Participants: Agatha Thrash, Don Miller
Series Code: HYTH
Program Code: HYTH000156
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00:01 I'm Agatha Thrash, a staff physician
00:03 at Uchee Pines Institute in Seale, Alabama 00:06 We have a medical missionary training school 00:10 and we train our students to help people learn how to take 00:14 better care of their own health... 00:15 And to take more responsibility for their own health. 00:19 We're going to be talking about some of these things 00:21 ...how you can take more responsibility for your own 00:24 health and for the minor afflictions that plague 00:28 mankind in the next half an hour. 00:30 We hope you will join us. 00:52 Welcome to "Help Yourself to Health" 00:54 with Dr. Agatha Thrash of Uchee Pines Institute. 00:57 And now, here's your host, Dr. Thrash. 01:02 A very common problem that we see is nausea and vomiting. 01:07 This may be more in the young than it is in older people. 01:11 Somehow babies and children seem to be troubled with 01:16 nausea and vomiting more than adults... 01:19 And frequently, the mother calls and says, 01:22 "My child has vomited X number of times and I can't 01:25 get the child to stop, and she has no appetite. 01:28 She doesn't want to sleep and I can't comfort 01:32 her in any way... What can I do?" 01:34 Well there are a number of things... 01:35 and probably the very first thing that you should try 01:38 with a case of nausea and vomiting in a child is charcoal. 01:42 Mix up some charcoal in some water. 01:44 Mix it up fairly thick but still make it a water so that 01:49 it can be sipped through a straw. 01:51 And then offer it to the child and hope that the child will 01:54 get enough in the stomach so that it makes the stomach 01:57 less irritable and the nausea to be less. 02:02 Now another thing that you can do is carob paste. 02:06 Sometimes a child will not accept charcoal. 02:10 If this is the case, then you can try carob... 02:14 because carob has a large amount of pectin in it 02:18 and a variety of other sedative substances in it 02:23 that make it so that it's quite ideal for helping babies with 02:28 nausea and vomiting. 02:30 Furthermore, they're likely to accept it because 02:32 it has a slight sweet flavor and doesn't feel 02:36 too bad in the mouth... 02:37 And so a child will often accept it unless the nausea is 02:42 really quite severe. 02:43 And I have asked my granddaughter, Melissa, 02:46 if she will mix up some charcoal powder for us... 02:50 and I will tell you just exactly how it's done. 02:52 The first thing that you do is to put some 02:57 carob powder in a glass, or a cup 03:01 and you can put a fair amount, maybe a tablespoonful or more. 03:07 And then, put a little water in it and stir it around. 03:11 Now you will find that carob goes into solution a lot 03:15 easier than charcoal does. 03:16 But the paste that you develop with the stirring, 03:23 is sometimes very thick and sometimes quite thin, 03:27 and either way, it works quite nicely. 03:30 Now, it looks as if Melissa's paste is going to be a little 03:33 on the thin side... That's fine. 03:35 Just let them sip it. 03:37 If it's a paste that's thick, 03:39 then you let them nibble it. 03:41 How's it looking, Melissa? 03:43 Um, well it looks sort of like... Yes, I think that this 03:48 could be sipped... 03:49 Just take a little bit from the spoon... like this 03:53 and just give this to the child just a tiny, little bit... 03:57 It doesn't have to be a large quantity, just a tiny little bit 04:01 And almost immediately, the child will have a settling 04:05 of the stomach. 04:06 This settling of the stomach is usually sufficient so that 04:11 they're willing to take a little more. 04:12 Then the charcoal may come after that. 04:16 If they have refused it before, 04:17 then the charcoal may come after that. 04:19 Now I often have this kind of situation with nausea and 04:24 vomiting that mothers take care of and that is... 04:27 They give the charcoal and it is vomited again. 04:30 Then they don't think to give it anymore. 04:32 They say, "Well, I gave it to my child... 04:35 the child vomited it back" 04:36 Of course, that means that they don't accept it. 04:39 But the important thing for you to remember in any case 04:43 of nausea and vomiting... 04:44 whether it be your own, or whether it be someone else... 04:47 that is just after the vomiting, 04:50 there may be a refractory period in which there is no 04:54 nausea, and during that time, 04:56 you can more readily accept a large amount of either 05:01 carob or of the charcoal, and that can be most helpful. 