Participants: Don Miller, Agatha Thrash
Series Code: HYTH
Program Code: HYTH000133
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00:01 Hello!
00:03 I'm Agatha Thrash, a staff physician from Uchee Pines 00:05 Institute, which is a medical missionary training institute. 00:09 There we teach remedies. 00:12 My very favorite remedy is charcoal. 00:15 It's such a favorite that my husband and I wrote a whole 00:19 book, devoted to that very subject of charcoal, so during 00:23 the next half an hour, we will be discussing that so if you 00:25 would like to stay by and join us I think that you will enjoy 00:27 learning about charcoal. 00:49 Welcome to Help Yourself to Health with Dr. Agatha Thrash 00:53 of Uchee Pines Institute, and now here's your host 00:57 Dr. Thrash. 00:58 Charcoal has so many good properties about it, that you 01:05 can use it for so many different things. 01:07 You can use it internally, you can use it externallly, you 01:11 can use it in your rooms and in the air. 01:13 It's a very good remedy, its a very good substance for us to 01:18 use in a lot of ways, and with me today is Don Miller 01:24 and a little later will be John Champen to help me to 01:29 present the various qualities and faculties, and our 01:32 experiences with charcoal and now Don Miller will talk with 01:36 you about his experience with charcoal. 01:39 You know one of my favorite things with charcoal and you can 01:43 use it in so many ways, we could not even enumerate them 01:46 all in one program, or ten programs. 01:48 But a number of years ago after I had learned about the 01:52 wonderful miracle working propreties, and I do use the 01:55 word miracle, because it does work miracles as far as I'm 01:59 concerned, was when I had gotten out of the Marine Corp and moved 02:02 to my farm in Missouri, and when I got there I decided hmm! I 02:05 want to have some horses, now I wasn't familiar with buying 02:08 horses I didn't learn that in college, didn't learn that in 02:10 the Marine Corp, but I did want to buy some horses, and so I 02:14 bought three horses, and I thought I had enough horses, but 02:17 then I got a phone call one night from a man saying look 02:19 I've got another horse I would like to sell you. 02:21 We had already bought one horse from this man, and he said I 02:25 want to sell you another horse. 02:26 I said, well I really don't want any more horses 02:29 He said well I'll make you a good deal, and I said I don't 02:31 care how good the deal is. 02:32 I don't want your horse. 02:33 He said, well I will tell you what I will do, I'll give you 02:36 the saddle, and the bridle, and the blanket, and the horse 02:40 and I will deliver it all for twenty five dollars, 02:42 and I said "SOLD" 02:43 I never heard that thing, "You never buy a horse unseen," 02:47 and so the man delivered the horse one day, and he backed up 02:52 his trailer to my gate around my yard, on my farm, and the 02:56 horse was backing down this walkway, and it looked pretty 02:59 good until he turned it around, and that was the worse looking 03:03 horse that I had ever seen. 03:04 One side of his face was nothing but puss, plus you couldn't see 03:08 the eye, it looked miserable, and I thought, Uhh! I'm going to 03:12 dig a deep hole for this poor thing and bury it. 03:14 then I decided well "no", I learned about charcoal, I had 03:18 been to Uchee Pines for a seminar, so I decided to use 03:21 charcoal on my horse. 03:22 I had to use it two ways, I was going to use it 03:25 internally and externally. 03:27 Now how do you feed a horse charcoal? 03:28 It was quite easy. 03:29 I took a big stainless steel bowl, put some charcoal in it 03:32 put some flax seed in it, ground flax seed which Brother 03:35 Champen will be talking about, added some water, chopped up an 03:38 apple, and some turbinado sugar, and it would mix it all up and 03:41 I would roll it in these big black horse jelly beans, and the 03:47 horse loved the things. 03:48 Then I made up some charcoal poultice material, which 03:50 Brother Champen will be talking about, made up a big poultice 03:53 and just slapped in on that horses eye, and tied it on with 03:57 a sock, and I did that every day for that horse. 