Hello, I'm Agatha
Thrash, a staff physician from
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Uchee Pines Institute
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Here, we deal a good bit
with foods and most people
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like very flavorful foods...
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They like them
intensely flavorful.
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Some of them pungent
enough that they might even be
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harmful to us.
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During the next half an hour,
we'll be talking about some of
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these things... having to
do with very flavorful foods.
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You might like to join us
and see which of those are good
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and which may not be good.
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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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You have probably
heard the old proverb...
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"Variety is the spice of life"
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We like to say that
and, in fact, we like to have
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our food so that it's spiced up
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And we even say
that about our food...
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when it's nice
and spicy, we say...
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"This is a variety of
food that we like very much"
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And so, as we think about spicy
foods and very flavorful foods,
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some of which are
intensely flavorful...
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such things even
from salt to cinnamon.
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We sort of like all of these
and we believe that we have
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done well when we have
food that tastes so pungently
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flavorful that
we call it a spice.
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Some of these spices are SO
STRONG that they actually burn
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the insides of the mouth.
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If they burn the
inside of your mouth...
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is it possible they may
damage you somewhere else?
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They may be
uncomfortable in the blood or
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maybe in the kidneys or
perhaps in the digestive tract.
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We'll be discussing
some of these issues and
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what makes a spice a
spice, or an herb and herb...
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and if there are some ways
that we can get nicely flavorful
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things without using
something that may harm us.
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I have asked Dr. Winn Horsley,
who is one of my colleagues at
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Uchee Pines, to join me
in presenting this program.
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This is Dr. Winn Horsley, a
staff physician at Uchee Pines
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originally from Canada
and now lecturing widely
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in the United States and one
of our teachers at Uchee Pines
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...A staff physician who
sees a lot of our patients,
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is a board certified physiatrist
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and we're very happy
to have you with us today.
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So, with all of this, now
I'd like to ask you some things
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about herbs... not having to
do with patient care much but
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...what is the difference,
or how can we distinguish,
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or does it make
any difference...
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what is a culinary
and a medicinal herb.
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What we use in the
kitchen and what we might use
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to help people who
are sick with something...
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I think it is a
worthwhile distinction.
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A "koolinary" or
culinary which is the right way?
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Well let's see, with
all your language talents,
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maybe you could say
what it ought to be...
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Culinary or "koolinary?"
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Culinary is what
I've heard maybe more...
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But in my experience
with spices, actually I would
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say that Mexico has given
me more background than any
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and there in Mexico, they do
use kitchen spices quite a lot.
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Of course they're
used here in the U.S.
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And the big
distinction, I think, is this...
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aside from just saying one
is for the kitchen and food,
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and medicinal
herbs are for sicknesses,
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and it's this... that if it
is spices or herbs for food,
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it's something that you
would hopefully be able to use
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quite continuously time after
time without any ill effect.
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And a medicinal herb would
hopefully not have to be used
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very much... it would be used,
you know, perhaps for a few days
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to get a person over the hump
of some sickness that he's in
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and perhaps, if one could
tolerate then, some negative
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features to it if it were
to be used for a long time
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but one would put up with that
1 or 2, or even a dozen uses
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for the days that
the person is sick.
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Are you thinking of
something like ginger?
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Yes, now people
might argue on that one...
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I was never one that was very
happy with ginger cookies though
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...That kind of hot
taste didn't attract me
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But the Orientals, I've
heard... they love to use ginger
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customarily in their cooking
and perhaps it could be argued
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that it has a place as
a culinary herb... Um hm
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In places in Asia
where I have been...
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the use of ginger is
VERY widespread but EXTREMELY
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small quantities.
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You're hardly aware
that it's in the food.
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Sometimes you may say
there's a flavor here that I
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think I recognize but I
don't know what it is...
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and they will say it's ginger...
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And of course, then you say...
"Well yes it is, it's ginger"
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But, you have not been
so aware of it... not like
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gingerbread cookies... Okay.
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You know, you can tell
the difference quite a lot.
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Now that actually makes
a good point because ginger
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in those instances is
being used as a culinary herb...
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And yet, it is a very
effective medicinal herb
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It relieves nausea,
dizziness, motion sickness.
