Hello! I'm Dr. Agatha Thrash
from Uchee Pines Institute
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and we're going to talk
about pain during the next
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half an hour, we
hope you will join us.
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Welcome to Help
Yourself To Health
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with Dr. Agatha Thrash
of Uchee Pines Institute
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and now here is
your host Dr. Thrash.
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At Uchee Pines Institute we
deal with pain in a lot of ways
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we deal with a number
of different kinds of pain.
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Pain can usually be categorized
in two ways: We can talk about
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chronic pain or we
can talk about acute pain.
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Acute pain is usually
treated in a different way than
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chronic pain, and this is
Don Miller who will be talking
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with me today in helping you
to understand how we treat pain
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at Uchee Pines Institute.
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Don! - Well Dr. Thrash there are
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various ways that we treat
pain and one of the first things
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is what we do within our
own minds to make pain worse,
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we call these
things pain intensifiers,
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It's basically our
reaction to the pain perception.
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The first and probably the
greatest thing that intensifies
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our pain is fear, fear does
a number of things to the body
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physiologically, fear does
a number of things to the body
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mentally.
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Physiologically we tense up
our muscles become more rigid,
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you remember back in the
days where you used to get
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hypodermic needles
shoved into your muscles,
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they would say relax,
yeah, really right, relax,
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they have this great big long
needle, they are going to ram it
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into your muscle and
they tell you to relax,
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well normally you
don't and you are all stiff,
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they run this needle into your
muscle, and that stiff muscle
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hurts more than it would
have or could have relaxed
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in the first place.
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But it is also the fear of
the unknown, when we get a pain
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we wake up in the
morning and we've got a pain
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and we self diagnose ourselves,
hummm, what could this pain be,
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and we start coming up with
all types of horror stories,
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we read an article yesterday,
we heard a news broadcast
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about this pain and this
great disease caused by it
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and pretty soon we are thinking
that we have that disease
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and the pain
becomes much greater.
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Then we go to a physician,
he diagnoses our pain as being
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we slept wrong and all
of a sudden the pain is not
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quite as bad anymore.
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Because our pain is somewhat
palliated by the fact that
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our fear has been assuaged,
it's a nice way to take care of
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the fear and the pain.
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Another thing that
intensifies our pain is guilt,
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these are for people
who basically pain prone,
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they are guilty, "oh I
shouldn't have done that,"
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"if only I hadn't done
that," if I hadn't eaten that,
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if I hadn't done that, if I
hadn't done this thing over here
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I wouldn't have this pain right
now, and so this guilt complex
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seems to make the
pain much much greater.
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There is also the thing
called anger, now we are talking
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again about how the mind is
reacting to the pain perception.
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The pain is the same but
now we are angry at somebody
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or something, we are angry
at the accident, why did that
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happen to me, and often when
we start asking those questions
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we become angry at the
very one who can take care of
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our problems,
that's anger against God.
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So we are angry against
God, or we are angry against our
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spouse, or we are angry against
our employer, or we are angry
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against ourselves for
doing that stupid thing,
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falling down the
stairs, tripping over whatever,
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and we get angry and all of
these things along the lines
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are making our
pain much much greater.
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Really a great pain intensifier
is a thing called loneliness,
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people who are alone suffer
more pain, we'll talk about
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that a little bit more when
I talk about things to assuage
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and take away the pain,
but people who are lonely
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seem to have a
greater preception of pain.
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We find that those people who
are alone suffer more premature
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deaths, matter of fact, double
the national average than those
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who are not alone, divorced
people are five times more
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likely to commit suicide
and die in fatal accidents
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four times more if they
are alone, these are sad
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circumstances for a person.
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They did some experiments back
in 1956, they had in a hospital
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ward, they had those people
in open ward seemed to use
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less pain medications by about..
they took bout 3.2 doses of
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the pain medication to those
in private rooms about 13.4
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doses of pain medication.
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Because there was more going
on around them, they weren't
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so lonely any more, so
we take away the loneliness
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we often take away the pain,
the anger, the guilt, take away
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some of these things and we find
that they have far less pain.