04:00 Within a couple of months, that horse was completely clean, 04:04 completely clear. 04:05 His eye was healed, it was not blind in the eye. 04:08 It had no evidence whatsoever that anything had been wrong 04:12 with that horse, 04:13 and another nice thing was the horse surprised me. 04:16 I don't think I even knew it was a female horse, but it was 04:18 a female horse, and the horse had a baby horse, a foal 04:21 and it was in perfect health, in perfect shape, so I just 04:24 think, that God has given us something like charcoal to 04:28 surprise us with the marvelous working powers of it, and I'm 04:31 thankful for charcoal. 04:33 Dr. Thrash, I know you've had lots of experience with 04:36 charcoal. Yes, I've had quite a lot of experience with charcoal, 04:39 and I enjoy what I know about charcoal, 04:42 but I'm constantly learning more things. 04:45 The charcoal itself is a little granule, the individual parts 04:53 are just little granules, like this. 04:55 These individual granules are interesting because they have 05:01 little crevices, which you can see here. 05:03 You can see how these little holes and little canals, all 05:08 of these little indentations around in the charcoal granule 05:11 All of these can take up poisonous substances, and indeed 05:16 will take up poisonous substances all manner of them. 05:20 In fact a number of articles have been written in a medical 05:25 journal, such as these that I am holding here. 05:27 This one was published in the very prestigious journal called 05:31 Pediatrics, just in 2001. 05:34 Researchers had done a big experiment on many, many 05:40 children, over a thousand children who had gotten poisoned 05:43 in the home, and what they had thought was instead of 05:48 having all children who were poisoned in the home, 05:51 transported to an emergency facility, why not have parents 05:55 have charcoal in the home, so that when a child is poisoned 06:01 they can simply administer it themselves. 06:03 So they began a campaign in this area in Connecticut, and 06:07 invited all parents to have charcoal in their homes in the 06:12 medicine cabinet all ready. 06:13 So they found that, in sixty minutes or less they could 06:20 have a poisoned child or a child who had taken something that you 06:23 weren't certain was poisonous, they could have the child 06:27 with their dose of charcoal already within sixty minutes 06:31 or less, and that almost never happened in the hospital, it was 06:38 less than a third of the cases that came to the hospital that 06:41 were going to have the charcoal administered 06:43 in thirty minutes or less, 06:45 whereas more than ninety percent of those 06:47 who could get the charcoal administered in the home, would 06:51 have the charcoal in a half an hour, in less than an hour. 06:55 Now a concern over proper administration of the charcoal 07:01 by parents was also very big in the minds of physicians, 07:06 and I think generally we feel that parents are going to be 07:13 a little bit backward in being able to administer treatments 07:17 in the home, but as we have had more and more experience 07:20 in dealing with parents, we find that they are fully as capable 07:25 as nurses and doctors to administer a simple treatment 07:30 like charcoal in the home. 07:32 So we recommend now to everybody that they have charcoal in their 07:37 medicine cabinets at all times. 07:39 When you have an emergency that is not the time to try call 07:42 around and see where you can find it. 07:45 Now we speak of activated charcoal. 07:48 Activated charcoal is different from just regular charcoal. 07:53 Regular charcoal is something similar to what I have here. 07:57 Here I have some partly ashed, and partly charred wood that 08:03 came from a fireplace, and you can use this in a pinch. 08:07 Just take some of these dark pieces and crush them up with 08:12 a hammer and a cloth towel or crush them with a fork if 08:19 they are soft enough, and you will get some benefit 08:21 from that, but not a lot. 08:23 What you get the most from is the activated charcoal. 