Some of the important
things that people complain of
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when they go to doctors'
offices are allergies, backache,
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"I'm tired," skin
problems, headaches...
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these very
common things of life.
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Most of these can be handled
by people in their own homes.
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And just ordinary people
can be taught how to handle
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these things
responsibly in their own homes.
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So, we'd like to talk
with you about some of the ways
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that, in your own
home, you can do SAFE things.
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You can do effective things
for these for the GREAT bulk
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of human ills
that afflict people.
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For the next half an
hour, I and a helper from
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Uchee Pines Institute
will be talking with you about
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these kinds of things.
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I'm Agatha Thrash, one
of the staff physicians
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from Uchee Pines Institute.
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We'd be happy to
have you 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's
your host Dr. Thrash.
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Skin problems make
up a large part of the
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afflictions of mankind.
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And some of the simple
ones are like eczema...
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and I say simple because
even though I can tell you
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about how to treat it,
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eczema can be a
very great challenge.
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But some of the things that
we have tried for skin eczema
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consist of soaks in cold water,
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or cold water soaks on the skin,
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or moisturizing, or various
kinds of liniments and ointments
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and you will try that
too if you have eczema.
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But one of the most successful
things that we have tried
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is... what we
call "Vaseline milk"
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And I have asked my
granddaughter, Melissa,
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if she will show you
how we make up Vaseline milk
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in our own home.
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What you do is to
simply dip the hands in water,
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such as we have here, and then
shake off the excess as you see
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And then take a
bean-sized lump of Vaseline
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such as this... and
rub it between the palms
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And Melissa is
going to do that now.
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Just scoop up the Vaseline, or
other types of petroleum jelly,
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from the jar and then vigorously
rub it between the palms...
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trying to make an emulsion.
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And there's a little resistance
here, so you'll need to really
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work at it a little bit...
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and then you will see that
it does get a little bit cloudy
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after you have done
this for a little while.
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And, let's see
what it looks like.
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It looks a little cloudy...
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a little bit milky
and that's what you want.
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Once it gets milky,
then it's ready to smooth on.
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Now, watch the way that
Melissa smoothes it on...
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She's going to go in the
direction of the skin lines
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because the eczema is usually
on the hands and the skin lines
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crack open.
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Now if you go against the
skin lines so that you pull
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in a wrong
direction, then of course,
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you will have a tendency to
open up these skin lines more.
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Thank you, Melissa.
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Now once you have this,
of course, your hands are
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sort of greasy and you
won't be able to touch anything
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that's paper for a little while.
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So, remember that you do
not pull in THIS direction...
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You rub the Vaseline
emulsion on the hand in
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this direction
only... not in this direction.
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And that also
brings up another thing...
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and that is "no scratching"
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because people usually
scratch in this direction,
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or even if they
scratch in this direction...
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it's still going to
open up the skin lines
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in little microscopic cracks
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and doing that then
keeps the eczema going
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...because it allows the
substances to which the person
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is sensitive, to get in
those tiny, little cracks
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and then it's exposed
more to the skin cells
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and that makes the
skin continue its eczema.
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And while the scratching
may not have started the eczema,
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the scratching does continue it.
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And so your treatment
will be largely ineffectual
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because of the fact that you're
continuing to keep it wide open.
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One time I had a
patient who was instructed on
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not to scratch... so I saw
her doing this kind of thing...
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during the time that I
was talking with her and
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telling her what to do.
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And, for a moment I thought...
"Is she just being noncompliant
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right here in front of me"
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But, after a little bit, I
said to her, when she began
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to do this rubbing...
"Uh uh, don't scratch it. "
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She said, "Oh, I
wasn't scratching it. "
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And I said... then I thought,
"Well she thinks that the
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fingernails are the only thing
that you can scratch with. "
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But rubbing it
against something else,
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or rubbing it
against your clothing,
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is just as bad as scratching
it with the fingernails.
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You will try many things
and, of course, you should try
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to avoid soapy
water or detergent water,
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cleaning fluids and that
kind of thing which makes eczema
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much worse.
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Now, Don Miller is here
with me, who is one of the ones
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that we depend on to
teach about home remedies.