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So when you are looking at
pain, we are not just dealing
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with the physical response
in the skin, in the bones,
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in the muscles, we are
looking at the minds perception,
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of why do I have this pain,
and as we can rest in the Lord
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with this pain as we
can accept it as Job says:
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" Though He slay me,
yet will I serve Him."
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We need to get that attitude
we will find that our pain
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often times will be going away
with giving it over and saying
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I am going to accept this and
get a right attitude about it.
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Dr. Thrash!
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- We only treat acute pain with
drugs such things as anesthesia
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or when there is a severe injury
with intense pain, those can be
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properly treated with drugs,
but it is easy to see why we
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would not want to treat
chronic pain with a drug.
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The person becomes dependent
on the drug and increasing
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quantities of the drug
are needed until the person
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is hysterical without it,
and may even develop a sort of
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personality problem or become
a hypochondriac, and they may
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describe their pain as terrible
or horrible, but when you look
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at them, they look as if
they are coping pretty well.
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So what we need to do
is to find ways that we can
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relieve pain and make
the person quite comfortable
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without using a powerful drug
medication, and some of these
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very important ways to treat
chronic pain are heat and cold.
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Or even alternating heat and
cold, where we apply the heat
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treatment and then right away
apply the cold, even in the same
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treatment or we can apply heat
for one type of pain and cold
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for another type of pain, or
it can even be that one person
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in one type of pain will enjoy
having heat, but another person
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finds that not pleasant, so
you must sometimes treat with
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heat for the same kind of
illness that the last person
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you treated with cold and
it was quite satisfactory.
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Sinusitis should be treated
with heat for the most part
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they can sit in a tub of
very hot water and that often
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relieves their pain very nicely.
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But cold applied to sinusitis
will sometimes make it worse
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but the occasional patient
will find the very reverse,
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cold applied makes it better.
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Now heat can also be applied
for such things as a sprained
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ankle, but sprained
ankles for the most part will be
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better treated with the cold,
an ice pack, or something of
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that nature.
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We also find that pressure
is good, pressure can be applied
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by the hand when a person has
been acutely injured, sometimes
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if you press on the place that
they've been injured and where
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they feel pain,
it will help a lot.
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You may have noticed that if
a finger gets crushed and you
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put pressure on it that
that can help quite a lot,
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and then is such areas as tennis
elbow we can put pressure.
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I have asked my granddaughter
Melissa if she will help me show
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you this kind of
treatment for a tennis elbow.
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This is Melissa Thrash,
and Melissa is let us say that
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she has been doing some
kind of activity that causes a
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rotational movement of her arm,
we can easily prevent this kind
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pain from developing by simply
applying something like an
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Ace bandage, or if you
prefer you can purchase from a
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drug store a little band
called a tennis elbow band.
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So this is simply wrapped
around the arm in this way
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and the person wears it doing
whatever activity they are doing
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whether is shoveling or
hoeing, or whatever they may
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be doing, and it's a very
simple and nice treatment.
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Then when they have finished
with the activity, they simply
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take the band off and that
enables them to avoid getting
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the tennis elbow.
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Now another thing that you
will find is a real problem
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is that of arthritis, and
people have pain in their hands
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and especially when
they wake up the next morning
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they have pain in their hands,
so I am going to ask Melissa
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to show you how she would
handle that with these gloves,
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they look as if they are child's
gloves, but they are actually
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large enough for an adult,
so the treatment is very simple,
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we simply use a pressure
on the hands so that the next
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morning the person wakes
up and they will tell you
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that their hands feel much
better having just had that
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little bit of pressure on them.
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Now another things that is
very important is that of water,
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you might think that water
is not a good treatment for pain
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but we find it quite excellent,
I don't know exactly why it is
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that it works all the time, and
it doesn't work in every kind
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of pain, but in most kinds of
pains people will find it better
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if they are simply well
hydrated, and you can take
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a glass full of water
every ten minutes for an hour,
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that's a glass full of water
every ten minutes for an hour,
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and it will often relieve
such things as a headache or
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an abdominal pain, or
sometimes skeletal pain.