05:05 Of course, a cool compress to the stomach can also be helpful. 05:09 Sometimes some aroma therapy can be good like mint or pine 05:16 or vanilla... or some other nice aroma in the air 05:24 can sometimes be helpful. 05:26 On the other hand, sometimes ANY aroma of ANY kind 05:32 especially food cooking, the odors from the kitchen 05:35 may just be particularly obnoxious to the individual 05:40 with nausea and vomiting. 05:41 So you have to always watch and see just what is the situation 05:47 with the patient and cooperate as well as you can 05:50 with the patient. 05:52 Okay, this is one way that a person can take 05:56 some responsibility for their own health. 05:58 And now Don Miller, who is one of my cohorts at Uchee Pines 06:02 will tell you about another way you can take responsibility 06:05 for your health... Don Miller 06:06 Okay... one way to take responsibility for your health 06:10 is recognize what out there is going to hurt you. 06:13 Now I'm going to talk about something that has never 06:15 in my life bothered me before, and it hasn't to this day, 06:19 but it might! 06:20 This particular thing I'm going to talk about sometimes 06:24 changes in a person. 06:25 A person may be immune for a long, long time 06:28 and all of a sudden one day, showing off... 06:30 saying, "Look, I can do this with no problem" 06:32 And now they have the problem. 06:33 I'm talking about the situation that some people have 06:37 TERRIBLY in the summertime and that's called 06:39 poison ivy. 06:40 I am immune to poison ivy. 06:43 I can say... Let me put it this way... 06:45 Up until today, I have been immune to poison ivy. 06:48 But the thing about poison ivy... 06:51 It can change from person to person, 06:53 it can change from time to time. 06:56 And so I've sort of learned in my years 06:59 ...let's don't tempt fate out here. 07:01 Let's learn to recognize what it looks like. 07:04 Now before this program began, I went outside 07:08 looking for some poison ivy. 07:09 I wanted to come in and show you some poison ivy 07:12 and hold it and squeeze the leaves and all these things... 07:14 but I didn't want to end up itching in front of you 07:16 and I couldn't find any anyway... 07:17 Out here at 3ABN, they just don't have 07:19 poison ivy, and that's pretty nice. 07:20 But basically, most of you, if you get poison ivy, 07:24 you know what it looks like, 07:25 and if you DON'T know what it looks like, 07:28 and you are allergic to it, 07:29 your best remedy is to learn how to identify it, 07:34 and then how to avoid it. 07:36 Basically, it's 3 leaves, one on the end of the stem 07:40 and then 2 across from each other, a little bit down 07:43 on the stem... it's basically 3 leaves 07:44 that tells you this is poison ivy. 07:48 In the fall, it might have some berries on it. 07:50 Be very careful of your poison ivy. 07:53 And, it's basically spread by an oil. 07:56 It's a resin. It's a volatile oil and called "urushiol" 08:00 And, if it comes in contact either directly or even 08:04 indirectly with your skin, and you are sensitive, 08:07 you WILL get poison ivy. 08:08 Now how can you get poison ivy if you don't touch it. 08:12 Well, it can come in on your pet. 08:14 If your pet has been out there rolling, walking 08:16 through it, and you pet the animal, 08:18 you're going to get poison ivy if that animal has come 08:21 in contact with the poison ivy. 08:23 It can get on someone's clothing and as you are getting ready 08:26 to do the laundry, mothers, or fathers... 08:28 whoever does the laundry. 08:29 If you touch the clothing, you can get the poison ivy. 08:33 It may be on some tools. 08:34 Even droplets of poison ivy, or this volatile oil, 08:39 this resin... can be in smoke from a fire. 08:42 I know people who have gotten poison ivy 08:45 from poison ivy being burned a few yards away 08:50 because they walked through the smoke, 08:51 and somehow these droplets have been carried on the smoke 08:54 because they've been heated up, carried through, 08:57 and the person gets the poison ivy. 08:59 And so, my recommendation is... avoid it by learning 09:03 how to identify it. 09:05 And if you DO get into poison ivy, 09:08 if you DO get exposed to it, 09:10 and you know you've been exposed... 09:12 IMMEDIATELY wash yourself. 09:15 If you've been out there in the woods working, 09:18 and you don't know whether you have it or not, 09:19 and you are allergic, 09:20 it's good always... to wash yourself very well anyway. 