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So, what do you
have for us... Don Miller
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Okay... One of the banes of many
peoples lives is staying awake
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They just can't
stay awake in the daytime
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Every time they turn around
they're falling asleep again.
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Now, I need to stress
the fact that the best way
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to keep from falling
asleep in the daytime
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is make sure you fell
asleep in the nighttime...
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at the right
time in the nighttime.
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The SOONER you go
to sleep at night,
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the BETTER will be your
daytime experience the next day.
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But let's say you're having
a hard time staying awake...
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I remember years ago
when I was in college,
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I was sitting there
in geology class and
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a classmate of mine...
I was about 4 rows back
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and he was about the 1st
or 2nd row over to my left
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and he had a very
interesting technique
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for staying awake while
he was in the classroom.
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He would sit
himself at his desk...
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and he would have a
pencil held in his hands
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sitting on top of the
desk... a sharpened pencil.
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And he had
everything measured out.
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This guy was precise.
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And he'd be sitting there
listening to the professor
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droning on about circs
and about alluvial plains
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and everything and his head
would slowly start going down,
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down, down and he'd go
down so far, he'd hit the pencil
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and he'd come
right back up again.
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And he'd listen for a while
longer and he'd start getting
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tired and he'd start
going back down again
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...he'd go down,
hit that sharp pencil,
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and right back up again.
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Well, he'd leave the class every
day with a little brown mark
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in the middle of his forehead
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But, he stayed awake for
the MOST part most of the class.
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And so that's one
way... I don't recommend that
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because, you know, the
lead, the fact that you might
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miss one of these days and
get some other part of your head
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So, let's don't do that...
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Let's think about
some much easier ways.
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One is just... if you
know you're going to be falling
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asleep, OR you have a
propensity to fall asleep,
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carry some things with you.
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You can have, in a
little plastic bag,
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a wet handkerchief...
as cool as possible,
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when you feel yourself
getting tired, pull it out
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and just press it on the eyes.
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And that will
help you sometimes.
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Another thing that you
can do is open your eyes
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as wide as they can
go and then close them as
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tight as they can shut...
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And usually a few actions like
that will help you to stay awake
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Now I don't recommend
that while you're driving
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down the road because
that part of keeping the eyes
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real closed is not very safe.
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But I'll mention another
way to do that in a moment.
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Other things that you can
do is at breakfast time...
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as you are peeling your orange,
keep a piece of the peel.
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Put it into a plastic bag,
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then in the daytime
when you're feeling tired,
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bring that peeling out,
bend it in half and squeeze it
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and some of that little
oil, that's in the skin,
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and just smell it.
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It has a way to
wake you back up again.
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Now, I know some
people who carry a little vial
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of ammonia with them
and they'll open... ohhh...
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and they'll wake themselves up,
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and they'll wake up
everyone else around them.
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But you can do that...
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that's what
smelling salts used to be...
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You can try that right there.
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You can carry with
you a brush and start
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stimulating your skin...
stimulating a part of your body
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with a brush and
that will help stay awake.
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You can squeeze
a major muscle...
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You can be sitting
there massaging your arm or
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reach down there and grab
your thigh and just squeeze
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those muscles... That will help!
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You can sit there
and, if you are driving,
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...I've done things like
hang my head out the window...
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I can yell. I can sing
and do all these things.
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But if everything else fails,
in my experience to stay awake,
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there's one,
especially when you're driving
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which you can pretty easily
do, especially if you have
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cruise control,
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is as you're driving down
the road and you're feeling
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tired, just lift one
foot up off the floorboards
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...just keep it up and you
can do that sitting at home
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and if you're in a class
and you don't want to sleep,
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just lift the
foot up off the floor.
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And as long as that
foot is off the floor,
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you WILL NOT fall asleep.
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Pretty soon, your whole
concentration is on keeping
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that foot up in the air...
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And you're sitting there
holding it and holding it...
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and as a matter of fact,
you're getting even more awake
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because you're
holding it there...
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And when finally the forces of
gravity and the weight of your
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shoe and everything else
says, "I can't do it anymore"
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it goes down...
the other leg comes up.
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And basically,
you pedal yourself...
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all the way through class.
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You pedal yourself all the way
through Illinois or California
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or wherever you're going...
up and down, up and down.