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I think it may separate the
nerve fibers that cause those
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kinds of pains and make
the person feel a lot better.
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Now Don Miller is going to
tell you about some other ways
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you can handle pain, Don Miller!
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- I talked a few minutes
ago about helplessness and
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loneliness, loneliness is the
one that really seems to get us
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the most.
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Picture this scenario, a
child is running down the street
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active with the friends,
falls and skins up the knee,
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a little bit of blood, the child
sees the blood, immediately is
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scared, runs home to mama
crying, it hurts terribly,
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what does mama do?
Mama holds the child,
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kisses the child, says it will
be all better, and it is amazing
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just those words seem to make
it all better, and then puts a
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band aid on it and sends
the child back out to play,
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and the child is perfectly
fine, doesn't even think about
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it any more, until that
night mama kisses baby to sleep
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lays her down, covers her
up, turns out the light and now
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what's left, in a dark room,
no stimulation, and what happens
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the pain comes all back again.
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Because that is where the
mind is, all during the day time
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you had mama sitting
there comforting the child,
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you had activities going on
all around, you had the other
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playmates, things to do,
now there is nothing left to do
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but focus on the pain, and
we need to keep from focusing
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on the pain.
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There are ways of doing this,
I haven't quite gotten to this
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place yet where you are
going into the dentist office,
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and I once tried it, I went
into the dentist office and said
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I can do it without the
pain medication, thank you,
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and so they put me way
back there in the chair and he
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opened my mouth and he
went in there with that drill...
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as soon as I heard that
zzzz! I tensed and as soon as it
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touched my tooth, he
took it back out of my mouth
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and he gave me the shot because
everything in my body told him
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that I was really going
to be a bad patient that day,
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but if you would find some
way to divert the mind to other
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stimulation.
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You only can perceive so
many things in your mind,
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right now you are sitting
there and you are not really
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aware of the fact that you're
back is pushed against the sofa
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or chair and the watch band
is pressing against your wrist
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and the top of your socks
are against your leg, you don't
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feel or notice all of these
things although you do have
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true perception, so if we can
get more stimulation going in
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that's pleasurable, we will
have a less tendency to focus on
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the pain that's also
coming in, and there are ways
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of doing this.
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One of these days I'm going
to try going to a dentist office
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with a friend and say as
soon as that guy opens my mouth
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and heads for it with the
drill, without the Novocain
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I want you to take something
as simple as a hairbrush
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and start stroking perhaps my
arm or my leg, or you can reach
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up and just take your fingers
and give me a little scalp
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massage, and at the same
time perhaps take some type of a
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perfume and put it on a
handkerchief and let me be
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smelling, so now I've got
some olfactory senses coming
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in here and I've got
some senses here from touch,
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and perhaps I can take a
CD and turn on some music
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so I'm hearing some music
going on at the same time,
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with head phones it is even
better, you can't hear that zzz!
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going on because basically
if you have been inside a
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dentist office, even sitting
out into the waiting area when
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you hear the drill you
tense up, remember we talked
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about this tensing up, which is
one thing that amplifies pain.
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Another thing that you can
do is have some type of little
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massage technique, now if
someone can give you a massage
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or you can take your foot,
this is a little foot massager
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and you just take your foot
and you slide it back and forth.
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This gives you a very nice
sensation which will sort of
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overwhelm the other sensations
going into the body, and so if
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you find ways of sort of over
loading the brain with other
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sensations will find that
that pain that is usually rather
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acute if we are just focusing
on that, will seem to go away.