08:27 The activated charcoal has been specially processed in a factory 08:32 where steam and pressure are used to clear the ash away from 08:38 the little granules, with the little crevices, so that ash 08:42 is cleared away, and the activated charcoal is 08:45 at least twice if not three times as 08:47 effective as the regular charcoal. 08:51 So you can see that it is important for you to use that 08:54 if you can, and as to how to administer it, we can teach 09:00 a parent to give the child the charcoal 09:03 by mouth in several ways. 09:05 One way is to stir it up in a glass, 09:07 and put a straw in it 09:09 and let them drink it. 09:10 Now some will say well, my child won't drink 09:14 that black mixture, and that may be true. 09:17 If you can't get the child to take the 09:20 the charcoal when its mixed up in water, call 09:24 grandmother, because grandmothers know how to get 09:27 a child to take something that they don't want to take. 09:30 In fact that has been shown in homes where there is a 09:36 grandparent, there are fewer visits to the physicians, than 09:40 in homes where there is no grandmother available, so you 09:44 are very fortunate if you have a grandmother, and she can get 09:46 the child to take the activated charcoal. 09:49 This can be a great help to you to know in your very own 09:54 home, you can be prepared to meet emergencies. 09:57 Now we use charcoal inside the body and outside the body, 10:01 and John Champen who is with me here, John Champen 10:05 is a health educator at Uchee Pines, and one of our 10:09 instructors there, and he is going to tell you some about 10:12 his experience in mixing up charcoal. 10:15 Charcoal is a very wonderful substance that has been 10:20 provided for us, and you can get it all over the world. 10:23 Today I'm going to show you 10:25 a little bit about how we mix charcoal. 10:28 Here we have two on our table, we have two glasses, 10:38 this one charcoal has already been mixed in, 10:41 and this one I'm just about to mix the charcaol in. 10:43 This one that has already been mixed in now settling 10:47 to the bottom, this is what we call our slurry water. 10:50 That's for those who have difficulty taking the 10:53 charcoal, or think they might have difficulty taking 10:56 This will eventually settle out, precipitate out to the 10:59 bottom, and will be relatively clear. 11:01 Those who have difficulty 11:03 might be more inclined to take it that way. 11:06 Now its very interesting in mixing charcoal its a very 11:10 fine powder, and if you don't whatch it, it will fly all over 11:12 everything, and get into everything. 11:16 It doesn't come out of garments very easily, 11:19 so it needs to be mixed very, very gently. 11:23 One tablespoon of charcoal per glass is about enough, 11:28 that's the recommended dosage. 11:30 This will take a little while to mix in, but when it 11:51 mixes in, it can be taken with a straw or it can 11:54 be drunk directly, and it works very very quickly. 12:01 There are no known problems with charcoal, 12:07 except that some people 12:08 might find it a little bit constipating, 12:10 and for those who might find 12:12 that to be their case, 12:13 what we advise then that the person 12:19 take alot of water with it. 12:24 Water and charcoal is all that is needed, now every 12:31 medicine cabinet as Dr. Thrash says should have that. 12:35 I keep this in my medicine cabinet, 12:36 it is excellent for bad breath 12:38 it is excellent for gas, 12:39 its excellent for upset stomach. 12:42 If a person has diarrhea, it helps quite a lot, 12:46 it checks diarrhea very, very quickly, 12:48 one tablespoon is all that is needed. 12:51 We've done experiments, and we've had guests who had gas, 12:59 or upset stomach, and we give them a little dose of charcoal 13:03 like this, and it doesn't have any taste, it tends to be 13:08 a little bit grainy, but thats all. 13:10 There is nothing in here that can harm you. 13:13 It goes through the system and it binds the toxins, 13:17 It binds those things that are in the system and it will 13:22 even take out a lot of chemicals from your system, 13:25 to clean the system on the inside. 