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I have found this to
be a rather effective way.
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Now, the great Winston
Churchill had a technique which
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I have found very
effective for myself.
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When you are so
overwhelmingly tired,
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take a nap!
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And this is what
Winston Churchill would do,
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he'd be sitting
there in Parliament,
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and they'd be droning
on... and he had a habit
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He'd be sitting
there and all of a sudden
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his head would go down...
his chin would be on his chest
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It would stay down there
for just 2, 3, 4 minutes...
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and he'd come back up again.
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And he'd be perfectly refreshed.
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I find the same
thing for myself.
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If I'm in my office and
I'm just getting overwhelmingly
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tired... I just get up
and I lay down on my floor
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I don't sit there and go home.
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I just lock the door,
lay flat down on my floor,
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and I'll be asleep in a second
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And I find that if I
just sleep for 1 minute,
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I am completely refreshed...
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And it really helps if I
wake up to the phone ringing
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or a knock at the door...
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Then I've got some
adrenalin flowing...
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because... oh-oh,
someone's going to catch me
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AND the fact that I have
had that little bit of rest
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to get me over the hump.
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So, those are some of
the things I DO to keep awake
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And I think they're
better than taking a NoDoz
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or a cup of coffee, Dr. Thrash.
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I think you're
right on both of those.
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Afflictions in the
mouth are also problematical
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for a lot of people.
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Something like a
toothache can upset your budget,
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as well as your schedule.
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Especially if it comes at
night and you have to get up
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and call a dentist and
the dentist has to come
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to attend you in
the middle of the night.
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That will be very
straining on your budget.
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So, there are some things that
you can do that will sometimes
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will tide you over and
get you through a night.
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Or can sometimes get
you over the toothache.
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One of those is clove oil.
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You can find this
sometimes at a grocery store,
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or at a department
store, or anywhere they sell
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aromatic oils.
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Just get a little bit
of clove oil and take up
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something like a
Q-tip or the end of a Q-tip
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that has the cotton on it,
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wet it with the clove oil
and put it right against the
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tooth that aches.
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Now as you put it there,
you will immediately recognize
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that your gum begins to
have a little anesthesia.
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And it isn't long
before the tooth nerve itself
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begins to have a
little anesthesia.
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And that's, of course,
very delightful because
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the toothache begins to subside.
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Another thing for a toothache...
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is a little
compress made of charcoal.
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Take a little
piece of paper towel,
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which you can cut
in a little square,
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maybe an inch or 2
inches in a square.
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And just make up a
little thick paste of charcoal
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Put it on that little square.
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And I like to have
people put it on a spoon...
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and then they can maneuver
it a little better back into
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the jaw where
the tooth is aching
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And in this way, they can
get it into the proper place
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and pull the jaw down,
or the lip down over it
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and hold it in place
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And often
within 5 minutes or so,
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the charcoal paste will cause
the toothache to be going away.
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Another thing in the
mouth that you can use
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the charcoal for is a gum boil.
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Sometimes you'll have a
little swelling on a gum,
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or you may even have an abscess.
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And the charcoal
compress is good for that.
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If you have a tooth abscess,
you do need the services
00:13:55.47\00:13:58.99
of a skilled dentist
but, before you can get that,
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you may need to
treat it somewhat yourself.
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So the charcoal compress
will sometimes take the pain
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and swelling out of the
gum where the abscess is
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and so will aloe vera.
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If you have aloe
Vera growing in your home,
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take a little bit of one of the
blades... a little segment of it
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Peel one side of it only.
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Leave the other side unpeeled
because that makes it stiff
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and holds it stiff long enough
for you to get it into place.
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So then you put it in the
gutter... either up or down
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where you have the abscessed
tooth and that will also
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help to remove the
inflammation and pain
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from the abscessed tooth.
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Turmeric mouthwashes...
Hot turmeric mouthwashes
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can also be helpful.
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Take a tablespoonful,
or even a teaspoonful
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of turmeric and stir it
in a large glass of water
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and gargle with that, or
do your mouthwash with that.
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You can then expectorate
that, or you can swallow it...
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either way.
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If you swallow some of it,
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it acts as an
anti-inflammatory agent.