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I had an experience one time
I was in Ukraine in the winter
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time and a neighbor of the
place I was working had fallen
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and severely twisted
and wrenched his back,
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this big Ukrainian man,
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big burly guy crying,
he was in so much pain
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we got him laid down on
this couch of the nearest house
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he could not even go
home he was in so much pain
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so we put him on the couch of
the nearest home and here he was
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and I had a doctor from Ukraine
with me, she examined him to
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make sure his back wasn't
broken because he walked in
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so it wasn't broken, but now
what to do with all this pain
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and so I said well go
out and get me an icecicle,
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so they went out and broke a
big icecicle, and they are big
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icecicles in Ukraine, big Texas
size icecicles, and brought
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this big thing in here and
I got a pot of hot water and I
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dipped the end in and
sort of smoothed off the edges
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and then I started massaging
that back area, well now you had
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a different sensation
going on that was cold,
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but at the time I was
taking another part of his body
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and I was massaging another
part of his body, I forget
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whether it was his
shoulder or his head, but I was
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massaging this other part of
the body while I was massaging
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the back with the ice and pretty
soon he was complaining because
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it was cold.
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But then he got up, he
didn't have any more pain,
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not that the situation was fixed
he still had a sprained back
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but the ice had taken the
pain away enough that he could
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go home that night, pain
free and deal with it that way.
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So as we find ways of diverting
the mind away from ourselves
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at night time when we are all
alone is when we hurt the most,
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so we need to be doing something
and I like that saying if you
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can't sleep don't count
sheep talk to the Shepherd.
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When you have pain talk to
the one who knows all about
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your pain, he went through
the pain too, and He'll help
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you through it and so as we
talk to Him, as we get other
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senses involved in this process
we'll find that pain will be
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saying Sayonara, and
that's what we want it to do,
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Dr. Thrash.
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- Another kind of very good
treatment for pain is that of
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counter irritation, you
may have heard your grandmother
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talk about her liniments,
or some neighbor about their
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materials that they rub on come
from a store such as Capsaicin
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or Cayenne, it's a red pepper
extract and you can get it
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from almost any store, and
this kind of red pepper when you
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put it on the skin, will
help you greatly with the
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counter irritation.
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Now there are many other
liniments, liniments made from
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camphor, from Menthol, and
some other counter irritants
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they are a little irritating
or icy feeling on the skin
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but when you use it in times
of pain, it can actually take
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the pain away.
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Now another type of
counter irritation is something
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like this, you may not have seen
this because I picked this up in
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Korea and I like it
very much because it can be
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self administered if you
have a pain in your back you can
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just do this kind of
thing and it helps enormously
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for the back pain, and then
you can just do it on the other
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side as well.
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But let's say that your
pain is not in your back,
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your pain is in your foot, or
in your abdomen, will this help
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with that? Yes it does!
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Do the same thing, you
can apply it here and here
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or you can apply it on your
arm or your thigh, or else ware
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and interestingly
enough, it is as Don Miller was
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talking about with the
gate theory, which is that you
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simply overload the
senses with as much as you can
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in the way of other sensations
and it is theorized that there
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is a gate that goes up to
the brain that allows a certain
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number of impulses to go through
and if you've put other impulses
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in then the pain
will not feel so bad.
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Now another thing that
you can do to help your pain
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is that of control the diet.
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I mentioned already about
drinking water, a lot of water,
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keeping well hydrated
will also help you with pain.
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The diet in pain control should
be very simple, it should be
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non-inflammatory, which means
that it should not be heavy in
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spices or vinegar, or heavy
with salt or sugar or fats,
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but in this way you can
help yourself with diet.
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The very best diet in pain
is the kind of diet that we
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recommend as the least
inflammatory, the least likely
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to be irritating, and the
least likely to cause you to get
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a chronic disease, and that
is the totally vegan vegetarian
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type diet.
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That means fruits, vegetables,
whole grains, nuts and seeds,
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and as these are eaten in a
very simple way, not to many
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at one meal, then the person
can find that a chronic pain
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will be very
much helped by that.
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If you are overweight, be
very careful not to over eat
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and jus the very act of not
over eating will also help you
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to deal with pain.
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Now Don Miller is going
to talk with you a bit about
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herbal remedies
for pain control, Don!
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Ok! I think one of the herbs
that we like to use for pain
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sort of works on the gate
theory also, the herb is called
00:21:24.11\00:21:27.63
Valerian, and if any of you
have ever worked with Valerian
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it's the smelliest herb
that I have ever smelled.