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A study was done comparing it
to one of the common antiemetic
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or motion sickness
drugs that's used... Dramamine
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And they found that the
ginger was just as effective
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but without the side effects.
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Now, a lot of times, we
are concerned about anything
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that's used just ordinarily...
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we're concerned
about its use in pregnancy.
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Do you know if
it's safe in pregnancy?
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Whether it is or not,
when my sister was pregnant,
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and had an awful lot of
nausea... just intolerable,
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I sent her quite a dose of
it, to put into little capsules
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I don't think...
maybe I did look that up,
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I don't think that there is
a danger to it in pregnancy.
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I have also just looked
and have NOT found anything
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that would indicate that there
was any danger in pregnancy
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...but didn't know if anything
new had been discovered on that
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But, I have always felt quite
safe in telling a woman who has
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nausea and vomiting of pregnancy
that she could use ginger.
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And, if you consider
the drug alternatives,
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there's no comparison...
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I would absolutely take
the ginger... Absolutely!
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...because the drugs work
through the nervous system
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and ginger works more locally.
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So we can be very
thankful for that.
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Then there are some other
herbs and spices that you might
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think of as being something
you can use for a short period
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rather than on a
long-term basis...
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...something like cinnamon
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Now I know that in a lot
of countries and, in fact,
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in this country, we use
quite a lot of cinnamon...
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It's a favorite...
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It was a favorite of mine
in childhood... cinnamon toast
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It was one of the best
things ... Oh, and mine too
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and cinnamon tea and
cinnamon buns and rolls
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I never got to know cinnamon
tea until I was down in Mexico
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I was in the north of Mexico
where they have pretty cold
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winters and they would serve
a BIG kettle of cinnamon tea
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to the whole church
group that had gathered
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And it was amazing, the effect
was that you'd come in with
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quite cold fingers and
toes, you'd drink the tea
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and within a few
minutes, they would just warm up
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It was a very definite effect.
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It wasn't just warming up
from being in the warm room.
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It was a sort of flush that
you could feel in the fingers
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You could feel that blood
just going through the fingers.
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Yes, I remember a
similar thing with Russian tea
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I don't know if it
originated in Russia.
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I actually had it in Canada...
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Russian tea... and it had a
very strong cinnamon taste...
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A delightful tea... this
was probably 40 years ago
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and I remember having
cold hands and the flush
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that you would get from it.
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I had forgotten about
that until you mentioned that.
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But, it is very good
to warm up the hands.
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In that regard, I think
one should say something
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because people often use
alcohol for that effect too
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It does cause dilation
of blood vessels and brings
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blood to the extremities.
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In either case, it would be
unwise to use it if the person
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is going to be
facing more cold weather...
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Because in fact, that
is going to cause more loss
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of one's body internal heat.
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So, I've read stories of
where someone would take his
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bit of alcoholic beverage
when he's still out facing
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the cold and it would
bring on, you know, cold...
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He thought he was doing
something good and it actually
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made him freeze to
death... That's right.
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Well that, of course, is
a thing that we need to be
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concerned about
anytime we tell someone to use
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this or that for
a special effect.
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I have asked Shannon Jenkins
to show us some other things
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that can warm up the hands,
and one thing that's VERY nice
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is a hand rub.
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You know hand rubs and arm rubs
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are not the most common thing...
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We usually think of a
back rub or a foot rub
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but not a hand and arm rub.
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And, the several times
that I have had the very GOOD
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opportunity to have hand
rub, I've always been very
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happy for that.
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It has made quite a
great deal of difference
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to the way that I
felt, and I was also amazed
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that I felt, during the
time that I was getting the rub,
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that I actually needed it...
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Maybe I felt that my
arms were under spasm,
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or I was more tired
than I had thought...
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and just does marvels of good.
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So, I have asked Shannon
Jenkins to show us how to do a
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hand and arm rub.
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Shannon is a Lifestyle
Educator student in our classes
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at Uchee Pines,
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and this is Melissa
Thrash, under the sheet here,
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who is going to be the
very happy recipient of a
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hand and arm rub.
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So Shannon, show
us how that goes.