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It is also a local
anti-inflammatory agent on
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your abscessed tooth.
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Now aphthous
ulcers, or mouth ulcers
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can be treated extremely simply.
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When you recognize that
you're getting a mouth ulcer,
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you feel it there,
or you see that swollen
00:15:25.89\00:15:30.90
taste bud on your tongue...
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and you know that the
mouth ulcer is coming...
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At that point, don't delay...
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at that point,
drink a glassful of water
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every 10 minutes for an hour.
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And in most cases, the
mouth ulcer will not develop.
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But if it does develop,
then you can use the turmeric
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mouthwash, or take a
little paste of turmeric
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and simply put it on
the place where you have the
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mouth ulcer and
it will help a lot.
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But even after it develops,
if you've neglected it,
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or it comes on and you weren't
able to take the glassful
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of water every 10 minutes
for an hour at the beginning,
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when you do recognize that
it's there, then take the water.
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Sometimes people will
get a mouth ulcer to develop
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from a place where
they have bitten the tongue,
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or bitten the
inside of the mouth...
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Again, it's the glassful
of water every 10 minutes
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for an hour and in
most cases, the water itself
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will have a healing effect
on the place where you have
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bitten it and the
interior of the mouth heals,
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and so does the
entire gastrointestinal tract
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has an extremely
fast rate of healing...
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It's one of the fastest
tissues in the body to heal
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and so it will often heal very
nicely without any further ado.
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And now... Don Miller.
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It looks as if you've got
some nice things here to show.
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Well every time you
talk, I think of other things
00:16:53.36\00:16:55.25
about what you're talking about.
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You've got a show and tell.
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I do have a show and tell
but I want to tell something
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about what she was
just talking about...
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Because I used to be
plagued with these canker sores
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or mouth ulcers.
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And I have found
in my experience,
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if I allow myself
to become dehydrated,
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I am much more likely
to develop a mouth ulcer.
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And so, if I'm
brushing my teeth,
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and I jam my gums
with my toothbrush,
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I KNOW I'm going
to get a mouth ulcer.
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At that point,
as Dr. Thrash says,
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I drink a glass of water
every 10 minutes for an hour.
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And normally, it
will not develop.
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Other things you can
use on a mouth ulcer...
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I have used, at
times, goldenseal paste
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A little bit of goldenseal...
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I just sprinkle it right onto
the ulcer once it has developed
00:17:38.95\00:17:42.57
and it has a very
nice antiseptic effect
00:17:42.60\00:17:45.29
and will sometimes completely
take it away overnight.
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I've also used things like...
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I do really
strange things to myself...
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I'll do ANYTHING to
get rid of a mouth ulcer.
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I have tried putting
cayenne pepper directly on
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the mouth ulcer trying
to cauterize it because
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maybe that came from
the thought years ago...
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I was stationed in
Key West, Florida...
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a good friend of
mine who was a doctor,
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I had a REAL bad one on the
inside of my lip and he said...
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"No problem,
I'll take care of it"
00:18:11.30\00:18:12.57
Went into the clinic there
at the Naval Air Station...
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He took out this long stick...
00:18:15.97\00:18:18.27
it looked like a match
with a black head on it
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And he opened my lip
up and he dried it off,
00:18:21.84\00:18:25.35
and he took this
thing and just touched it.
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Well it was silver nitrate.
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It burned like
fire for about 5 seconds
00:18:29.36\00:18:33.03
and that's the last I ever felt
of that particular canker sore.
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It was gone with the wind.
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And so sometimes the
cayenne pepper WILL help.
00:18:37.99\00:18:40.58
Sometimes putting salt on it...
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I put salt... I've
done EVERYTHING I could
00:18:42.56\00:18:44.73
to get rid of these things.
00:18:44.76\00:18:45.98
But I find if I keep
from traumatizing myself,
00:18:46.01\00:18:49.53
and if I keep
myself well-hydrated,
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I'm a whole lot better off.
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Now I've just mentioned salt...
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Let me give you a nice
remedy that we can do with salt.
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Many times we have sinus
infections... we have sinusitis
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We've got stuffed up sinuses.
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MANY people have these things.
00:19:01.59\00:19:03.74
First of all, why do
you have a stuffed up sinus?
