit sore. It hurts!
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And, we'll do that about
a 1/2 a minute to a minute,
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and then we will dry
it off with another towel.
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Just dry it off so that
it's nice and dry here...
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And now, we're ready
for the second towel,
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so we will again put
this up here, the dry towel,
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and this time, we may want
to put this one back in to steam
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if we need to, or
we'll pick out another one,
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and repeat that process for a
total of about 4 to 5 changes.
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...4 to 5 changes, and
then several times that day?
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It can be done anywhere
from 1 to 4 times a day,
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and it can be continued
until pain relief and healing
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have begun there.
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We're talking with
Dr. Mary Ann McNeilus
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and she's telling us that
sometimes the simplest ways of
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addressing issues are really
the best and most effective.
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When we come
back, we'll learn more.
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We hope that you join us!
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Have you found yourself wishing
that you could shed a few pounds
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Have you been on a diet
for most of your life...
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but not found anything that
will really keep the weight off?
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If you've answered "yes"
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Welcome back!
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If you've just joined
us, we've been talking about
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the pharmacy in your kitchen,
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and our pharmacy specialist
is Dr. Mary Ann McNeilus
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Looks like we actually are
right now into the refrigerator
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area, or right into the kitchen,
and it looks like you have
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what is this... a
potato, an onion, some cabbage,
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and various tools to lay those
things away, if we need to.
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What are these for?
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What are we
going to be doing now?
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We're going to demonstrate some
poultices that can be applied
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to injured, or inflamed
parts of our body that can be
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very effective in
the healing process.
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So potato, is that what you're
going to talk about first?
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Let's look at the potato, and
I've got my sleeves rolled up
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here and my kitchen
counter right on my lap!
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All right great!
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And we are going to
look at the raw potato!
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Potato poultices are
used RAW and they can be used
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just about
anywhere for any condition.
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They can be used
for eye infections...
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for red eye, inflamed eyes.
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They can be used for burns,
or injuries, or infected areas.
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Pretty much the same
places you can use charcoal.
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So you just grate them
up fine like this... Yes
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The potato must be used raw,
and it can simply be grated.
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All right... you grate that.
Can you make it bigger than that
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Can you use that other bigger
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section to grate
them even larger?
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Well this will certainly take
quite a while... wouldn't it?
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Let's see here; let's
just for the sake of our...
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But normally you'd
do it small like that.
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Smaller is probably better.
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It will get more mushy,
and juicy which is kind of
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what you're looking for.
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But mashed
potatoes doesn't work.
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No, hot mashed potatoes aren't
quite what we're looking for
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in this case. Okay
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All right, so you grate
that all up, and what are the
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healing properties in a potato?
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Well, you know, it
seems like potato has a lot of
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minerals such as potassium.
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Other things that the
Lord seems to have put into it
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that we are
actually just discovering
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certainly have
healing properties.
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It seems like the
mineral combinations
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of magnesium, potassium
things like that do have
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properties that are able
to promote healing process.
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And, so what I want
to do is show you how
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I make a simple poultice...
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I've gotten the raw potato...
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Okay great...
those look ready to go.
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And this is a small poultice.
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This can be, for
example, for an eye infection...
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So let's just make this
a little bit smaller here.
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I hope that the Food and Drug
Administration is not watching.
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They'll probably find some
way to market this and sell it!
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Well I tell you,
that's one reason these ways
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don't have a lot of market
value because it's hard to
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improve on God... isn't
it, on some of these things!
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So we put the little
shavings of the potato inside a
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piece of paper, or loose-fitting
cloth, or a cheesecloth,
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and then you can apply it
to the infected body part.
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Let's say it's my hand...
Sure, we'll put it right there
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or it can be a
red eye, infected eye.
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Best for eyes, huh?
It's excellent for eyes!
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And, my husband had a
sore eye one day, not long ago
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and we did a hot and
cold contrast to his eye
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and put the raw
potato poultice right over
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his eye; closed his eye, right
over the eyelid over the eye.
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He rested for about 30
minutes, and that was the end of
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his inflamed red
eye. Is that right?
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Now, is this antiviral as well?
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Well that's a good question.
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It does seem to have properties
that do help with burns
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or infected areas as well.
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It does seem to
normalize some of those tissues,
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and so there are things in
the potato well that seem to
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draw out or absorb in
this case substances that are
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toxic, and to promote healing
of the tissues underneath it.
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So you do a contrast
bath, and then you can put this
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poultice on... How
long do you keep it on?
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Similarly to a charcoal poultice
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for several hours, or overnight.
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All right, so then can you
do the same thing with an onion?
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Oh, we're going next
to the cabbage maybe...
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Well, let's take
a look at a cabbage.
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Cabbage is excellent for
bruised edematous tissues.
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For example, if you
have turned your ankle,
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sprained an ankle, or have
fallen and have a severe bruise
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that's very painful and swollen.