13:27 It goes directly through the GI track and comes out. 13:37 Dr. Thrash, that's how it is done on the inside. 13:43 Yes! 13:44 That's a very good thing. 13:47 You know another way that I have mixed it up cause as 13:51 you say, it is a little difficult to get it to mix 13:53 into solution. 13:54 Sometimes I will put it in a jar, with the water, and just 13:59 shake it like this, and it goes in alot better, then you can 14:02 just put the, without pouring it out 14:05 I noticed how very carefully you transferred it from the little 14:10 container, into the glass, because that's most important 14:14 for people to know, and you don't use your white suit 14:19 when you are mixing it up the first time. 14:20 No! Not at all, not at all. 14:23 Now it's also used outside the body. 14:27 Outside the body its used in a poltice, and we're going 14:31 demonstrate that poultice a little bit later on Dr. 14:35 Thrash. Alright, very good. 14:36 Well I'd like to talk with you a bit more about some of the 14:40 properties of charcoal. 14:41 One is that it is inert, inside the human body, 14:46 and so you don't have to expect that it is 14:48 going to do you some harm if you overdose, 14:51 in fact overdosing on charcoal is almost impossible. 14:55 It does tend to make the bowels a little bit slow, or sluggish. 14:59 Some people feel that if they took to much, it would actually 15:02 cause them to have a binding up of the bowel, 15:05 but that really isn't true. 15:07 If you drink enough water it will pass through, 15:09 even though it may be a little bit sluggish. 15:11 The reason for its being sluggish is that it attaches 15:15 to the mucous in the bowel, 15:18 and that makes it move more slowly through the bowel, 15:20 but that isnt a great problem to you 15:23 if you simply work with it, 15:26 with a lot of water and sometimes 15:28 an enema might also be 15:30 necessary. Now the slurry water, that John Champen was talking 15:35 with you about, when the black part falls down to the bottom, 15:39 you could see that it was turning gray already up at the 15:43 top part, it will eventually be almost clear. 15:46 But there are some submicroscopic particles 15:51 that are suspended in the water and that does do some good 15:56 for you, as you take it and it is passed through the 16:00 intestinal track. 16:01 When you take it internally, it acts sort of like a little 16:05 mini dialysis,and its not going to cause you a great problem. 16:09 Now as to how to get a child to take it, 16:13 another suggestion, 16:15 I really hope you don't have one of these on hand in your 16:18 household, but if you should have a a chocolate container 16:21 In your, I hope your children don't 16:23 drink chocolate, because its not a good drink for them. 16:26 It's to much sugar, its to much of various things. 16:28 But if you should have a 16:31 chocolate container in your 16:33 home, Pour the charcoal water in there, put a straw in it 16:36 and invite your child to drink. 16:38 You can tell them drink it fast! 16:40 And as they follow your instructions, they 16:42 will get alot of it down. 16:44 Now for a child, don't make up a large quantity 16:47 like John Champen did for an adult dose. 16:50 Just make up a small amount, 16:51 but you still use a tablespoonful 16:53 because chances are, 16:55 you're not going to get it all down 16:56 for the child, so you want to make it fairly thick 16:59 and have him drink it as quickly as you can. 17:01 You can even mask it, 17:02 so its got a little flavor to it. 17:05 It actually doesn't have any flavor. 17:07 It just feels a little gritty in the mouth 17:10 So you can mask that a little bit by putting 17:13 some kind of flavoring, or maybe just 17:15 a little bit of honey with it, but not very much. 17:18 Because sometimes, something that you might put with it 17:21 might encourage absorbtion of some poison 17:23 that the child might have taken. 17:25 Now so far as overdosing with charcoal 17:30 Some people think that it's going to 17:33 take up their nutrients. 17:34 If they use alot of it, 17:38 but, actually interestingly enough 17:41 and for reasons which we do not understand 17:43 at all from the standpoint of physics and chemistry. 