09:24 Wash good with soap and water, rinse extremely well. 09:28 Now God is very good to His children... 09:31 and when somehow in however poison ivy came about being... 09:36 He's also placed IN NATURE, the remedy for the poison ivy 09:41 right out there. 09:42 Many times, around poison ivy, you'll find Virginia creeper, 09:45 or Jewelweed growing and the sap from those things 09:52 rubbed on the skin will help denature, or take away 09:56 these volatile oils and these resins and keep you from 10:00 getting the poison ivy. 10:01 So, first avoid it. 10:03 2... if you have come in contact or think you've come in contact 10:07 with it, wash well. 10:09 And, for people like me who've never had it, 10:12 don't' tempt fate. 10:14 I used to.. for people... they'd say, "Oh, I've got poison ivy " 10:17 I'd go out there and I'd pull it with my bare hands 10:18 and I'd rub it in my hands... 10:20 You know... just sort of showing off and I'd throw it away. 10:22 Never bothered me. Never has to this day. 10:24 But one of these days... 10:26 because I'm getting older, 10:28 immune system gets a little bit weaker, 10:30 I might have a response. 10:32 And I have seen people with poison ivy so bad 10:37 they couldn't sleep and they were just in misery. 10:40 I want to avoid that type of misery, Dr. Thrash, 10:43 so I want to avoid poison ivy. 10:45 Yes, you're very wise and what you have said is 10:48 certainly very good. 10:50 Now if you should get poison ivy and it is an allergic reaction 10:54 so that you have it all over, 10:55 you may want to take some of the anti-inflammatory herbs 10:59 And there are a number of these and I have written a number down 11:03 Some of these are very familiar and some of them you may not 11:07 know as being anti-inflammatory. 11:10 Of course everyone knows that flaxseed is anti-inflammatory. 11:14 And flaxseed oil... it's 1 to 2 tablespoons of the flaxseed oil 11:19 once or twice a day as the severity of the case may dictate 11:25 The anti-inflammatory quality of flax oil may make the 11:32 swelling less and the person may be able to see out of their 11:35 swollen eyes, or breathe out of their swollen nose, 11:39 or write with their swollen fingers... just by taking the 11:43 flaxseed oil. 11:44 Then another anti-inflammatory is hawthorn berry. 11:48 Hawthorn berry has a number of good properties 11:51 and almost everybody thinks of the heart when they think 11:55 of hawthorn berry. 11:56 But it also has an excellent anti-inflammatory quality. 12:00 Boswellia is another of those anti-inflammatory agents 12:04 and you'll want to use that also. 12:07 Turmeric... just the common turmeric that we use in the 12:10 kitchen, also has a very good anti-inflammatory agency. 12:15 Ginger and rosemary and oregano... these common 12:19 kitchen herbs also have a good anti-inflammatory factor 12:24 and these should be used in cases of when one 12:28 gets the poison ivy. 12:29 Now another thing that you can use for poison ivy is 12:33 very thin slices... extremely thin slices of onion. 12:37 You can even use that membrane that's between the layers 12:41 of an onion and just put that membrane of put the very thin 12:45 slice of onion right on the place where you have the 12:50 poison ivy and that can be very helpful too. 12:52 Plain vinegar can give you a little anesthetic agency... 12:57 so can a baking soda paste. 13:00 So make up a little baking soda paste and put that on the place 13:03 where you have the poison ivy... 13:05 and that will give you a little anesthetic quality 13:08 And that, of course, makes you FEEL better. 13:11 But the thing that I think I have found to be the most 13:14 helpful in poison ivy itching 13:16 is a hot bath or a hot treatment of some kind. 13:19 If you have the poison ivy on an extremity... 13:22 if you hold that extremity in a hot shower, 13:25 while it burns very severely while you're holding it 13:28 in even just a moderately warm shower, 13:33 and when you turn it on to hot, it burns even more severely 13:36 But, once you stop after about 3 minutes of holding your 13:40 part in the hot water, after that... 13:44 then you will have a good bit of relief of the itching 13:48 for a number of hours. 13:50 Sometimes it may even be 8 or 10 hours that you can have 13:54 relief from itching. 13:55 Now an interesting thing, if you begin to scratch it, 13:58 then right away, it begins to itch some more. 14:01 One of the reasons for that is that... by the scratching 14:04 process, you squeeze some histamine into the tissues. 