Participants: Agatha Thrash, Don Miller
Series Code: HYTH
Program Code: HYTH000146
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00:01 It seems to me that viral infections are increasing,
00:04 and that the number of people 00:06 who get viral infections 00:07 is also increasing. 00:09 So we have both the number of viruses 00:11 and the number of people involved that seem to be 00:14 increasing. 00:15 We'll be talking about this subject for the next 00:18 half an hour. 00:19 I'm Agatha Thrash from Uchee Pines Institute 00:22 and some of my helpers from there will be discussing 00:25 this topic... so we hope you will join us. 00:48 Welcome to "Help Yourself to Health" with Dr. Agatha Thrash 00:51 of Uchee Pines Institute. 00:54 And now, here's your host, Dr. Thrash. 00:58 Sometimes it is quite difficult for us to make the diagnosis 01:02 of a viral infection. 01:04 Sometimes a viral infection will appear to be 01:08 a trauma... 01:09 or will appear to be... 01:12 some kind of collagen disease. 01:14 Or maybe, we think it's an allergy. 01:17 And sometimes, we go this way and that way... 01:20 and we may finally say, well it's for sure an allergy. 01:24 And I think that probably I have thought in myself, 01:27 as well as in my patients 01:29 that an allergy was a virus, or a virus was an allergy 01:32 more than any other single mistake that we might make 01:36 in diagnosis. 01:37 And so a number of years ago, my husband and I 01:39 wrote a book called, "Food Allergies Made Simple," 01:42 along with Phyllis Austin... 01:44 And in this, we discussed the symptoms of various allergies, 01:50 and if you were to read these, you would think that we were 01:53 maybe talking about a viral infection... 01:56 because they often sound exactly the same. 01:59 So if you have some kind of affliction 02:02 that seems to be an infection and it goes on for a long time, 02:05 you have a fever... every night you have a fever, 02:08 your muscles ache, your joints ache, 02:10 you have a headache, 02:11 maybe even you feel a little sore throat... 02:14 it may not be a virus, it may be an allergy. 02:18 But in dealing with allergies, 02:20 we need to have some tools, 02:23 and some of these tools are very simple. 02:25 And I have asked my cohort at Uchee Pines, John Champen, 02:30 to talk with you about an allergy that he deals with 02:34 sometimes... 02:35 And so, at this time, 02:36 John Champen will talk with you. 02:39 This is one of our health educators 02:41 and administrators at Uchee Pines. 02:44 John Champen. 02:45 Thank you. 02:47 There's something that happens around here 02:50 and around, I guess, all parts of the country 02:51 and a little in the fall and in the winter... 02:55 people start getting the flu. 02:59 The bug comes by... 03:00 they find that their throat starts to bother them 03:02 and the next thing you know, 03:05 the glands are swollen on the side... 03:07 they're running a temperature 03:08 and they're in the full swing of it. 03:11 Well, I've had the same problem, 03:14 and I'm sure you've had it too. 03:15 And they get shots for flu and different things like that. 03:20 Then, I got to thinking one day, 03:22 well, God has a solution to everything... 03:25 We may be among those who have a virus or flu 03:30 and some people get it and some people don't. 03:34 Well, I used to get it and get it quite often. 03:37 But for the last 5 years, 03:39 I haven't had a virus. 03:40 Those around me in the office with me where I work, 03:43 they've had the virus... 03:45 and I haven't had the virus. 03:47 I've had the beginning of the virus though, 03:49 but at the first symptom, 03:51 something interesting began to happen. 03:55 I reasoned that lemon... 03:58 you know, I've never seen a worm in a lemon... have you? 04:02 Lemon is a natural antibiotic. 04:04 And I said... "Well, perhaps 04:06 ALSO, it can deal with the virus very effectively"... 04:10 So, I thought maybe not so much in taking lemonade 04:15 but perhaps if lemon juice 04:18 was in the area where the viral infection was 04:21 just beginning. 04:22 ...maybe it would take care of it. 04:24 And so, this is what I did... 04:26 The next time I had a first sign, 04:29 and, of course, I've come to recognize those signs, 04:31 that little feeling in the back of your throat... 