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Begin by putting a sheet
over the client that you are
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going to be massaging...
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And then, over the arm,
just place your hands and press
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This is the first
thing you do before your skin
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touches their skin.
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That looks as if it
might be VERY relaxing...
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Yes, it is very nice
and you just go up and down
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the arm once.
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Then you'll want to uncover
the arm and apply something...
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I have lotion here but that's
actually not the best thing
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to use because it
will soak in quite fast.
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Massage oil or
cream is much better.
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You want to just, with
a long stroke, apply this.
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Well, that looks soothing.
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All the way down the arm.
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Just do this a
couple of times...
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Hold the wrist with
one hand while you do this.
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It looks Like you sort of get a
rhythm there that goes in a very
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soothing way up
and down... Um hm...
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Hand over hand...
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And then on the upper arm,
just lift and squeeze the skin.
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That massages the
biceps muscle there.
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We can do it on the
back also... get the triceps.
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And the tired muscles
just relax under your hand.
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And move to the
forearm and do the same thing.
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...A long, smooth stroke.
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And then lift and squeeze
on the top and underneath.
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And, on the other side
of the arm, with the thumb
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just alternate with each hand...
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long, smooth strokes.
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And then go all the
way up the arm again
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And all the way
back up to the hand...
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and with your thumbs, rub
back and forth on the back
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of the hand.
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There are bones right in
here, you can feel in between
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the bones... push just
lightly up to the wrist bones
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and then down on the
knuckles of the fingers,
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circle each knuckle and lightly
press in between and then
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slide down and
pinch right at the end.
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Just go around each knuckle,
slide down, pinch at the end.
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Around every
finger just the same way.
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Piano players would really
enjoy this... wouldn't they...
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after they've had a
session of practice... Yes
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All right... then you
turn the hand over and just rub
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in like a fan-sort-of-motion,
back and forth.
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So you start with those
big muscles down there at the
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heel of the hand... Um hm
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And then take your thumb and
press and go kind of in a circle
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in the middle of the hand.
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And the person just
concentrates on relaxing... Yes
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If they get tense, just
give them a little shake there
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and they will loosen up...
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Looks as if she's
pretty loose. Yes...
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The metacarpals here, you kind
of shake them to loosen them
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up a little bit and make
them a little more relaxed.
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Now, raise the arm above
the head and rest it on the hip
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And with your hands
towards the back of the arm,
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go down with pressure
and come lightly up...
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and down on the other
side, and come lightly up.
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Now you're squeezing UP
or you're squeezing together?
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Together... Ah ha
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Squeeze your fingers
together and slide up... Okay
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Repeat that a few times...
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And then rest the
elbow on your abdomen and go
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with a smooth stroke down to the
shoulder and slightly drag it up
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And then, a nice long
stroke and come up here
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and just lift and
squeeze on both sides
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...a nice long stroke and
then return it to the table
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and do a nice
long stroke and then...
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Is that a light stroke now?
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Yes, a little bit of
pressure.. but not too hard.
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Does that mean
you're about to finish? Yes.
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Then slowly just tap
their arm and you can do a
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nerve stroke lightly
with the fingers and then
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drape their arm again and
do compressions one more time
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...down and up the arm.
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And that finishes it.
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Now I can already tell, that
she is much warmer than she was
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Here, let me
check... Sure enough!
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The hand is a lot
warmer than it was.
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Now I'd like to point out that
while Shannon has been taught
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how to do this in a
class, you can see that
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it's so easy to do,
that anyone can do it...
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It's simply a rub and it
can do the same kind of thing
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for you by physical
means that many people depend
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on something
chemical, like the cinnamon tea.
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So it's very easy to accomplish
this kind of thing without
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going through the nerves.
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Thank you Melissa and Shannon
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and we'll let you take
this with you as you go.
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And I am SO grateful that the
Lord has made it so that we can
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respond to this kind of thing.
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Now, we also respond in the
extremities with various foods
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that we eat.
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And, I have a very nice
demonstration for you with
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Lidia Seda.
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Lidia is a Lifestyle
Counselor at Uchee Pines
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and knows a lot about foods...
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So what are you going to
tell us about foods today?