17:45 The charcoal granule does not take up nutrients 17:50 well at all, and therefore a person 17:52 who has been poisoned by, lets say 17:54 iron pills or vitamin pills, or zinc pills 17:59 They can just about forget about charcoal 18:01 its not going to be very helpful, 18:02 because it doesn't take up these nutrient substances. 18:06 So it will not give you a long term 18:10 malnutrition, if you take charcoal on a regular 18:14 basis. One of the best ways that we use it is 18:18 externally, and of course we could talk with 18:20 you about charcoal stories, and how 18:23 we have used charcoal both inside the body 18:25 and outside the body. 18:26 We could talk with you the rest of the year 18:29 on that, and probably not adequately cover the subject. 18:33 But now Don Miller is going to show you 18:36 some of the ways that we can use it externally 18:40 One of the scary things that people 18:43 worry about in their homes is 18:45 the insects that they might have 18:47 in their homes. 18:48 And one insect that I discovered 18:51 for the first time, saw it for myself 18:53 was in the sink when I was 18:54 going to graduate school 18:55 in the University of Oklahoma, 18:56 was the Brown Recluse spider. 18:57 Everyone is worried about that Brown Recluse spider 19:00 and they are pretty nasty. 19:02 When they bite you they cause necrotic tissue, 19:06 it can go right down to the bone 19:07 and it seems it just does not heal 19:10 While we were on a tour one time 19:12 we are out in California 19:13 and a man came to our booth where we were 19:16 displaying some of our materials 19:18 and he says, he told us I got bit 19:21 I got bit by a Brown Recluse spider 19:22 I think it was in January 19:25 and this was about June when he told us this 19:27 and I says really and he said yes, and I kept 19:30 the scrapbook about my bite 19:32 He had this big scrapbook full of pictures 19:36 They didn't really identify it as 19:39 a Brown Recluse spider bite for about three weeks. 19:41 So for three weeks there was no 19:42 treatment at all. 19:43 By the time this three weeks had elapsed 19:46 he had ulcers all up and down his leg. 19:49 It wasn't just the one, it seemed to 19:51 have traveled through his bloodstream 19:52 and he had ulcers all up and down his leg. 19:55 Well, they started using Charcoal poultices 19:57 which brother Champen will tell you how to do 19:59 but they had just not applied a poultice 20:02 on this one, and a poultice on this one 20:03 they made entire leg poultices, 20:06 from his ankle to his hip 20:08 he had these large charcoal poultices 20:10 and every two or three days, 20:12 they took a picture of the leg. 20:14 I'll tell you what, the first few days 20:16 and the first few weeks, 20:17 and the first couple months 20:18 that leg looked meat. 20:20 It was a bad looking leg 20:22 these large ulcers and very angry looking 20:25 an necrotic tissue going on down. 20:28 But slowly they started healing over, 20:31 and healing over, until finally 20:32 the last few pictures, 20:34 there were still some wounds there 20:35 it wasn't that bad, well here it was 20:37 I think he took the pictures until June 20:40 this must have been July 20:41 I says well let me see your leg. 20:42 So right there in this booth area 20:45 all the people around he hiked up his pant leg 20:47 On his leg he had a few little brown patches 20:50 No wounds, no necrotic tissue 20:53 no holes down through the bone, 20:54 no amputations, just nice flesh 20:58 with a little bit of discoloration 21:00 which will probably eventually go away to. 21:02 Brown Recluse spider you don't use antibiotics 21:06 Cutting away the tissue 21:08 is not the way we should not do. 21:09 Just take charcoal and pack 21:12 it into the wound if you have to. 21:13 If it tatoos your skin. 21:14 Does it really make a difference 21:15 I'd rather have tatooed skin 21:17 than to have my skin cut away by a surgeons knife 21:21 because they can't figure any other way to treat it. 21:24 So, use God's simple ways 21:26 and I'm sure we will get rewards from that. 21:30 The horse, this man's leg 21:33 there's all kinds of ways to use