04:34 it's a little bit raw and... you know what I'm talking about. 04:38 You've had that too. 04:39 And so, I took the lemon juice, 04:43 and I took it up and I 04:47 rinsed my mouth to get the area nice and lemony 04:51 and then held it in the back of my mouth... 04:53 I said, "Well, let's give it a good try. " 04:56 "Let me see if I can hold it back there for about 04:57 20 minutes to a half an hour. " 05:00 It's a little reflex back there that makes you want to swallow. 05:05 But, I held it anyway. 05:06 and when a little bit went back 05:09 and a little bit more swallowed, 05:10 I just took another little sip... 05:12 so that I kept the surface of my mouth all lemony 05:16 for about a half an hour. 05:20 After that time, I got up and I 05:24 I noticed that there was a difference... 05:26 a slight difference. 05:27 And within 45 minutes to an hour, 05:29 the sensation that had begun was finished. 05:34 My flu was averted, 05:37 and I said, "Well, maybe it's just a quirk. " 05:40 So, the next time, it came around again... 05:45 another flu, I don't know what flu it was... 05:48 what number it was. 05:49 But I did the same thing. 05:50 I took the lemon juice the first sign 05:54 and I held it in the back of my mouth... 05:56 swished it around my mouth, 05:57 I laid down so that it stayed in the back, 06:00 making sure that it stayed there, 06:02 and I found that I was getting 06:03 a little better with that swallowing reflex... 06:05 I could hold it a little bit longer. 06:07 And for a half hour... 06:08 and I found that it was gone. 06:11 I didn't get the flu... 06:13 and it's been over 5 years now and I haven't had the flu! 06:16 I've had the first symptoms of the flu, 06:18 but I haven't had the flu or a cold in over 5 years. 06:22 And, I'd like to show you now with Melissa, 06:25 just how that is done. 06:27 Melissa is coming up... 06:32 and she's going to take a little swallow of it 06:35 and then rinse it around in her mouth 06:38 and then she's going to lay down... 06:42 so that it stays in the back... 06:44 She's doing very well. 06:46 So that it stays at the back of the mouth 06:48 and try not to swallow. 06:49 And she just relaxes and rests. 06:52 I find that doing that the first thing in the morning, 06:55 either before I go to work, 06:57 or at night, 06:59 or whenever it is practical. 07:01 And it doesn't take very long. 07:02 You can do it on your lunch hour. 07:04 Whenever you feel that bug coming on, 07:07 you can go ahead and have that simple treatment. 07:09 It's a blessing! 07:12 And, it is very, very cheap. 07:13 Now you can use lemon juice here, or 07:16 you can use what is right here... 07:23 ...lemon 07:27 or a lime. 07:29 And you do exactly the same thing 07:31 whether it's a lemon or a lime. 07:32 You do exactly the same thing. 07:36 Thank you. 07:40 This is a natural treatment that the Lord has provided for us... 07:43 And, at Uchee Pines, I've shared this with others 07:46 and even one of the physicians there and they have tried it 07:52 and they've shared it with others 07:54 And I'd like you to try it. 07:55 The next time you feel the first sign of the flu coming on 07:59 that sensation in the back of your throat that you know 08:02 what it leads to... try some lemon juice. 08:06 Take it... swish it around in your mouth 08:09 ...hold it in the back of the mouth, 08:10 lie down for 20 minutes to a half an hour. 08:12 And then, when you get up, rinse your mouth real well 08:16 because the lemon juice has a lot of acid and 08:19 it etches your teeth. 08:21 So rinse your mouth 2 or 3 times after you get up 08:23 and you'll find that with the blessing of the Lord, 08:26 there are 2 more things that would be helpful also. 08:29 One is, don't take any sweets for that day. 08:32 Be sure you take nothing that has extra sugar in it. 08:35 And the second thing is, drink plenty of water. 08:38 And I believe God will bless you even as He has blessed me. 08:43 I'm sure that He will and 08:44 you know it's such a simple treatment 08:46 and, of course, it has vitamin C in it and a number of other 08:50 nice nutrients that it certainly will do you no harm 08:54 and an interesting thing about this treatment is 08:58 what John Champen was telling you and that is that 09:01 you take it with the very first sign that you've got 09:05 the problem. 