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Well, Dr. Thrash, what I'd
like to share with you today
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is about vinegar.
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Vinegar is commonly
used in salad dressings,
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and in pickles.
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Now, the thing is that
vinegar, basically is apples,
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or some sort of
product that's been decomposed
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and it's fermented.
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Usually the flavor that
we may taste from vinegar
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is an acetic acid and
that acid has been known
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to cause problems with
nerves and the stomach.
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And, in actuality, vinegar in
of itself, can cause gastritis
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Between that, aspirin and
alcohol, they're the top 3
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gastritic causes or
the cause for gastritis
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in the United States.
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And, what we also have found
is that, as I mentioned, pickles
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also have vinegar.
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But it's possible to
have vinegar-free pickles,
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and if you would
like to have that recipe,
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just please
contact... WWW.3ABN.org
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and then go onto the link
and you would be able to be
00:19:05.02\00:19:09.48
connected with the Uchee
Pines website and this way
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you will be able
to get that recipe...
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But, right now, let me
also share with you about
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for other ways of food
or products being fermented
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even within our bodies.
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If we are eating
in between meals,
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there is fermentation.
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Our food should be
digested within 5 hours.
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If food is delayed
more than that time,
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fermentation starts to begin.
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Even eating something as
small as an almond perhaps...
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or even a slice of an
apple can cause fermentation
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if our food has not been able
to digest... have a full 5 hours
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to digest, then what happens?
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Well, Dr. Agatha, we have
problems again with gastritis
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We might have
problems with perception.
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Our thinking is just not
the way we would like it to be.
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We may also get a headache...
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That's also true...
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A stomach ache, a backache,
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and we may not function well.
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And it's poor functioning when
the stomach gets out of order,
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the whole body is out of order.
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And, I think also,
what they have found is that
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children, if they're given
candies or cookies, even juice,
00:20:21.38\00:20:25.93
in between meals, they
have found these young people
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to be more susceptible to
infections as well. Um hm...
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So, the best idea is...
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Have our
children eat their meals,
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take nothing between meals,
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and they will eat a better
meal and be healthier for it.
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Exactly... That's very
good, thank you so much, Lidia.
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You're welcome.
Appreciate that about vinegar...
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And, of course, if
vinegar gets in the bloodstream,
00:20:48.65\00:20:52.02
the acetic acid
gets in the bloodstream,
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then we can have
damage to the kidneys as well.
00:20:54.96\00:20:58.67
...And this just
means bad news everywhere
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So acetic acid, which is
what gives the sour flavor
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of many salad
dressings and the like,
00:21:05.77\00:21:08.34
is not the very best for
the interior of the body.
00:21:08.37\00:21:12.79
Now, Don Miller has some
things that I would like him
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to present for you on what a
culinary and what a medicinal
00:21:16.98\00:21:22.86
herb might be and what
can you do to substitute for
00:21:22.89\00:21:28.87
spices in the kitchen.
00:21:28.90\00:21:30.82
This is Don Miller, who is a
00:21:30.85\00:21:32.87
Lifestyle
Counselor at Uchee Pines.
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It's the big debate... you know
there's lots of debates in the
00:21:34.90\00:21:37.71
food arena.
00:21:37.74\00:21:39.88
What's a fruit?
What's a vegetable?
00:21:39.92\00:21:41.89
And also the one about...
00:21:41.93\00:21:43.70
Which is an herb
and which is a spice?
00:21:43.73\00:21:46.12
And we don't really
want to debate this too far,
00:21:46.13\00:21:48.79
but I'm going to mention a few
that we consider to be spices
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and what I differentiate
between an herb and a spice...
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A spice... when it's hot in
your mouth is heating your mouth
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with an aromatic oil...
00:22:01.24\00:22:02.84
And when you
swallow that aromatic oil,
00:22:02.87\00:22:05.55
it stays hot all the
way through your body.
00:22:05.58\00:22:07.70
These are things like
curry, nutmeg, cloves, ginger...
00:22:07.73\00:22:12.62
...we've already mentioned
some of these... cinnamon
00:22:12.65\00:22:15.43
And, granted, they taste great.