00:19:03.77\00:19:06.47
Probably an allergy.
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Find out where your
allergen is and get rid of it.
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But a GOOD thing to do
for this type of a problem,
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OR at the beginning of
the cold and flu season...
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I recommend that everybody
at the beginning of the
00:19:17.52\00:19:20.21
cold and flu season...
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OR if people in your environment
are coming down sick,
00:19:21.72\00:19:24.67
do a nasal irrigation.
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Very simple to do.
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All it takes is...
get a pint of water.
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This isn't a full pint
but you get a pint jar,
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and that's the
best way to do it.
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You just get a pint jar... don't
sit there and have to figure out
00:19:36.46\00:19:38.32
...all right 2 cups is
this thing or that thing.
00:19:38.35\00:19:40.24
2 cups - 1 pint of water
that's body temperature...
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Just slightly warm water
and then take a teaspoonful
00:19:44.50\00:19:49.23
of salt... place
it into the water.
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This becomes what we
call a saline solution
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because your body is saline.
00:19:55.68\00:19:57.80
Now the first time I
heard about this treatment,
00:19:57.83\00:19:59.85
I sat there and listened
and I said... "Good treatment. "
00:19:59.88\00:20:03.71
And I learned this
treatment by using a Waterpik.
00:20:03.74\00:20:07.41
There is a special attachment
for a Waterpik that has a
00:20:07.44\00:20:10.36
bulb on the end and you
just sit there and you put this
00:20:10.39\00:20:13.49
bulb up one nostril
and you turn the machine on
00:20:13.52\00:20:16.77
and it just pumps that water
up, it goes through your sinuses
00:20:16.80\00:20:20.23
comes out your other nostril,
00:20:20.26\00:20:21.54
comes out your Eustachian
tube... you're spitting it
00:20:21.57\00:20:23.73
But it's really
GREAT and I thought...
00:20:23.76\00:20:26.47
"That's a nice treatment. "
00:20:26.48\00:20:27.51
Well, about a month or so later,
00:20:27.52\00:20:29.57
I felt like I wanted to
try it because I probably
00:20:29.60\00:20:32.27
needed it at the time.
00:20:32.30\00:20:33.43
And I forgot one part that
I don't want you to forget.
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I forgot the salt.
00:20:37.23\00:20:39.95
I just put warm
water in there...
00:20:39.98\00:20:42.01
stuck this
Waterpik thing up my nose,
00:20:42.04\00:20:44.48
turned it on and it
felt like I had a bunch
00:20:44.51\00:20:47.95
of little guys in my head with
hammers just hammering away.
00:20:47.98\00:20:50.95
Now I thought... Hmm,
I must really be sick...
00:20:50.98\00:20:53.54
so I've got to go
ahead and endure this pain.
00:20:53.57\00:20:55.71
And I endured a whole pint of
warm straight water up my nose
00:20:55.74\00:20:59.44
And then it struck me
later on "ah... saline"
00:21:00.34\00:21:03.45
Use saline.
00:21:03.48\00:21:04.78
Now you may not
have a Waterpik...
00:21:04.81\00:21:06.88
You may not have all
this fancy equipment,
00:21:06.91\00:21:08.81
but there's one
piece of equipment that
00:21:08.84\00:21:10.56
almost all of us have and
that is the good old hand.
00:21:10.59\00:21:13.88
And all I do when I'm
doing this thing is I pour some
00:21:13.91\00:21:17.19
water in the palm of my hand...
00:21:17.22\00:21:18.56
I hold one nostril shut
and just sniff it up your nose.
00:21:18.59\00:21:24.59
And I keep doing that
a few times on this side,
00:21:24.62\00:21:26.94
a few times on this side...
back and forth, back and forth
00:21:26.97\00:21:30.08
If you don't
want to use your hand,
00:21:30.11\00:21:31.57
I've used a large spoon.
00:21:31.60\00:21:32.91
Just take a large
spoon, hold one nostril shut
00:21:32.94\00:21:35.51
and... breath it ALL UP in...
00:21:35.54\00:21:38.30
You're not going
to drown in the spoon,
00:21:38.33\00:21:40.34
or in the palm of your hand.