14:08 Histamine is normally held inside the cells and in little 14:13 capsules and by scratching, you can rupture those little 14:18 capsules and the histamine is released, 14:21 and that causes a near pain and itching and pain... 14:25 are carried on the same nerve pathways, 14:28 so you perceive it not as pain but as itching... 14:31 and that can be extremely intense. 14:34 So these are a few remedies. 14:36 There are hundreds of other remedies for poison ivy 14:39 and you can find those if you go searching for them. 14:43 And now, Don Miller has something else for us. 14:47 Okay... One of the most distressing things we can 14:49 come up against is some type of a bronchial problem... 14:53 whether it's asthma or bronchitis, whatever else... 14:55 And it's good in these situations to be able to breathe 14:58 something medicated... something good for us... 15:00 and something simple! 15:02 And a number of years ago, I was in Austria, 15:05 and I got really sick. 15:07 And I was so sick, I was told to go to my room and go to bed 15:12 ...which you have to do with me because I'm one of these types 15:14 no matter how sick I am, I'll try to keep going. 15:17 I remember the last day, before they told me to do this, 15:20 I had to stop every once in a while and sit down and rest 15:23 and I don't DO this. 15:24 I don't get that sick but I got extremely sick. 15:27 And every evening, the director of the school where I was 15:32 teaching, would come into my room and he'd open up the door, 15:34 he'd take one look at me and he'd say... 15:36 "Oh my," and I thought, Oh, I must look like I'm DYING! 15:41 Now, a good remedy is... if you are treating somebody 15:46 NEVER do that to them! 15:48 Because it really put my spirits down to have him look at 15:52 me one time and look away and say, "Oh my. " 15:55 You need to encourage your patient. 15:57 But, bless his heart, he did a lot of good things for me. 16:00 One day, he brought me a present. 16:01 And the present was... this little apparatus right here. 16:05 Very, very nice... I have not seen one in America yet. 16:11 He got this for me probably over in Germany. 16:14 But it's a very nice apparatus. 16:16 Basically what it is, is a little bowl... 16:19 And what I would do is, I'd put hot water in there. 16:22 I'd have a little pot going... a little poly pot type thing. 16:26 boil water, pour the boiling water into this little thing. 16:31 Then I'd pour some type of an essence... usually eucalyptus. 16:35 And I'd put a few drops of the eucalyptus oil into this 16:39 steaming little cup of water and then I would put 16:43 this part back on, lock it down... 16:46 and place it over my nose... 16:49 and breathe these fumes. 16:53 It was SO nice for my mucous membranes, 16:57 for my bronchial tree, for my lungs! 16:59 I felt great! 17:00 We're told that there is healing in the eucalyptus. 17:03 There is also healing in the balsam and in the pine. 17:07 And so by breathing these things... 17:09 because I was getting dry, and when you're getting sick 17:11 you've got to really increase your water intake. 17:14 As a matter of fact, I once heard it said, 17:15 that if you're sick, you should have to go to the bathroom 17:18 every hour. 17:19 That means you are really hydrating yourself. 17:21 When you're sick, drink the water. 17:23 But hydrating and helping the bronchial tree 17:26 because I had... it sounded like and we sort of 17:29 diagnosed it as pertussis. 17:30 I had whooping cough and as a matter of fact, 17:33 I hurt for months afterward and my voice did not 17:36 completely recover... 17:37 Really, it hasn't completely recovered now and this 17:40 was about 3 years ago. 17:41 So, we need to take care of ourselves. 17:43 And so this is very nice. 17:44 There's another way that we can put some nice essences... 17:49 some nice healing properties into our lungs and again... 17:55 I didn't find this in America. 17:57 And I can't tell which is upside-down or backwards 17:59 but I bought this thing when I was in Ukraine recently. 18:02 Very nice little apparatus... 18:05 and what you do with this... it has 2 parts to it 18:09 It has this thing that looks sort of like a pipe. 18:14 And then it has another piece that has a little "Y" on it 18:19 with 2 little bulbs and a little rubber sleeve 18:22 and you put this rubber sleeve over the long part 18:26 of the first part... 18:28 And what you do is, you fill it with water 18:30 up to just starting into this bulb here. 18:33 Then you drop some essence in here. 18:35 And then you would place this thing in your nose 18:38 and breathe. 