it. 21:34 Oh yes, and all sorts of situations 21:36 to use it in to. 21:37 As we think about the many, many 21:41 ways that charcoal can be used 21:43 I'd like us to study some things 21:45 about how charcoal can be used in poultices 21:49 or compresses in the body. 21:50 Compresses represent one of our primary ways 21:55 of treating the skin, and John Champen 21:58 is going to show you now just how to make a poultice 22:02 and how to apply it. 22:03 Thank you! 22:04 We're going to be making a poultice here 22:07 and I'm going to have Melissa come over 22:09 so that I can apply this poultice to her 22:12 after I make it. 22:13 The great need in making a poultice, is to have 22:19 charcoal, and we have here a little flax seed 22:24 which can be ground up and added to the poultice 22:28 or, and if some have used also oatmeal. 22:33 This is a nice binder also 22:35 and allows for the moisture to remain in the compress. 22:39 Simply we take, 22:43 I'm going to use oatmeal today 22:45 One tablespoon of oatmeal 22:50 and some charcoal, and they will be bound together 22:56 and we'll use a little water 23:00 and we'll make a compress here. 23:04 We add a little water to this 23:12 this will make a paste 23:16 as you see it's very light 23:24 very light, and it flies very easily 23:26 and this paste then will 23:30 be put on a paper towel 23:32 which is pre-cut 23:34 The charcoal, activated charcoal 23:40 with the binder here, in the water 23:43 will work through the paper towel, 23:48 common kitchen paper towel. 23:51 Here we have a little paste 23:56 which I'm going to apply 23:58 now to the paper towel 24:02 we'll spread it out, 24:06 we'd like to have it about 1/4 inch thick 24:09 and then over top of that 24:20 I will place another one 24:31 Mellisa Thrash, 24:34 Dr. Thrash's granddaughter 24:36 is my sbuject today 24:37 and on top of this 24:43 we're going to place a little peice of plasic 24:46 to keep the moisture in. 24:54 Secure it with a little tape 25:01 and then overtop of this 25:20 we can put an Ace bandage 25:22 to keep it bound. 25:26 We're running out of time 25:28 so i'm just going to show you very quickly here 25:30 If on the other hand she had a 25:34 little misquito bite, not a misquito bite, 25:39 or a bee sting, or wasp, 25:41 then a little band-aid can be used 25:45 Melissa was telling me 25:57 about experiences that she had 25:59 where she had these little 26:01 band-aids all over her. 26:02 Getting rid of a little problem 26:05 that her sister had picked up 26:06 and shared with her 26:08 without her consent. 26:10 When this is taken off, 26:13 this can stay on for about six hours 26:15 to ten hours, and when 26:16 that's taken off, just simply wipe with a cool 26:19 cloth, rub very clean, then she is better 26:25 The problem that she had 26:28 would probably be taken care of. 26:29 Thank you Melissa. 26:33 Charcoal, 26:37 charcoal can be used in many different ways. 26:42 One of our doctors at Uchee Pines, 26:45 this little child was playing around a little hole 26:48 in the ground, and put a stick in the ground 26:50 and out of that hole came these yellow jackets 26:54 In just a moment 26:55 the yellow jackets were in 26:58 charge Our doctor then took the 27:01 child, placed the child in the 27:02 bathtub with water, and then put 27:06 in 2 cups of charcoal water 27:09 stirring it around, and she received releif 27:13 Dr. Thrash, that was a simple way to do it wasn't it? 27:16 Yes it was and it was very effective 27:18 but the interesting thing was 27:21 the doctor who sort of got lost 27:23 in all this work with the child 27:25 didn't get treatment 27:27 and he had a real big problem. 27:29 We didn't treat him, but we did treat his daughter. 27:33 Now I hope that in these things that we covered 27:37 with charcoal, that you will 27:38 be stimulated to try it. 27:41 Be sure you have it in your home 27:43 at all times. 27:44 Don't wait until the emergency arises 27:47 and then you have to run out 27:48 and get the charcoal, at that time 27:51 valuable time will be lost 27:52 and you can be enjoying 27:54 charcoal all this time 27:56 if you have it on hand. |
Revised 2014-12-17