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It is also good for
breastfeeding mothers
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who have, maybe, what we
call a mastitis or inflammation
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or congestion of
the breast tissue.
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And, this type of
treatment is excellent for that.
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And how you do the
cabbage is simply...
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You can chop it up, or
cut it up a bit, and then
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take pieces of wax
paper, or we can simply use the
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plastic like we did
here, and put it between the
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cut-up pieces
between the plastic,
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and then just roll
it with a rolling pin.
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Or, blend it a bit in a food
processor, whatever you have...
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Or, mash it up a bit until
it's kind of bruised and juicy
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and moist.
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And then it does
its magic. It does!
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And you simply can put
it in a loose-fitting cloth
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or paper towel... the
same as you did the potato.
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Again, the raw cabbage is
best used in this situation.
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I can't wait to try it...
you don't want to get sick,
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but I'm almost looking forward
to trying some of these things!
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They are a lot of fun; I've
had a chance to try this too.
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This is the onion which
has a lot of good properties,
00:21:42.84\00:21:45.64
and I'll share a
few of these with you.
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First of all, we're going
to get out the Kleenex here
00:21:47.52\00:21:49.73
for our eyes, because I
am going to cut this onion,
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and I'm not sure how hot it is.
00:21:52.19\00:21:53.85
I just
purchased it this morning.
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Now, the onion has a lot of
excellent properties as well.
00:21:56.11\00:22:01.19
There was, a while back, croup
and whooping cough went through
00:22:01.20\00:22:07.93
our Amish community, and a
lot of children were whooping,
00:22:07.96\00:22:10.82
and there are different times
in the springtime when viral
00:22:10.85\00:22:14.27
croup syndrome comes around,
and we have even small babies
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and toddlers
coughing, and carrying on...
00:22:18.48\00:22:22.17
And what can we do for them?
00:22:22.20\00:22:24.35
And certainly one of the
fine things that can be done
00:22:24.38\00:22:29.02
for them is to cut up, or
grate up onion the same way
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we grated the raw potato.
00:22:35.46\00:22:37.07
With our little grater here,
we can grate it, or mash it up
00:22:37.10\00:22:40.06
and I will just
pretend that I did that.
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And then we will
place our grated onion again
00:22:42.90\00:22:46.99
in a loosely woven
cloth or a paper towel,
00:22:47.02\00:22:51.38
and then we can put
it either on the chest,
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or sometimes even for earaches,
it can be put to the ear.
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It has good properties in it.
00:23:01.29\00:23:03.20
Is it a vasodilator?
00:23:03.23\00:23:04.92
Well, it tends to have
properties in it that tend to
00:23:04.95\00:23:09.39
be more of a
relaxant, and so that in cases
00:23:09.42\00:23:17.17
where there is swelling
and edema from a viral croup,
00:23:17.20\00:23:19.78
or from asthma, it tends
to relax those smooth muscles.
00:23:19.79\00:23:22.66
It does also have some
antibacterial properties
00:23:22.69\00:23:26.45
that are similar to antibiotic
properties and can be used
00:23:26.48\00:23:34.66
for boils or abscesses as well.
00:23:34.69\00:23:37.20
But one that I really
like to use it for is for
00:23:37.23\00:23:39.95
croup in small babies.
00:23:39.98\00:23:41.94
And I will often just
take the grated up onion,
00:23:41.97\00:23:49.75
and will just simply put
it right next to the bare skin
00:23:49.78\00:23:53.71
on the chest, and then
just take a piece of plastic
00:23:53.74\00:23:57.13
to cover that because,
of course, the onion is
00:23:57.16\00:24:00.95
good and juicy, mushy there.
00:24:00.98\00:24:02.63
Doesn't make the
baby cry, does it?
00:24:02.67\00:24:04.39
Surprisingly, it
doesn't seem to that much.
00:24:04.42\00:24:07.65
Babies do a little bit better.
00:24:07.68\00:24:09.57
And then we can take
a towel or some type of
00:24:09.60\00:24:11.96
a heavier cloth, and
cover that, and pin it securely
00:24:11.99\00:24:15.52
in place, so that it can
stay on the baby's chest,
00:24:15.55\00:24:18.18
and often that
will be... How long?
00:24:18.19\00:24:21.07
For several hours, or overnight.
00:24:21.08\00:24:23.40
Have you used any of these
things in the mission field?
00:24:23.43\00:24:25.43
Have you ever used a
poultice or different things
00:24:25.46\00:24:27.23
in the mission field?
00:24:27.26\00:24:28.53
Yes, I have had opportunity
on numerous occasions,
00:24:28.56\00:24:31.99
but I would like to
share with you one particular
00:24:32.02\00:24:34.67
story that
stands out in my mind.