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I think basically by drinking
a cup of the stuff, your mind
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is so overwhelmed with how
bad it smells, that you forget
00:21:36.95\00:21:39.54
how bad you feel, and so
maybe that's the gate theory,
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but I'm sure it also has
some type of analgesic effect.
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But there are some wonderful
pain herbs, we're not talking
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about something that is going
to work as fast or as numbingly
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as one of the caines,Lidocain,
Novocain, we are talking about
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something that will take the
edge off your pain, and I've had
00:21:55.75\00:21:58.66
experiments with these things
and I will tell you one other
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story, but some of the pain
herbs are things like Angelica,
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Black Hull, Blue Violet,
some of the sedative herbs like
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Chamomile, or Cat Nip are very
very nice herbs to take away
00:22:08.97\00:22:13.07
the edge off the pain.
00:22:13.10\00:22:14.34
The one I like the best is
White Willow, it is basically
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called White Willow Bark,
it is the inside layer of the
00:22:19.34\00:22:22.30
bark of the White Willow Tree,
and it's been used for many,
00:22:22.33\00:22:25.41
many years, matter of fact
centuries as a pain reliever.
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The old folk medicines, that
is how we found out about it
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I say we, the drug
manufacturers, they found
00:22:33.21\00:22:36.30
the salicylate in
the White Willow Bark
00:22:36.33\00:22:38.79
was a pain
reliever, so they sort of
00:22:38.82\00:22:41.25
extracted it and synthesized it
and made a thing called aspirin,
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but still the White
Willow Bark works quite nicely.
00:22:45.12\00:22:48.02
A few years ago I was working
on a table saw and I cut the
00:22:48.05\00:22:51.13
tips of two of my fingers off
and quite painful experience,
00:22:51.16\00:22:55.25
right down to the bone, the
nails the skin, the whole thing
00:22:55.28\00:22:57.78
was gone, and I was in a
lot of pain but I wanted to do
00:22:57.81\00:23:02.11
everything just the way
we were supposed to do it.
00:23:02.14\00:23:04.92
I had been in natural medicine
for a long time, and so when I
00:23:04.95\00:23:08.12
walked into the Lifestyle Center
the first thing they said,
00:23:08.15\00:23:10.07
"Are you allergic
to any of the cains?"
00:23:10.10\00:23:11.90
And I said I don't want any
of the cains, give me a glass of
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ice water, so they took a glass
full of ice and water and they
00:23:14.40\00:23:18.02
just stuck my fingers down
in the ice water, and that is
00:23:18.05\00:23:20.43
a good pain reliever, and left
it in there for quite awhile
00:23:20.46\00:23:23.59
brought it out and they scrubbed
it off, because I had once read
00:23:23.62\00:23:26.80
that scrubbing a wound,
of course we have to do that
00:23:26.83\00:23:29.54
anyway to clean it but
some how lessens the pain,
00:23:29.57\00:23:32.43
I can't attest to that right
now because it really did hurt
00:23:32.46\00:23:35.68
when they were scrubbing those
little things, but from then on
00:23:35.71\00:23:39.48
someone had made me a
quart of White Willow Bark tea
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and I drank that and I got
some White Willow Bark capsules
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I would take those
things each night and within
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three weeks my fingers, using
some other herbs for cell growth
00:23:51.09\00:23:55.73
proliferation, like comfrey,
within three weeks I could
00:23:55.76\00:23:59.46
play the guitar again, and
that was my fingers that you
00:23:59.49\00:24:01.63
push on the strings, in
three weeks I could play,
00:24:01.66\00:24:03.71
with very, very little bit
of pain, so I believe in the
00:24:03.74\00:24:07.82
pain herbs, I believe that
God has given us everything
00:24:07.85\00:24:10.11
that we need to deal with it,
as a matter of fact, I found out
00:24:10.14\00:24:12.78
just the other day that 40%
of the drugs that we have today
00:24:12.81\00:24:18.09
came from plants in the rain
forest, and so I think that God,
00:24:18.12\00:24:22.58
I don't think, I know that
God has everything that we need
00:24:22.61\00:24:25.09
out there in nature, we just
have to be patient enough first
00:24:25.12\00:24:29.19
to find it and patient enough
for it to work in it's own time,
00:24:29.22\00:24:33.00
God does everything right in
His own time, and so I encourage
00:24:33.03\00:24:38.77
you to look into the pain herbs
and to try them when you have
00:24:38.80\00:24:41.99
the pain, and do the other
things that we have been talking
00:24:42.02\00:24:44.06
about and Dr. Thrash has a few
more suggestions, Dr. Thrash.