00:22:15.46\00:22:17.53
But they do burn
all the way through.
00:22:17.56\00:22:20.18
And we find that countries who
take things like the hot spices
00:22:20.21\00:22:26.02
like red pepper or cayenne...
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these things burn the
mouth, burn the body...
00:22:29.99\00:22:32.39
And the countries that
use a lot of these products,
00:22:32.42\00:22:34.77
seem to have more
esophageal and stomach cancer.
00:22:34.80\00:22:37.90
We find countries like
India with their curry...
00:22:37.91\00:22:40.60
We find countries like Mexico
with their cayenne pepper...
00:22:40.63\00:22:43.27
And then we find places like
Korea, as Lidia just mentioned,
00:22:43.30\00:22:47.53
with the fermented
foods in their kimchi,
00:22:47.56\00:22:49.97
will have large incidences
of esophageal and stomach cancer
00:22:50.00\00:22:54.54
And so, these things
are burning all the way down
00:22:54.55\00:22:56.94
and all the way
through the body.
00:22:56.97\00:22:58.58
There are other things
that we take that are also
00:22:58.59\00:23:00.82
very hot in the mouth.
00:23:00.85\00:23:01.88
I've bitten into some onions
that would make my eyes water
00:23:01.91\00:23:05.02
but that's an enzyme, and
as soon as it's in the stomach,
00:23:05.05\00:23:08.69
it's denatured and
it's no longer burning.
00:23:08.72\00:23:11.47
Garlic can do the same thing...
00:23:11.50\00:23:13.67
And so I find that if I
want to spice up my food,
00:23:13.70\00:23:16.82
I spice it up with
things like onion or garlic.
00:23:16.85\00:23:20.15
Now I don't think
I'd really want to have a
00:23:20.18\00:23:22.21
sweet roll with garlic on it...
00:23:22.24\00:23:23.72
So how do I make a sweet
roll that used to be the old
00:23:23.75\00:23:26.87
cinnamon bun... cause I
used to love cinnamon buns!
00:23:26.90\00:23:29.99
You can make some nice
combinations with things like
00:23:30.02\00:23:32.90
cardamom and coriander...
00:23:32.93\00:23:34.66
...usually about 4 parts of
coriander with 1 part cardamom
00:23:34.69\00:23:39.42
mixed together and
sprinkle that over it.
00:23:39.45\00:23:41.48
Now, we've got to be
honest with ourselves,
00:23:41.51\00:23:44.41
we're used to the
taste of cinnamon...
00:23:44.44\00:23:47.34
and now, we're
trying to break the habit.
00:23:47.37\00:23:49.30
Just like trying to break the
habit from chocolate to carob.
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At first, it doesn't
quite taste the same...
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As a matter of fact, for
some people, it's no where
00:23:56.15\00:23:57.67
near the same.
00:23:57.70\00:23:58.77
But, it's an educated
taste that we develop,
00:23:58.81\00:24:00.99
and the more you
use these things,
00:24:01.02\00:24:02.80
the better they will taste.
00:24:02.83\00:24:05.11
So, let's learn
how to use the herbs...
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like thyme and all these very
nice herbs that we can find.
00:24:07.46\00:24:12.56
I don't want to mention
them all... you can go to your
00:24:12.57\00:24:14.82
grocery store and see a
whole shelf of the things
00:24:14.83\00:24:17.33
Learn to cook with
nice herbs in your food...
00:24:17.36\00:24:19.87
And stay away from these
things that burn your mouth
00:24:19.90\00:24:21.98
and burn all the way through.
00:24:22.01\00:24:23.59
And I think we'll find
ourselves having a little bit
00:24:23.62\00:24:25.72
better health in the long run.
00:24:25.75\00:24:27.50
Yes, I feel quite
certain that we will.
00:24:27.53\00:24:30.16
I have, right here, a
report showing that the active
00:24:30.19\00:24:34.43
ingredient in
cinnamon, cinnamaldehyde
00:24:34.46\00:24:37.94
is probably
toxic to human cells.
00:24:37.97\00:24:40.34
So, that really
hurts me because I really
00:24:40.37\00:24:44.08
do like the flavor of cinnamon.