00:24:34.68\00:24:37.71
One day, a poor
Cambodian widow lady brought her
00:24:37.74\00:24:41.74
12 to 13-year-old boy
to me with what appeared
00:24:41.77\00:24:46.22
to be quite a serious condition.
00:24:46.25\00:24:48.84
He had been sick
for several days.
00:24:48.87\00:24:50.64
In fact, he had not been
able to keep his food down
00:24:50.67\00:24:53.40
well for several days.
00:24:53.43\00:24:55.03
And by the time
she brought him to me,
00:24:55.06\00:24:57.54
his left eye was SO
swollen that it was actually
00:24:57.57\00:25:03.32
pushing out of the orbit
of the socket of the eye.
00:25:03.35\00:25:06.89
His eye was so affected that
he couldn't even keep food down.
00:25:06.92\00:25:09.82
That's right,
and he was nauseated.
00:25:09.85\00:25:13.68
He was vomiting from
some irritation in the brain.
00:25:13.71\00:25:20.14
And, by the time I saw him,
his eye was actually protruding
00:25:20.17\00:25:23.97
a bit out of the eye
socket, and pointing downward...
00:25:24.00\00:25:27.26
And, he could not see.
00:25:27.29\00:25:29.99
When I asked him if he
could count my fingers,
00:25:30.02\00:25:32.24
he could not see a thing.
00:25:32.27\00:25:33.62
I asked him where he hurt,
and he pointed to the ENTIRE
00:25:33.65\00:25:38.29
left side of his head.
00:25:38.32\00:25:40.57
I realized his illness was,
indeed, a serious situation...
00:25:40.60\00:25:46.55
that the inflammation could have
well already traveled down the
00:25:46.58\00:25:51.70
optic nerve and this illness
can cause a brain abscess,
00:25:51.73\00:25:56.94
or meningitis.
00:25:56.97\00:25:58.72
And yet the poor
mother had no money.
00:25:58.73\00:26:01.28
The hospitals were very
marginally supplied at that
00:26:01.29\00:26:04.18
time, and I said to her,
"Do you want to see what God
00:26:04.21\00:26:08.01
can do with His simple
things?" And she said, "YES"
00:26:08.04\00:26:11.85
That was my clue
to work with him,
00:26:11.88\00:26:15.51
and with a prayer in
my heart, I put his feet
00:26:15.54\00:26:18.97
in a hot foot bath.
00:26:19.00\00:26:20.32
I put hot and cold towels to the
entire left side of his head...
00:26:20.35\00:26:26.24
for about 3 to 5
changes, hot and cold,
00:26:26.25\00:26:30.34
and then I put a LARGE charcoal
poultice covering the left eye
00:26:30.37\00:26:35.75
and the entire
left side of his head.
00:26:35.78\00:26:39.32
After we put this on, he was
able to rest for the evening.
00:26:39.35\00:26:44.95
Several hours after
he had rested, he woke up
00:26:44.98\00:26:47.89
actually feeling better,
was able to eat an orange,
00:26:47.92\00:26:50.73
and actually keep it down.
00:26:50.76\00:26:52.52
The next morning when
I checked his eyesight,
00:26:52.55\00:26:56.39
I found that he could
actually count my fingers;
00:26:56.40\00:27:00.48
not well, but he could
see enough to count fingers.
00:27:00.51\00:27:04.04
At that point, I let
him go home with his mother
00:27:04.07\00:27:07.96
under the direction of
one of our lay pastors who was
00:27:07.99\00:27:11.93
well-trained in
natural remedies.
00:27:11.96\00:27:14.08
The mother continued the
hot and cold water treatments,
00:27:14.11\00:27:18.24
and the charcoal
poultices for another 2 weeks.
00:27:18.27\00:27:20.72
At the end of 2 weeks, I
received a welcome letter...
00:27:20.75\00:27:23.94
that the young
man was now pain-free,
00:27:23.97\00:27:26.07
and could now see well.
00:27:26.10\00:27:27.93
And this is a
picture of him. Yes
00:27:27.96\00:27:30.79
That is just incredible.
00:27:30.82\00:27:32.07
That was really a
miracle wasn't it? It truly was.
00:27:32.10\00:27:34.54
Well, it also was you
stepping out in faith,
00:27:34.55\00:27:37.83
and using God's healing way,
00:27:37.86\00:27:41.64
you know, cautiously,
and yet courageously.
00:27:41.67\00:27:44.74
We hope that as a
result of today's program
00:27:44.77\00:27:47.24
you'll learn and
have confidence to use
00:27:47.27\00:27:49.84
God's healing way.
00:27:49.87\00:27:50.97
And if you would like more
information about the book,
00:27:51.00\00:27:53.32
get in touch with 3ABN.
00:27:53.35\00:27:54.99
Thanks for joining us!
We hope you have health
00:27:55.02\00:27:56.57
that lasts for a lifetime!
00:27:56.61\00:27:58.68