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Not only is pain dealt with
directly and as a particular
00:24:47.80\00:24:57.05
thing that we must say, this
we must treat, but also for a
00:24:57.08\00:25:02.16
person who is in a chronic pain
we will often need to treat them
00:25:02.19\00:25:05.71
for their depression, because
they begin to think this pain
00:25:05.74\00:25:11.47
is not going to go away,
I'm going to always have it.
00:25:11.50\00:25:14.75
As they begin to think
that way I see the limitation
00:25:14.78\00:25:18.42
that they have with their lives
with the things that they love
00:25:18.46\00:25:24.02
to do, and the way that they
have always carried on their
00:25:24.05\00:25:28.07
affairs and now they are unable
to do that because of pain,
00:25:28.10\00:25:31.38
as they see this then they
are likely to get depression.
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So what one must do for the
person with depression is to
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treat that, that should
be treated with exercise,
00:25:38.39\00:25:41.25
it should be treated with
extreme regularity, that is
00:25:41.28\00:25:43.98
going to bed on time,
getting your meals on time,
00:25:44.01\00:25:46.55
doing exercise on time, all
of those things must be done
00:25:46.58\00:25:50.81
with regularity.
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But then I like also and
herbal remedy for depression,
00:25:51.94\00:25:56.46
the one that I like the best
is probably St. John's Wort,
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St. John's Wort is characterized
by the ability to relax the
00:26:01.67\00:26:07.79
body, it is also characterized
by the ability to elevate
00:26:07.82\00:26:12.14
the spirits a good bit, so the
person with depression should
00:26:12.17\00:26:16.99
always try to use some
kind of relaxing herb like
00:26:17.02\00:26:22.20
St. Johns Wort.
00:26:22.23\00:26:24.15
Now don't sell exercise short,
exercise for depression is one
00:26:24.18\00:26:30.45
of the most important
things that we can do, every day
00:26:30.48\00:26:34.20
the person with depression
should get out of doors
00:26:34.23\00:26:37.04
because being in the out of
doors will also help the person
00:26:37.07\00:26:40.49
with depression, the diversion
one gets from looking at the
00:26:40.52\00:26:44.06
birds and the trees and the
flowers, all of these kinds of
00:26:44.09\00:26:48.26
things can help the
individual who has depression.
00:26:48.29\00:26:52.65
Then some of the herbs like
cat-nip tea, can also be very
00:26:52.68\00:26:58.93
helpful in depression, and
so as we think about the total
00:26:58.96\00:27:05.35
treatment of person with
pain we need to think also about
00:27:05.38\00:27:09.65
dealing with depression,
and helping them do some of the
00:27:09.68\00:27:13.80
things that once they
could do and now they cannot do.
00:27:13.83\00:27:16.68
Have you ever wondered what
God is going to do with all the
00:27:16.71\00:27:21.77
pain receptors that
we have in the body?
00:27:21.80\00:27:24.89
They are among the most
numerous of all the nerves
00:27:24.92\00:27:29.52
that we have in the body, and
God is a very conservative God,
00:27:29.55\00:27:35.36
He has some use for every
part of the body that we have,
00:27:35.39\00:27:39.68
and while I don't know
what it is that God has for us,
00:27:39.71\00:27:44.05
I do believe that He is going
to do something very wonderful
00:27:44.08\00:27:48.78
with our pain
receptors in the earth made new
00:27:48.81\00:27:52.21
it's worth waiting for.
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