18:41 What would happen there, you wouldn't suck the water up 18:43 because of all these little side streets 18:46 ...it would go up so far but you would be basically 18:49 bringing into your nostrils, into your sinuses passages 18:53 ...into your bronchial tree 18:55 moistened and treated air. 18:58 ...which is exactly what you need in these situations. 19:01 So I find something as simple as this to be... 19:06 to me is a must-have piece of equipment in my 19:10 armamentarium against diseases. 19:12 So I carry this with me and if I get sick, I've got a few bottles 19:15 of essences, especially eucalyptus... 19:17 and I will breathe this in, and it gives me 19:20 unbelievable relief in my sinus passages and 19:24 in my bronchial tree, Dr. Thrash. 19:26 It's an amazing device and I think in other countries 19:30 where they take more responsibility for their own 19:32 health, they have a lot of little devices of this nature 19:35 which makes it more easy for you to take 19:38 responsibility for your own health. 19:40 A lot of people have allergies these days and 19:43 more people getting them all the time. 19:45 I think that's because we're exposed to so many chemicals 19:49 in our environment. 19:51 Airborne allergens are very important for us. 19:55 And those who have airborne allergens who respond to those, 20:01 they need to understand how to reduce these in their own home. 20:06 And I have a graphic to show you that I think might 20:09 be helpful to you... 20:10 One that shows you the kind of program that you can 20:14 have in your own home. 20:16 A graphic that tells a schedule 20:20 and also gives you a list of things that you 20:23 should have and should not have. 20:25 The first thing is... No houseplants or knickknacks. 20:28 These gather dust and they also give off dust 20:32 and they give off some out gassing of various kinds 20:36 House plants cannot be kept dust-free. 20:39 And also, they cannot be prevented from 20:42 doing some out gassing. 20:43 And people can be VERY allergic to these... 20:47 ...so they should be avoided in the home. 20:49 Of course, there should be no pets inside the home. 20:52 That's for any person who has any kind of allergy... 20:56 especially a home that has children in it, 20:59 should not have pets. 21:00 Those children in the home, where there are pets, 21:03 are many times more likely to get allergies and 21:07 serious forms of asthma, than are children who live 21:11 in homes where there are no pets. 21:13 The dander that comes off from their hair, from their skin, 21:17 from their saliva and where they lick themselves, 21:21 and lick the child or lick the owner, 21:25 all of these have allergenic substances in them 21:29 to which the allergic person can react. 21:31 Then, of course, air-condition the home throughout... 21:36 if you are allergic to pollens and other known 21:40 allergenic substances from the outside. 21:42 And you should have, if you do not want or cannot have 21:46 an air-conditioner, you should at least have an air filter, 21:50 and bring through the air filter all the air that 21:54 comes into your home. 21:55 In this way, you can filter out most of the allergenic 21:59 substances that could come into your home, 22:02 and get into your nose through this filter. 22:05 Then, another thing is to keep the windows closed. 22:08 Now it goes against the grain a little bit for me to tell you 22:11 to keep the windows closed... 22:12 But even though I tell you that, 22:14 I also must tell you that you STILL need fresh air. 22:17 And so, close your windows so that the airborne 22:22 allergenic substances will not come in, but then 22:26 make certain that you do have plenty of air circulating 22:31 in every room of the house, 22:33 even though it may have to come through an air filter. 22:36 Now, you will also find that you need a schedule for 22:41 doing certain cleaning tasks in your home. 22:44 First thing is to learn that you must vacuum your entire home 22:49 once or twice a week, depending on how dusty 22:52 your home is likely to be and that will be determined by 22:55 the area where you live, and how much humidity you have 22:59 and how much dust is in the air. 23:01 And also, the kind of structure or structural materials 23:05 that your house is made from... 23:07 All these things will determine how many times a week 23:10 you need to vacuum... whether once or twice, 23:12 but by all means, once a week the entire house needs to be 23:16 vacuumed and all surfaces need to be dusted. 