00:21:40.37\00:21:41.95
It doesn't go
down into your lungs...
00:21:41.98\00:21:43.29
it just goes into
your sinus passages,
00:21:43.32\00:21:45.21
down your Eustachian tube...
00:21:45.24\00:21:46.73
And this has a very
nice clearing process
00:21:46.76\00:21:49.88
and clearing effect
on the sinus passages
00:21:49.91\00:21:52.45
AND it will protect you
00:21:52.48\00:21:54.37
from the colds that
are coming down the road.
00:21:54.41\00:21:56.48
At the beginning
of cold season...
00:21:56.51\00:21:58.24
stay well-hydrated, do
some nasal irrigations,
00:21:58.28\00:22:01.61
stay away from the sweets...
00:22:01.64\00:22:03.00
And just like
Dr. Thrash mentioned,
00:22:03.03\00:22:05.03
if we have one of these
things developing in us,
00:22:05.06\00:22:08.07
a cold... she mentioned
this about a mouth ulcer...
00:22:08.08\00:22:12.55
If you feel that
first symptom of a cold,
00:22:12.58\00:22:14.98
the treatment of choice...
00:22:15.01\00:22:16.52
a glass of water every
10 minutes for an hour.
00:22:16.53\00:22:19.64
You do that and then
in-between the glasses,
00:22:19.67\00:22:22.13
you walk outside and you take
40-50 deep inspirations of air
00:22:22.17\00:22:30.61
And almost ALWAYS, this
will shortstop the disease
00:22:30.64\00:22:35.02
as long as you are
doing everything else right...
00:22:35.03\00:22:36.92
staying away from the
sweets, getting to bed on time,
00:22:36.95\00:22:40.79
getting your
sunshine, and exercise,
00:22:40.82\00:22:43.36
Paul says, "It's your reasonable
service to present your body
00:22:43.39\00:22:47.49
a living sacrifice. "
00:22:47.52\00:22:48.58
And I think these are
pretty reasonable, Dr. Thrash.
00:22:48.61\00:22:50.86
That's why they're
called simple home remedies.
00:22:50.89\00:22:52.43
Simple home remedies.
00:22:52.46\00:22:54.26
Earaches are another
part of the bane of mankind.
00:22:54.29\00:22:58.53
And earaches can be due to
a stopped up Eustachian tube.
00:22:58.56\00:23:03.27
It can be due to an
affliction in the external ear
00:23:03.30\00:23:07.86
in what we call the ear canal.
00:23:07.89\00:23:10.14
Or, it can be an infection
in the middle ear which
00:23:10.17\00:23:14.54
has the ossicles... the
hammer, anvil and stirrup in it,
00:23:14.57\00:23:18.82
just behind the eardrum.
00:23:18.83\00:23:21.13
Wherever it may be, you
can always treat it by treating
00:23:21.14\00:23:25.14
the back of the throat
00:23:25.17\00:23:26.70
because the Eustachian tube
which comes from the middle ear,
00:23:26.73\00:23:29.60
down through the
head and the end of it
00:23:29.63\00:23:33.02
is back on the back of
the oropharynx, way into the
00:23:33.05\00:23:39.37
nasopharynx.
00:23:39.40\00:23:41.07
It's right there where
you want to get the treatment
00:23:41.10\00:23:44.37
at the end of
the Eustachian tube.
00:23:44.40\00:23:46.34
And so, if you gargle,
you will gargle so that
00:23:46.37\00:23:49.99
the fluid that you're gargling
with will be hot against the
00:23:50.02\00:23:54.07
opening of the Eustachian tube
00:23:54.10\00:23:56.64
And that reflexively gives
a treatment to the middle ear.
00:23:56.67\00:24:00.66
So for children and for
others that you don't want to
00:24:00.69\00:24:04.18
irrigate the ear, or they
will not allow you to put a
00:24:04.21\00:24:07.10
compress on the
side of the head,
00:24:07.11\00:24:09.89
they may allow you to either
irrigate, again with a Waterpik
00:24:09.92\00:24:13.73
or with a plain bulb syringe
that you just inject the water
00:24:13.76\00:24:18.67
into the back of the
throat as far as you can.