00:24:44.11\00:24:46.22
Thank you so much... Don Miller
00:24:46.25\00:24:48.49
Then, I have here
another big one...
00:24:48.52\00:24:50.70
and that's curcumin.
00:24:50.73\00:24:51.97
Curcumin is in turmeric and
we have a lot of Oriental foods
00:24:52.00\00:24:58.76
and some South American
foods depend on turmeric
00:24:58.79\00:25:03.95
for a nice color
and a nice flavor.
00:25:03.96\00:25:06.74
Turmeric is one of those
what we might call a spice
00:25:06.77\00:25:12.99
for the kitchen
that is also medicinal
00:25:13.02\00:25:16.35
If it has irritating qualities,
it's only very slight...
00:25:16.38\00:25:21.25
not very big, just very
slight irritating properties
00:25:21.28\00:25:26.66
and curcumin has some
anti-inflammatory properties
00:25:26.69\00:25:32.59
and some slight
anticoagulant properties...
00:25:32.62\00:25:36.63
meaning that it will assist
the body not to clot its blood
00:25:36.66\00:25:40.71
inside our blood vessels.
00:25:40.72\00:25:42.89
A very nice article that
came out of Miyazaki, Japan
00:25:42.92\00:25:47.30
...showed that curcumin is
nontoxic and it is tolerated
00:25:47.33\00:25:52.34
quite well and it's
anti-inflammatory, antioxidant
00:25:52.37\00:25:56.80
AND anticancer properties are
beginning to be quite well known
00:25:56.83\00:26:02.87
in many parts of the world.
00:26:02.90\00:26:05.32
So that's a very good
thing to know... this research
00:26:05.35\00:26:08.78
was reported in the very
prestigious medical journal
00:26:08.81\00:26:12.65
named "Cancer. "
00:26:12.68\00:26:14.28
Unfortunately, I should
say something about coffee...
00:26:14.31\00:26:18.50
I wish I could say that
people did not drink coffee
00:26:18.53\00:26:22.49
Coffee is a medicinal herb...
00:26:22.52\00:26:25.01
It is not a beverage drink.
00:26:25.04\00:26:27.98
It is not a good beverage tea.
00:26:28.01\00:26:29.92
It has so many things that
it does wrong to the human body.
00:26:29.95\00:26:34.35
I have here, from the New
York County Medical Association,
00:26:34.38\00:26:37.86
an article on coffee
and its deleterious effects
00:26:37.89\00:26:41.88
on the nervous system.
00:26:41.91\00:26:43.38
Then, we have
written a book called,
00:26:43.41\00:26:45.92
"Poison With a Capital C" which
tells about the evils of coffee
00:26:45.95\00:26:52.54
Again, I wish I didn't have
to tell you about this because
00:26:52.57\00:26:55.31
the aroma of coffee is
good and it used to be my very
00:26:55.34\00:26:58.69
favorite drink.
00:26:58.73\00:26:59.85
But it isn't good
for the pregnant woman.
00:26:59.89\00:27:01.70
It isn't good
for the unborn child.
00:27:01.73\00:27:04.03
And it isn't good for the
woman who is past the age of 50
00:27:04.06\00:27:07.87
because it leaches
calcium from her bones
00:27:07.90\00:27:11.69
and makes it so that
her bones are less firm and
00:27:11.72\00:27:14.88
and more likely to
break than they need to be.
00:27:14.91\00:27:19.35
And then, of course,
some things about chocolate...
00:27:19.38\00:27:22.85
...another excellent flavor
but no so good for the body.
00:27:22.88\00:27:27.49
We have a very good chocolate
substitute called "carob"
00:27:27.52\00:27:31.36
Carob looks like, tastes like
and works up like chocolate...
00:27:31.39\00:27:36.47
But is not chocolate and
does not have the deleterious
00:27:36.50\00:27:39.53
effects on the
body that chocolate has.
00:27:39.56\00:27:42.89
Now, our Heavenly Father
has made for us an enormous
00:27:42.92\00:27:48.29
variety of foods that can
please our palates without using
00:27:48.32\00:27:52.52
anything that
might be harmful to us.
00:27:52.55\00:27:54.58