23:21 And you should have some very good equipment that will 23:23 help you to be able to reach out of the way places 23:27 like the tops of picture frames, mirrors and 23:31 things of this nature, so that you can keep the house dust free 23:34 Then the next thing is the laundry schedule. 23:37 Sheets and pillowcases should be laundered weekly 23:40 and all bedding should be laundered monthly. 23:43 Curtains need to be laundered quarterly... 23:46 and some people find that it's better 23:49 if they not have curtains at all. 23:51 But rather if they have just blinds on their windows 23:55 that they can dust once or twice a week and 23:59 keep the dust down in that way. 24:02 Now recognizing whether your allergies are airborne, 24:06 or whether they are food-induced can be somewhat 24:10 of a challenge... 24:11 And that is simply done by the elimination and challenged diet 24:15 which means that you eliminate a certain group of foods 24:18 recognized as being likely to cause an allergy 24:23 and then, if your symptoms go away, 24:25 you can say... "Well, whatever it is that's causing my allergy, 24:29 it's in that group of foods. " 24:30 Then, when you symptoms are clear, 24:33 start adding the foods back one at a time 24:36 every 5 to 7 days... 24:38 Then when your symptom returns, 24:40 you know that that last food that you introduced 24:44 back into your diet... that food is likely to be one that's 24:48 causing you to have a problem. 24:50 Now, so far as airborne allergenic substances are 24:53 concerned, these the same. 24:56 If you know that when certain weeds, or flowers or trees 25:02 bloom outside, that's the time you get your allergies, 25:05 then you can feel that that's the thing that's causing you 25:09 to have the allergy, and then you can try to avoid 25:13 that thing as much as possible. 25:15 Allergies are very common and very widespread in 25:20 our population today. 25:21 And now, Don Miller... another remedy for us? 25:24 Well, I want to sort of expand a little bit about this 25:28 keeping the house clean type of a thing. 25:30 Because there is one part of our house most people 25:34 NEVER clean... They do nothing about. 25:36 Now we are human beings... 25:39 and that means the way we cool our bodies is we sweat. 25:42 We're ALWAYS sweating. 25:43 We may not see the sweat because that's how we cool... 25:46 Moisture comes to the surface, it's evaporated... 25:50 This is a process that brings down the temperature of the skin 25:53 which keeps us cool. 25:54 So at nighttime, we go down in those nice, clean sheets 25:58 and we get a good night's rest 26:00 and we sweat all night and where does the sweat go? 26:03 Much of it goes right into the mattress. 26:06 And unless we've got a mattress cover on... which few people do, 26:09 it's IN the mattress... day after day, week after week, 26:13 month after month and some people... year after year. 26:16 You're laying on a sea of your sweat from years past. 26:21 And whereas it may not feel wet, and it probably is not... 26:25 that constant moisture is going to allow things to grow... 26:28 ...some mildews, some molds, some things in there... 26:31 that you do not want, and so here's what I recommend you do. 26:34 A couple of times, 2 or 3 or 4 times a year, 26:38 take your mattress for a walk. 26:40 Get it carried out of your house, carry it outside 26:42 and let it lay in the sunshine which is going to deep clean it 26:47 It's going to deep dry it. 26:49 And you're going to find, you're going to get some 26:51 better sleep from that very thing alone. 26:53 And you'll rarely, rarely see people doing this 26:56 but I recommend you take your mattress for a walk 26:58 this next sunny day... 27:00 Low humidity is the best... don't let it get rained on. 27:03 Let it get cleaned up... deep, deep inside 27:06 And, Dr. Thrash, I think that's one of the things 27:08 that's causing a lot of allergies out there. 27:10 Yes, and I'm glad you brought that up because I failed to 27:12 mention the fact that a mattress cover should be used 27:16 for every person who has known allergies 27:19 And, if you will use a mattress cover, then that will help you 27:24 to make a good laundry schedule for the mattress cover as well. 27:29 And about once every 3 months, 27:31 the mattress cover should be taken off and it should be 27:34 laundered nicely... 27:35 And you should be free from that source of having a problem. 27:40 Now you might say, why is it that we were made 27:43 so that we develop allergies? 27:47 Actually, it is a protective mechanism and we need to 27:50 thank our Heavenly Father that we have this protection. |
Revised 2014-12-17