00:24:18.70\00:24:21.39
With this, you may get a
very good treatment to the ears.
00:24:21.42\00:24:25.46
So remember that...
that it doesn't have to be
00:24:25.49\00:24:27.72
always on the outside
that you treat the ear...
00:24:27.75\00:24:30.49
You can treat the ear through
the gargles in the mouth.
00:24:30.52\00:24:34.80
Gargling may also
be good for a cough.
00:24:34.83\00:24:39.52
You might think that gargling
would not help with that,
00:24:39.55\00:24:42.75
but because the gargle
also helps the sinuses,
00:24:42.78\00:24:45.96
and a postnasal drip from
inflamed sinuses often goes
00:24:45.99\00:24:51.05
down into the bronchial
tubes and that causes you
00:24:51.08\00:24:55.32
to have a cough... that can
be treated also by the gargle.
00:24:55.35\00:25:00.99
Now I'd like to say a word
to people who are overweight...
00:25:01.02\00:25:05.12
A lot of times,
people who are overweight
00:25:05.15\00:25:08.11
make a BIG mistake.
00:25:08.14\00:25:10.60
They say... "I'm
going to go on a diet and
00:25:10.61\00:25:13.98
I heard Dr. Thrash say you
eliminate free fats and you
00:25:14.01\00:25:17.83
just take 2 meals a day,
00:25:17.86\00:25:19.20
and you eat
nothing between meals,
00:25:19.23\00:25:20.71
and you become a
total vegetarian,
00:25:20.72\00:25:22.30
and eat nothing after 4
o'clock in the afternoon,"
00:25:22.33\00:25:26.43
and these are
all very good things.
00:25:26.46\00:25:29.44
They are good things
that I can almost guarantee
00:25:29.47\00:25:32.62
they will cause
you to lose weight.
00:25:32.65\00:25:35.13
Almost ALL people will lose
weight just on those things.
00:25:35.16\00:25:38.24
Eliminating the free
fats... that's margarine,
00:25:38.25\00:25:40.83
mayonnaise, fried
foods, cooking fat, salad oils,
00:25:40.86\00:25:43.39
and even nut
butters for a while.
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And then being a
total vegetarian.
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A person can eat a
sufficient quantity...
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so that they do
not feel uncomfortable.
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And then, another thing is
that of omitting the 3rd meal.
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Just taking 2 meals a
day, and omitting supper.
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And in this way, I
can almost guarantee
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that you will lose weight.
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But many people say,
"Well I will do that but
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then I will take a
vacation every once in a while.
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I will perhaps use
one weekend a month
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that I will eat this or I will
eat that... that's off my diet"
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Let me encourage
you not to do that.
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Because anytime you do that,
it is no kindness to yourself.
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You may think, I will sort
of pat myself a little bit...
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I will give myself
this kind of vacation,
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and I will feel
better about everything
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and I will not
TOTALLY leave ALL those things
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that I once enjoyed.
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I can almost
guarantee on this too...
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that if you take
that attitude about it,
00:26:44.88\00:26:47.07
the time is coming when
you will be back on the same
00:26:47.10\00:26:50.04
kind of diet that
you have already PROVEN
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You've already PROVEN
that that kind of diet
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makes you overweight.
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And so, if you go back to
that even one weekend a month,
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or when somebody has
their 50th wedding anniversary,
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or whenever...
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That vacation from your diet,
will do the same thing for you
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that a vacation
from your MARRIAGE
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would do to your marriage.
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If you took a
vacation from your marriage
00:27:11.78\00:27:13.72
one weekend a month,
that would not do anything
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very beneficial for it.
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And the same thing is
true with any lifestyle habit.
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Let us say
you're stopping smoking,
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do not take a
cigarette every once in a while.
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Some people say, "Well,
I'll only take 1 cigarette
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per day... and
that's all... just one.
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To these individuals,
I can almost guarantee
00:27:31.09\00:27:33.80
that you will be back on
the cigarettes full force
00:27:33.83\00:27:37.21
before too long.
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Simple things make
for a strong life...
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And our
lifestyles are a lot of habit
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and a lot of hard work at times
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...But they very much pay off.
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And I recommend to
you, that you establish
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the very BEST habits
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that you can for a good life.
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