09:06 And that's a rule 09:07 of treatment. 09:09 The sooner you begin treating it, 09:11 the greater the likelihood that you have for success. 09:14 So, at the very sign of a symptom, 09:19 consider that to be a signal from heaven telling you 09:22 that tissue is about to be injured 09:25 and then you can institute your treatment at that time. 09:28 Now I'd like to show you the differing signs or sizes 09:34 of a virus. 09:36 So, let me just show you here on the board 09:39 just what you can expect in the way of these very tiny viruses 09:44 and you can see why it is that we are having a problem with 09:48 these viruses. 09:50 Let us say that this represents the size of a small bacterium. 09:58 A very, very small bacterium 10:02 requiring the high power lens of a microscope 10:07 in order to see it with oil immersion. 10:10 Then, if that's the size of a bacterium, 10:15 then a very large virus would be perhaps this size. 10:21 And a medium-size virus would be perhaps that size. 10:25 You can't see these with a microscope. 10:27 And then, a very small virus would be quite tiny... 10:33 ...of course, very much submicroscopic. 10:36 Now as we think about the fact that 10:39 these are the sizes of viruses, 10:42 as compared to ordinary bacteria that we're exposed 10:44 to all the time, 10:45 then we can see why it is that the Bible calls this 10:48 the pestilence that is hidden, 10:52 we don't see it, it walks at midnight. 10:55 And certainly these are viruses and pestilences 10:59 that are in the dark, we cannot see them. 11:03 So, we need to protect ourselves from them even though 11:06 we can't see them. 11:07 And that means when we get fruit from the grocery store, 11:10 we wash it first. 11:12 It's not taken to the refrigerator and stored 11:15 in the refrigerator with all of our other food. 11:18 We take it first to the sink and wash it. 11:20 And if you think it might be fairly contaminated, 11:24 was it with soap. 11:25 Sometimes some fruit has been not handled by human 11:30 hands since it did have a washing period. 11:32 And if so, you may only have to wash off the grocer's 11:35 fingerprints... 11:37 As well as those who come by to pick it up and 11:41 they wipe their nose and they cough on their hands 11:45 or whatever they do and then they touch the fruit... 11:48 and their viruses from their illnesses are now on the fruit. 11:53 If you eat that unwashed, then you are subject to 11:56 the kind of illness that they had. 11:59 Now, we have a number of treatments other than those 12:03 having to do with lemon juice. 12:06 And, Don Miller is going to show you some of those. 12:10 Don Miller, it looks as if you have quite a lot of things here. 12:13 And I think that we're going to do hydrotherapy. 12:16 We're going to do hydrotherapy and the reason why 12:18 I've got this one right here 12:20 is Melissa is busy right now with her lemon juice, 12:22 so I have to use her doll here to demonstrate 12:25 the particular treatment that I'm going to be showing you. 12:27 I want to show you 2 different types of packs 12:31 we're going to call them. 12:32 One is what is called a wet-sheet pack. 12:34 Now Dr. Thrash has showed you the relative size of virus... 12:39 It's a very small enemy but we can attack it 12:42 in a very large way using something as simple as 12:45 hydrotherapy. 12:46 And I believe in hydrotherapy very much. 12:48 What we want to do when we do a wet sheet pack is 12:51 basically that's what we use 12:53 and I'm going to use, for this case, just a wet towel. 12:55 This is going to be a dry towel. 12:56 This is what we call a "dry run" 12:58 where we take a towel, and in the case of a large human, 13:02 a sheet, and put it in cold water and wring it out. 13:06 And then we're going to take the patient, 13:09 and what we normally have them do... 13:11 see this one is frowning because she is not too well today... 13:14 we'd have them raise their arms 13:16 but she doesn't raise her arms very well but 13:18 the reason why we want to do that... 13:20 is we take the sheet and we take it... 13:25 ...perhaps I could help you here.. That would be a good idea 13:27 She's not very cooperative today. 13:31 You want to have every part of the body touching 13:34 the wet sheet. 13:35 And so what we do is, we take the sheet 13:40 and we start over and cross it over the body 13:46 and go underneath the arm 13:49 and then around this leg over here because 13:53 it's got to be completely surrounding the leg. 13:56 And the other part of the sheet will go across the other way 13:59 this time getting this whole arm... this part of the sheet 14:03 is underneath the arm... 14:04 this sheet is over the arm. 14:06 This one came from under the arm and it goes over the arm. 14:10 And then the bottom of it then tucks around 14:14 this other leg. 14:15 Basically, she is completely covered now by a wet sheet. 14:19 And, what we can also do is, we can use a hot foot bath 14:24 to accelerate the treatment or the vigorousness of 14:28 this treatment. 14:29 We put her feet in hot water... 14:31 at the same time we would want to take 14:33 a blanket or a towel 14:35 and drape her shoulders to keep her from getting chilled. 14:38 You do not want a person receiving this treatment 14:41 to become chilled. 14:42 So I would drape the shoulders 14:43 and then I would wrap the entire body 14:46 in another blanket or a towel 14:48 as the case might be. 14:50 For a child, you can use a large towel. 14:52 But now the child is being wrapped up... 14:55 now what's happening inside here 14:57 is you first put down this wet, cold sheet 15:01 Well, that's going to cause an immediate reaction of a 15:03 vasoconstriction. 15:04 But the body is jealous for warmth and for healing 15:08 and so it starts sending blood to the area 15:11 to increase the warmth of the area. 15:14 Now as that temperature goes up, 15:16 which now this is an entire body the temperature is going up 15:20 When the temperature goes up, we are rallying and increasing 15:24 our white blood cells. 15:25 We're saying, "White blood cells it's time to get to work. " 15:29 And so now, our spleen and our bone marrow starts 15:35 producing white blood cells, I'm trying to say. 15:37 And we have far more white blood cells in the bloodstream 15:40 out there fighting these little viruses 15:42 to try to bring down the disease process. 15:44 And this treatment... 15:46 now the first maybe 10 minutes of the treatment, 15:49 is a stimulant treatment. 15:54 It will really get a person roused up because it's cold. 15:56 But then it becomes, as it starts to heat up, about 15:58 body temperature, a sedative treatment. 16:01 But as it goes on beyond that, it becomes a 16:04 pyrotechnic treatment, if I can use the term. 16:06 It heats the person up and gives the person a fever. 16:09 And a fever is what we call a friend. 16:13 It's not an enemy that we have to throw aspirin at. 16:15 A fever is a friend. 16:17 And as a person's temperature goes up, 16:19 as I've already mentioned, white blood cells increase 16:22 and healing takes place. 16:23 And before long, instead of having a sickly and sorrowful 16:29 patient, you have a happy patient... 16:32 because now they're feeling so much better for the treatment 16:35 Now there's another thing you can do 16:36 in this type of a treatment. 16:38 Rather than using the wet sheet, 16:40 you can do what's called a blanket pack. 16:42 And what I'm going to do with this particular 16:44 treatment is lay my patient down... 16:49 First I would prepare the bed 16:51 and always prepare the bed before treatment begins 16:54 I'd put a blanket down longways 16:58 and a second blanket longways on the bed 17:01 And then I would lay the patient down in bed 17:07 and I would cover the patient with these blankets. 17:12 Now at the same time, 17:14 you can be adding what we call a "fomentation. " 17:17 And you can do a fomentation quite simply a home. 17:20 Just take a towel 17:22 and what I would do is I would put it in fourths, 17:25 dip it in hot water, 17:27 wring it out, 17:29 and then lay it over the first layer of the towel 17:33 over the blanket that's over the part of the person. 17:35 You want to have these things all the way up and down the legs 17:38 This sometimes takes for a full grown adult 17:40 12 different towels or fomentations 17:43 to give this heating effect. 17:45 And you don't want to put it right against the skin 17:47 because it should be as hot as you can make it. 17:50 So you put it against both legs, the abdomen, the chest 17:53 and the arms, 17:54 and then you wrap them up in these blankets. 17:57 Wrap them up like a mummy. 17:59 Wrap them up like a papoose. 18:00 Wrap them up like a dog in a blanket. 18:02 Or pig in a blanket... 18:03 whatever you want to call them... 18:04 and you put them there and this is going to start 18:07 causing the temperature to rise in the body. 18:09 Again, white blood cells are increased... 18:12 they become more voracious 18:14 they're a lot faster 18:15 and they're much more active 18:16 And this is what we need to fight our viruses. 18:19 You know, many times we go to the pharmacy or something 18:25 and get some type of antibiotics... 18:26 Antibiotics do not work against viruses. 18:29 But God's methods of hydrotherapy 18:31 do work quite nicely. 18:33 So, this is a simple treatment, 18:34 I've used it before on myself and used it on others 18:38 and we get some quite nice effects out of these 18:41 simple treatments, Dr. Thrash. 18:42 Yes, and we have patients who have smiley faces and not 18:46 frowny faces. 18:49 Herpes is a member of the virus family 18:52 and it itself is a large family. 18:55 The virus that causes chickenpox 18:58 and shingles is a member of that family. 19:00 But also the virus that causes fever blisters 19:04 and genital herpes is also a member of that family. 19:08 There are many others... several other members of that family 19:11 it's a fairly large family. 19:13 Now, when a person gets the herpes virus, 19:17 is there something that can be done? 19:20 One way that a person gets herpes infection 19:25 is herpangina. 19:28 It may start as a herpes infection, or it may be 19:31 a pain in the mouth that feels like a herpes infection. 19:38 The symptoms of herpangina which sounds like 19:44 a viral infection... 19:45 The treatment for it is hot mouth washes 19:49 and simple diet and sunshine exposure, 19:55 and keeping the mouth rinsed, as well as heat-treated. 20:00 And since it occurs in children, sometimes the mother has to 20:05 irrigate the mouth, instead of asking the cooperation 20:08 of the child. 20:09 The child will get swollen gums, bleeding gums, 20:13 and the teeth may become almost covered by the swollen gums. 20:19 And then, after the treatment is done, 20:22 the gums are just as sound as they ever were. 20:26 Now, a fever is a true herpes infection. 20:29 And it is associated with the deposition of the virus 20:36 in the tissues of the lip... 20:38 so wherever it strikes the person, 20:42 it generally lives there. 20:44 And it may live there for decades... 20:46 Unless for some reason, the person is able to throw it off. 20:50 One way that you can treat fever blisters is with cayenne pepper. 20:55 Just mix up some cayenne with alcohol 20:58 and dab it on the area where you have the fever blister. 21:02 You can expect that it will burn intensely for about 15 minutes. 21:07 But then, if you're successful, 21:09 it will be very helpful in getting rid of that herpes 21:14 infection on the lips. 21:17 L- lysine can also be used to treat a viral infection, 21:22 and hot baths can also be used to treat a viral infection. 21:27 So as we learn these various treatments for an infection, 21:33 we can be armed against them. 21:36 Now, the next thing that I would like to present to you 21:39 is that of heating compresses. 21:41 And John Champen is going to talk with you about 21:45 heating compresses. 21:46 And the heating compresses can be applied in many areas. 21:50 And, here you come with a number... 21:53 So, I'd like to see how you put these on. 21:56 Thank you. 21:58 Heating compresses, you might think that we put on something 22:02 hot but we don't. 22:04 We put on something that's cold. 22:05 Melissa is going to be my subject. 22:07 We're going to take this cloth and put it in cold water 22:13 or ice water. 22:14 It is wrung out where it's not completely dry, 22:18 but it is fairly dry. 22:22 This goes on... this is going to be for her neck. 22:34 All right, what this does is, 22:35 of course, it causes 22:36 the blood vessels to constrict... 22:39 and... 22:46 while they're constricting, 22:48 the body is saying, "Well, we can't have that, 22:52 we've got to heat this place up. " 22:54 And so what it does, 22:57 it begins to heat up this area 23:03 Now, first cloth goes on... it's dipped in ice water 23:08 or cold water and then it's wrung out and placed on the neck 23:13 Then it's covered with the plastic. 23:15 The plastic should cover the entire area. 23:18 And then above that, I'm going to use a sock 23:24 which is something that you have in your home 23:28 All right... and that will cover the heating compress. 23:36 Now this can be slept in very comfortably 23:39 for a person that has a sore throat... 23:43 and it is pinned. 23:49 This is a heating compress. 23:51 The body will begin to heat this up 23:54 and as it heats it up, 23:57 there's more blood drawn to the area 23:59 and the sore throat that she has, will begin to go away. 24:03 It's not uncommon that in the morning 24:05 when she takes this off, 24:06 and then takes a little mitten 24:14 in the morning, it should be very warm 24:17 and then rub the area very briskly 24:20 and then dry it off so that the pores can be closed. 24:24 This simple procedure is very effective. 24:27 Thank you, Melissa. 24:29 Now, if the person has a cold, 24:31 and they like to work with their feet, 24:37 they may have cold feet... 24:39 the same thing can be done. 24:41 You can take a very thin, cotton sock, 24:43 and do exactly the same thing that you did for the throat, 24:46 you can do it for the foot. 24:48 You would take this, dip it in ice water, 24:50 wring it out, place it over the foot... 24:54 When you do the feet though, you'd like to do both of them. 24:57 One on each foot... 24:58 then you would take a plastic bag 25:02 and put the foot into the plastic bag, 25:04 cover it completely, 25:07 and then put a heavy sock over that... 25:10 So you wind up with 3 layers... 25:12 the cold wet one, 25:15 the plastic 25:17 which the foot goes in 25:19 and then that goes inside here. 25:23 And again, you have exactly the same thing 25:26 that you had for the throat. 25:27 The feet would warm up during the night... 25:29 they would feel chilly initially 25:31 but then they'd warm up 25:32 and the person would feel very well in the morning. 25:36 Now, you might have congestion in your chest, 25:39 in this area... 25:40 you could use a band if it was for the abdomen area; 25:44 if you had... like constipation, you could do the same thing. 25:49 You could use a band and you would do exactly the same thing. 25:52 Now if you had your entire trunk... 25:55 ...you had congestion in your chest, 25:57 you would take a shirt without sleeves 26:01 and exactly the same procedure would be made. 26:04 You would put it in cold water, wring it out 26:06 and place it on. 26:08 It would feel very chilly... 26:10 then over the top of that, you would take a... 26:12 this is a garbage bag... 26:15 and a hole is cut out for the head 26:16 A hole is cut out also for each arm 26:21 and slip it over the person or for yourself, 26:24 then over the top of that, 26:27 you can place a sweatshirt. 26:32 So the same procedure can be used for many different 26:35 parts of the body. 26:38 This could be worn during the daytime. 26:40 I've known folks who have placed this on themselves 26:43 and worn them during the day, 26:45 or the collar during the day also. 26:48 So, this is one way that we can deal with some of the 26:52 health problems that, 26:53 with the material that you have in your own home, 26:55 it's very inexpensive and very effective. 27:00 You know, as I was thinking about your doing this, 27:03 I thought of many cases where I have recommended 27:06 this kind of treatment 27:07 and the person has said, 27:09 "My affliction is too severe for that simple treatment 27:13 to be helpful for me. " 27:14 And they simply refuse it. 27:15 And I think about what happened in the Bible... 27:18 when THE remedy for the bite of those serpents was 27:23 given to the people... 27:26 The brass serpent was raised up on the pole, 27:30 and the only thing that the sick Israelite had to do 27:34 was to look up on that pole 27:37 and see that brass serpent 27:39 and they would be healed 27:43 but many of them refused to do it and died of their 27:46 affliction. 27:47 Don't sell these simple remedies short. 27:50 They are very effective, 27:51 and I would like to encourage you to learn how to do them. 27:54 You will enjoy them. |
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